The Cantuarian December 1993 - August 1994 by OKS Association

THE CANTUARIAN

DECEMBER 1993

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. LVIII No. l

D ECEMBER,

CONTENTS PAGE

THIS AND THAT

VALETE

FOCUS

SERMONS

MUSIC AND DRAMA

VISITS AND TRIPS

CHAPLAIN'S NOTES

THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

HOUSE NOTES

SPORT

ACTIVITIES

O.K.S.

THE CANTUARlAN

Editors: Francesca K. Beauman, K.S.; Benedict D. T. Shankland, Luke T. Singer, K.S. Photographic Editor: Terence T. -L. Loo . Senior Editor: T. Thomson, M.A. , D.Phil.

K. S. ;

1993

Tim Rodber oufjumps /he &:ols in Englands win of Murrayfl(!/d- January 1992

He joined the Army via a Sixth form Scholarship at Churcher's College and a Cadetship at Oxford Polytechnic. His words could be echoed by many others because spmt is encowÂˇaged in the Army along with many adventurous pursuits. Such activities help to develop personal characteristics which the Army requires such as physical fitness, team spirit, nerve, determination and the ability to overcome challenges. Few can expect to reach the high, international standard achieved by Tim although a good many have. There have been numerous participants in the Olympics (remember KRISS AKABUSSI?) and many famous explorers such as JOHN BLASHFORD-SNELL who set up Operation Raleigh (now Raleigh International) or JOHN HUNT who led the frrst successful Everest expedition. Howeve1~ the chance to benefit from the opportunities available and the smt of help which Tim received is open to all. Of course being an Army Officer is about much more than sport or adventure training. If you would like to know just what the job does entail, please write to:

Brigadier John Holman, Schools Liaison Officer, Army Careers Information Office, 2 Roper Road, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7EJ. 2

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Mr. T imothy Armstrong j oined us from Bedford Modern School in September Common Room to take over the responsibilities within the Modern Languages Department . lately bo rne by D r. Humberstone and Mr. Miles. M r. Armstrong is a g raduate of Chnst Church , Oxfo rd â&#x20AC;˘. and also an ~.A. in the Philosophy of Education. He translates F rench a~d Germa~ books on philosophy and IS also working on a novel set in the Middle Ages. His w1fe Gwen IS also~ teacher of German and they have two young chi ldren. He hopes, when he can escape from piles of paper , to spend some time play ing squash and doing some drama. 3

Mr. Andrew Miles has come to us from the University of Durham, although he was at school rather more locally, at Sutto n Valence. He is teaching in the Chemistry Department and is a Resident T utor in Tradescant. His recreations are hockey, squash and cricket and he has also joined Christian Forum. Miss Karen Reidy teaches Spanish and F rench and comes from Ireland. She went from Loreto College in Co. Donegal to University College, Dublin , and completed her P.G.C.E . there. One of life's natural enthusiasts, and decidedly enthusiastic about Spanish and King 's, she is the first female Res ident T utor of Broughton and is helping with swimming and the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Mr. Jo nathan White was educated at the Prebendal School, C hichester, St. Edward 's School Oxford and Selwyn College, Cambridge, which seems these days to be vy ing with the South C ircular in attending to our well-being. He has a particula r interest in the history of practical thought since the Enlightenment and the British military tradition. W he n not teaching History and Politics he is coaching rugby and hockey or singing o r playing the flute or piano. A keen skier and climber, he is about to take on the South Face of the Recreatio n Centre . Mr. Vye has just been re-selected as Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for the Canterbury constituency. All ready for 1997??

Vale

Kathryn 0 'Brien came to us from Daramalan College in Canberra to assist with a variety of teaching. She returns to Australia after spending a year at King's. We wish her all the best for her future .

The School has purchased the freehold of St. Augustine's from the St. Augustine's Foundation , thus securing the boarding houses, refectory , library and upper chapel for its permanent use. The lease was due to expire in 200 l. A Kent Herald report o n the School's annual festival of October 1843 tells us that in the course of the evening the question of the removal of the School to a 'more convenient site' was mooted . Surprise was expressed that 'the Dean & Chapter, and the many wealthy persons who date their fortunes and reputations from the instructions here received have never provided a building more &:cordant with the pretensions of the classical seminary'. T he suggestion was made that St. Augustine's should be purchased and appropriated fo r this object. 'A noble collegiate school m ight there be erected .'

St. Augustine's

Cano n Derek Ing ram Hill entered the Junior King's School in 1923. To celebrate the seventieth ann iversary of this event, we were privileged to welcome him to speak at School Prayers in the Shirley Hall. We now have much pleasure in printing a pho tog raph taken in Walpole House ga rden, where he sat beneath the same tree on his first day at Kmg 's.

Seventy Years On

School Governor Mr. Robert Horto n (LN 1952-57) has been appointed Cha irman of Railtrack, which wi ll employ 12,000 people and own 2,500 stations as well as track and signalli ng. British Rail has estimated that the investment needed to modernise the rai lway is ÂŁ850 million a year for the foreseeab le future. Dear Mr. Horton, please don 't forget how long it takes at present to get from Linacre to C haring Cross . . . . In Aug ust 1993, Mr. Stephen Woodley won his fourth doubles title in fo ur weeks, the Men's 55 Doubles, in the National Veterans' Teams C hampionships at Wimbledon. He had previously won the singles at Harpenden and at the eighth International Veterans' Championships of Estonia. In September he gained full British Veterans' Colours for the first time, representing the Great Britain Men 's 59 team in the international team event , the Fred Perry Cup, in Roy an. Congratulations

CANON INGRAM HILL (T.R.H.)

We cong ratulate Mrs. Janet T homson, Company Secretary of the Woolwich Building Society since January 1993, o n be ing jo int runner-up in the Working Wo men Mean Business awards, run by Options magazine. T he prizes were awarded by M rs. Virginia Botto mley, whose nephew is in Linacre . Cong ratulations to John Sugden (Staff 1967-85), fo rmer Head of Modern Languages and Housemaster of School House, and now Headmaster of Leicester G rammar School, on his electio n to the Headmaste rs' Confe rence. In an article on one of the many league tables published in recent months, Leicester G rammar School was described ' the most successful co-educatio nal school in the country'. (We are willing to concede that it may be the most successful co-educational day school.) Dr. Mallion regards the sports news on the Today programme as ' background wall paper ' during which he is on 'auto-pilot' . G reat , however , was the gal vanisation of the learned doctor when the horse tipped o n 8th October was called Buddy Holl y. Dro pping his typescript of Toroidal Poly hexes into his cornflakes, he rushed off to consult a colleague who has some expertise in this field , and lashed out a fi ver on the gallant steed, distraught that the odds were o nly 2 : I. But the odds changed befo re the race, which Buddy Holl y naturally won. If he won ÂŁ 11 .88, g iven that he was able to opt to pay the 10 % tax on the stake befo re knowing the result , (a) what was his profit and (b) what were the starting odds? Pupils sho uld have plenty of time to work this o ut while he is doing T utor Cards. Toroidal Poly hexes survived the temporary neglect and appeared in the Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions (alas, not ava ilable at W . H . Smith 's). T he article explains the charac te ristics of struc tures whi ch a re simila r to the ' recentl y muc h celebrated Buckminste rfullerene', but are embedded on a torus (i.e., a sort of doug hnut shape). His coautho rs were Mr. Paul Pollak and Mr. Ed Kirby, whom Dr. Mallion first met when a s ixthformer at his brother 's wedding in 1962.

Matters Mathematical

Mr. Butt had the unusual experience of being objected to as a juro r at Cante rbury C rown Court . The prosecuting counsel, Caroline Topping (LN 1977-79), recognised him and du ly registered her protest. O n a technicality, the embarrassed schoolmaster was a llo wed to continue to do his c ivic duty.

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The following article by Dr. Stuart Mason is reprinted by kind permission of the Ho n. Edito r of the Essex Journal. It was brought to our attentio n by Mr. C hristopher Manning-Press (SH 1944-49). ' At Hempstead church on St. Luke's day, 1883, the remains of William Har vey, !apt in lead, were transferred to a new sarcophagus that bo re the inscriptio n: "The remains of W illiam Harvey, discovere r of the circulation of the blood, were reverentially placed in this sarcophagus by the Roya l College of Phys icians of London in the year 1883." Preceded by the vicar of Hempstead , the Rev. Eustace, and his curate, the sarcophagus was bo rne into the church by Fellows of the College, followed by four members of the Harvey family, the President of the College, Sir William Jenner, robed and carrying the caduceus, his wand of office, and then the College O fficers with Âˇ the Fellows bringing up the rear . T he sarcophagus was laid in the Ha rvey chapel. After a sho rt service, with hymns sung by the village choir, the President placed in the sarcophagus a bound copy of Harvey's works sealed in a metal box and a scroll describing the event and lauding Harvey as a munificent benefacto r of the College. T he College had been concerned with the state of Harvey ' s remains since 1847 when the first damage to the lead coffin was reported. In 1859 a deputation from the College found the coffin half full of water. F urther damage was reported in 1878 and in January 1882 when the tower and part of the nave of the church collapsed. Following th is disaster the College set up a committee

Harvey's Tomb

CATHY GOING HOME (T. R .H .)

to consider the future of the tomb. The committee rejected a suggestion that Harvey's remains should be reinterred in Westminster Abbey, and ordered a new sarcophagus which was bought for £155. As a matter of later history, the church at Hempstead was not fully repaired until 1961 , the work being aided by substantial grants from the William Harvey Memorial Fund and the Harveian Society of London. Harvey was and is, revered by the College of Physicians for his achievements and for his help to the Coi'lege. He was the donor of a new library building and transferred nis patrimonial estate at Burmarsh Kent (about 50 acres of ' ffresh marsh ') to the College. All this happened in 1656, whereupo~ t~e C?ll~ge elected Harvey as its Pre.sident. ~ut H~rvey , old and, mfirm, dec lined the honour w1th d1gmty, and recommended that S1r Franc1s PruJean , of Sutton s Gate, Hornchurch , should continue in office. Harvey directed that the money .from his estate sho~ld be used to inc.rease friendship among the Fellows of the College by paymg for a monthly dmner. He also st1pulated that the rest of the money be used for an annual feast which would be preceded by an oration in Latin listing the benefactors of the College and exhorting the Fellows to continue in mutual love and affection, and to study the secrets of nature by experiment. The mo nthly meal has long since gone, but the annual Harveian Oration and d inner is still a feature of the College's activities. It is well over a century since the orator spoke in Latin , but the first o rator to use English was accused of scandalo us behaviour.' Regular readers ~ill recall the suspense attending the ~p~earance of BrigadierGeneral Sir Edwm Hake as Guest Speaker at the Kmg s School Parramatta O.B.U. Centenary Dinner. Sir Edwin was introduced as an O.K.S. and descendant of the brother of a former Parramatta Headmaster, Denys Hake, whom he described as 'a dry, droll a~d congenial cocktail consisting o~ o~e part Thomas Arnold, one part Leslie Howard.• oneya~t W 1lfred Blunt and one part Mr. Ch1ps .. He congratulated ~he present incumbent on h1s rec1tat10n to the assembled Old Boys of the ten-t1mes table, descnbmg it as 'a remarkable feat of memory, a splendid example to future school leavers, a powerful inspiration to all those in business, and an impossible challenge to all those in Government'.

Hake's Progress

Sholto Byrnes (SH 1985-90) now contributes to the 'Peterborough' column in the Daily Telegraph. In October he was assigned to comment on a c:o~cert at the Holy Trinity Church , Sloane Street , at which Patrick Wtlltams (WL 1968-72) 'Chef to a smart London set', returned to his old life as a flautist. A former pupil of James Galw~y, Mr. Will iams lost his front teeth .in a bicycle ac~ident in 1 9~7, and had needed extensive treatment in order to be able to play agam. Dunng the mterva l he IS reported to have remarked that the drawback of flute playing was that it severely restricted 'passionate trysts' immediately before a performanc.e: Mr. ~yrnes, himself not unconnected with the musical life of King's, made one or two enqumes, w1th the result that ~he Te~eg.raph was able to repo.rt th~t in Mr. Will iams's time as a Music Scholar 'he never let h1s mus1c mterfere that much w1th h1s extra-mural activities'. Shall we see the biter bit? In a letter to the same newspaper , Mr. Byrnes refers to the vote by the Students' Union at Wadham College Oxford, that publ ic scho~l-educ,ated ~tu.dents should.be banned by the year 2000, which he describes as ' laughable and lud1crous , pomtmg out that 1f such a proposal had been implemented before the war, Wadh~m would have been ? eprived of its most famous living fo:mer student, Michael Foot. Wadham1tes on our staff w1ll be glad to learn that only 15 % of undergraduates took part in the vote. · We congratulate Daniel Hullah (MR 1987-92) on being awarded a scholarship at Jesus College Oxford and Will iam Rosato (MT 1988-93), whose performance at A-level Geography earned him the' Oxford and Cambridge Board's Certificate of Excellence, of which only three are given in each subject. O.K.S.

O.K.S. food and wine experts Anthony Worrall-Thompson (GR 1964-69) and Oz Clarke (MO 1962-67) took part in the recording in St. Augustine's Refectory of two editions of B. B.C. Radio's A Question of Taste on 3rd December. In the first of these programmes, Mr. Clarke had been introduced as 'the drinking woman's crumpet' and Mr. Worrall-Thompson as the 'cuddly chef who <?pens a restaurant every twenty seconds'. We shall never know how the presenter would have mtroduced the Headmaster, who very nearly had to substitute for the latter, who arrived rather late. ~here was a strong rumour that he had stopped for a burger and chips on the M2. All the panelists were required to taste a white wine, of which they could scarcely believe that it hailed from Chilham, so outstanding was it as an example of its mixture of grape varieties. Mr. Churcher, take a bow. A Promenade Concert featuring the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland was conducted by Christopher Seaman (MR 1955-60) and presented for the B.B.C. by Andrew Lyle (MR 1965-70). Mr. Paul McGrath (BR 1977-82) has recently had an engagement at the Marlowe Theatre conducting the English Touring Opera production of Cosf Fan Tutte. A Conducting Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music, he gained his A.R.C.M. while still at school and, even more significantly, directed the Jazz Concert in 1982. David Gower (LN 1970-75), whose retirement from professional cricket was announced during last term, stated in an article on 'entertaining at home' that one of his favourite dishes was duck. He confessed to a degree of superstition about eating it, since he, Allan Lamb and Robin Jackman had all scored ducks after eatmg magret de canard in St. John's Wood . However, he produced a recipe for which the crucial tip was to remove the excess fat and serve with a Chateau Talbot. He takes wine 'reasonably seriously' since being introduced to it at school in Kent. It is tempting to speculate that he selects it with a slap of the thigh and an enthusiastic ' Hey, how about. .. ' . Readers of the Sunday Times city and financial reports may have wondered who Dave is. He is David Chishold (MR 1974-79) who enlivens these columns with delightful cartoons. Even Kenneth Clark's budget can seem funny or at least less painful. Stephen Geliot (BR 1975-79) has launched out into a successful life as an artist specialising in woodcarving and metal casting. One of his most recent commissions has been for ornamental bollards for Bnghton Corporation. He has just been given a travelling scholarship to visit America next year. Julian Clegg (MO 1973-78) is currently Editor of B.B.C. Radio Sussex and Surrey based in Guildford. He is presenter of the mid-morning programme and then spends most of the rest of the day on radio business. This, Mr. PragnellÂˇ tells us, was his dream ever since listening to radio phone-in programmes back in his Shell days . Ernest Fedart (Staff 1925-35) and H.J.P. have exhibited twice this year with the East Kent Art Society. Dr. Anthony Jones , O.K.S. (WL 1966-70), a Senior Lecturer in rheumatology at Manchester University and leader of the research team at the Manchester Rheumatism Centre, has announced an exciting new approach to the study of pain, which has been described as a 'world-beating breakthrough'. A new imaging technique, using the positron emission tomography principle, allows scientists to watch chemical reactions in living tissue, and important new information has turned on its head the conventional view about pain.

Ladies' First?

Samantha Hardingham (GR 1984-86) has just published London: a Guide to Recent Architecture. This is, so far as we are aware, the first book to be

written by a genuine lady O.K.S. It has been well reviewed, and Samantha received full-page exposure in the Sunday Times magazine, complete with photograph. She pipped Y senda Maxtone Graham (SH 1978-80) to this particular post by just a month. Ysenda' s The Church Hesitant, A Portrait of the Church of England Today was reviewed by Enoch Powell, among others. Among those mentioned in the book are the Headmaster, Peter Pilkington, Roger Job (GR 1951-55), and, anonymously, some ex-choristers, now lawyers, who shared a study with 7

Ysenda in School House and 'who will sing in the bath'. We have also noted that Tabitha Winnifrith (SH 1985-87) was thanked for her advice to Stewart Ross (Staff 1974-89) on 'aspects of the Stewarts' medical history' in his latest book The Stewart Dynasty. Not that the gentlemen are being any slower to the presses. Among recent publications, we have noticed The Rationalist by Warwick Collins (MR 1960-66) and the contributions of William Henderson-Deeves (LN 1984-89) to Dickens scholarship. He has completed (sic) his English degree at Aberdeen University, where he was asked to participate in research of the Everyman edition of Great Expectations (sic). His Tutor recall s that some difficulties were encountered during A-level in persuading him to read to the end of his Dickens set text, and invites other members of the tutor set to join in the general rejoicing at this rather unexpected news. Dan Cohn-Sherbok's Not a Job for a Nice Jewish Boy claims to be a 'fictionalized ' memoir 'based on fact'. His account of Lavinia (Staff 1980-87) seems factual enough: ' I had never met anyone like her before. She articulated the most outragous opinions in the most refined manner while at the same time breathing undi luted sex appeal. She was a formidab le opponent.' Readers should also have little difficulty recognizing the Headmaster of the King's School, Canon Firestone, and seekers after local colour should enjoy the final chapter, about the School, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Princess of Wales - not to mention Digger the Cat. Professor Kenichiro Nozawa of Kyoto Arts University visited the School on 23rd November, to view the Marlowe memorial plaque and gather fresh inJapanese Fan spiration for his project of retracing Marlowe's first journey to Cambridge, step by step. It was Professor and Mrs. Nozawa's fifth visit to Canterbury but the first overtly to the School. Professor Nozawa's great-uncle, Juji Tanabe, was the first translator of Walter Pater's works into Japanese, he told us. The response, that three O.K.S. have recently married Japanese girls, was less scholarly but still quite jolly. A Delightful

The Librarian would like to thank Mike Walsh (SH 1937-4 1) for a copy of his recent book The Tragedy of the Changing Face of Africa; Rhone-Poulenc for Steven Rose's The Making of M emory ; and Brian Olver (H 1924-28) , Mr. C. Igglesden , Dr. T . Thomson, Dr. W. R. Pickering and J.K .S. for other gifts of books. We are very grateful to Charles Nicholl , author of The Reckoning , who was a guest speaker in King 's Week, for sending us a copy of a recently-discovered document on Marlowe to add to our collection . Dr. Laurel Brake also very kindly sent us a copy of Pater in the 1990s , after a visit to the School archives to research a new book on Water Pater. 1994 is the centenary of Pater's death, and we hope to celebrate him in appropriate fashion in King's Week. The School's 'superior' approach to its literary heritage was noted in an article in the Sunday Telegraph by Amit Roy . Tonbridge, by contrast, had only just been persuaded by Nicola Beau man , biographer of E. M. Forster - and mother of Francesca (BR) - to recognise his stature by awarding a Forster Prize. Mr. Roy mentioned our Maugham Library; he could have added our Walpole Library and House, our Pater Society and our Marlowe House and plaque . . . . Our literary reputation is certainly world-wide. We were pleased to welcome an interested party of Australians, led by Mrs. Gough Whitlam, to the Maugham Library in September .

Library

The School Archives contributed to celebrations to mark the 90th ann iversary of the building which houses Kingsmead Primary School. Items of Edwardian uniform attracted much interest, notably the King's School mortarboards. The Geometry Book for Primary Schools, Form 1 included matters perhaps even taxing for Common Room members, but common enough for young pupils in those days, e.g. 'construct a pentagon using only ruler and compasses'. Solutions to the Archivist, please. Archives

LUXMOORE FUNDRAISING (Terence Loo)

Historians of recent years know that the proximity of Galpin's to the Norman Steps has always given the House a close interest in their decoration. It was therefore a pleasure but no surprise to see Tim Smith (GL 1983-88). fresh from English studies at Aberdeen , amongst the specialist work force involved in the restoration work. Everything is now whiter than white . The present inhabitants of Galpin 's are also helping to conserve the past. The School Archivist g ratefull y acknowledges accessio ns of water pistols and a collection of American baseball hats, fo r which a new shelf mark is shortly expected.

Galpiniana

If any of the o lde r members of Staff, o r retired members, had been listening to B.B.C . I 's Between the Lines on Tuesday , 2nd November, they would have been surprised to hear the surnames of the characters introduced in that episode . T hey included Mr. Wenley, Inspector Pollak, Mr. Gollop, Captain Goodes, Major Wetherilt , Ch. Supt. Newall, Michael Hodges, Sgt. Sugden and Edmonds, most of them being slightly misspelt in the final c redits list. It was no coincidence; the writer was Rob Hey land (MR 1967-72) and he had hijacked names from his past. Paul Pollak, Rob 's Housemaster, was gratified to hear that hi s name had been bo rrowed for the killer; most apt, he thought. When informed. the B.B.C. producer suggested we should sue the writer for defamation. Coincidentally. one of the actors involved was Olive r Ford Davies (LN 1952-57).

Sirnames

There was a delightfully nostalgic occasion last term when five of the winning seven from the 1964 Rosslyn Park Tournament returned to Ki ng's, with their wives, to attend a celebratory d inner, given by the Headmaster in honour of the achievement of this year's winning seven . Also present were the legendary Colin Fairservi ce, who was the rugby coach in 1964, and Roy White who masterm inded th is year 's awesome achievement, together with their wives. In a short speech the square-jawed Hugh Jackson, captain of the 1964 side, congratulated this year's team on their g reat performance and thanked the Headmaster for suggesting the get-together. There were photographs o n the Green Court before the meal and much reminiscing during the meal. The vo luble Chris Heyland , remembered for his electrifying pace and speed off the mark. had to be introduced to hi s co-centre of th ree decades ago, Sebastian Barker, because neither recognised the other after such a large time interval. Al so present were the well-balanced linkman, Richa rd Heslop, and the affable , self-effacing, Alfy Turner, who at one stage in his time at Ki ng' s had played forty-nine games in succession for 1st teams at cricket, rugger and hockey before tasting defeat! Quin Rudley the flyer from 1964, was in Australia so could not be present, neither was Nick Paul, the serum-half, who could not be traced. He achieved the probably unique double of being a member of the winning Rosslyn Park seven and also of the winning crew in the Head of the River race ! T he food was of exqui site quality and a real feather in the cap of Stewart Smith, the school caterer. Those from the 1964 team could see just how much the cater ing standards at King's have advanced in twenty-nine years! Comparisons are, of course, invidious but I feel that whereas the 1963 XV were better than the 1992 XV. and the ir record shows it, the achievement of this year's seven, with I 09 schools to compete with and fewe r than 500 boys to choose from, was arguably the more meritorious. In any case all had to agree that the Dinner was a well-earned tribute to both sevens, and the generosity of the Headmaster in suggest ing the get-together prov ided an evening to remember and to savour fo r all those lucky enough to be present. (R. P .B.) Rosslyn Park Reminiscences

THE ROSSLYN PARK WINNERS (T.R.H.)

You will recall that in 1993 England won the Rug by World Cup Sevens and King's won the Rosslyn Park Series. T he England trophy was taken on a national tour and was brol:'ght to the School on 14th September. It was displayed in the Dining Hall and afterwards the Captam of Rugby , Myles Orsler (LN) was photographed with R .F.U. officials a longside the trophies on the Norman Staircase. For the first time in many years two King's pupils have played hockey in the same Divisional side. Simon Gittins (MR) and Tim Palmer (LN), who have also represented Kent, were selected for the South East England U 16 team. Simon Gittings was capped three times in a series of matches aga inst Germany, playing for the England U 16 side. Kent teams have also included Tom Grant (TR) (U 18) and C h arle~ Munday (MR) (U 15).

Sport

Membe rs of Luxmoore ra ised ÂŁ 1,325 o n a rain-drenched sponsored walk to enable a disabled theology student at U .K.C. to continue with her degree studies. The money went towards a voice-activating computer. The Chairman of Canterbury Lions fund-ra isers, Mr. Colin McCarthy , cong ratulated the g irls for their efforts and particularly commended F leur Moes who raised the largest individua l contribution of ÂŁ200.

Charity

Greenfingered devotees of the recent Friday evening B.B.C. 2 gardening programme The English Woman 's Garden may for one moment have wondered who Mr. and Mrs. Pilkington were, when suddenly captioned along with Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild and Girton College, Cambridge as clients of Penelope Hobhouse. T he mystery was quickly revealed with the camera panning on a cottage in Somerset and the smiling faces of Peter and Helen discussing the replann ing of their beautiful ga rden. Those who know his 'sudden vis ions' of expansion in the Precincts and the creation of 'dream' houses in Mint Yard and behind Meister Omers were treated to what can only be described as five minutes of 'vintage Pilk'. Dramatic gestures, plans in hand. ' The bridge will go he re' . The fascination of a garden ' is imposing order and beauty within nature'. A latter-day Humphrey Repton or Capability Brown perhaps? Figures In A Landscape

VALETE ELIZABETH DIX (K.S.C. 1979- 1993) Wearing the predominantly white overall with dye-splattered embe llishments, list of the tastes for the day at hand , Liz wou ld embark upon another day 's fabric-printing g uidance and delicate stencile rescuing. Having just taken several children , including her own, to J .K.S. , she wou ld say ' I seem to spend my life on the Sturry Road'. With daug hters Rebecca and E mma at the Prep and Pre-Prep respectively, Liz was we ll acquainted with the Sturry Road. Things must have been so much simpler in 1979 when she first agreed to lend her expertise in establishing an Activity called 'Desig n and Print' located in St. Augustine 's Undercroft. She had completed her degree course in Printed Textile Designs at Leicester just a few years before and was all set to encourage her young desig ners . This extra-curricular option rapidly gained popularity with pupils. W hen Blackfriars Art Centre was opened in 1983 , Design and Print moved to the new premises and was now to be offered additionally as a subsidiary subj ect. In 1985, Liz was to bring Emma, her second daughter, into Black friars at the age of six months. Un li ke the pupils, the lessons sent Emma to s leep in a quiet corner, bathing in the creative atmosphere. The next yea r saw the beginning of G.C.S.E. courses in Art and Design, within wh ich Textiles was to become firmly established. Like the subject which she has taught at King's, Liz has brought brightness , colour and enthusiasm into the lives of our community . Many a study would have been a du ller place without some products of Design and Print. She has promoted an element of tasteful panache and a pride in personalised achievement. Her most endearing qualities are her g reat humility and her generous nature. When I arrived at King's she introduced herself as 'the lady who comes in part-time to teach Design and Print'. As we know , Mrs. Dix is more than that and since 1988 when husband Peter took over the running of Tradescant she has carried out the rol e of Housemaster 's wife with a warmth and friendliness which has been much appreciated by all. Despite an increasingly busy life , Liz has always ensured that she had plenty of time to listen , time to help and time to instil the love of her subj ect in her pupils. She may have followed he r husband into the teaching staff at King's but she has certai nly left her own imprint on the school. I hope that in he r new position as Headmaster 's wife at Po rt Regis School she may find some time for herself. Perhaps she will be able to tear up her list of 'the thousand things to be done today '. Maybe she will even learn to play golf! Whatever she does I am sure that she will do it with style, lig htness of heart and probably without the white overall. We are all riche r for having known he r and we wish her every happiness in the future. D.C.

PETER DIX (K.S.C. 1977- 1993) pereant qui ante nos nostra dixe runt (Aelius Donatus, quoted by St. Jerome) Much will have been said in praise of Peter by the time these words are read , but in his case it wi ll bear repetition. Peter came to King's Canterbury in 1977, with a rather wilder ha ircut than nowadays, fresh from teaching at the King's Cambridge cho ir school. He was head-hunted by David Raven, then Head of C lass ics and clearly a man with a nose for qua lity . Peter sett led with a will into senior-school teaching, and soon established a reputation which he maintained througho ut : the man who set himself and all his pupils the highest standards and for whom success II

was an all-important spur. A Classics set taught by Peter knew that they were in for a hard time but would be guaranteed top g rades: he always denied keeping a bull whip in his cupboard and drawing on his natio nal service training in the South African army , but one wondered. Not many pupils dared to cross his path with an illegal bracelet or pair of patterned socks. I had some sympathy for Pe!er's de~ating opponent when he spok_e recently in favour of Classics at the: Durham _l.Jniversity Debatmg Soctety: Peter was always exceptionally well prepared on these occastons, and m addition thought smartly on his feet. The contest was over almost before it began. He was not a man to challenge lightly at chess either , and has more recently developed a fascination for , and an expertise in , computer wizardry. Peter stepped in after the untimely death of David Raven to head th e C lassics Department for a year, then handed over to me with the utmost g race, always ready to g ive the best of advice and for me a true sheet-anchor. He was Senior Editor of The Cantuarian for several years. He has been deeply involved with games at the school , sitting on the Games Committee for about fifteen years: passionate about soccer and cricket (witness that Sky aerial?) , he has been almost equally enthusiastic for other sports , and a host of playe rs in 2nd XI cricket, 2nd XV rugger and I st XI soccer teams owe him a g reat debt for the amount of time and energy invested. He is justifiably proud that his last I st XI had an unbeaten season. That there is a deeply caring side to Peter should not need to be said , but th is has emerged most clearly in his work as Housemaste r of Tradescant since 1988, where he has as often show n s upport for the weaker members as galvanised the talented. The daily after-lunch ' hit-list' was a nervous time for pupils and resident tutors alike: too little milk or sugar in 'his majesty's' coffee would generate a torrent of Afrikaans abuse. He has provided the impetus for some first-rate sport in the House, but has also been the enabler of a good many first-rate plays and concerts. A special relationship with the Tradescant Museum Trust developed under Peter's guidance, and through that relationship many of us learnt of the life and achievements of Tradescant , with whom Peter shared a deep love of ga rdening. In the pastoral connection a special word should be said about the powerful campaign he has directed to ease the rehabilitation of Leon Katz , a Tradescant pupil tragically and severely injured in 1990. Peter has a great love for his native South Africa, and many of us have benefited from hearing his clear explanations of the recent history of that country. That there is a lighter side to the man appeared clearly in his celebrated appearance in a Common Room revue as a Mandela supporter at a time when school mytho logy would have placed him rather further to the right, and in his moonlighting role as Historical Adviser to the racy Chelmsford 123 comedy series on Channel Four. Peter has also cha ired and been the driv ing force behind the Common Room Social Committee, putting into action a whole range of activities: my own memories go back particularly to the wine-tasting sessions (yet another hobby of Peter 's) and the notorious Greek dancing in the St. Augustine's re fecto ry. He has himself written that the ethos here is essentially one of civilised values, and to this ethos he has contributed in no small measure. Peter goes from King 's to be Headmaster of Port Regis School. He goes with our affection and with all best wishes. He is well aware of the challenging nature of his new work, but his track record is such that we can be confident of his being a resounding success. Our best wishes go with Liz and Pete r, as also with Becky and Emma, in their new lives . M.J.T.

(Mike Waterman)

FOCUS LINACRE'S FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY YEAR Linacre has this year celebrated its fortieth anniversary . A reunion was held on 16th October and many Linacre O.K.S. visited the House in the afternoon, or attended the dinner held in St. Augustine's in the evening. Over the last year links have been forged with Linacre College, Oxford which have resulted in the first of what we hope will be a series of annual lectures given by Fellows of the College. Sir Bryan Cartledge, the College Principal, attended one of the School's guest nights last year, and we are very grateful for his support in this venture.

LINACRE COLLEGE, OXFORD JULIAN SMYTH DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, LINACRE COLLEGE, OXFORD When one thinks of Oxford, with its 'dreaming spires', eight hundred years of academic tradition and rose-tinted Brideshead image, the name of Linacre may not be the first to spring to mind. The College cannot boast any medieval landmarks (although the Domestic Bursar's jokes are thought to pre-date Chaucer), nor does it count amongst its rolls any belted Earls or former Prime Ministers. In fact, apart from a couple of Bishops and a presenter of Gardeners' Question Time. Linacre's former members seem almost completely anonymous. It may appear surprising, therefore, when I affirm that Linacre College is one of the most important and crucial pieces in the jigsaw that makes up the University of Oxford and its Colleges. After the Second World War, the pattern of University life underwent a gradual but irreversible change. Graduate students, in 1946 representing less than lO% of the student body , grew substantially in number until today they comprise over 40 % of the students at Oxford. For this large minority, especially those who came to Oxford having completed their first degree elsewhere, the University was badly provided. Traditional Oxford colleges were designed and run for the Senior Common Room (the Fellows) and the Junior Common Room (the undergraduates) . Graduate students formed the Middle Common Room wh ich normally comprised a dingy cellar and a moth-eaten sofa. This did not seem equitable, advisable or sustainable. Initially, quite informal 'Societies' were set up where post-graduates and their supervisors could meet and eat together, and the Linacre Society developed to the point where, in June 1962, it was decided to form two new bodies exclusively for graduates from its membership. These bodies are now Linacre College and Wolfson College. The founding Principal ofLinacre House (it was not granted college status until 1975, receiving Royal Charter in 1986) was John 'Bam' Bamborough, who had a clear vision of what he wanted to create: a family atmosphere - mu lti-disciplinary , multi-national, and of balanced gender a place where the traditional and stuffy atmosphere of Oxford would have no place and yet where the benefits of the scope and breadth of the University would have their full impact. In this he succeeded wonderfully. From the start, Linacre has been known for its friendliness, its relaxed atmosphere and remarkably high completion rate for doctorates. This is partly achieved by dispensing with traditional boundaries: there is only one Common Room, where students and Fellows mix informally and where one can find oneself sittin~ with a Nobel laureate as easily as with a new student; and there is only one dining room, w1th no ' High Table' reserved for Fellows and where the food is generally regarded as the best in Oxford. In 1988 Bam retired, and he was succeeded by Sir Bryan Cartledge who moved to O xford followi ng a distinguished career as a diplo mat, culminating in appointments as Ambassador to Hungary and the Soviet Union. Sir Bryan saw to fruition Bam's desire of creating the totally balanced academic community, with the College now boasting equal numbers of men and women, 13

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scientists and students of the humanities, and U.K. and overseas nationals . Over ninety countnes have been represented at the College over its thirty-year history, and the number of current students has grown from fifty to 250 during that time. Where Sir Bryan has really made his mark, however, is g iving the College an image outside of Oxford. Linacre is now nationally regarded as the 'green' College at Oxford, with its annual series of the Linacre Lectures on the environment, its internal Environmental Working Party, its close links with the University's Environmental Change Unit (the Director of which is a Professorial Fellow of the College), and its most recent decision to build the most complete environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient building of its kind in the country. The College has also succeeded in throwing off the traditional view that graduate students are interested only in academic pursuits. Over recent years, Linacre teams have delivered a number of shocks on the sports fields and on the Isis to cocky undergraduate Colleges who had presumed too much. Rowing, soccer, athletics and , most recently , cricket, have all established themselves as major interests for the College. So there you have it. Why , you ask yourself, have I never heard of this place? Well , the problem with being a postgraduate College with an exceptional complet~on rate at one ofth_e wo~ld 's greatest universities is that one's students tend to be offered teachmg and research JObs m . . . other universities or Oxford itself. Over 94% of Linacre's old members still work in academia, which is wonderful for our academic reputation - but not as useful for our bank balance and for the general public's awareness of us. Despite all of this, we believe we have been true to Thomas Linacre, who successfully combined the arts and science in a time of political change and religious upheaval, and who kept his head when all about him were losing theirs.

PROGRESS IN MEDICINE SINCE THOMAS LINACRE THE 1ST ANNUAL LINACRE LECTURE DR. WILLEM HACKMANN FELLOW OF LINACRE COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND ASSISTANT CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, OXFORD

Thomas Linacre and medical humanism Today we celebrate Thomas Linacre's founding of the College of Physicians of London on 23rd September 1518. This began the modern era of medicine in England as this was the first step of removing medicine from the control of, largely, non-medical authorities. Up till then the right to practise medicine could be conferred only upon medical graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, or to such men as were licensed by bishops. The College of Physicians of London (later to become the Royal College of Physicians) enhanced the status of the medical profession, regulated their practices, and established the character of English medicine for centuries to follow. Linacre directed the College until his death in 1524. It was his most enduring work. We know very little about this medical humanist; not even a contemporary portrait has survived . Linacre received his early education at the school of Christ Church Monastery, here in Canterbury, later to become The King's School. After Oxford, he went to ltal y, graduated M.D. from Padua (1496), returned to Oxford and was incorporated M .D. because of his Padua degree (this allowed him to practise as a physician in England), was appointed one of the physicians of Henry VIII at a salary of ÂŁ50 in 1509 and, ' in search of greater leisure', took holy orders. Linacre dedicated to Henry VIII two of his published translations of Galen's works: the De sanitate tuenda (1517), and Methodus medendi (1519) . The medical humanists were especially interested in the writings of the Greek physician Galen who lived most of his professional life in Rome in the 2nd century A.D. as the physician of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius . Apart from being a great clinician, he was also an experimental physiologist and an expert dissector, whose ideas about human anatomy were largely derived from the rhesus monkey. 14

Medicine, science and society In this talk I can highlight only some of the important advances that have taken place in medicine from the time of Linacre. My main concern is to show the relationship between science, medicine and society. Shifts in social culture also changed attitudes towards medicine in particular and science in general. Both science and medicine are cultural activities, following the fashion and social mores of their times. This can be seen in contemporary books, paintings, and the attitude of physicians towards their patients. So when did medicine become scientific? Medicine was for centuries regarded as a heal ing art, although attempts were made to incorporate the latest scientific ideas. This became espec ially apparent from the eighteenth century onwards .

Hospitals and 'hospital fever' (hospital gangrene) Modern hospitals find their origins in the healing temples of the Greeks. Our modern hospitals have evolved from medieval hospices and infirmaries attached to monasteries, which provided care and hospitality. Early institutions such as St. Bartholomew's, established in London in c. 11 23, gradually evolved into places for only treating the sick, although for many years the patients continued to be given moral and religious instruction as part of their stay! The medical care was provided by monks and nuns, and also by physicians and surgeons. The surgeons used hospitals for traini ng apprentices from at least the nineteenth century. During the Enlightenment many new hospitals were built, organized on modern lines, with their own medical schools, and financed voluntarily and in recent times by the state. Until the late nineteenth century hospitals were mainly for the poor; the wealthy were treated in their homes. Their children, too, would be born at home because of the high hospital death-rate in the case of childbirth, caused by puerperal fever. The reason for this was not understood until the work of the Hungarian obstetrician lgnaz Philipp Semmelweis in the 1850s. When in charge of two childbirth wards he observed that in one the mortality rate was ten per cent while in the other one only three per cent. He became convinced that the deaths were due to infection introduced by medical staff treating the women without washing their hands. In the case of the ward with the very high death-rate, medical students would arrive for clinical instruction d irectly after having performed dissections without washing their hands. Semmelweis ordered all medical staff of this ward to wash their hands in a solution of chloride of lime before examining the pregnant women or attend women in labour. Within two months the mortal ity in this ward had fallen to only one per cent, and later to nil. However, the medical profession resisted his ideas about sepsis and the importance of cleanliness for at least another decade during which many patients died unnecessarily. In England Joseph Lister (first Baron Lister), the son of a London wealthy wine merchant who was an important improver of the microscope, was another key surgeon in the combat of hospital fever in the late 1860s. At that time between forty and sixty per cent of patients died after amputations of compound fractures. Lister first experimented on the commonly-held opinion that sepsis was caused by air entering the wound during amputation, but then he heard about the work of Louis Pasteur who in the 1860s demonstrated that putrefaction was caused by microoq~anisms ('organized corpuscles') in the a ir. This led Lister, in 1865, to invent the carbolic ac1d spray for killing these organisms in the lecture theatre during the amputations. For years surgeons had to conduct their operations in a pungent mist of carbolic acid. Later it was established that this procedure was not necessary - what was important was absolute cleanliness, hence the invention of the autoclave to sterilize surgical equipment and the invention of sterile bandages, in which L ister a lso had a hand.

Anatomy and surgery Anatomy began to make big strides at the ti me of Thomas Linacre. At this time anatomical know ledge was increased by humanist translations of Greek anatomical texts, the rise of printing and a new realism in anatomical illustrations. Scholars also became increasingly dissatisfied with classical anatomy which was full of errors because so much of it was based on (as was the case with Galen) the rhesus monkey. Only executed criminals could be dissected, so Galen had little access to human corpses. The epitome of Renaissance anatomy was Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (On the Structure of the Human Body) of 1543, which would not be surpassed for a long time. Of particular note were the naturalistic poses of his skeletons, drawn in the studio of the famous artist Titian. IS

The anatomy lesson became a popular public spectacle in university 'anatomy theatres' throughout Europe. Corpses remained difficult to find because only executed felons could be used legally but even then it was often frowned upon by the authorities. The Padua anatomy theatre had ~ trap-door beneath the dissecting table, and when lookouts warned that the police were coming the corpse could quickly be disposed of in the stream running beneath the theatre! In England and Scotland, corpses remained in short supply until the Anatomy Act of 1832. Anatomists obtained bodies illegally from grave robbers (hence the reason why the well-to-do preferred to bury the ir dead in family vaults or graves surrounded by secure railings). That avid collector of the remains of exotic creatures , both human and animal, the eighteenth-century surgeon and anatomist , John Hunter, went to great lengths in 1783 to acquire the skeleton of the Irish g iant O'Brien who in his will had tried to make provision for preventing Hunter from obtaining his remains. Even murders were committed, notably by William Burke and William Hare in 1827. Modern (scientific) surgery became possible only after the development of anaesthesia from the mid-1840s. Before then the most drastic surgical interventions were amputations. Surgeons learned most of their art on the battlefield. They had to be extremely quick. Operations had to be extremely quick. Operations had to be performed within about one minute and a half otherwise most patients would die of shock anyway, and there are many cases of surgeons also accidentally cutting off the fingers of their assistants helping in holding the patient during the operation. Thus, they developed very efficient cutting instruments - sharp scalpels , knives and saws of welltempered metal, which were also the tools of the anatomists. The chain saw, which was developed for surgery, never became popular as it went too fast. Anaesthesia, first using ether and later chloroform , gave surgeons the time to perform more complicated operations and this, combined with the discovery of antisepsis, made the development of scientific surgery possible. Many of the new techniques were first tried out on animals in vivisection. The development of the modern surgical theatre and its sophisticated apparatus began at this time, and has continued ever since .

Scientific medicine Medicine became increasingly influenced by scientific theories from the sixteenth century. William Harvey, O .K.S. wrote his classic book in 1628 on blood c irculation in which the heart acted as a pump, and was based on the new pumping technology developed in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. He even borrowed some of the technical language. Thus, he called the valves of the heart ' clacks ' , the word used by Cornish pumping engineers for the valves of their pumps. Harvey did not have the benefit of the microscope, which became common in the 1630s. The best-known early microscopist was the Dutch biologist, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, whose seminal work took place in 1680s. He could not find homunculi (whole little humans) in human sperm which contributed to the discovery of the female mammalian egg, and with his most powerful instrument he discovered bacteria. It was with this simple instrument, and others like it , that whole new universes were discovered in drops of water, which led to the well-known satirical verses by Jonathan Swift: So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller F leas that on him prey, And these have smaller Fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum: Thus ev'ry Poet, in his Kind, Is bit by him that comes behind ; Who, tho' too little to be seen , Can teaze, and gall, and give the Spleen. Science really began to take off in the eighteenth century, esl?eciall y through the development of powerful electrical machines and vacuum pumps, and this had Its influence on medicine . Leeches began to be replaced by the new scientific technology, and as far as the general public was concerned, they had difficulty differentiating between the extraordinary theories of the medical 16

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professio n and of the quac ks - bo th inspired by the new science. Hence the eighteenth century is known as the 'Golden Age of Quackery' (so named after doctors of an earli er period who prescribed q uicksilver (or mercury), hence 'quacks' when this substance became freely available). Apart from serious quacks, such as Anton Mesmer who used magnetized water for curing his patients, there were genu ine mo untebanks such as James G raham who utilized the latest electrical techno logy in his 'Temp le of Health ' (1780) to power his ' medi co-magnetico-musico-electrical bed' fo r childless couples. The less said the better! His beautiful ass istant, known as the 'Goddess of Health', was the buxom Amy Lyon, later to become Lady Hamilton, and the mistress of Admiral Nelson. Serious discoveries were, of course, also made, and amo ng the most impo rtant was Edwa rd Jenner' s d iscovery of vaccination in 1796. He coined the word 'vaccination ' from the Latin vacca meaning cow, and vaccina meaning cowpox, and introduced 'virus' for the matter produc ing the d isease. Jenner investi gated the popular notion that those who had contracted cowpox were immune to small pox. Hi s first experiment (w hich luckily was successful) was on an eight-yearold boy who m he inoculated with fluid from the blister o n the arm o f a milkmaid suffe ring fro m cowpox. T he boy cont racted the disease, and recovered within a few days. Next, he inocul ated him with fluid from a smallpox blister, and the boy remained healthy. Jenner 's vaccinatio n remained a sou rce of controversy fo r some years, but by the mid-nineteenth century the techn ique had been genera lly accepted world-wide . New diagnostic breakthroughs began with the d iscovery of X-rays by W ilhelm Konrad Roentgen in 1895 , and has continued ever since, closely following the latest discoveries in science. Imagine how startled the general public was when Roentgen showed the fi rst picture of the bones of a hand taken by these mysterious rays. Advances in new medicines only really began in the first decades o f th is century. What helped the Victorian popul ation to better health was, in the first instance, hydraulic engineering - o r to put it more simply Victorian water-works. Improved drainage and clean drinking water prevented the break-out of infec tious d iseases - the scourge of the Victorian c ities. There was also better health educatio n and standards of food production were improved by the public health laborato ries wh ich were be ing establi shed in all industrial E uropean countries. Over the last few centuries medical scientists have been looking for the magic bullet - the substances that will kill the organism caus ing the disease before it kills the patient, altho ug h, as we have seen, the idea that such organisms exist is a relatively new one . In the sixteenth century med ical treatment was still coupled with astrology - the casting of medical horoscopes. T he first magic bullet was salversan , an arsenic-contaning organic compo und fo rmerly used in the treatment of syphilis, the disease that was as potent then as Aids has become today . The real breakthrough occurred with the discovery of penic illin , the first of the antibiotics in 1939 for wh ich Alexander Fleming, Howard Walter Florey, and Boris Chain were awarded the Nobel Prize for Med icine in 1945 . T he name is now the generic term for a large number of.derivatives of 6-amino-penic illan ic acid obtained naturally or semi-synthetically from the moulds Penicillium and A spergillus. Next , the latest scientific technology such as X-ray d iffraction and the embryonic computer was brought to bear to elucidate the complex molecular structu re of penicill in vital before furthe r ad vances could be made in the development of antibiotics. A key worker in this was Dorothy Mary Hodg kin . Undoubted ly , we are at the dawn of a new e ra in medic ine . Many d iscoveries will be made, but hopefu lly we shall neve r lose the holistic, humanist view o f the world wh ich so inspired T homas Linac re .

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SERMONS ADM ISSION OF SCHOLARS SUNDAY, 12th SEPTEMBER

We now know that many of the parables of Jesus have lost their original context and have been reused by the Evangelists for their own theological purpose. Such is the Parable of the Talents which appears both in Matthew and in a different fo rm in Lu ke and was later used again less harshly in the second-century work, the Gospel of the Nazarenes. For the Hebrews scripture was a living entity and had to be made relevant for each new situation which confronted the communi ty of fai th . For both Matthew and Luke , the Parable of the Talents is set in the context of the parousia, Jesus' second coming, when he would return in triumph and the final judgement would take place. Whi le initially Christians expected that Christ's return was imminent, as his early followers died , others gradually came to acknowledge its delay. While one day he wou ld come in judgement, what was now important was his followe rs' conduct in the meantime. How were they to live their li ves? So we read how St. Pau l had to urge Christians back to daily work; that marriage was to be permitted; that those who died before Chr ist's return would still take part in the parousia. Matthew makes a si milar point: even while waiting for Christ's return his followers are to use their business acumen to the full. It is easy to interpret Matthew's allegorisation of Jesus ' o riginal story . T he man has gone a long journey - Jesus' Ascension. Now his servants are in charge - the Christian commun ity . They have been entrusted with wealth - the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is the exercise of those gifts that will form the subject of the day of reckoning - Christ's return and final judgement. The last verse is a g raphic description of contemporary ideas of hell. T he man is an out-and-out capitalist whose sole object in life is to maximise profit. Like some other subjects of Jesus' parables - T he Unjust Judge, The Dishonest Steward - he is a thoroughly unpleasant character and acknowledged as such. His employees were ri ghtly scared stiff of him. A talent was big money : the story concerns the world of big business. And big business expects handsome profits. Two of the servants respond to the challenge of the new responsibil ities laid upon them . They both double the capita l entrusted to them. T he th ird servant realised his di lemma : if he failed to return at least the capital he had been handed, he imagined he would get no mercy from his hard, harsh boss. Better to play safe. So he buried the money and knew that at least when the reckoning took place, he could not be blamed for any loss. But he had misjudged his boss: even if the servant had wanted to insure himself against failure, he could still have placed the money on deposit and with such a large sum, considerable interest would have been obtained. So the third servant is condemned - and deservedly so - for breach of trust. What are we who two thousand years later, still find ourselves living in the time between the Ascension of Christ and his parousia to make of th is parable? Well , no prizes for guessing why I chose it for today - the admission of our new scholars. We expect these clever boys and girls to use the riches God has given them for maximum profit . But the parable recognises that while we are all given variable amounts of talents, we all have a responsibility to use these gifts whether Exhibitioner o r Commoner. No pupil entering th is school can s imply neglect his or her talents: all in the world's eyes have been given considerable riches from wh ich they are to profit. To leave it there is , of course, to trivialise the parable. Matthew was writing about the ultimate issues of life and death. He saw that the re was only one way that God 's will could be achieved and that was by risk. In this respect he may have been fa ithful to Jesus ' original intention in tell ing the parable . Many scholars think it was directed against the inwardness of the Jewish establishment which Jesus challenged by his att itude to the law - for example in healing on the Sabbath and eating wi th the outcasts of Jewish society. 19 (Ciym Evernden)

W hat Matthew is saying is that the king<;Jo~ can_not come un less the servants are prepared to risk. As every parent knows our natural mstmct IS to play for safety, and the community of fa ith is no exception. But if we are to be faithful to Jesus we must risk our security in order to real ise the potential of which hitherto we never dared to dream. T his is true of any community - a games team, an orchestra, an A-level set, the school itself. It is only by letting go that we become who it is we are to become - and that is a continuous process unti l we let go of life itself. Unlike you pupils who know the dates of your A-level and G.C.S.E. examinations, how and when the final reckon ing will occur we cannot know. But we are left in no doubt that in the meantime there is only one way of li ving - that is to make each day a risk worth taking. We are not called to security and safety but to abandonment and adventure. There will inevitably be!ain and failure: that is real life. In the cross Jesus takes care of both, sharing in ou r pain an ensuring forgiveness for o ur fa il ure. But as Matthew points out, and as any scho lar knows as he or she ventu res into the unknown - to play for safety is not a viable option if we are to live life as our creator intended . A . C. J. PHILLIPS.

A REMEMBRANCE DAY SERMON SUNDAY, 14th NOVEMBER

'Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras und aile Herrlichkeit des Menschen wie des Grases Blumen. Das Gras ist verdorret und die Blume abgefallen.' These words from the first letter of Peter begin the haunting second movement of Brahms' German Requ iem. 'For all flesh, and all the glory of man, is as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.' In a Requiem, Christian understandings of life and death are presented. The sadness of bereavement and the brokenness of Christ on the Cross are set aga inst the stern and joyfu l hope of the resurrection . Death is seen not as an ending but as a necessary process in the realisation of w hat we are. T he passage with wh ich I started continues: 'but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever!'. Christians believe in the Word incarnate as Jesus, suffering and dy ing. Christians believe in the resurrection, in C hrist r ising and triumphant. It is in that fa ith that I stand here today. Were I not able to procla im that, then I would not be here. But to take refuge in religio us phrases is not necessarily the response to those who have suffered thro ugh war. To my great-uncle who, f ifty yea rs after the Somme when I firs t knew hi m, still carried within him the shrapnel that had invalided him home. To my great-aunt, single because fa ithful over s ixty years to her fiance who d isappeared in the mud of Flande rs I could not glibly say that. For them, people such as they, the ir g lory was no t experienced . T he reality of war, however no ble the cause or honourable the sentiments w hich impelled its waging, stands against false piety. It is the re~lity of_the G reat War, whose seventy-fifth anniversary of end ing was last Thursday, that predommates 1mages of Remembrance Sunday. Fuelled by the poetry of Owen, Sassoon and Graves, there is a harsh question ing of values which cannot be escaped. The Great War has come in retrospect to epitomise the futility of wa r. T he poppies that we wea r can be seen over countless Belg ian graves of people li ke ourselves. Today, we remember them and especially the 147 O.K.S. whose names, inscribed under the Schoolroom, we pass every day. We remember a lso the 112 O.K.S. w ho died in the Second War and the many people of our commun ity of Canterbury who also died while our school was safe in Cornwall. T he reasons for the Second War were perhaps more understandable than those fo r the first, but there were still too many victims. T he wars in Korea and Vietnam; the conflict in the Falklands and the Gulf War: these are all rem inders that armed violence is not a thing of the past as the traged ies of Northern Ireland , of Somalia and of the nati ons of Yugoslavia too clearly show. 'They shall g row not old as we that are left grow o ld. Age shall not weary them , nor the years condemn . At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them', w rote Binyon. Remembrance, if it is to have any valid ity, is not about looki ng back but also about moving forward. If we indeed mean what we demonstrate by our presence here, we show ou r 20

remembrance by o ur determination, both ind ividually and as a community, to ensure that peace shall prevail. In our dealings with each other; in our renunciation of all forms of bullying, in our relationships with others (and perhaps especially in our response to the provocation and violence being shown by a fe w local youths) we w ill be peaceful. This is not the pallid peace of passivity. It is not the stiff upper lip denying feeling. It is, rather, the properly proud peace that such as Gandhi offered in his march for justice. It is the uncompromising peace that such as Jesus of Nazareth encouraged in his disciples . It is, perhaps, a reflection of the peace that passeth understanding; but it is attainable, and it can be attained, firs t in o ur own lives; then in the life of our commun ity; then, springing from communities such as o urs, within o ur society. We will remember them: we will be remembered. Wir werden sie nie vergessen . J. A . THACKRAY .

A SERMON FOR T HE BAPT ISM OF NICHOLAS HANDS SUNDAY, 21st NOVEMBER

From the Gospel according to St . Matthew, 16.24-25 : T hen Jesus told his disciples, ' If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.' I doubt if anyone can attend the baptism of an infant without some questioning about what is going on . Baptism is not something which can j ust be taken for granted, any more than the eucharist can be taken for granted. Both sacraments are at face value odd. A baby splashed with a token drop of water ; the d istribution of a wafer and a sip of wine. These are held on the one hand to mark the passing from death to life, of rebirth in the family of the church: and on the other the sharing in the very body and blood of the Saviour. Outward and visible signs of inward and spi ritual truths, the catechism boldly proclaims. But even the faithful have their sceptical moments. Can so much really be claimed? And what about this helpless infant? How can today's ceremo ny in any way affect this chi ld incapable of understanding one jot of what goes on? I cannot but sympathise with th is line of questioning. One has all too often ministered the sacrament of baptism in c ircumstances w hich were either superstitious or sentimental. Yet even in these circumstances I wonder whether our questioning does not spring from an improper desire to pro tect God , to ma ke sure that he will not be compromised by what we do. But the one thing that is quite certain, tho ugh Church people seem to find it difficu lt to accept, is that God can do witho ut our protectio n, is beyond being compromised. He who created man is capable of looking after himself. What of course in our ratio nalistic age we fight shy of, is doing something which we cannot scientifically explai n, whose efficacy can be appropriated but not proved. We fig ht shy of faith. For what Jane and Tim will do in bring ing Nicholas for baptism is to affirm their faith in three ways. In the firs t place they will say that the birth of their child was more than just a human process. Like all men, he was loved into life by God himself. He is not theirs to do with as they like until he is o ld enough to look after hi mself. He is God's gift to them: they are stewards of their baby, as they are stewards of all that God has created and entrusted to their care. Their task is to enable Nicho las to fulfil himself in the way in which God intends him to fulfil himself, enable him to be- be whom God has destined him to be. Their care, example, love and discipline - w hat the Hebrews called wisdom - sho uld enable him when the time comes to make the r ig ht decisio ns. Of course fo r the parents it is a continuous process of letting go in order that he may be . At baptism they take that first step in letting go, in acknowledging that his first loyalty is to God, that they can only enjoy him through Him who has created him and has given them this pr iceless gift, this awesome charge. W hat we are affirming is that for Christian parents, 21

Christ comes between the child and the parents, as indeed he must come between everything we do and have. It is this recognition which, when the going gets rough - broken nights, teenage rebellion - will enable the parents to continue to give of their love, even when there has been failure on either side. Perhaps one of the hardest things to learn is to apologise to one's children. Tim and Jan~ are th~n not doing God a favour in coming here with Ni.cholas. T~ey are not o f~ering God somethmg wh1ch he has not already got. They are acknowlcdgmg what 1s the true pos1tion that God has given them their son. Like the bread and wine of communion, a ll things come of God. Of his own do we offer him. Second, in expressing their act of faith by having their helpless child baptised, Tim and Jane are doing all that they can do. This is a situation which we don't much like facing. We want to be in control, know that by our own efforts we can bring things to a successful conclusion. We don 't like accepting that there are times when there is nothing e lse we can do , except watch and wait - and pray . Faith by definition means that one cannot have a ll the answers. It's an abandonment to God, a letting go, or like Abraham a going out where one knows not. All one can do is to step forward. The faithfu l man is in the end the powerless man , for he has surrendered the control of his own destiny to his Father. Tim and Jane have done that for themselves . And now they do it for Nicholas, knowing that not even his faith can be assured. They do all they can do at this moment: no more can be asked of them. They must watch and wait - and pray. Third , Tim and Jane know that God cannot be mocked by what is done here, for it is not we who baptise but the gracious God who acts. Just as in Ezekiel's vision he breathed new life into the dead bones of captive Israel every bit as helpless as a new-born child , so now he will breathe new life into Nicholas, the life of the Spirit. This is the parents' act of faith . What they want for their son is that he will show in his life those gifts of the Spirit wh ich are the believer's to exercise through the grace of the God who so richly gives them. In every one they show themselves in different ways; but their common purpose is to bring peace- wholeness and harmony throughout all creation. Then the kingdom fo r which we are bidden to pray daily will have come, come in all its fullness. We believe that in th is service of baptism we take a step forward to the realisation of that day. But just as ex iled Israel had to appropriate Ezekiel's vision of new life, remain faithfu l to him in Babylon and so make a return from exile possible , so Nicholas will have to appropriate for himself what God has done for him at his baptism. By it he becomes part of the community of resurrection, those who have passed from death to life through receiving the Spirit. In baptism we identify with Christ's death, burial and resurrection. We go down into the waters of baptism to rise in the new life of the church. We become part of hi s body. But to do this we must like him be prepared to stretch our arms upon the cross ready to embrace all men with his love. For what Nicholas must appropriate is not his salvation - that was won for him once and for a ll on Calvary- what he must appropriate is the very sign with which he will be marked, the cross itself. It is a sign which most of us haven 't the courage to look at for long. We take the body down, clean the demonic instrument of death, and wear it round our necks for safety. But it is the most unsafe sign in all the world. For it signifies our willingness to be torn apart, stretched beyond the limit. The Christian has no other property he may call his own but his cross, the cross which the Saviour bids him take up and follow, the cross by which he loses his life. This is the measure of our seriousness in baptising a child. This is what this boy's parents must want for him , the example which they are prepared to set him. This is what we who will receive him into our fe llowship must want for ourselves. So it must be our prayer, as it w ill be his parents' and godparents' prayer in the years ahead , that Nicholas will confirm our fa ith by procla iming his own faith , and will with us kneel to receive the body and blood of his Saviour who empowers us to go out from this service to bind up the broken-hearted, to make whole what has been shattered , to free all who arc enslaved , to proclaim the good news that God has in Christ visited and redeemed his people. But others will only take our message seriously in so far as they see in us those who unde rstand the true cost of discipleship, that grace can never be cheap, that we have indeed taken up our cross and followed the Saviour in making his passion our own. A. C. J. PHILLIPS. 22 (Peter Baines)

MUSIC AND DRAMA JERVIS HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 2nd OCTOBER, IN THE OLD SYNAGOGUE

T he concert began with two songs by Arne performed by Miranda Scott-Barrett, accompanied on the recorder by M ichael Peat (LN). It was a delight. Player and singer were beautifully in tune and sensitive to each other's part. M iranda's singing demonstrated not only technical skill and a fine vocal quality but an ability to communicate with an audience which enhanced their apprec iation of the performance, and Michael's playing complemented this perfectly. Next came Lucinda Johnson playing a waltz by Chopin. This too was most effective, conveying a feeling for the music as well as considerable skill. The unaccompanied voices of Sarah Petrie, Rose Skelton and Tan ia Still were heard in Gibbons's Drop, Drop, Slow Tears. It is far from easy to sing a slow unaccompan ied piece which brings the parts back from harmony to unison, but they accompl ished it. A similar challenge faced the next trio, all playing the flute - never an easy instrument to get absolutely in tune. The control and co-ordination displayed by Georgina Bingham, Natasha Reilly and Kate Webster in Boismortie r's Rondeau was impressive. Another solo followed: Georgeanna Will iams (whom I had heard singing Faure's Pie Jesu earlier in the week) gave us Dunhill 's To the Queen of Heaven in a way which reflected. her growing confidence and promise as a solo soprano. The most ambitious undertaking of the evening was probably the first movement of Beethoven's Spring Sonata for violin and piano. Both parts are notoriously demanding. Sarah Petrie, accompanied (as were several solo items) by the self-effacing but indispensable Mr. Matthews , showed a remarkable tech nical contr'ol of the piece. The concentration and dexterity she needed hardly gave he r a chance to communicate her feeling for the music - I would like to have heard the slow movement too! Compensatio n arri ved in the fo rm of one of my favourite pieces, Purcell 's Sound the Trumpet, performed by Miranda Scott-Barrett and Jane Wigan. I could have done with an encore. After Beethoven and Purcell , the next composer on the programme was Charlotte P iper-Smith. Her Improvisation , played by the composer, was a most appealing piece, executed in a way which demonstrated music ianship and feeling. The last solo instrument was the cello on which Jul ia Triebel played Limelight from Chaplin's film score. The intonation was variable but the tone, especially in the lower register, beautifully wa rm. The concert concluded with a trio singing Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. I was somewhat puzzled by the jollity which they broug ht to this sentiment , but perhaps I'm old-fashioned. The girls put together a polished and enjoyable concert in a very short time and earned warm applause. D.P. H.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SUNDAY. lOth OCTOBER, IN THE OLD SYNAGOGUE

It is hard on a relatively inexperienced oboist to have to play the opening notes in a concert. I was possibly the only person in the Synagogue in a position to empathise with James Capel as he embarked on Loeillet's Trio Sonata in C, with Robert Van Allan playing the cello and Philippa Gort-Barten the piano. If the intonation was slightly off-centre as he started from cold, it soon recovered. The legato section was more confident, the staccato playing in the Allegro was accurate and just lacked some assertiveness. With excellent support from the accompanists, James d id extremely well to carry off a demanding task. 23 THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (T. R. H .)

We then heard Alice Lascelles play part of Bach's Suite No. I for Cello. Her intonation was generally excellent and although some !lli~ht feel that a metronome h~s more to do w it~ this sort of music than rubato , the commumcatwn and the tone of the playmg were of the h1ghest order. It then fell to Anne-Christine Farstad on the piano to open the slow movement of Mendelssohn 's D M inor Trio, which she did with great confidence and sty le. Later in the piece she needed to bear in mind Gerald Moore' s famous 'Am I too loud? ', but by and large the ensemble playing was impressive, with~ won~erful cello line provide~ by Laura Marshall and a perfo~mance on the violin from Sarah Petne wh1ch started rather tentatively but became more express1ve and assertive with each passage. This was followed by two harp solos played by Camilla Pay . This pe rformance also gained in confidence and achieved an increasing variety of tone as it went on, and she produced a delightfully delicate pizzicato in the uppermost register followed by a captivating conclusion. Mozart came next, led, in order of playing, by Miranda Scott-Barrett on the piano, with every bit as much accuracy and warmth of communication as we have come to expect from her singing. Anna Lewis on the violin seemed slightly nervous to start with , and Jeremy Bines on the viola could have given a shade more volume, but as the piece progressed, with Jo Chesterman providing excellent cello support throughout, there was fine ensemble playing and a brilliant climax. I cannot claim to know much about the music of Hans Ulrich Staeps, but I would not have complained if our fine recorder players had given us all his other works as encores. A collection of perfectionists such as Matthew and Adam Brown, Mary Stevens , Michael Peat and Nicholas Tattersall were bound to tell me that it was not note-perfect. Who cares? The piece was highly complicated rhythmically and required great technical ski ll. I did not notice the wrong note the whole thing was dazzling. If you shut your eyes during the concluding Beethoven String Quartet and tried to guess the average age of the {'layers, you stood no chance of being right. T he maturity of their performance as well as its techmcal skill defied comment. Open your eyes and you noticed how they watched Sarah Petrie lead, you sensed how they listened to each other. Congratula tions to Sarah , to Tessa Coombe, Jeremy Bines and Nigel Field for this fine performance, and to all the players who contributed - with no staff accompanist - to a memorable evening's music. D .P.H .

TRADESCANT AND BROUGHTON HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 6th NOVEMBER, IN ST. AUGUSTINE 'S REFECTORY

A large audience turned out to see what was to be the very first Tradescant and Broughton house concert. Indeed , we were told that it was to be the very first concert that Broughton had ever given. The evening started with a string quartet comp~ising. C ~are Simmonds, Regine Ketterer, Dan Katz and Alice Lascelles. It was led well by the fii'St vwlm and the fo ur blended well together. Jo Lim then combined with Clare Simmonds to give us a rendition of the Tritsch Tratsch Polka They obviously enjoyed playing together and the piece was greatly appreciated by the audience. After two quite serious pieces, Dan Katz then smartly told us that music is played for enjoyment and we we re given a version of The Pink Panther by Malcolm Todd on the saxophone. After an unsteady start, due to nerves, he managed to play it through and the audience enjoyed the piece nevertheless . T here were two cello solos during the evening. AI ice Lascelles had chosen Bach's Allemande from the Suite No. 1 and the audience were stunned by the performance of sheer quality that she gave . Robert Van Allan played very surely and he looks to be a good prospect for the future. James Longstaffe then came on to perform Tuba Talk. As a beginner he produced a good tone but there were some slips in intonation and to correct this he must practise long notes to build his embouchure and technique. 24

T he strong quartet featured again with George Gershwin 's Summertime. I felt here that the second violin needed to play out more as the mute drowned the tone out and I fo und myself humming in the part. A keyboard solo changed the atmosphere of the audience as James Firth gave a jazz version of the Ski Sunday theme tune. Many people there must have been able to visualise themselves coming down the slopes of the Alps. Simon Peel then gave a very creditable performance with the first movement of Woodcock' s Concerto No. 2. Although there were a couple of slips at the end, this did not detract from the overall performance. After this item James Firth and James Longstaffe played Train Blues . It started with the well known Chattanooga Choo-Choo tune but it was then improvised on. There were three other items that until now I have reserved judgement on as they made a lasting impression on the evening . Gus Wilkinson was the highlight of the evening and stole the show with his three solo songs that he played on the guitar. He played through A m erican Pie w ith Barney Cowin and then he moved on to Eric Clapton 's Tears in Heaven and Gus can be forgiven for the slightly dodgy tuning as he made up for it with his great voice. His final piece was The Beatles' classic song Yesterday and people were amazed with the talent that he showed , especially as he was self-taught. Tradescant and Broughton combined to complete the evening with the Galaxy Song by Monty Python. A special mention must be given to Dan for keeping the whole evening running so smoothly and to Alice who helped organize the concert. MATTHEW HILLIER.

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS MITCHINSON'S AND MARLOWE HOUSE MUSICAL SATURDAY AND SUNDAY , 6th AND 7th NOVEMBER, IN ST. MARY'S HALL ' Isn' t she a beauty !' said Toad - and she was. What the audience thought was Toad's caravan was transformed brilliantly, by the mere act of be ing tipped up, into Toad's flashy car, complete with working headlights. Later it became a train. Such creative ingenuity was typical of this production : the enterta ining script was adapted from Kenneth Grahame's novel by Dr. Maltby and Philip ' I like spoofs' Gottschalk, the music was a harmonious potpourri of Nick Tattersall 's originality (the delightful Duck's Ditty), Jeremy Bine's spookiness (the atmospheic Wild Wood) , the Joseph song and songs from the television version arranged by the S ines/Tattersall partnership, and everyone was clad in green teeshirts designed by Jo Chesterman, which created an attractive sense of workshop ensemble even though it made the actors and audience work harder at characterization. Âˇ It is reassuringly difficult to be a pompous, arrogant, self-centred upper class twit when you are still a Shell, but Mark Williams's Toad made a good stab at it. I particularly liked his rendering of such lines as 'One is discussed' and 'How dare you frog-march me!' Georgina Leigh-Pemberton and Anna Lewis triumphed as the first-ever female Mole and Water Rat, and J ustine McConnell (Rabbit) , Emma Lewis (Hedgehog) and Tom Mackenzie (Badger) were fitting foils to Toad . The weasels were suitably repulsively greasy and Christopher Pickering's Sid Weasel disturbingly convincing in his cynical, exploitative speech about Toad in the Hole Leisure Parks. Everywhere was good humour: Thomas Kenwright's lugubrious L iverpudlian front end of Daisy the Cow was much enjoyed, especially lines such as : 'I'm supposed to pull the caravan, but I keep pulling other things like muscles . .. 'and Barry Cameron's washerwoman reached an hilarious climax in his excited 'They didn 't tell me they'd tie me up! ' There were plenty of the kind oflines audiences like to groan at, li ke 'Answer this question correctly or fear everlasting caravanning!' and the one about ' T he weasel who would have been a rabbit if he hadn' t got stuck in a lift' . There were also some amusing touches of characterization: the school's best swimmer, Tom Collins, appeared as Otter giving swimming lessons to you ng Tarky (Priyan Landham) complete with an L plate, and the train driver on the night I saw the show turned out to be that lover of steam, Dr. 'Steam engines forever is my motto' Maltby. 25

After some initial self-consciousness the Riverbankers, Wild Wooders and the rest of the cast clearly began to enjoy themselves, particularly letting themselves go in the effectively choreographed finale led by Graeme Parkin's singing. No o ne was ever inaudible where I was sitting, and the prompter who played a key role at. the dress re.hearsal w~s rendered unemployed at the performances. It is not easy to ~~t mus.Ical ac~ompam.ments so nght that. they a.lways con:pl ~ment rather than intrude, but the musicians d1d so w1th a dehc~cy of touch bely~ng th~1r youth. Simi ~arly , lighting, stage manag~ment and art ~ork w~re .ef~ect1ve rather than mtrus1ve. Around eighty people were involved m the production , which IS JUSt what House plays are about, though we saw that that does not mean that quality need be sacrificed to quantity. Cong ratulations to Director Dr. Maltby, Co-Director Philip Gottschalk and all involved in this production on giving us an entertaining evening. And who did buil~ that splendi.d car/caravan/train? ~nthony Alderson ~nd Tom Aldridge were the men what done 1t. I wonder 1f they could do anythmg for my fast-agemg transport . . . P.J.B.

THE MEISTER OMERS AND LUXMOORE HOUSE CONCERT SUNDAY, 13th NOVEMBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

The ravages of influenza tried and failed to halt the second Meister Omers/Luxmoore House concert, coordinated by Emily Elias, Matthew Hillier and M.J.M. It got off to a rousing start with a specially commissioned Fanfare for MO(LX: 'Mo_nkeyface_', co1~posed f~r brass ense!TI~le by none other than Bill McConnell_. Mrs. Tenn1ck shed li~ht ~n this cun ous ,subtitle by explam1~g to the audience that no personal msult to anyo ne was Implied , and that Monkeyface was m fact Sir Fairfax Luxmoore's nickname. Three Renaissance dances followed , arranged for chamber orchestra by M.J .M. There was m~ch rhythmic vitality and dynamic expression in.this performance, which appeared to have been enJoyed as much by the playe rs as by the audience. The forces were reduced when Kate C uppage (flute), Laura Marshall (cello) and Emily El ias (piano) played two movements from Corel.li' s La Pollia , Op. 5, No. 12. All three showed ÂŁ!1UCh mus icality, but I felt that a greater dynam ic range could perhaps have been employed. A lively performance of the Scherzo from. Roeh_r's S~nata No . l was given next by Richard Peat.(record~r), sensitively accompanied by Emily Elias (piano). Richard showed a fl uency of techmque which was most impressive. T he slow movement of Haydn's T rumpet Concerto played by Andrew Ribbons (trumpet) and Anne.-Chr istine. Farstad (piano) , followe.d: Andrew has a nice.' round tone, but his intonation was occasiOnally a little wayward. Both musicians, however, are m the Shells, and will without doubt contribute much to music at King's during their yea rs here . A string quartet of Emily Elias and Olivia Neame (violi n), Rosamund Bennett (viola) and Laura Marshall (cello) then played Arie by J. S. Ba~h , arrang~d b~ Sitt. Laura occasion~lly came C?ver as a little too prominent; this was almost certamly due to mev 1ta~le .u~der-rehearsal m the ~pac1 ous acoustic of the Shirley Hall , but all four showed talent and a JUdicious sense of dynamics. The next item on the programme was Rock-a my soul , a Negro Spiritual arranged by Barthe lson, sung by a Luxmoore choir in the capable hands of the by now unstoppable Emily Elias . One of the highlights of the concert , for the reviewer at least, the choir's diction was always clear, supported competently from the piano by M.J.M. This jazzy vein was continued by Alistair Stevens (piano), &ivi ng a live_ly pe~forn:ance, ~r?m memo ry , of Scott Joplin's Maple L eaf Rag. He set everyone s feet tappmg with h1s. rend ition of this noto riously difficult piece. Meister Omers en masse , well known f?r superlat!ve. House Song competition performances, then asc~nded the stage to .per form. Shipmates 0 Mme_! .bY Sanderson. Turned out in immaculate he1g ht order, and with chansmatJc Matthew Hillier conducting, they sang very professionally, with a good deal of attention to musical detail. A small jazz band , consisting largely of Removes, then gave an exciting pe rformance of Dixieland Blues by J. Menz. Of the six ~us icians who.comprised th ~s ~nsemble, Richard P.eat (trombo ne) deserves mention as being particularly techmcally and stylistically assured. He will undoubtedly 26

give much to King's Jazz in the future. The penultimate item on the programme was a simple but effective soul-style piece by Darren Kingston for three guitars, bearing the second interesting and apparentely irrelevant title of the evening, Blue Ys. Richard Hume, Graham Parrish and the composer himself played this with feeling. To finish, a large orchestra played a medley of tu nes from the fi lm Ma1y Poppins , arranged by Kostel and Bill McConnell. The musicians were sensitively controlled by M.J.M. and gave a splendid conclusion to the evening's entertainments. All the performers, and particularly Emily Elias, Matthew Hillier and M.J.M., are to be congratulated on an excellent and well-balanced concert, which was, in Mrs. Tennick's words, 'Co-ed at its best'. THOMAS TALLON.

THE VISIT WEDNESDAY, 1st DECEM BER - SUNDAY , 5th DECEMBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

This was an apt choice of play, a play which has perhaps even more questions to ask of us today than of the times when it was written. An old lady, Claire Zachanassian, comes back to visit the town in which she grew up. She had left the town in disgrace, but became rich through prostitution and marriage to a series of wealthy but stupid husbands. Now she is tremendously rich and fabulously powerful. She returns to the town seeking justice, or rather revenge. Miranda Scott-Barrett portrayed Claire superbly, chillingly , yet with JUSt the right amount of sympathy . One could really believe in Miranda 's Claire, both as a woman wronged, and as the source of evil which stalked the town as tangibly as her black panther. The resonances for the present day are not stated , but they are never far from the surface. One thinks of the relatio nship between East and West Germany, the role of capital in a world where the we lfare state is no longer fas~ionable, of a world where the rich nations are free mercilessly to exploit the poor. 'You forget this is Europe,'- these are the words the mayor uses in his intial rejection of C laire's demand for 'justice' - by which she means the killing of her childhood sweetheart Ill , who betrayed her forty-five years previously. Yet this is a Europe still unreconciled with the terrors of Natio nal Socialism, even now obsessed with the idea of committing acts of vengeance to purge itself. A de ft ly ironic touch in the production was the play ing of The Flight of the Valky ries as the house-lights went out. A harpy Claire might well have been, but not a Valkyrie. It is a play of anti-heroes. Apart from Claire, the main protagonist in the play is not one character but a group of characters, the inhabitants of Guellen colourfully referred to as ' Persons'. The play stands or falls on the joint acting of the ' persons '. Ruth Kirk , F rancesca Beauman, Charles Bell, Rebecca Fordham, Olivia Homan and Tom Jennings did splendidly, moving with apparent ease from their roles as tra inspotters at the tleg inning of the play (there being nothing better to do in Guellen) to sycophants, sucking up to the wealthy C laire, to hypocrites, to pseudo-Greek chorus, to trees, and finally ritual murderers. They were utterly convincing throughout, and provided a splendid vehic le for the chang ing atmospheres of the play . This is vital since it is their behaviour as a g roup which bears o ne of the main messages of the play. 'Problems which concern everyone can only be solved by everyone' Diirrenmatt wrote. Yet these people solve nothing. Led by their pompous, speechifying, hypocritical and sycophantic mayor (played brill iantly - now ironically, now sympatheticalfy, now menacingly, yet always entertainingly - by King's dramatic stalwart, El io t Shri mpton), they allow themselves to be bought out by capital. They sell not only their consent but their very perception of rea lity. The audience is led to see, and to feel, that what people will not do indiv idually, they can do all too easily in a group, from crucifying Christ, to standing by the mass extermination of racial mino ri ties, to permitting whole peoples to starve and live in hatred. T hat one took the group presence of this plural protagonist almost for granted in the production is a tremendous tribute both to the ir acting and to the ski ll of Andrew Dobbin 's and Stephen Davies' direction. Capital distorts justice. As we have seen in the papers recently, to be a swindling tycoon is more socially acceptable then to be too poor to pay one's television licence. Claire belongs to the ranks of inside r deale rs, plunderers of pens ion fu nds, those who buy up people's livelihoods merely to deprive them of them. It is Claire who bought up Guellen to close it down, yet when she did so, no one batted an eyelid. She goes unpunished for her economic crimes against Guellen, 27

yet Ill , who seduced and betrayed her, must die for getti ng her with child and deserting her. The witness~s he bribed (terrifyi~gly portrayed by .Tom Grant a_nd Georgina Plant - the way they tol~ the1r story. sent a re~l ch1ll th~oug~ the aud 1~nce), are blmded and castrated . The j udge at the tnal (an amazmg theatncal coup m th1s product1on, memorably played by Matthew Knight dressed entirely in beetle black, with his lizard- like, robotic movements, sta ring artific ial eyes bald, skeletal head and coloured glasses, menacing , yet pitiable) is reduced to C la ire's Butler: The real horror of this play is that everyone, Ill , the j udge, the false w itnesses, is convinced of their own guilt. Even ~he audience ~ollabo~ates at times, feeling that perhaps j ustice is being done after all. No one thmks of accus mg C la1re. Or no one dares to, except the schoolmistress in a vain drunken outburst. Why not? Because C laire is a controller of capital. Not that the play is Marxist. Diirrenmatt suggests no pat Marxist solutions, though he does follow some of the theatrical practices of his Marxist predecessor Bertolt Brecht. Alienation effect is the foremost of these, the use of techniques aiming to distance the audience from the play to lead us to reflect upon it, rather than identify with any of the main characters. Examples of alienation techniques in this production were the use of the chorus, repetitions, cliches, the grotesque, the human trees, jokes, like those about C la ire's artificial limbs, the surreal yet all too convincing figures of Hamish Lemmens and Peter Lambert as menacing, sedan-chair-carry ing Chicago gangsters, the bizarre entries and exits of the blind eunuchs. T he set design and costumes were very much in the spirit of this type of theatre - stylish yet non-realistic. The backdrop, with its greys and blacks, was reminiscent of a dadaist collage of objets trouves, redolent of social decay, yet functional with its pots and bicycle parts, all add ing to the atmosphere of the simultaneously real and unreal. That the stage crew got it to move and open up before our eyes was a miracle ! This was Anthony Alderson 's school debut in a major production, and it is clear that he is a tremendous asset to the school. The look of the stage blended superbly with Sheila Bennett and Juliette Vigano's costumes, becoming more lavish as the play progressed , eloquent and eye-catching yet never quite over the top . Tania Still's ti reless stage management and behind-the-scenes did a splendid job in ensuring the smooth running of the play. All involved in this side of the production should be congratulated on providing the aud1ence with a visual treat which in no way detracted from the more serious content of the play. Alienation technique never means a total absence of emotional identification with the main protagonists - rather that we should question any such identification , that our response should be intellectual rather than emotional. Dan Katz's acting as Ill was excellent precisely because he was so sympathetic, because he did manage to convey to us exactly what the character was going through. We are led to reflect on the corrupting potentia l of wealth. Thus Jamie Nicholson showed us most convincingly how the weak policeman can betray himself at the behest of fi nancial power. Barry Cameron 's careful portrayal showed us how the medical profession can conni ve. Joshua Cole, Kirstin Gaymer and Peter Lambert demonstrated through their energetic and entertaining acting the callous, manipulative nature of the media. Jessica Potter's now engaging, now corrupt artist and the muscular Luke Singer showed us how art and sport can be purchased. Even the church , as we saw from William Davies' unnerving portrayal of the priest, is not immune. The best the priest can do is to urge the unfortunate Ill to flee. Shockingly the educational establishment itself is reduced to hypocrisy, vain speechifying and finally alcohol abuse, as Suzy Madigan showed us - firstly austere and schoolma ' mish , then sickening ly over-eager to please, then hilariously drunk and finally submissive. Her performance had , of course, nothing to do with real-life observation here at King's . .. T he strength of the play is that there is no suggestion of facile answers - only questions. Even sex and the family come into it. Each of Cla ire's seventh to ninth husbands, most amusingly portrayed by Luke Toulson , clearly finds her irresistible, despite her artificial limbs and hardly endearing mannerisms. Ill acts as though she is still lovely, r artly because he still remembers her from when they were first lovers, but mostly because o the power she exudes. Ill 's wife and family, on the other hand (his wife was played with just the right amount of reserve by Chloe Oakshett, his rebellious adolescent son acted very convincingly by Tristan McConnell and his awkwa rd and somewhat sur ly daughter also well played by Priscilla Parish), turn away from him when he needs them. Ill 's misdemeanour, his seduction of C laire, is in the first instance 28 (T.R .H.)

a sexual one. It is perhaps the sexual element which blinds the inhabitants of Guellen, as it can blind our prurient Sun- reading society, to the fact that Ill's subsequent abandonment and betrayal of C laire, odious though it is, is no g reate r than Claire's betrayal of Guellen. One criticism I heard voiced of the play itself, not of the production, was that the ending, the 'just' kill ing of Ill which makes it possible for the inhabitants of Guellen to pick up their cheque, is predictable. Some of the audience expected a twist, or a deus ex mach ina. In the context of Dii rrenmatt's theatre the very predictability of the ending, the absence of a twist is a twist in itself. And our vague dissatisfaction with the ending, which makes the play into the reverse of the classical tragedy which it parodies, reflects the very point of the play. The world, as portrayed by Diirrenmatt in The Visit, does not have to be like that. If we question, and reflect and if we choose, we can make it different. Nothi ng could be further from Marxist determinism. Laughter is the remedy Diirrenmatt prescribes, even if the humour is of the blackest. The play is entertaining, and the production was gripping from beginning to end. The directors, Andrew Dobbin and Stephen Davies, the cast and all involved are to be congratulated on offering us such a splendid night out. T.J.A .

THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES THE GRANGE AND WALPOLE JUNIOR HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, lith AND 12th DECEMBER, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

And so the saga continues. T his was a difficult production from the start, but was resurrected at the fin ish. After walk-outs, management changes, fragmentary rehearsals, and general Angstridden chaos, the cast managed to enjoy themselves immensely in performance. Such enjoyment was then passed on to the not inconsiderable audiences, and the end result was a delightful evening's entertainment. To be frank, the play itself is nothing more than a mediocre farce, the type of thing that has as its subtitle 'a play for schools'. The ty pe of thing, that, if we are not careful, will get mistaken for real drama in the minds of those involved. O ne worries that, in years to come, when the cast think about being in a play they will think about being in a play like this. Within such a limited and o ut-dated framewo rk ('Jimmy!' one character exclaims at a particularly cmcial moment, suggesting that we are really at the sharp end of contemporary cultural criticism) this cast performed the wonders of subversio n, unconciously at firs t (when they thought it was going badly) and then with increasing confidence (as they realised that this was the way to do it). This was most clear at the beginning of Act 2, where a number of the author's original words were given a decidedly new interpretation: it proved difficult to speak of 'pouring symp into the girls' toolboxes' and 'puncturing the g irls' back tyres' without add ing innuendo. Suffice to say that when Mr. Tassel (?!) offered to lick a fema le colleague's envelopes, even the most laconic in the audience were stirred. Some notable performances then: from Dan Broom, as the broom-brandishing caretaker; from Alex Pearson as the woman-hater smothered by aunts' scarves; from Delia and Dorelia as Dorelia and Delia, the cutesiest schoolgi rls ever; from Rachel Hill as the fearsome Principal; from Chris Mounsey-Thear as the frightened Headmaster; from Chris Elworthy as an angry parent; and, of course, Larry Ridges, as the Bunterish schoolboy, Hopcroft. But credit must be paid to the perseverance of the directors, Helena Ancock and Nick Bray, who despite the stress and general trau ma, kept the product io n going with their inimitable soft cop/nasty cop routine. All of the cast, I believe, will have learnt a great deal about co-operation, about how to work creatively together, and how boys and girls need to have mutual respect for each other if this is to happen. It is notable that the subject matter of the play (the farce is created when a men-hating girls' school is evacuated to a woman-hating boys' school) does not do a great deal for co-ed - although the directio n, I hope, did. And it is worry ing that when, for example, a particularly virulent 29 (Jon Alcock)

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brand of misogyny was expressed, when a 'forward' female character 's books were dashed fro m her hands onto the floor, when women were put down , then the male audience on the back row cheered most loudly. There is still a long way to go, it seems. The final performanc~s were a credit to all involv~d, and g reat fu n to watch: the average age of cast was well below fifteen, the producers were Sixteen and seventeen . Much will have been learnt, but in the future it would be nice to see House drama exit from the music hall and the drawing room, and all the musty ideas therein. S.H.D.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SUNDAY, 12th DECEMBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

. Th~ Music Department:s Christmas pr~sent t? the School was given by the Symphony O rchestra, Its stnngs and wmd s~ctlons, and the Smfoma, a group of Shell s and Removes strings, under the baton of Mr. Cohn Metters. The opening item was the Overture to The Barber o f Seville, by Rossini. As is not uncommon there was a little hesitancy in the strings at first, but the piece soon settled down as the orchestr~ warmed to its audience. The pizzicato was good, as were the dynamics and the balance of instruments in the tuttis. After Rossini, the ever-popular Chanson de Mat in , by E lgar. Despite its French title, it is essentially E nglish in sty le. The Symphony Orchestra's legato showed up well in this piece, but I did feel that the fortissimo sections were a shade too heavy, and lack ing just a little in fluency. T he Shells' and Removes' Sinfonia then played the well-known Canon in D by Pachelbel. Considering their ages, they played well, and if the intonation was a little awry at times, and the pace seemingly pedestrian, that is not to be unexpected in ensemble playing at this age. Indeed, with increasing maturity and growing confidence, the performance augurs well for the future. The wind section of the Symphony Orchestra then treated us to the Adagio and Allegretto from Gounod 's Petite Symphonie. The short adagio is rather dark in tone, but the piece is lifted by the ensuing rather j aunty allegretto. The ensemble was well together , well-balanced and sounded rather better than when playing in full orchestra . Perhaps that is because everyone missed out a few notes but no one played any wrong ones, to quote a member of the wind section a fter the concert. It was then the turn of the strings, with Britten's Simple Symphony, the movements of wh ich are alliteratively entitled ' Playful Pizzicato ', 'Sentimental Sarabande' and ' Frolicsome Finale'. The title is something of a misnomer , for there are some demanding moments for the strings, none more so than the opening movement which is, as its tit le suggests, pizzicato throughout. The timing and intonation were very good in this movement. The ensuing Sarabande is, of course, a somewhat courtly dance, and there was a good rich tone and nice balance between the different instruments. The Finale was a jolly juxtapos ition after the Sarabande, and was played with verve. ~ did feel that the players wer~ beg~nning to ~ire. a .little in this movement, as the pitch went off JUSt a touch every now and agam. It IS often sa1d , In JeSt, I hasten to add, that bass players consider themselves to be in tune if they're within a yard of the note, but violin and viola players have to be a little nearer the mark, and that all the time. The combined forces of all sections of the orchestra then brought the concert to an end with the Farandole from Bizet's Suite No.2 , L 'ArJesienne. It opens with the Marche des Rois, played incisively and providing a nice contrast with the following Farandole, within which the contrast between the strings and wind section was a pleasure to listen to . T he rousing finale was a worthy ending to a most enjoyable concert, which amply demonstrated once again the depth of ta lent and commitment of King 's musicians of all ages and disciplines. R.V.J .B . 30

VISITS AND TRIPS DIARY OF A RUGBY TOURIST Sunday, 18th July - Wednesday, 21st July The eag~r ~nt i~ipation of stepping on to that plane to Bangkok; the agonising prospect of the ~rduous trammg m the three days beforehand. With these ambivalent sentiments we all assembled m Tradescant. The prophecy that t~er~ would be a.n immediate 'bleep-test' to greet our arri val

was thankfully un~lfil.l ed. Less grat1fymg was the discovery that scarcely any of our tour uniform fitted <9.K., the t1e d1d). R.C.W. concocted a training scheme which without doubt shook off our h<_>hday lethargy; though we never quite understood how Giles managed to elude those obligatory ~ornmg runs ..The barbecue hosted by the Murches was not only much enjoyed by all but provided 1deal preparation for the countless BBQs we were to experience in Australia . ..

Thursday, 22nd July It was ~n early st~rt and a tig ht schedule: we all dragged our luggage to the customary Lehane coach whilst Jay, ~1th a warped s~nse of urgency, started to pack. On arrival at Heathrow, we endured a long wa1t ~o â&#x20AC;˘: the c.heck~m, but .we finally. took off, only to notice that a~companying ou r ~â&#x20AC;˘ght were .Austral~an cn cketmg to~nsts returnmg home, and a g roup of English girls also tounng. A~st~aha. The. mcessant screammg and flash photography of the latter group provided, to our 1rntat10n, a pomted contrast with the civil ised ways of the K.S.C. party . . .

Friday, 23rd July We were g reeted upon our arrival in Bangkok by Mr. Orsler and our wonderful guide Wannee. She told us that there would be a slight delay in our transport to the hotel: the first coach had crashed. So ev~ntually we found ourselves in va rious 'spacious' vans and we were given a first taste of the Thai culture, namely that seat belts are non-existent and they all drive Ia Nigel Mansell . W,e all found the hotel very agreeable, and the hotel receptions found us very agreeable, particularl y Dunstan . ~he su~seq.uent tour of the Grand Palace was a real faux-pas : our wearied lrmbs were not compatible w~th sig ht-seeing, impressive though the temples were. Wannee tried to enthuse. us, ~ut to n~ a~a li . We re~urned to the hotel in a coach which had the pretensions possessmg a.r-cond1t10nmg,. In reahtX ~he heat combined with the static traffic brought g reat discomfort. In o ur half-consc 10u~ soponf1c state, we noticed. K. E .J. M. videoing the jet-lagged appearance of the party fo r postenty . .. The long day ended w1th a very sumptuous dinner hosted by Mr. Spencer, though afterwards we had to wait for the coach which never came ... (ergo taxis)

Saturday , 24th July

Our fir~t match of the tour pro ~ed .to be an exciting one. P laying against their national U22 squad, !ay s try gave us the lead until m~n.utes before the end.~ 10-8loss was admirable considering our fat1gue ~nd the .unfavourable co~d1tro~s. Afterwards a dtnner was hosted by the Thai Rugby Footb~ll Umon. T~rs was when our 11lustnous tou r captain, James Bishop, gave his debut speech; al~o th1s wa~ ~hen rt was brought to the party's attention that we had missed our lunch appointment with the Bnt1sh Ambassador (an O.K.S.) that day; the lasagne for thirty-five was regrettably foregone. We all slept very soundly that night , with a couple of exceptions . . .

Sunday, 25th July

. T~e spices h~d finally taken their toll on some tourists. The severest victim, Haggis, was violently eJectmg maten~l all n1g ht, and ? !hers also susta ined stomach problems. Those still healthy set off to the Floatmg Mar~et and m the evening we assembled in the British Club for the dinner hosted ~y Mr. Orsler, JOmed by those who had recuperated and also M.C .L. We had a competition for gettm~ back to the hotel the cheapest way . Jay managed to br ibe someone to write 7 baht o n a rece1pt.

Monday, 26th July Absol~te pa~demonium : we tr ied to check-out of the hotel efficiently! The 4 .30 morning calb malfunctioned'':! some rooms; passports were deci.ared lost; hotel bills were suspected of extortion; Dunstan and M1ke were (falsely) accused of havmg abducted hotel towels . As it turned out the aeroplane was (~urpr~ se, surp rise) d~layed for a few hours, and we all slobbed out in the ai;port lounge. We arnved m Sydney late m the evening and spent the night in a hotel at Coogee.

Tuesday, 27th July - Wednesday, 28th July

A monstrously huge breakfast w~s followed by some 'light' trai.ning. We then set off. for our first school Edmund Rice College m Wollongong . We met our b1llets at the school, w1th a lot of eye contact, and for the first time the party split up. We reconvened the next morning for our second match of the tour. This was a rather lacklustre affair, and successive concessions of soft tries let the opposition run away with victory. A relaxing night in town provided the cure for our sorrows.

Thursday, 29th July - Friday, 30th July .

The option of visiting the Hunter Valley v1a a s1x-hour coach JOurney was firmly reJected. So we bade farewell to our hospitable billets and set off for Galston High S~hool. Lo and be.hold upon our arrival , some members of the squad we~e much aroused by the s1ght of female billets whom, as predicted, the 'brotherhood' monopolised.

Saturday, 31st July

The morning was spent prepanng for the match ; th.e .surreptitiOus esp1onage by the oppos1t10n prevented us from running t~~ough our mo':es too expllc1~ly. A tour round an extremely old cottage (ca. 19th century) did not ellc1t too mu~h ~~d~-eyed astomshm,ent fr?m the pa.rty, and w.e ~o.ndered whether the distribution of that most mtngumgly flavoured cake was des1gned to diml':ISh ~)Ur level of performance for the forthcoming match . .As th~ match turned out, after a defens1ve firSt half, we completely dominated the sec~md half, m wh1ch Oggy lau':lched h1mself on a solo run from his own 10-metre line and beat s1x men to score what staggenngly proved to be our only try; the opposition were embarrassed to have ended up as the victors. In the match between Australia and South Africa that night, our vociferous support in the Sydney Football Stadium for the Springboks was probably a decisive factor for their victory. After the match, we eventually found the coach, though our departure was still further delayed by ' Thelma and Louise' getting lost together . . .

Sunday, 1st August

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We set off to our sister school , King s School Parramatta, Situated m beautiful grounds. However, though at first sight one might think the school was rather similar to ours, it was in fact extremely different. Those of us who were accommodated ~n the boarding houses would testi~y (amid. SOf!le groans perhaps) that it was an 'interesting' expenence. We found ourselves placed m dorm1tones of twenty-four beds: at one end slept the 12/13 year~olds, and ~t the other were .the 17/18 yearolds. Eight of us were in one house and another e1ght were m another. But smce the hou~es were purpose-built, they were all the same; thus a few of us, on our way .back from m~als (wh1ch included a mountain trek), managed to go to the wrong house and lo1ter there until someone questioned the validity of our presence! Parramatta 'junior duties' encompassed a job which defied belief: a boy would stand by the showers in the morning and time the juniors with a stop-watch. They were allowed 45 seconds in the shower (so that there would be enough hot water for the seniors)! Fortunately our status as guests e~empted us from this rest.ricti.on. One was also ~mazed by their propensity towards constant fightmg .as. a .means .of recreation m the ~ouse. Partlcularl.Y because the school is far away from the town 1t 1s 1mposs1ble to draw compansons between the1r lifestyle and ours.

Monday, 2nd August - Tuesday, 3r.d August.

Playing against a young Parramatta s1de on the1r school ~val , we started slugg1shly and w~re 17-0 down by half-time. But we were able to better them m the second half by a 3-0 margm; but alas, a loss is a loss . The next day was another day at leisure in Sydney: Centre Point Tower, The Rocks, the Opera House, Darling Harbour, the Aquarium and . . . McD's.

Wednesday, 4th August- Thursday, 5th August

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As we arrived at our last school in New South Wales, Tnmty Grammar, 1t began to ram heavlly. We had to play that very afternoon, and in the muddy and pluvial conditions apparently reminiscent of the match between K.S.C. and Parramatta in the previous tour, the team played excellent wetweather rugby to, yes, vanquish the opposition! We were all more than happy to have our 100% record broken at last. 32

The next day was again spent in leisure in Sydney. Thanks to the generosity of the Humes, we were treated to a gastronomic feast at the Hard Rock Cafe. Meanwhile the management were also compiling the calories, at the revolving restaurant in Centre Point Tower.

Friday, 6th August - Saturday, 7th August We said good-bye to our hosts very early in the morning and caught our flight to Brisbane. We then journeyed on to the Gold Coast and arrived at Somerset College where we dispersed to our billets. The next day we set out for the Seaworld where we frantically indulged in many roller coaster rides, though some of us did find the Pirate ship rather vomit-conducive. There were also dolphin shows, swimming, hot dogs etc .. .. Some of us were invited along to the school musical that evening. Though it resembled a cast party than a performance, it had its amusing moments!

Sunday, 8th August - Monday, 9th August

A Rugby Breakfast was served: John Eales was present and made a short speech. Our skip~er also spoke a few words, much to our amusement, yet everyone else was very impressed, respondmg with comments such as: 'Don't you just love that boy's accent?! ' Our match that morning was extremely well contested. Within the first few seconds of the game Matt managed to charge down a kick and score. We led for most of the way but somehow the opposition snatched the lead with seven minutes to go. The atmosphere had reached such a level of intensity that obscenities were being uttered at regular intervals; some members of the side were asserting the need to curb bad language, but emphasized their point with bad language as well. But to our credit, we managed to pull oursel.ves together and Jools' solo effort, collecting his own chip ahead to score, extended our winning streak. We spent the next morning in the Movieworld Batman ride, ice-cream, sound effects for Lethal Weapon 2, etc.), and then transferred back to Brisbane for our last host school, Churchie Grammar.

Tuesday, lOth August- Wednesday, 11th August After a light training session in the morning, we went into Brisbane and tried out the McD's, KFC's, Burger Kings, etc. The Australians seem to have a deep penchant for fast-food. Some disappeared off to the exhibition in town: those who tried the 'Graviton' invariably came out feeling sick. In our final match of the tour, we came up against a very physical side and though we retaliated with a couple of tries and some excellent defence, we never looked like the likely winners. Thus ended our campai~n. We did not dwell on our defeat or any technical shortcomings, but accepted the outcome grac1ously and looked forward to our trip to Cairns.

Thursday, 12th August - Saturday, 14th August The resort in Cairns provided the ideal place of relaxation, as we plunged into the swimming pools (Pod and Boo-boo chose the au nature/ option); enjoyed a half-day whitewater rafting the next morning, and Abdul proved to be extremely adept at causing his group to capsize. On our final day in Cairns we took a full-day Outer Barrier Reef excursion; only Haggis, Jamie and myself possessed the bravado (or perhaps the financial resources) to scuba-dive, the others also got wet by snorkelling. On our return to the hotel there was a tinge of sadness and regret that our trip was about to come to an end, but the evening was livened up by our 'fines' session, presented by the one-and-only R. Swanson: R.C.W., K.E.J.M., M.C.L. (and J.B.?) did not escape having their secrets revealed. Then followed the presentation of the awards, democratically voted by both players and management: Most Improved Player was James Stevens, Matthew Edwards was voted, with virtual unanimity, Player of the Tour, and finally, Dom was deemed the Best Tourist, whose description of what 'bungy jumping' was like probably earned him many votes.

Sunday, 15th August - Monday, 16th August

A few of us had to get up at some ungodly hour to catch different fli~hts to the others. The rest of the squad proceeded to Darwin and flew out to Singapore, and owmg to an enforced long transit period, took a brief sightseeing tour of Singapore before making the final leg of the return journey. 33

Epilogue B' h dJ r It is roper that when it all ends, we pay tribute to our two leaders, James IS op a.n u â&#x20AC;˘an Lewis-fones both of whom led by example and were respected by all. That a .tou.r wh1ch lasted four weeks ~ent as smoothly and pleasantly as it did wa.s a monumental orgamsat10nal fe~t. For this and everything else they did for us ,. we express a smcere vote of thanks to Mr. Martm and Mr. Lawrence, and above all Mr. Wh1te. . A art from the rugby , what will be forever embedded in our he~rts are the memones of ~he excJlent experiences, the people we met, the sights we saw, the. t~mgs we le~rnt, and towenng above all these is the bond of friendship. I could go on and on :wntmg ab?u.t th1s tour.' but .suf~ce it to say, (especially to those who are invited to the next fore1gn tour) , 1t IS a once m a lifetime experience. G c RANT

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CHAPLAIN'S NOTES

Myles Orsler, I know all about you'. Such was the memorable start to an arresting sermon in the last Mattins of term , delivered by Richard Christian, formerly Chaplain at Harrow, which ended a good term of Mattins sermons. The Headmaster, having given us 'proper selfishness' last year, spoke of the proper response to God. Canon Bates of Westminster Abbey challenged us to think about the reason for rules. David Lindsay, Chaplain of Haberdasher's Askes, led us to reflect upon our relationships in school. Sister Lavinia Byrne provided some thought-provoking imagery. And in our speakers on C hoice Sundays we were equally fortunate: the charity of the term, Mildmay, gave a presentation of their work to the sixth form and at the Lower School service. Our good friend Canon Derek Ingram Hill spoke of his perception of King's, seventy years after joining as a boy. (He celebrated the early Eucharist on St. Matthew's Day, the actual anniversary. Was it more impressive that he was marking such an event or that three dozen pupils joined him for it? It was, rightly , Canon Ingram Hill who received the presentation from the Headmaster at School Prayers). Bill Bowder, the University Chaplain, gave an overview of life at university. The Bursar spoke of his role - I understand that hippopotami enter into it somehow. The 'other' Canon Phillips spoke of a proper response to the mendicant destitute in our city. At the Lower School services, other external speakers included St.John Perry, O.K.S., who spoke of his work in Indonesia and Roger Ellis, chaplain of St. Edmund's, who rather stole the show. My thanks to my colleagues who took Lower School services, Crypt Prayers (happily restored now that the Nave is restored) and School Prayers. Special mention to Duncan Parrish, K.S. and Alex Maines, K.S., who provided a witty and apposite week of Prayers. Whilst thanking , mention must be made of the support that the Chapel Choir, led by Stephen Pinnock, and the Crypt Choir, led by Michael Harris, give. Indeed , the Music Department, in its various ramifications, does give sterling support to our corporate worship. There was a very happy baptism in the Crypt of Nicholas Hands, especially appropriate as Dr. and Mrs. Hands were married in the Crypt. There was an equally happy Community Carol service, where three primary schools participated, as well as our old friends from the National Centre for Cued Speech . St. Andrew's Day was marked by a sung Eucharist in St. Augustine's Upper Chapel, the first such service there after the buildings of St. Augustine's had been purchased by the School. Remembrance Day was cold. The school en masse made an impressively stark sight against a sombre sky shedding fine snow. It made real an awareness of the privations of war, especially the trench warfare of the Great War which ended seventy-five years ago last Armistice Day. These are the set-piece events. It is ~ood that as a community we worship God together: indeed, the only times we meet as a commumty are for School Prayers, Mattins and the major services of the school year. It is good that each school day starts with a celebration of the Eucharist. However, if the King's School is to fulfi l its vocation to be a Christian school then its faith will be demonstrated in the quality of its quotidian life. This cannot be encapsulated in a single report, nor can it be limited to acts of Christian worship. To do so would be to limit the action of God: if we accept his love then we accept our limitations, and, in so doing, fulfil more fully our vocation.

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THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES Despite a nervous s~art , t~is season has been d istinctly more successful than last: the first match, agamst Stmon Langton, suggested that normal service was being resumed, with mistakes leading to points from good positions. However the next match against Dover Grammar School saw the tide turn as , for the first time I can remember, it was we who benefitted from unso licited generosity. As a result, there were several ' man of the match' awards: to Rupert Jagelman (board 5) for offering his opponent a draw in a totally lost position (three pawns each, but a N down) , which was accepted . . . to Charles Aitken (board 4) for swindling a R & K v R mating position at the edge of the board while his opponent, as materiall y blessed as John Paul Getty, was watching the other side . . . to Frazer Hughes (board 2) for not arriving late, not getting into time trouble , not losing, and not drawing ... â&#x20AC;˘ As a result of the somewhat flattering scoreline, confidence seemed to increase, and the other two matches were also won well, p~rticularly .the last, agains~ tra~itionally worthy opposition from Harvey Grammar. It was also very pleas mg that Kteran Murphy, m hts last year at the School, should be able to capta in a much more s uccessful team as well as score a personal I00 % in his four games so far. Towards the end of the te rm , the top four boards were able to play in a local Jun io r tournament, the Canterbury Junior Grand Pri x. Lack of experience at such high-pressure event s (six quick-play rounds in one day) was evident as both Kieran Murphy (in the U 18 Major competition) and Frazer Hughes (U 18 Minor) played beneath their capabilities and were observed perpetuating a few embarrassing blunders, but for Rodolphe d' Arjuzon and Charles Aitken (both Ul8 Minor) the day was much more successful: both scored 4/6 and fintshed among the prizewinners.

CHESS

R ESULTS

Kent Schools' Chess League (Senior), local area v Simon Langton Boys' G.S. (H). Lost 1-4. v Dover Boys' G.S. (A). Won 4 '12 Âˇ 112. v Dover College (H) . Won 4- l. v Harvey Grammar (H) . Won 3 1/2- 1112.

A.R.A. R. T he pressure has really been on this term. We have had to address ourselves to the fact that our steady supply of sixth-form g irls, on whom we have relied fo r so many years, has dwindled. Also, we lost a number of good singers from all voices at the end of last year. This has meant a change in pol icy which in the long term will reap exciting d ividends even if in the short term we have to work that much harder. I took the unprecedented step of taking in seven girls from the Shells, and I take my hat off to them for the way in which they have attended the rehearsals and got on with the job. T hey may be inexperienced, but they are all good, and it is exciting to think that we shall have them for five years. It has been necessary to have a special sectional rehearsal for them, but they have attended willingly, and now that they are reaching the end of their first term, are beginning to sound vibrant and reliable. In fairness I must say a special word of thanks to some of the old hands on the top line who have done extremely well. There are some excellent voices among them and they have carried us along splend idly. Sectional rehearsals have been necessary in other areas as well . I have particularly enjoyed the Wednesday meeting with the te nor department. We have a number of up-and-commg people and the atmosphere has been particularly congenial with a great deal of lighted-hearted fun as well as hard work. If they were rather below par at the beginning of term, they certainly are not now. T hey are all keen, want to do well and are improving in leaps and bounds. T he basses have also had a shake-up . It became all too clear that many of them had been rely ing in the past on a number of strong voices who have now le ft the school. Some of them found it terri fy ing to find themselves up on the Nave steps with the pressure very much on . The solution has been to have a few sectional rehearsals, and I hope and believe that we now have a band of people who will steadily improve in the months ahead . The pleasing thing is that they all have the will to deliver the goods. With such determination they will be fine.

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Jeremy ~ines de~erves a special word o~ thanks f~r hi~ duties as Organ Scholar. His sight reading has been most tmpresstve and we have appreciated havmg hts help at the piano for many of our rehearsals. Well done! ~tephen Matthews ha~ very much featured not only for his excellent descants, but fo r The Three Kings w~tch w.as. much appreciated at .the Prep Schools' .Music Day artd is on the repertoire for the Carol Service. Hts mustc ts always _very acces~tble and popular wtth everyone and we greatly value his considerable talents. Long may he remam product tve! A special word of t~anks is ver~ much due to my other three colleagues. To Michael Harris for his :--vork at the organ. He ts always reliable and g ives of h.is time willi~gly and ~e appreciate him very much !ndeed. To Mr. But.t for all that he does on the tenor lme and for hts enthusiasm for church music which ts respected by puptls ~nd colleagues a like. Also to Dr. Thomson fo r giving a special added richness to the bass hne and for hts much-valued adv ice on difficult words. I am very gratefu l to them all. . I believe that, now that we are approaching the e nd of term , we have an excellent choir who will bring JOY to the hearts .of many. T hank you very much indeed to everyone . I look forward to the rest of the year wtth enthustasm. The repertoire for the term was:

0 Thou, the central orb Jubilate Expectans Expectavi They are at rest A tender shoot And the glory of the Lord

Wood Britten Wood Elgar Goldschmidt Handel

T he repertoire for the Caro l Service was:

Advent Mattins Responsory On Christmas Night Hymn to the Virgin In dulci jubilo Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby The Three Kings Make wejoy

Palestrina arr. Ledger Britten arr. Pearsall C hristopher Chivers Stephen Matthews David Morgan S.D.P.

The Autumn term always brings a nl!mb~r of fresh faces i~t~ the Crypt C hoir, although it is noticeable that one of the results of full co-educatton ts the greater stabthty of the soprano and alto lines. This year has seen almost the enttre bass department rejuvenated, and they have quickly adjusted to singing in a small group. . Our re~rtoire this ter11_1 has been perhaps even more varied than usual , ranging from pre- 1580 to post- 1980 m style, wtth .an emphasis on th~ contemporary. Two of the highlights were John Tavener's The Call and the Agnu~ pet from Mozart's Mtssa Brevts in F , K.l92. John Tavener's idiom is derived from the influence the mysttctsm o~ the Eastern Orthodox Church has had upon him. The Call is a challengin8 work, not because of_ the dtffi~~lty of the no~es so much as because of the need to recreate that mystictsm through the chant-hke repetttton of very stmple phrases in a very large number of disparate parts; with a choir of ~~y twent~ members many of the singers have/arts to themselves. This is, of course, one of the vital trammg functions for a school chamber choir, an former members of he choir in recent years can now be found among some of the foremost university choirs in the country. T~e Mozart Agn~s pei wa.s a new departure , in that this was a performance with strings (Sarah Petrie, Dame! Bartlette - vtohns; ~l.tce Lascelles - cello) . This delightful Missa Brevis will be the main work in ~he concerts we shall be gtvmg as part of our German tour in February 1994, when we will be singing m Wuppertal and Detmold. Indeed, much of this term's work and repertoire has been geared to preparation for thts eagerly anticipated and challenging event. Our services this term have included the following music: Sunday, 19th September T homas Tallis: If ye love me Sunday, 3rd October Jean Berger: The eyes of all wait upon thee, Sunday, 7th November

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0 Lord The Call

Sunday, 2 1st November Sunday, 5th December

Mozart: Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis, K. l 92 Solo ists: Miranda Scott-Barrett , Laura Marshall , Thomas Tallon Benjamin Britten: Hymn to the Virgin Solo ists: Georgeanna Williams, Emily Elias, C hristian Bottomley, Edward Millard . M.D .H .

With the emergence of ' Life a fter Six', th~re has been an emphasis on less f~rmal occasions this term and not all of these wtll be recorded below. Further deta tls of some of the other events will be found e lsewhere in the magazine. Duncan Parrish successfully launched 'Global Forum' and als~ represented the S~hool in the ~ast. K~nt Public Speaking Competition, organised by Pfizer Ltd ..at Sandwtch. H~ wa~ c~mp~tmented on ~IS dtct~on and vocabulary and also on the intellectual content of hts speech to the title Sctenttfic research IS runnmg too far ahead of moral considerations' . The inaugural Linacre Lecture , reproduced in this issue, was an excellent oc~as ion and Dr. Willem Hackmann 's talk on ' Advances in Medicine since Linacre' was both witty and mformattve. Dr. Jonathan Allday presented ' What is it th~t Mathematics do , that machi~e.s cannot? .--: a mathem~t.ical look at artificial intelligence ' .. T~is promoted a h~ely debate between mathematlctans, phystcts~s and,logtctan~ of all ages, leaving many brams m healthy turmOil at the.end. Dr. ,Allday has. als~ started a s~nes of shotgun debates, which have proved most popular. The last title was Should sctenttsts create? After last year's success at reaching the national final , we fell at the fi rst hurdle in the ~oya l S o~i~ty of Chemistry 's ' Top of the Bench' quiz. com~et,ition this .tim~. We hope for mo re success m the Bnttsh Association for the Advancement of Sctence s Maste rmmds next term. Parties attended the Christmas Science Lectures (again sponsored by Pfizer) at U .K.C. and were entertained by Dr. Jack Cohen, University of Birmingham , ' Designing Aliens. for Science-Fic tion Au!hors'. and a t.eat;n from U.K.C ., ' Victorian Shocks - A theatrical review of some nmeteenth-century electncal dtscoven es. We are intending to extend the .nUJ:nber of_lectures considerably in the next few terms and are hoping to welcome this year's Royal Instttutto~ Chnstma~ ~ecturer, Dr. Frank Close, to the School. There are also plans for a scientific public speakmg competitiOn. C .J.R.J .

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The Jazz Club has embarked on the difficult task of reconstituting after the dep~f!~re of a large number of its key members last year . Ed l\;tillard has taken on ~esponstbthty for the Big Band, which has settled to the followmg personnel : Dame! Bartlette, James Bissill and Annabel Whibley (alto saxophones) â&#x20AC;˘. Philippa Gort-Barten and Chr!s Ioannou (tenor saxophones) Matt Hillier, Matt Brown and Andrew Br.tce (tr';lmpets), Alex Neame, Nt~k Tattersall and Sam Parker (trombones) Charles Aitken and Jeremy Bmes (ptano) , T om Robertson (g~ttar), James Burr (bass) and Dan Drury (d~ms) . The Traditional Band has also reformed , und~r the leadership of Alex Neame, and consists, apart from himself(trom~ne) , of Matt Brown (trumpet), Ed Mtllard (tenor saxophone), Graeme Parkin (clarinet) , Nick Tattersall (ptano) and James Burr (bass). Despite the large number of new Members in both the Big Band and the T raditional G.roup (inclu~i~g, I am glad to see, several from the younger end o.f the Sc~ool) , the Club doe~ hope to mamtam a tradttlon that has continued for the last six years of stagmg a mtd-year concert durmg the Lent term. R.B. MA.

JAZZ

The Society began impressively this year with a witty and memorable talk on 29th September by Miss F10na Phillips about The Odyssey. She firml y argued fo~ the defence of women against the chauvinistic attitudes and demands of Greek soc tety, arguing effectively and successfully to the.extent that allle~ ~ith ~light.ly altered feelings ab? ut se.x, wo~~n , gardens, and castration (which w~s descnbed as a.symbo~tc subJ.ugatlOn to the female sex )Âˇ. Mtss Phtlhps brought her talk to life with the atd of sheets of ptctures tllustratmg the way the Greek opm10n. of W<?~en was reflected through the art of succeeding generations. Throughout the course of the talk, Mtss Phllhps

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proposed that. the garden imagery constantly recurring in this epic tale by Homer was symbolic of the fru itful yet confined mfluence of women, shown particularly by Calypso. She argued that female power stemmed from the control women have over life through the ir ability to give birth , which is a sy mbol of their power over the who le male sex. She argued that the fe male figures were feared by the seemingly dominant male characters whenever they were released from their traditional roles of subordination, and so were presented as cunning and treacherous. This evil image of women, however, was softened by the introduction of the good, 'tamed' and modest figures of Helen, Penelope, and also of Athena, who, although supremely powerful , IS not presented somehow as ev il, perhaps owing to her androgynous nature , whtch ironically was also the so.urce of he r power. Miss Phillips' concl usiOn was that, although women are portrayed as having essentially flawed natures, when not under the strict control of men, that is fundamentally unrealistic, since even thro~gh?ut The Odyssey they do have a vital and constructi ve role. Most interestmg, however, was her exammat10n of the way these attitudes persisted in art right up to the present day. NATASHA R EILLY.

Mrs. Beauman came down on 12th October preparing for battle to maintain her assertion that E. M. Forster deserves to be ranked in the forefront of g reat English novelists, ahead of such homegrown literary g iants as Hugh Walpole and Somerset Maugham. E. M. Forster is a writer of great merit , but one who , it must be admttted , is generally passed over in discussions about great works of literature. Mrs. Beauman illustrated this problem by informing us with great indignation that at Tonbridge School, where Forster was educated, the only old boy they acknowledge IS General Ironsides. She complimented King's on the acknowledgement we g ive to our litera ry O.K. S. . ~his tal~ was mainly based on the novel Where Angels Fear to Tread , and Mrs. Beauman began by gtv~ng a bnef summary of Forster's life to illustrate how this affected his writing. He was, like his typical fictiOnal characters, very repressed and under the complete domination of his mother. He was a homosexual whose first trip without his mothe r was to India, although he was by this time fairly mature in years, and this formed the subj~ct of A Passage to India. His books are, to a large extent , motivated by wish-fulfilment , about characters trymg to escape from their repression, with the majority ultimately failing. Forster's release came at the age of stxty when his mother finally died - too late to make any diffe rence. While acknowledg ing that Forster's books were neither epic tales of dynastic feuds and glorious wars, nor gr~at adventure stories, Mrs. Beauman claimed that only the greatest writers 'can write well about the ord~nary and the everyday without exaggerating' . She was agreeably surprised by the ease with which the audtence seemed to accept her argument although perhaps some were silent through ignorance. Altogether it was a fascinating, original and controve rsial presentation, much appreciated by a ll. GEORGINA SALMON.

The reading of Under Milk Wood on 3rd December produced an impressive turn-out of people all willing to discover humorous and bizarre Welsh village life . Alice Lascelles plunged brave ly in at the beginning, setting us all a good example with he r reading of the First Voice. As the play progressed, Natasha Reilly found herself married to Mr. Brodie, and Ed Millard calmly dealt with being continually chased around by his screaming wife, alias Abigail Mance. The readers earned a well-deserved break, during which spirits were raised, in true Dylan Thomas style , but sadly on empty stomachs as the Welsh cakes failed to turn up. (Mr. Brodie's 6bs d id not miss out as the w.elsh ca~es appeared the fo llowing morning in their English lesson). We settled back to the second h~lf, !rymg to dtsc?ver more about Ogmore Pritchard 's curious activities in the woodshed , xet we never dtd dtscover anythmg more about the cost of soapflakes. The play presented to us the dally life of an inte rwoven community, typically absorbed in itself and disapproving of other people. We lsh accents were bravely attempted by everybody, although it was generally felt that Mr. Milford had an unfair advantage ove r us all. Mrs. Browning and Ed Millard must be given special congratulations for showing us all the well-known Welsh talent for singing. A big thank you must go to Mrs. Bond , and to Mr. and Mrs. Browning, for organising and hosting such an enjoyable evening, a superb introduction to Dylan Thomas for many of us. F RANCESCA M EYNELL.

The Society m~t for the last time this term to discuss Angela Carter's collection of tales called The Bloody Chal1}ber. Georgma Salmon gave a talk on the feminist realist aspect of the stories, while Chris Dain chose to bnng out thetr humour and earthiness. Mr. Brodie then gave the third talk, on the development of the fairy-tale trad!tion, making use of several contrasting versions which showed the extent to which tales have been bow~len~ed . The text was then discussed by the select audience, and Mr. Davies was found to have very defimte ~1ews about how fa r it can be simplified and if indeed it can be simplified at all. Everyone seemed to be m agreement that it was certainly not a text for the under-fi ves or over-fifties, but was in its rightful place on the A-level sy llabus. 39

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Who said dictatorship was dead? The rumbling of tanks in the streets and the distant drone of aircraft confirmed that the all too brief School House Spring had come to an end. Under the leadership of 'Benito' Mannering the word 'punishment' has undertaken a different meaning. Jay, Russell, Luke and Giles all achieved 'BIG BOY' status in the Rugby World, Frazer and Ray, the Musketeers of the House, fou~ht their way into the National Championships, setting an excellent example for the up and commg swordsmen. On the artistic front, the Shells revealed their thespian talents by winning the drama competition, especially at such short notice. The Hice were well represented in the School Play: Matt's bald head was singularly striking. School House's very own Errol Flynn led the Tories to a storming victory in the King's Parliament, much to Berkoff's dismay. Our thanks go to the builders for the all-new Mint Yard aJa Hiroshima . We also thank Mouldy for licking our butter . Our real thanks go out to the cleaning ladies for their hard work, likewise to Matron.

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THE MONITORS.

This has been a good term. Let's begin on the sports field. Dele's commitment which earned him I st team colours meant he couldn 't indulge himself this term. Congratulations to Ben and Seb who played for the 2nds and fo r the large number of moral victories that the 4ths achieved. Qin was selected for Kent and Aki won the Junior Kicking Shield. Academically this has been a sound term with the quiet preps paying off with an admirable number of excellent exam results. Doug was made a scholar. Our first attempt in St. Mary 's Hall was not particularly successful but The Happiest Days Of Your Life was a complete success; special thanks to Helena, Nick, Ben, Seb, Doug, Rupert and all the cast. The Grange really are 'all-rounders'. Not only are we sporty and extremely good-looking but we are modest and very charitable. Good deeds were done by all, in the water, on the pavement and behind wheelchairs helping the Aged in Canterbury with their Christmas shopping. However some of our extra-curricular activities were less noble. The television room was given its fair share of attention. However Tom B.W. took his Jenie to see Aladdin on the big screen. On the social fron t we got off to a quick start with the grand opening of the ' Decani Kennels' by Paddy . Bill and Nick brushed up their German skills. Seb . .. you're just arrogant. .. And as for your modelling career- don't bother, it only gets you into trouble. Doug went out with somebody. Oh, and well done Larry. Many, many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge, Mr. Parker, Mrs. S. and the Ladies for all their support this term.

THE GRANGE

THE MONITORS.

As I approached the house I saw schwinging in the wind (don't blame it on the penicillin next time, Emma) a sign saying 'WALPOLE: FOR RENT. Currently occupied by 53 stunners'. I stepped inside and had a look. Catching sight of a little red book, I was horrified to discern that on the cover was ' Signing in: NO male admittances or at MAXimum POTTERS and DIGGERS only'. I was terribly anxious that my passage would be impeded but then the manager of the establishment said that because I looked like James Dean ... or even Elvis P ., I could come in. Once I'd waded my way through the vast arRAY of musical instruments and MILLed through the 1st ' 11 ' hockey shirts (Priscilla, Miriam, Mel, Susie and Sally) I asked PHILIPPA where

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I was. She said 'Well I'm in KenT-ay!!?' pensively studying the 6b English exam results. I heard a shriek, but realised it was only Olivia discovering that her Batman pin-ups had been stolen -Sam was too interested in a certain J.N. to notice. Delicious culinary smells drew me to the kitchen, where Caroline and Sarah, assisted by all manner of GADGETS were busy cooking for their leader. Standing by the window was Mel C. who, it aPIERS, was gazing dreamily towards Marlowe! I thought I'd step out and see what the gardens were like. I saw Helena sitting among the potting compost totting up the sponsored swim results - apparently they raised just under ÂŁ800. I'm not quite sure how, although it could be the fault of the Janes - they look pretty fit. I could see Emma P. sitting under the Christmas tree read in~ a Parable. I saw some Shells and Chloe in jubilant mood at having won their Drama competttion - WELL DONE - and spotted the fifths whose I.Q.s stretched as far as India. I noticed the Last of the Mohicans picking mushrooms to serve with her Lemsips for all those sick people. Solan~e was out catching chickens. (Good luck to her, Phil and Julie - and congratulations to theatncal Kate). There seemed to be quite a lot of people with sleeping bags out here (raising money again). Ophelia, Olivia A., Kirsten, Amy, Sam G., and Emma T. tell me it's because Kirstie's birthday cake was so voluminous that they had to move out. Sauntering back into the house I felt overwhelmed by a wave of claustrophobia. Frankly I had to go for a drink of water and I re-emerged slightly dazed, tripping over a hoover. There was a little sign on top saying 'If found , please return to Hazel' - thanks to her, Lorna, Sheila, Sue, Michelle, Diane, and Lorraine; our punky matron; Messrs B., C., D. & V.; Doc P. and Mrs. P. THE MONITORS.

From the Casebook of J. W . Moose, Private Tee: Hi there! The name's Moose. The other day I was worki ng on a case in my office- I didn ' t have a desk - when this guy walks in looking like a Saturday Night Fever reject from Battersea. I recognised him: 'Say, aren't you the guy from the Bird Clinic for disorders of the ... ' . 'That's not what I'm here for ,' he barked. 'There's trouble at Fat Ron's'. That was a joint on the lower East side of the Precinct. As I walked in, the band struck up under the direction of one Matt 'PM' Hillier - funny name, late worker I guess - whom I had seen previously at a concert Fat Ron had arranged with the God Mummy. I saw Rickie 'Petit' Peat, who plays trombone in some symphony orchestra, and I kinda recognised the guy at the ivories, but no-one knew who he was. Ron was at a table next to Mr. and Mrs. Ribbans. They were holding hands, but he had written permission from her parents. Another couple across the room were putting the chill back into Chillenden with some real R 'n' R. Through the smokey haze round 'Finn ' Malone, I saw a major chick stampede after some German guy came in. Kaind of odd. DD Pugh was trying to impress some Dame with his squash successes in the.company of 'Cornflakes' Bucher, bu.t he reckoned without 'Bonebreaker' Doust. Another guy JUSt Luked Mad. Over at the band, thmgs were Harting up for the PM. Yeah, this was the same old Ron's. 'What's the problem? ' I ask. Ron's face was long. 'It's like this, see: all the other places in town are upset at our success. This club's got all the heavies y'could need: there's Kent men me and Oddjob , with Paul and Charlie all in the foists, not forgetting 'The Barbarian '. Then there's that Geoiman sounding GBergo NumbScull , and the Canoeing Boss. The Colts 7 are almost unbeatable, with A Team Rufus , Frogman, Monkey man and Mr. Lobby , a nd there are new kids around with Mat 'the Wall' and some great Shells. And music? Brother , we produce the best shows by miles. Woik? We just got a rower and you , God help us, into that place that produces cars - and we've a couple going for Silicon Fen, too. They can' t get away from us. Some wise guy even to,ok over the Assem~ly ~or a ~eek.'.'So?' I prompted him. 'So I gets a.demand, this morning: etther we stop messmg 10 the tr busmess, or Pat and the All Star Ladtes won t be performing here no more.' 'But the place would fall apart!' I gasped.

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Suddenly I knew who it -:vas. It sounded like an inside j ob, and I had a hunch. Straightening up, I ~hallenge? a g~y hangmg arou.nd ~t the. ba~k. I was r.ight - it wa~ - The 'Chaplain'! 'I'm c~argmg you wt~ thtrd degree extortton, I satd. But how dtd you know tt was me?' he enunciated nght hand aloft. T here could .only be one man behind the activities of the infamous 'tutor' set : I snarled. He made a break for tt, past Daz 'the Gladiator'. but didn't make it through the doorway It was blocked: he 'd reckoned without Oddjob! · The night was quiet and cool as I left. Somewhere in the distance a dog barked, and all was well. THE MONITORS.

Now that the_M.~.M. are back from the world tour, oppression has been mamtamed under the iron grip of an oligarchic rule. . Uncommon to popular belief Marlovians do play sport ... well, a btt anyway. The Removes won the House sevens whilst Whaler let off his blow-hole for the 2~d XV. Tom played h~rd for the. 4ths from !ime to time with his skillful elongation but Baz fa tled to keep afloat. T n s ~ound hts way to Btrley's more than once, as did Reg, and his duo ~elped to f?rm a 3rd XV el~te. Oh yeah, an~ Jonny captained the Colts. Rumour has it that Greg ts sttll fightmg off the grouptes down at badmmton - the M.H.M. are looking into these allegations of harassment.

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With help from our partners in crime, the play was ~ great success, with Mark almost being upstaged ~Y. the back end ?fa horse. On~ !llOre professtonal level Baz, Jess, Ruth and Tris paid many ~ Vtstt t.o St. Mary s. Now to poltttcs: Joe could get ' no satisfaction ' to James's relief and wtth the ltmb now out of the sling he is said to be recovering nicely. Adam has gone i~ and of the Broughton Hall an.d Richard h~rdly received the Royal seal of approval. De Ia P, don t fo~get that five past appomt_ment. Inctdentally, anyone who sees a fluffy orange-haired bloke runnmg on Duracells answenng to the name of Ed, please contact missing persons. Thanks to Mr. Technician for J?Utting in a T.V. and to Trev for all his hard work and effort. Also thanks to the ~uards fo_r t~etr guar~in~ , our ' Morning, all ' matron , the tutors and finally to Mr. and Mrs. Ret~ for thetr kmd hospttaltty and for putting up with us all throughout the term.

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Br~akfa~t gat!ngs; b~rnt toast; gerbils; more hops; Fergus and F n eda .m htbernatton ; sparklers; Linacre lads; Creissen . . concoctions; and ... er .. . (yawn) a lot of rowing! Variety really has been the sptce of ltfe this term in Luxmoore. We've done a lot of work for charity - six miles turned into eight and sun turned into rain, but the Luxmoore clan. battled on t.o ratse over £ 1325 (Fleur Moes over £200) for Lizzie Biggs. Th~ House Concert wtth M.O. ratsed £ 150 for the Meningitis Research Trust Fund - cheers Emtly (and Matt), a_n~ well-played Laura M., Kate and co. Twenty Luxmoorians braved the Banana House condtttons for the sleep-out in December and said 'goodday ' to Beth! Shells show~d their rebellio~s streak in the drama (A Class Struggle) under the direction of George and Mtlly. Lester Ju.nt~r and Ally A. - what talent! 'Head of Drama' and the 'Star' w.ere soon Steppmg Out .agam m the Hous~ Drama, directing C laire, Isabel, Naomi, Kirstin , Ft~na A., D~bs and Saskta, who flashed the~r legs to the final s. As for The Visit, George, we're a ltttle worned about you after your crackmg performance, and Kirstin . . . stereotyped?! ? Luxmoore is. bursting at th.e hop-fi lled seams with vitality. 6a rowers are crashing through to succe~s- ~md the ~egetatwn, Cla':lde and J\nt- an~ Lucy H. won the Junior 15 at Hampton Head. Ptx, w~th he~ nt_fty ~ casua!, sttc~w~rk ts excellmg _as Captain of Hockey (and Girls!), supported by Ke~n Ktrst10 and crackmg Kate, and Katte and Jo. Keep going Milly Mads ' ' Debs and Isabel m the 2nds. Apart from w~tching i~ , we're ' Absolutely Fabulous'! Zoe and Sarah M. are now Honorary S~holars, Jo H. ts a Must~ Scholar an~ Laura has been offere~ a Choral Award to Cambridge. Fwna and Harry, meanwh tle, are lookmg forward to playtime 10 Tanzania and Botswana thanks to S.P.W. and Operation Raleigh. '

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Mr. and Mrs. Rouse spotted in Sainsbury's - interesting! Mads and Luke. . . man! Alex and Tom ... the drama continues while Jo chatted her way up a Hill. Harry had her hunk of muscle while someone rang Ant's Bell! Milly and Lex, again{!) As the girls moved out of Bailey, Pix and George moved in, the latter briefly cavorting in School House. Brucie revved her B.M.W. Claudia and Kirstin . . . oh dear! So it's mostly Linacre, but we' ll live it down. Thanks to all the cleaners, all the tutors, and Mrs. Creissen. Mr. and Mrs. Tennick, and many thanks for your unfailing support with U.C.A.S. THE MONITORS.

The House presents its achievements. Academic: few and far between. James Drever and Will iam Justice became Scholars, Tim Gomersall was awarded the Hoffman Scholarship, and the Shells claim that they collectively obtained as many firsts in the ir exams as all the other boys' houses put together. (So what, boys - the Removes did better .) Arts: 2nd place in Shell drama; Eliot Shrimpton and Will Davies won the senior drama; The Visit was supported by several (Tom Jackson, Tom Jennings, Will , Eliot and Hamish Lemmens). A Shell passed grade 2 tuba. Sport: Four members of the first XV (Jules Lewis-Jones, Haggis McGregor, Tom Jackson and Matt Edwards) remarkably encapsulating the entire range of 1st XV co-ordination . Dom Cocklin, Bruce Curzon and Hamish also played in senior teams. Nigel Field and Andy Brice played for the Colts As, and there were four Junior Colts As (Leo Fransella, Tom Martin, Stephen Bushnell and Ed Sterck) and two U 14s (Matthew Gardiner and James Harborne). Lots and lots of junior laddies played for lots of other junior teams, so we won the junior league, with lots of tries for Paul Stephenson, Tom Davidson and Tim Mitchell. L-J. Matt and Andy played for Kent, and Andy had a Divisional trial. Social: pathetic. Not for the first time, Galpin's boys have lost out. One unfortunate Shell sent a girl scurrying to the nearest lavatory , where she remained until he had gone - this was not a one-off. Regular visitors have included George Bingham , Demelza Wilson, Toni Steinkruger, Annabel Blair and, of course, Saskia. F inally , the House would like to thank Mrs. B., for keeping us well; the cleaning ladies, for tidying Hag~is's room; and Dr. and Mrs. Hands. Special good wishes to Joan for her retirement, and to Sylv1a and Sue for life after King's .

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Attila the Hun once said : 'A chieftain can never be in cha rge if he rides in the rear'. Linacre has proved him right, setting the standards in almost everything this year. As we polish the silver (we've applied for an extension to the trophy cabinet) , we pause to reflect on all our achievements this term. 'The consequences for not adequately training your Huns is their failure to accomplish that which is expected of them'; certainly not a problem for us, as Linacre sweeps the academic tables, thanks to our little Huns Brilliant and Knight, whilst Adam F., Theo and Jon S. stand out in the higher ranks. 'Huns learn less from success than they do from fa ilure', so we had to call it first equal in the house drama but Luke went on to excel in the school play , whilst Chariie A. won the Kent piano competition. 'Strong chieftains stimulate and inspire the perfo rmance of their Huns'. Well , Capta in Myles led the way for our e ight 2nd XV men , five Colts, four junior Colts, four Under 14s ... and the terrible-Tims have out-done themselves this term , with Kent fencing a nd South-East England hockey honours. Linacre doesn't always win everything. the Removes came second in the House football , but we couldn ' t resist taking the senior House basketball.

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Roll up! Roll up! Come on in; this is where the fun begins. The Broughton Supermarket would like to thank the management for its success so far. Firstly, the chemist Mrs. B. for dispensing the medications so well; secondly our new Irish assistant-manageress, Miss Reidy for urn ... being 'cool'; the manageress Mrs. Wakeham (and her dog Dusty) who has done such a good job in supervising the refurbishment of the store and lastly thanks to the chief shelf-stocker Blondie who is in charge of quality control. Thanks to the expansion of the store and its relocation, the new products have been introduced and are mixing well with the old illustrating that the 'Baileys' are intermingling with the new spirits! All shoppers appear to be satisfied especially the Headmaster who found unexpected delights in the clothes department. We hope that he will return to take advantage of all our special offers. Admittedly there have been a few spaces on our shelves as much of our stock has been sold elsewhere. Dawesy made the East of England Lax team as well as playing hockey for the 1st XI with Squirrel and Louise. Our younger products, the Shells, were particularly successful, namely Mwaka and Theresa, as they reached the Kent 'Satellite' netball team. Watson and Gunners also excelled on the netball fro nt in the 1st VII. Even Pooj and Dappy played for the 1st squash team (once!) owing to a severe lack of squash players in the school. Surprisingly, even Bel off managed to find her way to the Rec centre on one particular occasion. Now we turn to the Arts Department; this is where Fran excelled performing in The Visit and also directing our newer products towards the limelight with the Shell House drama. The House play, performed by the old products and based on the American market, reached the finals. We also offer a range of musical talents, particularly Alice directing and playing in the concert with her fellow musical products Clare S., Jo' L. and Rebecca A. Not surprisingly the most popular counter has been the bakery. The jammy tarts offer the best value, the flavours of the month being Louise, Bex and Sian. However, the old products just aren't selling- except for Selwa and Clare who were sold out long ago. Squirrel and Daps have discarded old ingredients and have introduced some alternative additives namely Lemmens and Dousts. Liz H. and Alice have contributed to the profits as well. Blair tackles the purple stains ... TWICE. Our younger range are hitting the market extremely well and Charlie's Baby Bell wishes that he would become an even more regular customer. Once again, thank you to all the staff and the cleaners and we hope that the supermarket continues to retain its popularity and increase its profits.

BROUGHTON

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HELLO, MR. SNOWMAN (Terence Loo)

We are finally coming to terms with the fact that Broughton is now a girls' House. With the lack of competition Tract has still managed to keep up its high standards in most departments. O.K. played in the l st XV and proved to be an effective member of the side, though ' he is not very good with his hands', accordinâ&#x20AC;˘g to the vice-capta in, that is. Jamie had a hardcore haircut and earned himself a hardcore place in the hardcore l st XV . Jamie and Jules were the 'chips' in the Thirds under P.T. 's management; Ed, Deano and Tommy P. all represented Tract in the Colts As; whilst Chris North would have been captain had it not been fo r his unlucky knees. P .J . felt the pressure of top-level Rugby was too much and resigned himself to more leisurely pursuits with Merv. Little Big Lynch, that skateboarder and Ben W. played in the J. Colts As, whilst Tract contributed nearly half the U 14As, including Captain Hessey , and we stormed the Shell Rugby competition (for the third year in a row) , and we mi~ht have won the Remove competition too had we not been confronted by the combined 'Marhnsons ' team in the final. Lots of other people also played in teams, but they won' t get mentioned ! A few freaks played the wrong sport this term: Richard Tozer and Pete Cawston (also appointed House Librarian for keeping so many books and having unfeasibly large muscles) seemed to row every day , whilst Tommy Grant played Hockey for the Kent U l 8s. Having a House Concert with Broughton would once have been a good joke . Not so this year! The girls have been quick to establish themselves as a successful House and on this occasion provided abundant talent. Greyhound Katz organised the evening quite superbly, while Gus stole the show . Dan took the main part in The Visit and was Ill , Plant was castrated and blind , and Jamie was a hardcore policeman. It seems that Adams has scored in the Mint Yard , just as it seemed tha t a frustration period was setting in , and Katz continues to exploit feeble defences, Quick to Pick up on anything loose, while Grant has managed to take on larger opponents successfully. Jamie gained a hat-trick (the last one a particularly good Curling effort) , while O.K. lacked imagination and has decided to stick with what he knows best . Reports are coming in that Staz has scored despite his unorthodox methods! Jules and Lynch-mob also did the House Proud. By the way, we do believe that Dan D. catches up out of School. Unfortunately amidst all this celebration there is sadness too, and this term signals the end of an era in terms of the P.A. E. D. leadership. Mr. Dix has been a tremendous Housemaster over the past six or so years, and much has been accomplished in this pe riod. It is to his c redit that the House is in such a healthy and prosperous state today. His enthusiasm and ambitions for Tract have been apparent from beginning to end, and he has managed to achieve all his major aims for the House. He will be much missed , as will Mrs. Dix , whose constant cheer, support and generous hospitality have been invaluable. We wish them both the best of luck and continued success at Port Regis. F inally we welcome Mr. Andrew Miles to the House as Resident Tutor, and congratulate Mr. Sellers on his appointment as Assistant Housemaster. Thanks go to the cleaning ladies, Tony the handyman, D1ck and Tony the painters, Dick the Snowman , the C hart Show Posse, the othe r Tutors and, of course, Miss Brine whome we love dearly. Enter S.J.G . . . .

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Joss was beginning to get very tired of sitting in the front ha ll , and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into other houses, but they had no interesting events or conversations in them. ' What is the point of a house,' thought Joss, 'without happenings or conversations? ' She was considering this when suddenly half a horse, complete with a Scouse accent, ran close by her, muttering ' Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!' And in a moment, Joss went in after it - to find in St. Mary's Hall , Anna Lewis , the world's first female Water Rat, revolutionising a famous play , Tom Kenwright, as a sixties hippy, complete with Liverpudlian accent, Justin Gardener and all the Weasels and Riverbankers on Joanna 's fine set of The Wind in the Willows. 'Well, ' thought Joss, 'after two such performances, I really must congratulate Dr. Maltby and

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Phil on the script. , There seemed to be no u .. . here she found a collecting tin with over £ 2 ~0 ~au!~~ 10 the hall , so she went back to the door· very well to say, 'Good work Graeme Tom or ~ Thr~e Bears House' and a note. It 's ad superb music and to Owen and Richard 'for ' ~o, Espm, N1ck,. Penelope and Jeremy for such a muddle and started to cry , gallons of tea the h.fh~s, but poor little Joss found herself in rather o~f do~nstream , she caught glimpses of Rs,bn~I t. er~ was a pool all aro~nd her. As she floated 0 w1th Glles and Lawrence. P ay mg 10 r the 1st XV, M1ke captain of the 2nds . Incidenta lly, C. K . played for the 3 d Leigh played for the Bs, and the Rem;v:s ~der the captamcy of Mike R. Espin, James P, and where g•rls playing g~ily too - Jess in the 2~~!h:n~~use Se~ensh. T.K. playe~ squash and there t e As. Tom C . contmued swimmin a h. . enna, ac el, Alex, Hllary and Lizzy in Graeme,. who did quite well fencing~~ t~e ·r~ng ~Cne':V personal bes.t. Let's not forget Sam and so surpnsed that she quite forgot how to spe~{ ~r~ousrhand cunouser! , cried Joss (she was as two new scholars Adam and Chris Joo ng IS ) and turned a queer shade of red The table was a large one but the s , appeare at the tea table with five Ox bridge candidates, No room! ' they cried out when th:ven were crowd~d together at one corner of it 'No roomi indignantly as she sat down in a lar~ saw J~s~ commg. 'There's plenty of room! ' said Jos~ the subject:, a. scholar interrupted, ·Y v~~:;~ a•r at ofectend of the table. :suppose we change know any, said the young lady rather ala eJou~g a y tells us a story. 'I'm afraid I don ' t CROWEd over Rob 's CLARKE~ r~e at t e prop?sal, _'except that with D.Ms, Vick Let's not fail to mention, that C.K~ni~ w~tA~t~ p~atfyrms Hdary. •s ver~ TALL ON the top floo! learn not. to make personal remarks , retorteJ•fheor thove, eyehn If he didn'~ get it., 'You should 0 ers Wit some seven ty. ' It's very rude to 10rget Glles and Donna.' ' 'Wake up, Joss dear,' said Kathy and L"1 (t . fall down the stairs.' 'Oh I really must t ~ ~~ v~ry effect1ve cleaners.) 'You had such a frightful Maltby (a peculiarly good engine driver )a~ d ~get Mthenl ,bthe 9ueen of all our hearts, and Dr. , n rs. at y. I ve had such a fun term., T HE MONITORS .

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b u~ sportmg success th1s te rm by capta ining not only the so he gets the best seat in the T V aro~mton and .chess tea~s but also the legendary bridge team Baileyites in 1st XV shirts Pod. Bish ~ ~tandmg. up behmd him there seem to have been si~ was shown in the final 1st 'xv ~atch ;fth ggy bemg the regu lars. The true state of the world 8. (With a bit of help from Myles) w· e ~~son, where the score was Bailey 33, Sevenoaks the 2nd XV. Rolfey _ well what· •ggy' •ggy, Fef!ly, Coley and Bullish form the core of assisted by two Charlies. St~cz 's can °.ne say · Captall} ?f the ever-wonderful 4th XV ably the 4th. XV (well , he was injured)~xpens•ve tour paid dividends as he also got all the ~ay to Mus1cally Bailey made up for small b . . . control on Wiggy and the Boomin n~m ers With enthus!asm m Congers - there is no volume !rae all right. 'Degbe is auditionin~ ~~~libBa~ses ~eaped m to rescu.e t~e Choral Society; Dies have been REMOVED . ar er s op quartet but h•s time for music seems to Otherwise, lots of interesting hobb · labour when I wash my brain and {~s ~~e start~ only to be stopped by S .J.G. 'It is a monstrous we've finally bought the old place· kin~ ofthfo~er , was the ?ths' logo. Oh yes - good news More on that later. . .) . So the ~ov t: overnors to g•ve S .J. G. a secure house (Houses? the holiday film with woodworking s~~t ou~ •~t'b~he sleepy back streets . .. Alex finishing off become a cardinal. Charlie and Pod made f~ienJ ·~~r seems to. be abandoning the C. of E. to So, a new era of supremac ? No s WI a~k an~ Julie and everyone swapped places. the old thanks to the old team \ he fi~~ehllyd-/~ c~tmuatwn of the old one. And of course and as always Tony. Without' them th. an o d r ... ; Mrs. Graham; matron; our new ladies been launched . ' IS new an quite frankly superior house could not have 47

And yet, floating on the breeze, the merest tantalising murmur, does not Bailey tremble to the mating call of her old rival. .. is it love? Many minds are boggling at the thoughts of the fruits of such a union ... endle~s miles of silver cups ... Was the ~eeming defeat of the Empire merely a subtle ploy by the wtly old Emperor to lull the world mto a false sense of sacurity before . .. THE EMPIRE STRIKliS BACK . . . Watch this space . . . THE MONITORS.

Christmas is coming and Jervis is gettin~ fat (but a certain person says she doesn' t have that problem!) Ltving in the land flowing with milk and honey the sixth form were almost outdone by the Removes. Charlie, tired of Lemmens went swanning back to the vegetable garden. Meanwhile, Kate was commenting on the authenticity of the 'new' buildings in Canterbury and Julian was found POTTERin~ around the back of Grange twice! Elly continued striving to find her 'Champion' but had to settle wtth being V ANCIEd, and Luke constructed a love .A. without the use of a compass. Dramatically , four members of the House VISITed St. Mary's Hall regularly. The leading lady , a drunken schoolmistress and a superb couple of trees all played their part amidst the haze of gold paint and props cunningly provided by the stage c rew (Tania and George) , the newly appointed Music Scholar Milly Molly Mandy, the star herself, got caught up with the original 'All Star' Jed, and one of the trees was uprooted from he r room. Many thanks to Mr. F ranks, Miss Francis, Mr. Churcher with his rainbow jumper and Dr. Maltby and especially to our new tutor, Mr. Matthews for ensuring memorable performances from all in the House Concert (when we finally found the key to the Old Synagogue!), the final trio with their Diana provided the House with a scholar at last and we all send good luck to our budding Cambridge candidate, Sarah 'Angel' MacLachlan. By the end of term the Shells are still confused as to who the elusive Sarah actually is ... Many thanks to The Three Bs, Monsieur Oath and the cleaning ladies for putting up with us all , and to the ghost for kindly complying with Gill and Sophie's request NOT to run the bath at 6.30 a.m. - and by the way , DID you press the panic alarm? ...

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Rugby Football RUGBY RETROSPECT 1993 It was o f course predicted that Rugby Football at the school would be a ' victim ' of co-education. T he success of the XVs of 1992 and 1993, together with the winning of the Rosslyn Pa rk Seve ns, suggests that it is, on the contra ry in a hea lthy state. The play ing records of the teams overall range across the spectrum of success, but a re comparabl~ with any previous season, and the results of the Unde r 14s suggest that the future is not a bleak o ne. Nonetheless, with the numbe r of boys in each year having shrunk a little, we should always be aware that to mainta in (and hope fully improve) present standards against the schools we play requires a grea t deal of e ffort a nd commitment. We are fo rtunate in havmg coaching sta ff who a re very dedicated a nd dete rmined to cont inue the long tradition of rugby he re. T hat commitment must be matched by those who play . It is self-e vident that a s lig htly smalle r pool of ta lent means that it cannot be wasted by be ing spread . Boys who have played in teams in the Shell s and Re moves must continue in the fift h and sixth fo rm - a nd not just those in the ' A ' s ides. As motivation to you all , I cou ld do no better than to show you The Cantuarian of December 1989, where the fo llowing names arc mcludcd unde r the team lists fo r the Under 14 Bs : Bishop , Doust, Hume, Jac kson , Singer , Spencer , Swanson and W ilso n; meanwhile, Le wis-Jones and McGregor appeared for the C s. All of these have appea red in the 1st XV this season . For the season whose achievements are recorded in the following pages thanks must go to a number of people, essential to the success of the whole c lub - to the re ferees from the London and Kent Socie t1es, and to those from within the school and elsewhe re; to D.J. R. who co-ordinated the latte r; to the groundstaff, the staff at the Recreation Ce ntre, which th is time included two coaches ; to T he resa and the Matrons; to those staff, O .K.S. and pare nts who have given excellent support on the touchl ines ; to J. R. P. and J .A.T . fo r the ir willingness to travel to all points of the compass to accompany teams; a nd last , but certainly not least , to all those who have coached sides this season , who give up so much . In doing th is I have to offe r special thanks to M.C.L. and K.E.J .M . fo r the ir he lp in the Summer tour.

SCHOOL XV 1993 In a school which will shortly celebrate its 1400th ann iversary, and whic h was o ne of the earl iest me mbers o f the Rugby Football Union, a sense of h istory is naturally pe rvasive. Inev itably rugby seasons a re compared . Last season, after the magnificent opening matches, our then resident statistic ian, R.P.B. - now o ur c hief supporte r - sta rted to make co mparisons with the unbeaten side of 1963. This inevitably invited the first defeat of the season, and be ing of a supe rstitious mind , I deliberately postponed any thoughts of making simi lar compa risons. In any case, a lthough 1963 sets the standard to which we should aspire, comparisons are probably meaningless, given the different circumsta nces unde r which the game is played from gene ration to generatio n, and I don ' t think that the me mbe rs of that outstanding side would be happy to think that the ir record became the only yard stick of success. T he members of this XV wi ll make compa risons with the ir immediate predecessors. On ce aga in , I would not like to devalue the ach ieveme nts of e ithe r in a ny way by doing so. The record of this side sho uld stand for itse lf. Stat istics can of course mean whateve r one would like them to mean , but what is certain is tha t the 1993 side won more games against school opposition tha n a ny othe r has do ne , and added record-winn ing scores against two more oppone nts to the five ac hieved in 1992. It scored forty-two tries, and conceded o nly e ig ht. Moreover , it did so against sides that we re probably stronger than last year, and it played without key, e xper ienced players fo r much of the fir st half of term, inc luding the capta in, who missed all but fi ve mi nutes of the first fi ve games . T his season began a long time ago - with pre-to ur traini ng in the Summer te rm for those who were coming to Bangkok and Australia. A full report of that tour appea rs elsewhere in this issue, but it should a lso be mentioned here because it proved to be so valuable for the season that followed in so many ways. It gave a n early opportunity for the sq uad to work at the skills necessary to make the transitio n to senior rugby, and then ga ve us vital match practice. It helped us get to know playe rs and the ir abilities, so that vital questions could be a nswered be fore the season began, rathe r than having to find out the hard way later on , and perhaps lose games in the process. C ruc ia lly, too , it helped to de ve lop team spirit , and , as was to be important in the early part of the season , it a lso got us used to playing without importa nt players, princ ipally Myles Orsler , who was in New Zealand with the England Sc hools Party, a nd Ric ha rd Hume, who had the frustration of injuring himself in pre-tour training, a nd who was a ble o nly to hobble throug h ha lf a game. Hav ing survived the te mptations of Bangkok and the attentions of a g irls' public school in Cai rns, the party dispersed in good spirit, to return to school hungry for success, and to be stre ngthe ned by the players who did not make the trip . Another legacy of R.P.B . is an unoffic ial merit table based on our playing record against our regular opponents since the war, and this has tended to confirm the expectations we have of an opposing school 's avera~e XV. We recognise that we play o ur most d iffi cult opponents, those few who have gained more wins against us in th1s time than we have them , consecut ively after hal f term. To e njoy a really successful season, this challe nge has to be met; the response to it this year was magnificent. We played Dulwic h immediately afte r a two-week holiday, with some boys return ing a fter a Geography F ield Trip o nly on the Wednesday night. The first whistle sig na lled pe rhaps our only really dynamic sta rt to any game , but it was so o verwhelming that the psycholog ical boost was e normous; there was a touc h of fo rtune in the tries - the fa mous James Bisho p welly a head dived upon by an uncanni ly positioned loose-head prop, Steven Lau, and an Alex Ogedegbe interception whe n the opposition were threate ning to score, but that did not d isguise our 50

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dominance on the day. The Ton bridge match was remarkable. We started poorly, and were two tries behind very quickly; we stabilised a little, but the home s1de were looking comfortable. There followed an amazing second-half transformation to overcome a 15-3 deficit and take away their unbeaten record . Myles Orsler set the example with the first try, powering over from a 5-metre serum; the second was a textbook example of ball-retention and continuity by the whole side wh ich enabled Bishop to have a free run in. Matt Edwards' clmching score was a fine example of sustained support from forwards and backs after seizing on a mistake by Tombridge as they attacked. The Epsom match was played in an advancing Arctic weather front which made the rugby played by the team in the last quarter even more impressive as we registered a record-winning margin against this opposition - with a hat-trick for Matt Edwards. If the reaction to this win by the players was a little less ecstatic than the previous week, it was probably because once the whistle went, they were frozen to the spot. Of the other games, many were won comfortably. Most noteworthy were those at K.C.S., where we sustained some very good, fast, attacking fifteen-man rugby , and the fina l match, against a good Sevcnoaks side, which was arguably the best match of the season - the rugby played by both sides was of a high quality, and at a pace which left the referee in a state of exhaustion! We did, however, also have our narrow squeaks. At Eastbourne we managed to score two very good tries, the second an outstanding effort late in the game, sweeping the length of field, to recover a deficit and win in a lacklustre performance; at Felsted we failed to capitalise on a great number of opportunit ies, and our superiority generally; we then fell behind to a breakaway try with four minutes to go. Fortunately, when a penalty award came in the dying seconds, James Bishop held his nerve and kicked the winning goal. Both in a sense were lucky victories, but perhaps one of the measures of the team was that it was twice capable of winning when playing poorly away from home. Such performances should be weighed against our two defeats , neither of which was convincing. Against St. Paul's we simply played very ordinarily - we gave away a try in the first two minutes, and despite penalty opportunities, couldn't manage to recover in a very even game. Cranleigh came to King's an unbeaten side who had a proven defensive record. We started well, despite conceding a penalty, but then relaxed and the score stayed at 0-3 for a very long time. We mounted a furious assault in the last quarter of the match, coming withi n inches of the try line several times, but they held firm, and not even penalty chances came our way. Their late goal to double their score rubbed salt into the wounds, but perhaps if we possibly didn't deserve to lose, we also didn't deserve to win. Luck, in a season, usually has a way of balancing itself out , and Cranleigh certainly deserve immense cred it for their unbeaten season, the first I believe since 1955. In some ways this side was similar to the 1992 XV, being not particularly large in the 'front five' and rarely dominant in the line-out; the scrummage was solid, but, given the modern schoolboys laws, this is not significant. What was undoubtedly important was the fitn ess levels that the side was able to achieve - better by far than any previously measured . Also the 'spine' of the team was skilled and experienced -eight players played at county level or above - and ball retention sk ills were excellent. The pattern that quickly evolved was fifteen-man rugby in the modern style - attack was sustained through several phases, and support was always in numbers . Meanwhile, there was pace throughout, so that chances could be taken , and the defence was quite outstanding. Frequently spectators were heard to wince at some of the tackling. Alex Ogedegbe was agai n outstanding at full back - totally idiosyncratic, but always making a huge impact on any game. The occasional flaws (chiefly his kicking, which is improving constantly) were far outweighed by his instinctive, irresistible running and the occasional thumping tackle. He was often quite simply magnificent to watch . Dele Alakija filled the right wing berth for most of the season, after fa irly rapid elevation. His positioning was erratic, and therefore defence of kicks into the box was a problem at times, but he is a determined and elusive runner (even if somet imes it appeared that even he did not know where he was going) and he improved enormously. On the left, Jay Spencer used his speed and balance to best effect in the dry early season conditions; like Dele, he was not at home under the high ball in wet conditions, but he was a deadly finisher and tackled securely. In the centre, Dunstan Kamana 's charming smile and relatively light frame disguised a physical hardness. He tackled superbly , was not over-ambitious, and improved immensely at retaining the ball in tackle. He should develop into a force next year if he can work at sharpenmg his pace and distribution. His partner, James Bishop, was one of the mainstays of the team. His handling improved enonnously, and he was a formidable sight for opposition back rows when running low and at pace; his tackling was fo rceful, and his place kicking became quite cons1stent. He also preserved the knack of proving coaching theory wron~ by choosing the apparently wrong option and getting away with it! The ' diesel' tag bestowed upon the other rock in midfield, Julian Lewts-Jones, was soon seen to be totally inappropriate, fo r over the summer he e9.uipped himself with an upgraded engine. He was not totally comfortable at fly hal f in some situations, but his readmg of the game is excellent, and his direct, straight, incisive running ripped defences to shreds. Fly halves who take crash balls and, moreover, hit ferociously in the tackle are a great sfiock to opposition back rows. His stability as vice-captain was an essential ingredient to success. Robert Swanson took over the serum half spot from the incumbent, James Murch, and was therefore operating under pressure thrOUj;hout. He responded magnificently; he worked very hard to improve his kicking game, but his strength was his serv1ce - swift and very consistent. He was meanwhile a permanent handful for any opposing serum half, and was capable of the occasional really sharp break, though sometimes he was overwhelmed by a desire to prove to everyone that he really was a big boy now , and lost the ball. Not surprisingly he was outstanding as auxiliary pack leader, and his cheerfulness was a boost at training sessions. Steve Lau at loose head epitomised stabil ity in every aspect of his game; he may have needed more packed suppers than anyone else to feed h1s wide frame, but by virtue of enormous strength, he did the simple, unspectacular things consistently well, winning key ball in the loose, and fulfi lling the vital supporting role elsewhere. He was, too, a handful when running. His partner at tight-head, Richard Hume, missed games early on through injury, but came back to add his experience to the side. He was important for this as much as his skills, which have improved enormously; once he found his match fitness he was always at the heart of the fo rward effort and was an inspiration, very much like Steven. Russell Hewett had a very impressive first 51 (Mike Waterman)

· ·!'1 he was competent in the basics of a ho.oker's arts, but added an season in the_ School XV; 1mmens~ly co~~~:~ i~e~nd around the loose _ in part icular makmg countless tackles . The extra dimension to our efforts by h1s wor nderestimate , for in some ways they hardly look the part, but ;.ve 10 Galpin' s pair in the second row would be easy 0u . on some very good ball at the front of the lineout, wh1lst would have struggled without t~e_m. The for~e;j: :0~':~h ~orked hard on variations to maximise re_turns here. They co'!lpell~lve m th~bml. ' as in the loose. Both were amazingly fit' and their work rate was Tom became ever maJOr contn ullon w scrummaged hard ,more but their

phenomenal. . h U der 14s redicted that the back row in the Sch0ol XV in 1993 Some time ago, people r~gularly watchmg ~ e onbe the care The surprise package, however, was Robert A~ams, would be formidable, and th1s has certamlt pro hed during th~ tour. He performed in a whirlwind , uncomplicated the blindside flanker who was.converted r<_>~ oo 10 ne~lsewhere on the other flank. Indefati gable, and very strong, at style which was the perfect foil to the s~phlSil~~~ the next he would be in support , wh~re he ~emonstrated greater one moment he would make a devastatmg tac at ~ nside flanker possesses rare gifts ..Inevitably hiSSIZe and apJ?Carance finesse as the season went on . Matthew ~ward~ erfainly last season he had to endure Similar frustration at une!1light.ened lends itself to compariso.ns With Nell ~ac - anin~elli ence and an awareness that few have , and coupled wll~ this he selection. He shares With him a basiC ru~~y g Although there are aspects of hiS game that could Improve, is a strong, elusive runner; h.e .was the lea mg trye s~~~~~ned is the Captain , Myles Orsler, at Number 8. Myles has his potential is en~rmous. Flltmglk'· th~ lrt tot~e day he came. His achievements in winning ~ngl~nd cap~ at 16 ~nd quite literally dommated rugby at m1g s r~mhas been a perfect blend of power, technique, mot1vat1on and ~ggr~ss1~n 18 Group speak for themselves; as a Fc ayer ~ I a s respected by opponents. As a captain, he has , QUit~ Simp y in defence and attack; h~ ~as ~e~n ea~~dd ;:~r~ ~J.1 ably in co~ching and motivating the team; when back '{; act~n been outstanding. When InJUre ' e asSIS e. I I effectively against Tonbridge, Epsom and Seve~oaks, w ere IS he led convincingly by exa~ple, an1 partl~~i~;r~lly awe-inspinng. Justifiably proud of rugb~ at this school, he has combination With Edwards m pa':llcu ar ~~d all the teams he has played in, but for all Kmg s teams to come. set the standards, not JUSt for this team contributed to our success, notably Femi Fadeyi, Luke ~inger, Others, too, appeared du~mg the season, andlfka~~o sin le out in particular James Murch for the very matul e "':'ay James Stevens an~ And¥ Wilson. I w~uld also in the ~V that he had held last season, and worked hard , playmg he accepted the dlsappomtment of Iosmg n\he,gl~~~ that when the opportunity arose, he was InJUred and unable to play. well for the 2nd XV to try and regam II , o y hi t rt . ·n season's rugby and congratulate them on so much I have to thank this year's XV for a. thoro~g y en e ~m~llsober I must en{phasise - to dress in the most absurd - not least the remarkable achievement m gett;ng ::i~b-;;~n drsplendid season. I hope the photographs don't come out! wig and clothing at the end-of-season supper o c R.C.W.

• Dele Alaki·a, James Bishop*' Matthew Edward~*' .Russell Hew;~· Team: Hume** Myles Orsler (Capt.)*' RobertDunstan Adams Kamana, su!ven Lau** ' Julian Lewis-Jones*' Alistair McGregor ' Richard Thomas Jackson**' ,;. J s er** Robert Swanson. . h Alex Ogedegbe* ' ay penc . ' . Michael J. Davies, Charles Doust, Femi Fadeyl,.James Murc . Also played: Joshua Cole~ M(lcha)el k~· S~~~~~s,James Stevens, Luke Toulson (rep.), Andrew Wil son . Jamie Nicholson, Paul Pernn rep. • u ' *First Colours Re-Awarded **First Colours.

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R ESULTS

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Played 13, Won I I ' Drawn 0 ' Lost 2 . Points for 282, Points against 79. v Tonbridge (A). Won 20-15. Eltham College (H). Won 29-3. 34 0 vv Cranleigh Epsom (H). Won 36-0. Duke of York's (A). Won - · (H). Lost 0-6. St. Paul's (H). Lost 9- ll. v Felsted (A). Won 11 - 10. Caterham (H). Won 17-0. • p · (H) Won 16-5. v St. Alban s, retona . K C S Wl.mbledon (A). Won 5 1- II. E~stbourne (A). Won 12- 10. v Sevenoaks (H). Won 33-8. Dulwich (H). Won 14-0.

2nd XV

. . . . otential 2nd XV players having gained valuable experience The 1993 season began opllm.'s~ca~~~k ~~~ w~t~h~~~h!J trial matches on Birley's were the best that I can remember. pe d . the course of play and in many respects, the 1993 from the summer tour, a team QUIC Y ' G 0od rugby between worthy opponents often evens-out unng bl d 1 1·cally well-fought game. S season as a whole resem e a YP . . . D k fYo k's ( -0)· Caterham (48- 10) ; and K.C . . , h 8 ' ·th encouragmg v1ctones: u eo r b t een King's entered the early mate es WI . t D ver College 1st XV (0-5) nevertheless produced an open game .e wth t Wimbledon (35-5). A narro~ defea9t2ag~ns h ~ run of wins was off-se't by defeats which confirmed yet agam.. . a equally-matched teams. As m 19 ' t ~ s o v lnerable and o en to defeats in tight fixtures and when lnJu nes contemporary 2nd XVs .ar~ good wh~n 's~ac~~~~~~ ( ~2-27)· Tonbrid~e (0- 12) ; and Eastbou rne (16-20) up to half term . ' a whole seven first-choice players were rendered deplete their strength. Kmg s lost agamst . The team had a troublesome string of i.nJuries, af~ lo~~~~~~ut~~~ J:ys 'off g~mes' mainly through injury' and ailme~~s unavailable fora mlm~u~o Thereand were times w en oo much was requ ired from the players in order to occupy a reasona e of one kind at or different another. times share of the game. 52

Dulwich fielde~ a huge XV and clobbered us 36- 13. Sadly, t<.>o. the match due to be playe~ at Epsom was cancelled owing to frosty pitches. Cranle1gh proved to be the last formidable opponent to beat Kmg s (15-0), but as the end of term approached, several regular players re-appeared to strengthen the team, again. The two remaining fix tures were won: Felsted ( 15- 12) and Sevenoaks (10-0). There were lovely matches and the last one produced the best rugby of the season . At full strength, the 1993 2nd XV were a well -balanced team with talent. Inevitably, successful 2nd XVs are al ways going to be dismcmb.::rcd . Richard Humc's initial presence suggested the team would be effective. His seniority gave stability and impact to the forwards. His well-deserved promotion to the 1st XV was our sad loss, however. The players fo und repeated changes frustrating , but despite the instabi lity, the forwa rds gave their best at all times. After James Murch handed the Captaincy over to Michael G . L. Davies, he and James Stevens, Scott McLean and Michael Preece were a competent front row . Congratulations to Mike Preece for playi ng in every match of the season. The same second and back row combinat ion of players played only two matches together for the entire season! Nevertheless, Paul Perrin's athleticism at No. 2 in the line-outs, his mobility and work-rate in mauls suggests a player of some stature in the running for a I stteam place. Alexis Roxburgh 's jumping at No. 4 improved considerably towards the end of the season. Unt1l he fractured his thumb, William Finch played well in many games. Gi les Macey and Alastair Wilson were the best of the back row players - Giles for his speed and clutch of fi ve tries, and Alastair for his line-out expert ise and decisive tackling. Luke S1ngcr and Andrew MacGregor, as regulars with the team, were mobile and effec ti ve. Andrew McGregor's qualit ies as a serum-half were soundly re-established in the Fclstcd match, and go on to be more fully appreciated next season, too. James Murch and Michael G. L. Davies were rel iable Captains on the season, the forme r both starting and ending the season in good, winning games for the XV. At outside half, Michael J. Davies had his successes, though until his terri ble injury, Charles Doust was poised to take the 2nd XV by storm- his selection for the 1st XV testified to his ability . Laurence Potter and Giles Hay (once he was out of plaster) were powerful mid-field players, though the latter also distinguished himself as an ncar-side flanker, too. Josh Cole's skill showed him to be a player of the future, and some speed and flair was added from the win~ers: Oliver Carter, Fcmi Fadeyi and Omotayo Alakija, until his promotion to the 1st XV. Adam Bissill returned at t1mcs to lend the team its much-needed assistance. But for a match as substitute for the Ist XV , William Drinkwater played in every game and hardly put a foot wrong. His timing under the high ball were excellent, and he tackled courageously. Timothy Nealon's one game against and catching Sevenoaks was excellent.

Alon~;: with the regulars, lots of other players who stood in at short notice must be thanked for giving their best to the Side in all its matches. For th is and much more, I arn very grateful indeed. notoriously deceptive, )'Ct even a quick, in-depth glance reveals the 1993 season to have more percentage Statistics in itsarc favour than the one in 1992 . points RESULTS R.B.Mr Played II , Won 5, Lost 6, Cancelled I. Points for 157, Points against 132. Players who represented the 2nd XV: Michael G. L. Dav ies Capt.)*, James Murch (Capt . *re-awarded), Omotayo Alakija, Adam B1ssill*, Oliver Carter*, Dominic Cocklin, Josh Cole, Alastair Curzon, Michael J. Dav ies, Rafael De Haan, Charles Doust, William Drinkwater, Femi Fadeyi, William Finch, Giles Hay, Richard Hume, Dunstan Kamana, Giles Macey*, Benjamin Massingham, Andrew McGregor, Scott McLean*, Timothy Nealon, Paul Perrin, Laurence Potter*, Michael Preece, Alexis Roxburgh*, Luke Singer*, James Stevens, Luke Toulson, Sebastian Vance, Andrew Wilson*.

*2nd XV Colours.

3rd XV

With as tou~h a fi xture list as ours, th is team performed very credibly. Many a game was won or drawn, not purely throu~;:h supen or skill or speed, but through sheer guts and determination. Few will forget the game against a powerful

Dulw1ch s1de in the driving snow where, after defend ing for long periods of the game, we came back strongly only to be tackled into touch two feet from the corner flag . Tile team was ably captained by Michele Rosato . Only against Dulwich was our front row put under pressure . The t1ghthead count was very rarely not in our favour. Owing to illness and inju ry the second row combinations changed regufarly. Alex Macdonald-Bell was especially effective in his second row role. It was the loose forwards who created many of the scoring posit ions from which attacks could be mounted. Getting over the gain line was a task wh ich Rafael De Haan, Dominic Cockl in and Luke Toulson were able to do, sometimes with devastating effect iveness. Jamie Nicholson and Andrew McGregor filled the serum-half position for the team when they were not required by the fi rst and second teams. They served the fly- hal f, Tim Nealon, well. Tim completed the season in the 2nd XV , a team which he should have been a member of for most of the season. His line-kicking and goal-kicking abil ities were invaluable. In the centre Sebastian Vance. Ben Massingham and Adam Bissill , when not required by the 2nd XV, were very penetrative and had the willingness to put racking grubber kicks through when confronted by a tight defence. The regular wings , Al istair Curzon and Chris Kenwright, hardly put a foot wrong. It is indicative of the kind of rugby that the team played that many a try was scored in the corner. Few will forget the almost aerial-type try scored by Chris Kenwright in the last quarter of the game against Fclstcd when , instead of going round or through the defenders, he literally went over them. We struggled at fu ll back owing to illness and hence wingcrs had to fill the position. The loss of James Dean early on in the season was a sore blow. Tristan McConnell must be congratulated and thanked for being so willing to step into virtually any backline position when the need arose. His penetrative runs were stopped only by the most desperate of tackles by opponents. Simon Cook came to us late in the season on the strength of his lineout skills. 53

· · · Jd have been better if illness had not struck the school so c ruelly th1s Whilst the record is indeed lmpress•ve, It cou o heavil to Tonbridge and might very well have be~~:ten Eastbourne term. A full-strength s•~e v:ould. not have lost s timls lost our concentration, allowing o pponents m With a score, and Sevenoaks. At crucial umes m hnat~hes ~~/g:C~ so impressive has been the attitude of the team. Here are .a group often against the run of play. y.'hat bas ~w~. ces were taken seriously and post-match analysis helped us to •ron out ! dlly entJo·oyy~~e!rt r~f ~~s ;:~n· a very enjoyable season . of. boys whwo rica m1stakes. e one · P.T. RESULTS Played 13, Won 7, Drawn 1, Lost 5. Points for 246, Points against 145. v Tonbridge. Lost 10-49. v Duke of York' s. Won 32-5. v Norton Matchwood 1st XV. Won 50- 12. v St. Paul's. Lost 0-22. v Epsom. Won 12-0. v Dover College 2nd XV. Won 36-5. v C ranleigh. Lost 5- 12 . v Caterham. Won 36-0. . v Felsted. Won 15- 10. v K.C.S. Wimbledon. Won 38-0. v Sevenoaks. Lost 7-20. v Eastbourne. Lost 5-10. D lwich Drawn 0-0 . D · · v u · . . 1 Rosato (Ca t.), Charles Bell, Adam Bissill , James Burr, omm1c The following played a! l~st three matches.~~h'k~fael De Hafn. Michael Haswell , Julian Hinves, Ham•sh Le~mens, Cocklin , Simon Cook, Allsta•r Curzoa, Jw:SB II Be njamin Massingham, Andrew McGregor, Scott McLean, Timothy Tristan McConne)l, AlexandR<?rhM~c ~a~~ Lute' Toulson, Sebastian Vance. Nealon , Jam•e Nicholson, 1c ar •

4th XV

. ., · h ball down between the posts and proudly knowmg ¥OU are a member It's not the winmng, II s the glory oftouch•~g I e I ho played 4th XV rugby very few expenenced the glory. c t 1 of the thirty- .our peop e w • . . of the 4th XV. Un.ortuna e y, .. k f York's saw James Dean score a try wuhm the first Our fir st kick-off was a success: our lo~alnofe~?~l~do ~ha?~act~ng was n'ot in our bac ks' otherwise vane~ repertoire. ten minutes of the game. However, they t e f fi st ame We were only one try down at hal f-u me, but the The match against St. Pa.ul's w.as nearly a fep.la~ o o'(;"et~~e~ Chr.is and Theo) could not compensate for the lack of effort s of our forwards (mclud•~g a bout o Cl~l .~a~f the team fitness and poor tackling techmqu~ of the maJOfl ~ tember bee;me our Wate rloo (the Engl.ish s ide of course!). Dover Then came our moment of glory. ~desday 28th~ from visiting their in-goal line four umes. Each member of the College put up a brave light but cou not l?revfn JP Swen our serum-half, to Sqot, our fl y-half, meant that the team had an excellent game: the good feeddnt r~~l which elabted Matt Hillie r to score two of the tnes . ball was well d istributed to our centres an ac s,. Theo scored our try from a ruck within their five metres line, King's Rochester gave us the closest ga"Je of at~ penalty gave the opposition the extra poi nt they needed to wm, Sqot converted it. However ' a. non-c~nverte try ~~at aeffect in olaxing anyone with (or without) the ball. Poor .old despite Charlie Crowe's fencmg sk•lls used tog d the·r post ~isallowed by the coach turned referee for the occas•on. Hamish saw his impressive drive and ~ry ave~pt lhn e r ,•beaten get back' matches which do not linger in our memory, Eastboume was another one in the sen es 0 : ,get I ~~reM~~thew Pi'nk was even driven there especially by J .R. P · • such the type of game one plays on ~he ~ay to exet · as his keenness to play before .Jumpmg on a pane . ." . The match that ensued was to be very exciting indeed. We Back from half term , we w~•ted e~gerly for ~ulwiCh~ cr than ours We scored first (well done, Charlie Bell) a nd defended very well against a Side wh•~\f'~s a ll:~l: ~~~~egstood at 7-7 .·Afte r a great deal of pressure , they managed conve rted our try (thanks, Sqot). fA~ a -u~e, as undoubtedly Humphrey Jo nes who tackled one of thc•r, playdcrb ten to score a second try. T he man o t e mate w T b id e Thanks to Tom Wacher's, Terry Loo s a n ?m metres from our , otherwise ~pen, goal !me. Then, ~~; l)g ~~ ;nanaged to defeat the ' flu bugs which were tr¥mg Pett 's sudden Saturday mornmg u:g~ ~ tpl~y ~~fr~~n~ed J;a~tically for the occasion ; James Morgan, ~vho mCprtv •ous their best to fell our men. The bac. s a o e . he win became a fl anker for the day ' and SimOn oo . • not games had tried his hand at hookmg an~ runm;~u~b~r eighf' we gave Tonbridge a good run a round: they d•d not having been poached by the 3 rds •. staye put a h ld win The following week, Epsom came, Epsom won, ... really care about our ' flu ep•de m•c as long as t cy cou

Epsom went. . were cancelled b the opposition: after all , we were not the only Our next two matches, v C ranle•gh and Felsted , ~ d n the~ast game against Sevcnoaks. And what a good ones hit by the e.pidemi~! Our hop_es were t~~de[~~~e o~~s~\afr. we defended well and were 0- 12 down at .half:ume. game it was . Gomg uph•.ll and agamst the WI reat deal of ressurc from our fo r wards (Steve, Patnck , fheo, Hopes were high but their defence wab g~od. A!~: ~fgen~ouragemfnt from Ben, our captain) , we scored a tr~ liftten Tom Grant and Charl ie, spurred on y t e gro . db t sadly it was not to be. We know it 's not the wmmng, ut minu't es into the second ~alf. Pressure was sustame u it would have been so mce. · · . f h matc hes R E B for train ing our fo rwards this c f eemg most o our ome • · · · · d We would like to thank P. W . F: .or re eE r b The coach would also like to express his sincere grautu e to ~ ompanymg us to ast ourne. season and J · R · P · .or ace orted our team home and away. the parents who regularly came and supp BEN ROLFE AND M. P.H.D. 54

Team from: Ben Rolfe (Capt.), Stephen Adams, Charles Bell , Grant Chum, Simon Cook, Rodolphe D'Arjuzon, Matthew Hillie r, William Jeanes, Humphrey Jones, Hamish Lemmens, Christopher Milne, Theo Moore, Thomas Moore, James Morgan, Patrick Osmond, Matthew Pink, Marcus Riccoboni, John P. Sweny, Sqot Wiseman . Also played: Thomas Aldridge, Ja mes Burr, James Cheeseman, Charles Crowe, Alistair Curzon, James Dean, Maurice Fakoury , C hristophe r Kenwright, Terence Loo, Alexander Macdonald-Bell, Raymond Man, Dominic Pett, Thomas Stazicker, Thomas Wacher, Ross Wingfield. RESULTS Played 9 , Won I , Lost 8, Cancelled 2. v Duke of York 's (H). Lost 5-29. v Tonbridge (A). Lost 0-47 . v St. Paul 's (A). Lost 0-29. v Epsom (H). Lost 0-24. v Dover College (H). Won 22-0. v Cranleigh . Cancelled. v King's Rochester (H). Lost 7-8. v Felsted. Cancelled . v Eastbourne (A). Lost 0-24. v Sevenoaks (A). Lost 5- 12. v Dulwich (H). Lost 7- 12.

Colts 'A' XV I inhe rited a team which was well-drilled and contained players with a healthy appetite for the game and a willingness to learn. There is a depth of talent in this yeargroup which will ensure exciting rugby for the next two years at I st team level . I had the pleasure of coaching Chris North during the sevens season last fear when, although a Remove, he was one of my first c hoice seven. Unfortunately he has been unable to play at at this season through an affliction in his knee joints, but he is now on the road to recovery and I wish him well. Our first game was a fi ve-try romp against Duke of York's with a good all-round performance and tries from Adam Williams (2), Tom Partridge, Simon Bird and James Goodman. Jon Murch, selected for the first time at fly-half, displayed all the necessary skills and gave a fine exhibition of tactical kick ing and intelligent playmaking. His place kicking was also of the highest calibre with six successful kicks from seven attempts. Afolabi Sonaike had a very sound game at full back a nd initiated many cou nter-attacks. St. Pau l's was a frustrating game. The referee, I was late r to discover, was new to the game and had misinterpreted the instructions requiring him to be cautious when U 19 players go to ground. The result was a game in which there was no play afte r the tackle and very little second-phase possession gained by either side . We looked 20 points better than the oppos ition and were rarely out of their half but were unable to cross the line. T hey crossed our line when our more than adequate defence completely relaxed at the sound of a whistle from an adjacent pitch. We certainly learned the value of second-phase possession in that game. James Goodman, Paul Wharton and Lewis Mitchell had outstanding games . The game at K.C.S. Wimbledon was tight , played on a very small pitch . Bob Hiller told me that he designed it to its present proportions when he refereed, to ensure that the play always took place near to where he was standi n~ . Our oppone nts were understandably excelle nt maule rs and ruckers of the ball, and our backs had very little room m which to move. We eventually won as a .-esult of a fine individual try by Simon Bi rd . He is a very talented player with the ability to disrupt dangerous moves with devastating tackles and create order from chaos in broken play. A centre to watch in the future. Eastbou rne at Birley's on the 1st XV pitch is one of the finest King's performances I have had the privilege to watch. It was, however, rather quiet at the side of the pitch because Mr. W1seman was taking his duties as volunteer linesman very seriously indeed. We were out-classed by our opponents who were physically larger than us and gained most of the first-phase ball in spite of the dete rmined effo rts of Ed Rice and Simon Peachey. Ferocious tackling and intelligent defensive positioning limited the score to 5-0, when the score should have been 20 or 30 points to nil. One crushing tackle was executed by Tim Palmer to save a certain try. T om Partridge, Simon Bird and James Goodman also tackled magnificently. Each King's player left the field proud and elated at the team's performance and his part in it, a rare event after losing but an indication of the understanding this team 's members have of the game of rugby. The game against Dulwich saw us take the field without our two Kent County players, Andrew Brice and Qin Wiseman. I'm told that it was the only game Qin has missed through inj ury since he started pla;: ing at the age of seven! Leigh Fitchie and Tom Goodman were very able replacements and each made valuable contnbutions . The match was played in high winds wh ich badly affected fou r kicks at goal (two from each side) and the match was drawn with no score, a rare occurrence in rugby. Paul Wharton, James Goodman, Simon Bird and Ed Radcliffe were outstanding in defence and Ben Smith-Laing, Chris Mounsey-Thear and Adam Williams each made excellent attacking breaks. James Goodman was concussed mid-week a nd missed the next three matches. At Tonbridge he was replaced by Luke Tayle r , a strong runner who would be happier on the wing, but he tackled well in the centre. Tom Goodman, a player of promise who has not yet settled into one partic ular position, had a fine game at prop. After a long period of pressure Jon Murch scored from a well-struck drop goal, but we lost when we failed to cover an overlap in the second half. Against Epsom the game was a dour affair, played in a snowstorm. Our score came from a set penalty move which worked just as well as it had the day before in practice, sending Qin Wiseman over in the corner. Adam Wi ll iams was the mamstay o f the pack in that match and he made one very exciting break from a kick-off taking play 25 metres into their half. The game was lost in the fina l minute when a simple error at the set piece led to a gift of a try for their back row which was then converted.

We were :-veil-matched in o ur next ~arne against Cranle!gh.Tom Dean produced many. long,. accurate passes at serumhalf to prov1de our b.acks w1th more ume.to work. Tom IS shght of frame as yet ,. but g 1ven timeÂˇ to develop physically and to build upon h1s many .first-rate sk1lls, he will be a scrum.-hal f to watch m the future. Our for wards' rucking was much better: Adam W1l! 1~1"!1S had a fir~t- rate gam~:,_ Ben ~m1.th-Lamg tackled ~ravcly and once again Simon Bird fru strated a ll the1r m1d-field llllllatlves . Espm Bowder JOIIled h1111 111 the centre showmg very sound ball handling ski lls. The game at Felsted was a credit to the self-control of the King's players. Time and time again the pressure wh ich we exerted was relieved when we were penalised. We seemed to infringe the rules just whe n we were at our most dangerous: when we had just won the ball at an attacking 5-metre serum ; when we had a three-to-one overlap deep in the ir 22; when our 22 drop-out move produced a dangerous three-on-one situation o n the othe r side of the pitch to the forwards; when Tim Palmer grounded the ball over their try line but was adjudged to be in touch; and at many rucks and mauls. Perhaps a 0-0 draw is not such a rare occurrence after all. I knew tha t Sevenoaks would be given a hard time. We had trained well during the week with the e mphasis upon winning quick ball in the loose, keepi n~ the ball alive and crossi ng the line with a very low body posit ion to ground the ball as soon as possible - on the lme would do. Spirits were high a nd there was a determination to put all the skills togethe r in the final game. We I?ressed hard from the start and gained a penalty which Jon Murch k1cked, and anothe r which he missed in the swirling winds. Then Qin Wiseman smartened up some positive but scrappy loose play by dipping his shoulde r at a wall of players to find a weakness whic h he exploited by driving hard for the line and crossing it too low to be effectively tackled. The training was worthwhile. Afte r Jon Murch converted, we pressed once more with the wind at our backs until he brought a high rass from a set piece under control and dropped his second goal of the season from just outside the 22. A series o unforced errors brought us deep into our own half where we conceded a penalty which was well kicked against the wind to make the half-time score 13-3 . The highlight of the game came in the second half when C hris Mounsey-Thear seized a loose ball with their entire team in front of him. He raced across to link with the right wing, but after ducking through the first double tackle he broke tackle after tackle by showing the ball to the winger just as the tackler was about to strike, then accelerating. Eventually he had escaped all atte ntions and he broke free with the ir full back a nd winger a metre behind. Our rrop outpaced them both and scored with a celebratory dive. For the first time, when a prop says that he ran a fu l 50 metres to score you may believe his story! Ed Rice crowned a fine season with a well -dese rved try late in the game after the ball was produced from a ruck 10 metres out. Qin W iseman and Andrew Brice played in each of the Kent County games and also the trial game for selection for the London team . Q in has been included in the squad for the first game and I wish him well in the future. I feel that each player has improved upon his skills during this term but I am particula rly pleased with the huge strides made by Ben Smith-Laing at hooker, Andrew Brice at prop, Jon Murch at n y-half and Simo n Bird in the centre. Philip Lobb and Ed Rice also developed the lineout skill of disrupting and beat ing larger opponents. My greatest satisfaction was gained when I witnessed Qin Wiseman play a whole game in which he looked as if he was e njoying himsel f. I think he even smiled o nce. Thanks must go to Jon Murch, an excellent captain , Ed Rice, a tireless worker and an inspirational vice-capta in , N .C.W .S. for all his e fforts a nd support and all those who played and made th is such an enjoyable season. K.E .J.M. RESULTS Played 10, Won 3, Drawn 2, Lost 5. Points fo r 86 , Points against 53 . v Tonbr idge. Lost 13-6. v Duke of York's. Won 39-0. v St. Paul' s. Lost 3-8. v Epsom. Lost 10-5. v K.C.S. W imbledon. Won 7-3. v Cranlc igh . Lost 11 -3 . v Eastbourne . Lost 5-0. v Felsted. Drawn 0-0. v Dulwich. Drawn 0-0. v Sevenoaks. Won 23-3 . Players: Jon Murch (Capt.), Ed Rice (Vice-Capt.) , Simon Bird , Andrew Brice, Nigel F ield, James Goodma n, T om Goodman , Philip Lobb, Lewis Mitchell, Chris Mounsey-Thear , Tim Palmer, Edward Radcliffe, Ben Smith-Laing, Paul Wharton, Andrew Williams, Qin Wiseman. Also played: Espin Bowder, Tom Dean, Leigh Fitchie, Tom Partridge, Simon Peachey , Afolabi Sonaike, Luke Tayle r.

Colts 'B' XV The warcry of C larke. The elusiveness of Sonaike. The deliv<:ry of Dean. The utte r savagery of Bolshaw. The commitment of the whole team under pressure. Somehow the attntlon rate that effected other teams seemed to bene fit the Colts 'B' side this season. They a lways played better the greater the odds against them. T his was not a team of strategists, yet throughout the season they made the dec isions , and they called the moves. This resulted in a positive attitude towards training that made the whole exercise worthwhile . Being part of a small squad, forwa rds often e nded up as backs, and we even had a wing playing at lock. The team had the benefit of an excellent serum half, and a very strong, attacking back row, and right at the outset of the term , this dictated the style of play that would c haracte rise the season . T here were some truly memorable moments in the season , too. Tom Dean's poaching from the base of the serum at Tonbr idge ; James Capel's huge final conversion against Sevenoaks. James Bissill running half the pitch and through 56

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ei~ht tack les to score against St. Paul 's; the metamorphosis of Richard Ashenden against Dulwich; James Piper' s three tnes against Sevenoaks; Keith Bolshaw's three against Duke of York's. The scoring was memorable , yet the true tests of the team's character were the Epsom and Cranleigh matches, both low-scoring games. In the former, played in the freezing snow against a far larger side, a nd with many injury problems, the team raised their game in the second half, and thereafter dominated the match. Had they scored when the weather was at its worst, they would surely have drawn level, if not won. Against Cranleigh , once down to thirteen men after only a short while, they launched an attack that had supporters believing that a victory really was {>OSsible. This, coupled with a fully committed defe nce, turned the game into a thrille r. Although they didn't necessan ly play the most attractive rugby , this team was always very exciting to watch. The team's record is a respectable one, with more than double the number of points scored against points conceded. Although I have mentioned individuals above, congratulations should go to all the players fo r their complete commitment to the task in hand , particularly on match days, and for their infectious enthusiasm. I should also like to thank parents who patrolled the touchline in the sunshine, the sleet a nd the snow, as their cheers are a vital ingredient in any match. N.C.W.S. RESULTS Played 10, Won 5, Lost 5. Points for 160, Points against 79. v Duke of York's (A). Won 36-7. v Tonbridge (A). Lost 22-0. v St. Paul's (H). Won 22-0. v Epsom (H). Lost 10-0. v K.C.S. Wimbledon (A). Won 12-8. v Cranleigh (H). Lost 5-3. v Eastbourne (H). Lost 8-5. v Felsted (A). Won 22- 13. v Dulwich (H) . Lost 6-0. v Sevenoaks (H). Won 60-0. Team selected from (figures in brackets denote scores this season): Tom Dean (Capt.), Simon Peachey (Vice-Capt. IT) , Richard Ashe nden, Daniel Bartlette, Nicholas Bates, Michael Baughan (2T), James Bissill (2T), Keith Bolshaw (6T), Espin Bowder (IT), James Capel (3 pen., 12 conv.), Richard Clarke, T im Dowse, Leigh Fitchie (2T), Tom Goodman, Alexander Gort-Barten, James McNaught, Tim Palmer, Tom Patridge, James Piper (3T), Afolabi Sonaikc (2T) , Luke Tayler (3T) , Paul Wharton (2T).

Junior Colts 'A' XV The season started a nd finished with victories but in between there was little success. It was a very disjointed term, with the weathe r , illness a nd some {>layers' unavailability making it very difficu lt to build up a ny contmuity. T here were twenty-seven players representmg the 'A' team in the eleven matches and at times we could have done with them all on the pitch. Only four players managed to play all eleven matches. Peter Phipson who ended up top points scorer from full back ; Ben White on the wing; Damian Stewart in the centre; and the captain, Charlie Munday, at flanker. Charlie was the top try scorer and also often our last line of defence, so his presence in every match was often vital. The year group contains some talented sportsmen , but in the 'A' team there was never an obvious unity or confidence in each other's ability. Perhaps the individuality will be better expressed in other games such as hockey, football and cricket, but for rugby the boys learnt that they would not win against good opposition by running through on their own. More emphasis on individual skills, a much greater sense of urgency and a n appetite for all aspects of the game would tra nsform this side and hopefully reverse tile play ing record. There were several players wflo missed a great deal of the season: Simon Gittins owing to his hockey commitments; Edward Dale-Jones and Robert Sixsmith owing to injuries sustained before this season ; and unfortunately Adam Tarr had to stop playing afte r half-te rm due to knee problems. Adam missed the first game, so the versatile Damian Stewart played serum-half and linked well with Matt Appleyard at fly-half and Matt Wall at No. 8. In a fiercely-contested match the strength and determination of Nick Lynch and C harlie Munday proved decisive, both scoring tries. T ristram Sta nden had been suffering from nose bleeds during the week and almost survived the game at prop before a recurrence. It was to be the last game for Simon Gittins as his hockey career took precedence, so a new back line had to be formed. Malcolm Todd showed good defensive qualities on the wing as well as a turn of pace but the centre combination of Stewart a nd Adesanya had a stern test from a convincing St. Paul's side who won too much possession for us to hold out in the second half despite brave efforts from Ben White and Peter Phipson. After such a heavy defeat the side showed a more ~ositive approach against Caterham but lost the game ow ing to careless penalties and errors. The front fi ve of Sterck, 0 Neii-Dunne and Sta nden in the front row plus Lynch and Martin in the second row were beg i nnin~ to show more understa nding a nd strength in the set piece. Tom Martin could have won the game for us, by chargmg down a kick, but was unlucky with the rebound going into touch, and Nick Lynch was proving a useful source of possession as No.2. line-out jumper. Chris O'Neil-Dunne' s throwing is accurate and consiste nt , which helped us secure some possession as the team had height in the form of Lynch, Bax and Martin. For K.C.S. Wimbledon, Lick Lynch moved to No. 8 and William Bax proved adaptable in the second row with Matthew Wall using his speed as a flanker. It was, however , our midfield defence that allowed the opposition's full-back to create scoring opportunities a nd leave us 24 points down at half-time. Damian Stewart had yet again had to move positions, this time at fly-half covering the absence of Appleyard and with Munday in at centre II took some time for an understanding to develop, but with JUSt one score in the second-half, the lessons were quickly learnt. One characteristic of the side was to show a resilience and often a second-half comeback but they had many a cause to, for owing to their generosity sides such as Eastbourne found themselves 10 points up after just four minutes o f play. Again the team foufht back well and a good individual try by Adam Tarr, as Eastbourne actually fell for his dummies, converted by Wal put us back in contention. Unfortu nately the side the n conceded two tries from tap penalties partly owing to a lack of alertness but also quick thinking from the Eastbourne No. 8. The game was stopped a few minutes early because of an injury to a n Eastbourne player after a Nick Lynch tackle. Thanks go to Mrs. Sterck for her first-aid knowledge. The mjury proved not to be serious.

57 STEAMY CONVERSATIONS (Terence Loo)

The half-term break gave a welcome rest but only for a virus to strike which curiously affected the Remove year almost entirely. This meant greatly weakened sides against such traditionally strong opposition and those who played should forget the scores and feel a sense of pride and achievement in representing the school when the temptation was to give up and cancel the fixture. It was a shame that Dulwich and Tonbridge did not recognize the effect of 'flu on the strength of our sides, as these results did little for e ither side, and unfortunately it left Tristram Standen with a very painful ear which later stopped him playing for the last few matc hes. With Tarr a lso now permanently offgames, it was a hastily arranged side that defeated St. Augustine's, but allowed our backs an opportunity to attack for a change and Stewart, Adesanya and Phipson all showed their capabilities with the secure tackling of Fransella and White on the wings. The inclusion of many ' B ' team players did not weaken the side, for Eccles and Boar fitted in well and O'Sullivan showed control and vision at serum-half. With the cancellation of the fixture away to Epsom it allowed time for recovery for those who had suffered from 'flu and, apart from a change at serum-half with Stephen Bushnell making his debut, we were back to some semblance of normality against Cranleigh. Unfortunately some of the earlier season's traits also returned with an early charge down try by Cranleigh forcing us to try and get back into the game after only a few minutes' play and despite good passages of forward play with Bax, Lynch and Wall in evidence we rarely attacked at pace. When passing along the line too often Jide Adesanya was given man and ball and we lost ground as a result. A try was conceded from a tap penalty and although there was no lack of e ffort by individuals there was not enough team play in attack or defence and it seemed Cranleig h wanted to win more than we did . We must have learnt something that day, or pe rhaps it was England's victory over the A ll Blacks , fo r the side took the initiative against Felsted and w ith the backs begmning to run onto the ball a fine try was served by Phipson who was adding pace and direction as inside centre. The injury to Felsted 's prop meant Charlie Munday appeared as our third centre and his d irect route proved too strong for the Felsted defence as he set up more tries for Phipson and Adesanya before scoring himself. Morale was suddenly boosted by this victo ry and desp1te a few injuries in the House Sevens there was more of an appetite for the final game against Sevenoaks than had been evident earlier in the season. Damian Stewart at full -back now had an excellent match and when entering the line gave our wingers some room, but he finished off a fine team move to score the first try . Peter Phipson continued his fine form by scoring from a determined passage of play in which the sizeable presence of Charl1e Ejimofor figured, and finally the game was made safe by Nick Lynch who scored from a characteristically robust charge. It was a good point to end the season and showed that there are elements of a more successful side if and when the combination of players is found . Perhaps next year some of the 'B ' team players will have g rown and contribute to a more harmonious team. Things to work on for next season: (i) Be more punctual to training, if that is possible for Jide and Charlie Ej imofor. (ii) Improve your levels of fitness, and then perhaps t~e support play will improve. (iii) Do not leave the tackling to others, namely Charhe Munday, Leo Francella and Jide. (iv) Be more generous with your praise of others rather than being hasty to critic ise or blame and that may e ngender a g reater team spirit based o n trust. My thanks to the coaching staff of Colin and Nick from the Recreation Centre and to J .C. M. W. in his first season. I welcomed their support and endless patience while players were changed from team to team. Thanks also to J.R.P. and J .A.T. for travelling away w ith the teams and to D.J.R. and Stewart Ross fo r re fe reeing. A special mention for C harlie Munday for his loyalty and leadership, as captain as it was not always easy . Cha rlie led from the front and one solo effort led to our only score against Dulwich. Well done to the many parents who supported and to the groundstaff and tea ladies. I was indebted to R.C.W. for organising teams when I too had 'flu . S.E.A. Team from: Charles Munday (Capt.), Jide Adesanya, Matthew Appleyard , W illiam Bax , Charles Ej imofor, Leo Fransella, Nicholas Lynch, Tom Martin, Christopher O 'Neil-Dunne, Peter Phipson, Trist Standen , Edward Sterck, Damian Stewart, Adam Tarr, Matthe w Wall, Ben White. Also played: Angus Blackburn, Felix Boon, Stephen Bushnell , James Cla rke , Henry Eccles, S imon G ittins, David Higgins, Thomas O'Sullivan , A lex Pearson , Malcolm Todd, Michael Z iegler . RESULTS Played II , Won 4, Lost 7. Points for 122, Points against 323. v Duke of York's (A). Won 2 1- 12. v Tonbridge (H). Lost 0 -76. v St. Paul' s (H) . Lost 0-48. v St. Augustine's (H). Won 17-3. v Caterham (H). Lost 7- 10. v Epsom (A). Cancelled owing to frost. v K.C.S. Wimbledon (A). Lost 0-29. v Cranle igh (A). Lost 0 -17. v Eastbourne (A) . Lost 7-22. v Felsted (H). Won 36-0. v Dulwich (A). Lost 7-65 . v Sevenoaks (H). Won 17-5. The U nder 15 House Sevens competition was won by a combined Marlowe/ Mitchinson's side who beat Tradescant in the final ( 12-0). The day houses , however, decided to award the cup to the single house Tradescant. The w inner of the junior goal-kicking compet ition was O lukayode Ak indele (GR).

Junior Colts 'B' XV _T_his must have been the best team that I have 1 d · h N · · · sptrtt was very high. It started off as a great P ayeH wtt · ~~onl)_' d1d It have many sk1lful players but the team matches, against Tonbridge and Dulw ich. season. owever, u htt the team when we came to play our hardest The pack was excellent, especially Felix Boon d A Bl · out with David Smith's excellent handling and c~~ . ngus d ;ckburn. In the back ltne, the centre partnership stood egun fLawson's Immacu late tackling with some good runs . Overall the standard of play was very good~ptphmg an , e top scorer o the season was James C larke. As the member of staff who accom anied th . TOM O'SULLIVAN. Anderson from the Recreation Centre~or lakin e :eam to away mat~hes, I would ltke to thank Nick Evans and Colin team. In_ the first match 1 accompanied againsF Kh~ te~tW·or 6Jr~ctlcesh I would also pay tribute to ~~e resolve of the from bemg twelve points down after t~n minute · · ·. .1m e on, I e tea_m showed a proper res1ltence to recover solid tacklmg, a couple of memorable breakawa: t~ wbn the ~~~~ ~ve. mmutes. In ~eneral , there was some good keep going which ensure even in our heav defe nes Y ames ar e m the C! a nle1gh match and a w illi ngness to 1 1 O'Sullivan was a pa rtic ularly e ffective scrJm-ha lr ts -~~ ensur~d t h!!t the ?P~OS1t10n had to me rit the ir score. Tom lead from the front. ' WI some mte11lgent k1ckmg and use of the ball. He did indeed

Team from: Angus Blackburn Felix B J Cl k . J .A. T. Taylor , D~vid Higgins, Segu n Lawson ~e~er Mes ar e, P_le~s Clough, Henry Eccl~s, L~o Fransella, Pet~r HermonPeel, Dav1d Smith , Malcolm Todd, M'ichael Zi::~~~~ry, Ansttde Muganda, Tom 0 Sulltvan, James Patnck, Simon

A lso played: Stephen Bushnell , James Cam bell p 1 · ·· Gardner, Peter Hunt , Tim Mitchell Alex Pefrson' ~:er Rape • JdameEsdDay. Charlte EJ11110for, Dom inic Fend ius, Justin • • ex eyno1 s, ward Sterck, Matthew Wall , Jonah Wyn Pugh.

Junior Colts 'C' XV In summing up the season , the captain Johnny Morris was right to adapt Groucho Marx, in observing, 'I've had a good season, but this wasn' t it '. Hard though we tried (and the commitment was for the most part fau ltless) we simply could not overcome the central difftculty that confronted us every time: size. Every matc h bar one looked like the battle between the Lilliputians a nd Brobdingnagians that even Swift did not have the stomach to envisage. I witnessed it every Saturday. The boys will quite rightly point o ut that their best chance of winning was thrown away against Caterham by their coach 's inspired decision to substitute Tim Strange - and consequently turn a promising 15-0 lead into an unexpected 15-30 loss. Our best performance was against Cranle igh whe re we gamed a right winger from the hosts - inevitably called Brian - who showed a considerably better understa nding with our outside centre than his predecessor. T hough it may be invidio us to pick o ut individuals, there were a number of players who tried their hearts out and have a good rugby future ahead of them: Tom Edmonds at full back , who could normally only be persuaded to leave his 22 at hal f-time, made some heart-stopping tackles; Peter Hunt te rrified the life out of the oppositiOn (and his father) with his surging runs and somehow escaped demotio n to the Bs; James Campbell covered the pitch at great speed; a nd the most diminutive of all, Johnny Norris, whose leadership held the team together on many occasions when it looked as if the flood gates would open . (It is very much to the team's credit that on ly St. Paul's could administer a real drubbing.) Many othe rs played well and, I hope, enjoyed the season as much as I did. J.C.M .W. The following played: Johnny Norris (Capt.), Matthew Berry, Fel ix Boon, Steven Bushnell , Jam ie Cooling, Ed DaleJones, James Day, Tom Edmonds, Dominic Fendius, Charlie Fordham, Tom Harrel, James Holloway, Nicholas Hopkins, Peter Hunt , Max von Hurter, Conrad Krawczyk , James Mi lle r-Jones, Alex Reynolds, Daniel Robson, James Rock , Michael Smith , Patrick Spiller, James Stazicker, Paule Stephenson, Tim Strange, Adam Withe rington, Jonah Wyn-Pugh . RESU LTS v Caterham. Lost 15-30. v Duke of York's. Lost 0- 19. v St. Paul's . Lost 0-84. v Eastbourne. Lost 7-34. v Cranleigh . Lost 5-27. v Bethany 'B'. Lost 8- 10.

Under 14 'A' XV This has been an excellent season for this group of boys who have taken to King's rugby extremely well, understanding the de mands of the training and the need for disc ipline on and off the pitch . The list of results says much but, in a ll but one game, victory might have been theirs. The season began with eighty-fo ur fresh, new faces, eager to find match shirts for the first game. As a result , the first week of training was spent mostly trying to organise boys fo r the Duke of York's matches but also beginning to teach the basics of fast , rucking rugby . It is interesting to see that, of the first team that was chosen to face Duke of York 's, eleven boys were to be permanent 'A ' team ' faces' although, as a result of a ' flu bout , only five were to play in a ll the games. The side was not a big one, althoug h it was blessed with two ta ll locks who took at least their fair share of lineout ball. (Chike also shocked us all with a good try against Cranleigh !) The a im of the season was to play the game at speed , which requ ires no e normous size but a high level of fitness, a good understa nding of the game a nd each other, a long with a team in which a ll players can handle the ball with skill a nd a ll can play their part in ball retention and recycling. T his leads to hard training sessions to work on the physical demands of the plan and sessions in wh ich seemmgly monotonous drills are to be repeated again and again . The boys took to the c hallenge well a nd a lthough none partic ularly enj oyed S.H.D. 's ' hill ' they all worked at a high intensity to produce a high level of fitness. As the team took shape over the first few games, it became obvious that its real strengths lay in a pa ir of flankers who tackled with real speed and feroc ity and who learned , with devastating results, how to communicate with each other in attack . Robert Adams was the season's to p scorer with fi ve tries but , if anyth ing , was more impressive in defence with side-lifting tackles close to line a speciality! James Hessey epitomises high-class open side fl anker's play. A great reader of the game, with an in-built understanding of where the ball will go next a nd how best to deny the oppositio n possession (again), James was a natural choice as captain and turned o ut to be a very good one, respected by his team (and his coach!) . James played in all nine games. As d id Karode Akindele at inside centre, a nother gameturning player, who, given space, could fl oat around tackles to score tn es at crucia l times. Against Felsted whe n we had spent the first ten minutes under territorial pressure and had been denied any clean ball , Al<i broke loose to score a try that turned the game our way. Aki scored fou r tries and, modestly, revealed his kicking ability only late in the season when he won the Unde r 15 kick ing competition. In the Sevenoaks game, he converted two of the tries and hit the post with the third. After the last game m the 'Player of the Season' vote, the three boys ment ioned above absolutely dominated showing how they had performed a ll season and fittingly, James was a c lear winner. It is always very easy to p ick out the stars of any side for praise but rugby requires a real team effort and not all the jobs in a team are glamorous. The entire team plays its part in success and c redit should be shared accordingly. At the e nd of such a successful a nd enjoyable season, I would like to thank S.H.D., G. D .W . and P .K.C. for their help in organising this year 's Unde r 14 age group : 'A ' teams never work unless they are backed up by fit and wellcoached Sides beneath them. M .C 1..

60 THE CAPTAIN (Terence Loo)

The 'A' XV was chosen from: Robert Adams, Gbogboade Ademiluyi, Olukayode Akindele, Folarin Alakija, Simon Bodey, Matthew Gardiner, James Harbou rne , Alexander Hayes, James Hessey, Edward Immink, Richard Johnson, Simon Lau, William Mackay, C hike Okoli, Samuel Parker, Jatin Patel, Mark Preston , Andrew Ribbans, Leo Sui, James Squires, Phil ip Stubbmgs, William Tallon, Henry Trew , Edward Wattis, Alastair Williams, Gareth Williams and Simon Youngman. R ESULTS

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Won 6, Drawn 0, Lost 3. Points for 122, Points against 135 . Duke of York's (H). Won 15-0. v Tonbridge (H). Lost 7-30. St. Paul's (A). Lost 0-5. v Cranleign (A). Won 15-3. K. C.S. Wimbledo n (H). Won 15-7. v Felsted (H). Won 26-5 . Eastbourne (H). Won 25-5. v Sevcnoaks (A). Won 19-0. Dulwich (A). Lost 0-80.

Under 14 'B' XV The results speak for themselves: this was an extremely successful season . The players at our disposal were no more or less talented, I think, than most of the opposition encountered , but what made them stand out was the degree of commitme nt and enthusiasm shown by every member of the team. We won games because we did not want to lose. We a lso won games because, when we thought about it , we were technically better, especially in the forwards (who concentrated almost solely on ball retention and on rucking at speed) than the often larger opposition. Our backs were then provided with a solid base from which to attack, and th is they did . Indeed, it is intercstmg to note that, although the forwards were the basis of our success, almost all the tries were scored by backs. Leo Siu, our fly in~ wing, managed to bag e ight tries; Ricco Barry, at his best in the centres , seven. We must, therefore, have been spmning it wide at some point. There were three fixtures missing: Caterham, Epsom, and Tonbridge. The first two of these were cancelled owing to adverse weather cond itions; the third was re-arranged as a C/ B team fixture because of ' flu. It was disappointing not to have played Tonbridse. as I think, for once, we would have given them a run for their money. Next year, therefore, will be interesting, providmg the bugs stay away. The adjustments meant that many of our players were able to step up into the 'A' team: unfortunately, not many of the m came back. Special tributes are therefore due to the players that stuck with it in the 'B' team, and performed excellently all season. Our serum-half, Mark Sweny, was superb, in tenns of vision, distribution, and tackl ing. Mark Westlake, although over-ambitious at times, displayed his enthusiasm for the game, and will dine out on his morally-victorious last-minute try against Dulwich for years to come. Ricco Berry, adding class when concentrating, scored several crucial individual tries. Ed Wattis and Tristan Byrnes were both superb hookers: Tri stan always played passionately; Ed (rubber-legs) once took eight against the head. Andy Ribbans and Oliver Fraser provided the heart of a very solid serum . Finally, Will Mackay , captain and player of the season, a man who knew exactly what to do in any given s ituation , and who led noisily by example, I believe, will go far. There are some wonderful players and some great characters in this team - they respond well to coaching, a nd will do well over the next four seasons. Well done everyone, and many thanks to all those noble parents who turned up to support each week. S.H.D. Those who played: Adc Ademiluyi, Ricco Berry, Simon Bodey, Matthew Brooks, Tristan Byrnes, James Caney, Oliver Fraser, Matthew Gardiner, Tim Hamlin, Alex Hayes, Ed Immink, Richard Johnson, Simon Lau , Sola Lawson, Chris Letts, Will Mackay, Sam Parker, Jatin Patel , Mark Preston, Andy Ribbans, Leo Siu , Christian Smith, Phil Stubbings, Mark Sweny, Rob Van Allan, Harry Walker, Ed Wattis, Mark Westlake. RESULTS

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Played 8, Won 6, Drawn 0, Lost 2. Points for 190, Points against 27 . Duke of York's (H). Won 12-0. v Dulwich (A). Lost 5-20. St. Paul's (A). Lost 5-7. v Cranleigh (A). Won 17-0. K.C.S. Wimbledon (H). Won 5-0. v Felsted (H). Won 58-0. Eastbou rne (H). Won 33-0. v Sevenoaks (A) . Won 55-0.

Under 14 'C' XV A strange season. One wondered at times whether someone, somewhere, was having a series of jokes at our expense. One match cancelled because the pitch was waterlogged; another because it was frozen. Snow preventing practice and a 'flu epidemic from which some never returned. Irritations at times, and questions: would either I or my boots last the course? But in the e nd a happy season culminating in our best performance and biggest victory. It didn't always look as though this would happen. At the start I thought there were some good players around though too many tended to think they knew it all, in particular that they were predestined to play in a particular position. Although apparently intell igent they did not seem to realise that you cannot have a serum without a front row, and if you haven't got any props you have to c reate some if you want to play real rugby. The whole art of selecting a team at this level is to pick the best fifteen or so players and then decide where they are going to stand. This caused some friction between us early on and resulted in my earliest-ever resignation, but as we got to know each other better relations improved: lock forwa rds learnt to prop, wings learnt to be centres or full backs and a centre learnt to hook. 61

THE UNTOUCHABLES (Terence Loo)

Thus we reached the stage, eventually, when we could put out a team if two o r three players were off games, one or two away at a wedding and three or four needed higher up. By the end of the season severa l players had expe rie nced different positions in matches and were thus much better able to appreciate the problems of the ir team-mates. Thus they really began to play togethe r as a team and were rewarded appropriately. From the beginning it looked as though the backs would be the main strength with some c lass in the form of Will Tallon and Tom Davidson (the leading try scorer) on the wing, well served by half backs John Hill ier and Simon Cleobury with Chris Elworthy (and Tom Shelford or Ja mes Caney or Sam Norris) in the centre. By the end of the season Simon Stearn was learning how and when to come into the line from full back. Early on, however, the forwards did not provide enough good clean ball ; but they worked on it and eventua lly got good possess ion from set serums and loose, though line-outs were a lways a bit of a problem as we did not have a ta ll e nough jumper. Will Justice , Ollie Henderson and David Sprake put in a lot of hard work that might not have been noticed by the crowds on the terraces; He nry Hardy, Chris Smith , Tommy Byford and Ben Shephard we re more flamboyant, the latter often spectacula rly so. Tackling was genera lly courageous and got lower as the season progressed with Will Tallon and Chris Elworthy excelling he re. And so to the matches. With any othe r re feree but me we would probabl y not have lost against Duke of Yo rk's, and we were unlucky to do so with their winning try coming in the fin al seconds of the game. St. Paul's were bigger and better and faster than us, but we managed to score a try for every three of theirs. Cate rham was cancelled but well-balanced matches brought victories against K.C.S. Wimbledon and Eastbourne. The scorel ine against Dulwich (anothe r bigger a nd better side) would have looked far more respectable if the matc h had fini shed four minutes earlier, but then 'flu struck . Against Tonbridge we fielded the second-best U 14 side available, ma inly regular 'C' players but with a couple of Bs and couple who had not played for the school before . They put up a plucky perfo rmance against a ' D' team who were well drilled and had expertly practised moves. It was too cold to play Epsom and Henry Hardy's boot made the difference against Cranle igh; fired up for Felsted we were once again disappointed. And so to Sevenoaks. A bitterly cold day with a biting wind, a pitc h tha t sloped prodigiously from one touch! inc to the other and a halfhour wa it. It could have been a recipe for disaster. But it wasn't. The team responded to the lack of stoppages by playing fast, flowing , inventive rugby a nd it was probably only the nar rowness meant that on the rare occasions that Sevenoaks got the ba ll they didn't keep it fo r long. A fine hâ&#x20AC;˘gh on which to end. Unlike the other U 14 teams we did not have a 'Man of the Season'. If we had it would have been Will Ta llon for his excellent play and constructive captaincy both on the field and in helping to select the teams and tactics (despite his inevitable late arrival from musical activities). But rathe r than singling out individuals I would rathe r look on this team as the unit they eventuallY, became, working with and for each other, greatly assisted in practice by those who never quite made the side (and flu put p a id to any idea of a 'D' team) and the super support on the touc h line of parents who usually outnumbe red the oppositiOn both home and away. In the end the Powers That Be smiled on us ; a nd I may need a new pair of boots after a ll. G.D.W . Those who played: Matthew Brooks (Capt.), Tommy Byford, James Caney, Simon Cleobury, Tom Davidson, C hris Elworthy, Tim Hamlin , Henry Hardy, Ollie Henderso n, John Hillier, William Justice, Ma tthew Knig ht , Sam Kn ight , Chris Letts, Tom Lloyd-Smith, Hugo MacPherson, Sam Norris, Chris Pickering , Tim Rainbird , Larry Ridges, Tom Shelford, Ben Shephard, Chris Sm1th, David Sprake, Simon Stearn, George Taylor and Jo nathan Wa rre n. RESULTS Played 8, Won 4, Lost 4 . v Duke of York's. Lost 5- 10. v Du lwic h. Lost 0-48. v St. Paul' s. Lost 10-36. v Tonbridge. Lost 0 -39 . v K.C.S. Wimbledon . Won 7-5. v Cranle igh. Won 7-5. v Eastbourne. Won 17-0. v Sevenoaks. Won 60-0.

Badminton This has been a season , not barre n of success, but certainly in want of much more determination. T here were one or two matches which could have been rescued if more time had been spe nt by the regular team membe rs in practice. Pat Davis's week ly practice sessions a re indispensible, but only a start - the rest needs to come from the players. However , in both the U 19 and U 16 fixtures we have won the majority of our matches and the re were decisive wins against St. Edmund's , Sutton Valence, a nd St. Lawrence, with whom we had had considerably less success last year . We must learn, though, not to re ly on what other schools say whe n they c laim to have a very inexperie nced team ; we lost o ne match that way by trying to be kind! Two girls' matches were arranged, but when it came to it we did not have e no ug h g irls free to raise a team. We shall try with a couple more fixtures next term.

In the inter-schools tou rnament we came a cr d "t bl h" d · thro ugh illness. Many team members deserve •~e~~·o 1 e ~ •r 1ho~t ~f e1ght , despite having to ch~nge the pairings hastily Jon Norman, Tom Robertson T ak-Loon Kho n o r eJr •mproved standard of play th1s term: Chris loannou - as he regularly applauds u~ _ fo r his thou~t }~1 i~~;l;~~~~Embeck. Pat Davis, our coach, must be applauded

Ul 9 squad: Charles Aitken W If E " be . KIERAN M URPHY. U 16 squad: Tak-Loon Kh~ngo J~::7h m Nck, ChnT s Ioannou, Matthew Knight , Kieran Murphy (Capt.), Purav Patel. . . • an Orman, om Robertson , Alasdair Roman. A lso played. Adam Chataway, Simon Garnett , James Sandry .

The Boat Club Sculling Summer is over the days are gett" h mg 5 orter, colder a nd wetter - perfect cond itions for scull ing A h ' not e r lar~e turn out for the sculling squad has br h M . · the same trainmg schedule for girls and boys and fi 11 oug 1d r. .H~oper back to help Mr. Parker. The new regime, great strength , with the aid of the exponential tra· u. Y m•xe we•g ts sessions , gave Pete the chance to show off his there were thrills and spills. mmg programme, and Flossy worked hard in return . At the lakes Our usua l starter of the te rm Maidstone f "I d · I" · a llow us to race once, in the fir; t half of ter:O a~teKito matena •se with too, much water in the river. The N.R.A. did (a typical King's result). Whereas the wome~'s J ~~s~~d · There the :;eb s 1 4x- stormed the course to come second lo~e two seats (owing to an unknown phenomenon) half- 10 ~mpty 1Arl oat with the1r caps before ~tarting, only 10 bndge proved too narrow! way own . was not well for Bob and h1s J l 6 quad : the

The N.R.A. struck again - Weybridge was cancelled . After a nice refresh ing two weeks ' holiday when w d 1"d 1 Gill and Harry returned from injury The fir~t event e p oa~s and loads of exerc ise, things became more hopeful. to say, Charlie led the way with Be~ in the double 1 ;'~~ anft hour~, where we were up against the best. Needless f!!C . ? an went on to come 17th in his single - not too bad considering ... Adam has proved 10 be our u a d time - something to be ' prowed ' of Co t" . P- ~ -~ommgJumor sculler, with the third-fastest King's single sculling her division. Harry went with a splas·h whnil~~u~~~~~n ti ~r h suari style Lkucy powered down the course, coming 3 rd in R" ht f h p g e r •rst stro e, e ndmg what would have been a great race 1g a ter t e exams we were back in the minib 0 ff 10 H · Lucy ~nd Sarah cruised the course, and Luc r us amp!on. T~e girls'. J 15 struck lucky with two wins. to fims~ behind Dan and Pete B. Gumby ~ ~~:~ tQe Pfrfonnance d her smgle. T1m and Tom fought off Westminster h ey 0 success, ? uble With. s.omeo~e outs•de King's. With on ly o ne outmg he came 4th. Bored with scull in Ant and Ish, co xed by Johnny secured anoth~~ ~i~ rS~I of the s~u~~ ~ned out pamng with some success and failure. there were more than fi ve crews racing) After h k onge an •c Y ~ower~?d down the course and came 5th . (No Richa rd and Pete beat 'The Secretary·· a nd B~~ ab yt rtahce BRe~ ahnddCharlie decided scull ing was far better than rowing~ , u en 1c ar steered the better course• Walton. What a sorry day that was We will t 1 f · · . mentioned?) changed sides and had a· better ba:heeRk~=rdo a~yBcbdela_dt~. Ben .and Charlie (why is it they're a lways . .. and 'The Secretary ' took out Eto n in front i II h rE an o ec• e . to fn g hten an old granny rather than race were really impressive. Ant and Claud nearly cr~c~edt e. ton~pecta:~rs . G•ll a nd Harry, despite being hit by L.E .H ., With the Cantuarian deadline so s racmg. atura y Lucy and Sarah performed well in their double. you never know. oon, we can only say that the Burway opposition appears to be friendly, though

We would like to thank Mr . Willis for re · · d · · Hooper and M r . Parker for s e ndin m pamn~ an sett mg up the boats and for helpmg out in time of need· Mr 1 the Heads; the Lakes for only freezing du~i:{ ~~ld ays ~~ .he Lake~ to teach us to scull and pair, and for tak ing 'us 1 ~ rowing withdrawal symptoms)· a nia ll 011 ; su~;~~~s, G~e~ Tent•~k for h<:lpmg at Hampton (he is still suffe ring from shouts of e ncouragement. ' rs an an c u • especmlly the Tozers with thei r heart-warming CHARLES HEISE AND GiLLIAN LUTHER.

Canoeing Canoe/Climbing trip to Leicestershire, October 1993 A cold , bleak, da rk evening greeted us as w · d 1L Wo~ghbodou~h. !'vfecca of the canoeists' world , as long as you don ' t include other hilfy wet places e ge 'lf;~~t b?at, a ~addle, some rough waier and a e~e~al· 1 an ' a es a n t. e R•ver Stour. The canoeing consisted of a P1errepomt course was very tou h but ack of competence With only a couple of exceptions. The Holme 1 of our membe rs decided canoefng' wasn ' t ~~ci~~ga good shhowha.ndhwon a !I aw~rd for b!'!st swimmers of the day. One enoug so 1tc ed a li ft with a wh1te-wate r raft.

Walking along the bank proved very difficult and some were very glad of their buoyancy aids. Rescues from the bank by throwlines were expertly executed by the support team. Our thanks for the helpful adv ice given by a professional on how to improve rescue techniques. 'Great things happen when men and mountain meet'; or so they say. Owin~ to the debated manhood of some of the partly and the lack of snow-covered peaks, we knew we were in for a good tune climbing. Some hard climbs were found and brave efforts were made by the team, despite very cold weather. Capsizing in freezing polluted water seemed preferable to putting your faith in a rope, but the Captain decided not to lead by example on the rock face. M.J .F. was a l ~o unable to climb owing to a bad back, caused, we are led to believe, by the extra soft beds in the Officers' Mess. Pete completed the hardest grade of the weekend despite a silly hat. Luke was busy with another sport to put his mind to senous climbing. The accommodation for the weekend for the boys was the local Army barracks. Firm, fair. The instructors were in the Officers' Mess which was soft and smooth. Learning that the staff didn 't have double beds or en suite bathrooms made us feel a lot better. This was a great weekend made possible by the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Morrison who arranged the accommodation, entertained and fed us and forgave anything Dave did to their cat. Many thanks to them and to Mr. Franks, Michael Booth and Mark.

Fencing This term 's report must be started by paying tribute to a fencer who left us at the end of last year. Raymond Fu showed a dedicatiOn and determination in his training/fighting that we (including Paul Romang) have never witnessed before. In fact, this overwhelming desire to win affected all of us. We are truly sorry to lose him. Nevertheless the results of the first team and whole Club have been no different from the usual high standard. The Club has coped remarkably well with the circumstance of Gym restoration and the necessary using of the Schoolroom. The floor in our temporary site resembled an ice rink more than Fencing Salle; but over the course of the term the attitude of group commitment for training was enhanced by the desire to succeed. This was demonstrated by the success of the 'School Hice Trio' : Alex Perkins, Alex Fennemore and Ben Wyand . I'm sure they will make a good future team. Alex Perkins and Alex Fennemore were beginning to exhibit some 'sense' in their fencing, bringing them success at Kent U 16 competitions. Also noticed were the keen efforts of certain 6bs. It is immensely relieving to know that Tim Breen and Rupert Mead are so willing to help with organisation. Thank you to them. We saw a rise in girls' activities this term; indeed, the aggressive tendencies of Anne-Christine Farstad took us all aback: she improved beyond all recognition. Amy Shepherd and Felicity Wacher showed a modest eagerness in training, demonstrating to most of the boys how phys1cal fitness should be acquired. Particular commendation must go to Jenny Arnold who, despite physical letdown (knee injury), produced results with a grim determination that only just fell short of the G.B. qualifier - not even the best contai n their emotions at such tense times! We also thank the old hands, Sam Khemani , Alex Maines and Graeme Parkin, who provided the usual support for the 2nd Team, if not at training, Graeme? Ian Mulady and Alex Bingham-Wilson also put in valuable Epee work for the 2nds. We very much look forward to the new term in the ' new' Gym where we will be able to resume our violent acti vities of 'Gym Footie'. Well, it does provide an alternative pastime to the 'peacefu l art of Fenc ing'! With more space and a better surface we will be able to put in the training required for National Championships. Achievements to date: Frazer at Epee (5th S. E.); Frazer (1st S.E.), Ray (4th S.E.), Fe licity (3 rd S.E.) qual ifying at Foil. Frazer's noticeable resu lt at the South-East Regional Championship was his successful defence for the third year running, against expectat ion. Well, King's has always produced the unexpected (but usual) best. Charlie Crowe has at last received the ion~. long overdue colours that arc, buy now, more than rightfu lly his. I must personally congratulate him for his achievements and thank him for hours of high ly competiti ve training. We conclude by paying tribute to the persons to whom we wi ll always be indebted. We are immensely grateful to him, but alas , it 1s never enough for the work they put in: Paul Romang, Alex Maines, Mr. Jennings, thank you. FRAZER H UG IIES.

Colours awarded: First colours: Charles Crowe. Second colours:Graeme Parkin, Alex Maines, Samcer Khemani, Tim Breen. 1st team colours: Jenny Arnold.

64 (M .J. F.)

Girls' Hockey This season has proved to be a milestone for g irl s' hockey at King's . For the first time ever we have been able to field three senior teams. Even more impressively , the 3rd XI has been victorious on each occasion. This demonstrates just how much enthusiasm has been evident amongst those w ho have opted to play hockey this term. It has been most rewarding to coach such individuals . There has been considerable movement of players both between and within the senior squad themselves. This has been e nabled by the depth of players in the school and by the new rule change allowin~ substitutes to 'roll off' and back 'on ' again. No longer is it a game for eleven players w ith two substitutes who are res1gned to the bench . Everyone in the squad is very much aware that they are a part of the team play at all times. T his season has seen some fine {>erformances by the 1st X I. The level of individual skill is certainly the highest that! have encountered at King's . K1rstin Gayme r has been selected to represent Kent and Lucy Dawes has been named as reserve. The players have developed in awareness of team tactics and the importance of support play which has been somewhat Jacl<ing in previous seasons. They have recognised the need to be physically fit if they are to fu lfil their potential, and individuals have worked hard to improve this aspect of their play. As far as statistics are concerned , the season has been somewhat frustrating . The team has lost only one match, but five ended in draws after the team had completely dominated the mid-field on each occasion. Performances at the county tournaments were impressive: the 1st XI reached the quarter-finals, only to be knocked out on one penalty flick by the eventual winners, Sir Roger Ma nwood's; the Under 16 team reached the semi-finals of their county competition; and the 1st XI narrowly missed w inning the John Taylor Trophy at the Sutton Valence Tournament after having been taken into the 'sudden death' stages of the pe nalty stroke competition by Manwood's. Pixie has written a resume of the season, but I should like to add a couple of things. My role as coach has been rendered remarkably easy as a result of the hard work and commitment of several individuals . Pixie has been an impressive role mode l for hockey players at K ing's . She has demonstrated a high level of individual ski ll on the pitch and has inspired others with her enthusiasm and determina tion. Her organisation has been exemplary and I should like to thank her very much for her efforts. She will be sorely missed next season . Miriam, as vice-captain, must also be praised fo r her commitment a nd untiring e nthusiasm . Fmally I owe a g reat deal of thanks to J.D.P., P.G .H., A.M.M. and to Er ian Fox for all their help with coaching and umpiring during the past term . S.K.M .

1st XI This term has been a season o f both exhila ratio n a nd frustration. In all five draws we were unlucky not to pull off a victo ry . for we dominated each game. The stre ngth and determination in mid-field enabled us to drive towards the attacking goal, but we often came up against tough defence, thus reducing our chances of scor ing. At the beginning of the season there were problems in positioning, but our overall awareness of other members of the team ensured two fairly easy wins to set us off to a good start. Our match against Kent College, a strong opposition w ith some fast players, is one fo r which Sally Lewis-Jones will not be forgotten. In her second season of playing for the team, her calmness and abil ity to outdo the best number of thei r team again and again with superb stick work proved indispensable to the result o f the match and again we were close to victory. Sir Roger Manwood's , our toughest opposition, although resulting in loss, was by no means a one-sided game. Our tight defence, backed up by Louise whose time ly tackles were a noteworthy aspect of the whole season, gave the forwards, in particular Jo Houghton, a chance to threaten their county and national players. With so much energy and determination, Jo proved herself an invaluable member of the team, dodging many of the defenders, backed up by the ever-persistent Dawsey . who made many a winning tackle, distributing the ball energetically to the forward hne. Once again top scorer Ki rstin demonstrated ski ll a nd dedication , making many first runs and interchanging well w ith Kate and Toni w ho both improved considerably over the course of the term. Having mastered goal-side defence, our bac ks, George, Mel, Helena and Katy kept tight on the oppositio n and provided a reliable line of defence. All have steadily increased their individual skill. George has proved to be a most versatile player, a lthough injury has unfo rtunately forced her out of action for the last few weeks. Priscilla and Katy stepped up from the 2nd XI on many occasions, working well with the rest of the defence and sho wing awareness of other members of the team. Beatrice's skill and accuracy in mid-field contributed vastly to the success of the team and she was a fine back-up for the forward line. As vice-captain, Miriam commanded the defe nce from the s oa l, making excellent saves and we are a ll exceptionally grateful to have such a skilful goa lie . When play ing on the p1tch she has also shown great ability to make impressive tackles and accurate passes, demonstrating that the goal is not her o nly forte. We excelled in the last week of te rm in the Sutton Valence Tournament against some outstanding opposition . We reached the fin al where , hav ing beaten the victors in our section, we lost to them by one penalty flick following a goal-less draw . Katy Aid rick particularly showed determination a nd much promise for her next two seasons of school hockey . Miriam again saved us from many a goal, while Dawsey, Kirstin and Jo fought hard on the left. We have nearly beaten the w inning team on several occasions , losing o nly on penalty strokes .. . We'll get revenge in the sevens tournament next te rm! 65 (Terence Loa)

p· k · Mr Phillis and Mr Henderson for all their supprt, Finally, we all owe~ \lllge thank you ~~oMM~ss Milr;l~~o rovided invaluable.coach!ng and advice and spurred encouragement and umpm ng and of co~rs 1 G. , h key at Kfng's is improving all the ume thanks to her expertiSe. . b I d fit ess training seSSIOnS. If1S OC . I us on 111 our e ove I n . J ary although apparently aggression is a cruc1al e ement We are all very much looking fo rward to Barce1ona m anu ' against the Spamsh . · · PIXIE BENNEIT. ··

Lwan a* (Vice-Capt ) Katherine Aldrick, Helena Ancock, Georgina

MIC~m a e Cucy Dawes Kirstin Gay mer* ' Louise Hall *' Joanna Houghton, Bingham, Beatrice Blumenth~l-Sch~tede~, ~a:Ua p~~iJh ' Angora Stei~kruger, Susannah T ydeman. Team from: Rosamond Bennett* (Capt.) '

Sally Lewis-Jones* , Melame Lut er '

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*denotes first colours.

RESULTS Sutton Valence. Drawn 1- 1. Ashford. Drawn 0-0. Sevenoaks. Won 2-0. Felsted. Won 2- 1. v St. Lawrence. Drawn 0 -0 .

v v v v

v O.K.S. Won 4-0. v Cranbrook. Won 3-0. v Kent College. Drawn 0-0. v Sir Roger Manwood's. Drawn 0-0. v Dover College . Won 4-1. v Eastbourne. Drawn 0-0.

2nd XI This hockey season was great fun: As scores will show we won and won. (That is not exactly true One was abandoned , one lost we rue.) The fo rwards fit and oh S? fast: Isabel, Madeleine went With. a blast. Sam and Lucy followed be~und , Shooting goals across the hne. Millie's skill astoun?e<! all , Never failing nor miSSI~g the b~ll And Susie was a fine ngnt half. She impressed us all , and the staff! At St Edmunds a blizzard blew. We ~ere down, but we didn't have Lu . 0 -4 the score was set, ld d wet' Then the match was abandoned - too co an . Sutton Valence made up for that We won well , but Max was w~acked. With a broken nose she co~ldn 1 P.lay · Vengeful - we scored agam to wm the day. Priscilla Katie and , of course •. Helena Played for the Firsts in all thw splen.dour. k· As everyone knew' they d~served their brea . Very fin e assets they all d1d ma~e. Claire and Michelle shone at thear best, Putting the enemy to the test And Sarah and Jessica, the strong defence, Always played with the utmost sense. 'D ' Now Deborah our faithful go.ali~ Saved umpteen shots from Wlthm the . She cleared all attempts, well , at least most, Diving and jumping between the posts. we must thank Mrs . P. so much For a season containing. such Hi~h standards of P.lay Ill every way W ath increasing sk1lls , we hasten to say!

THE T EAM. .

h Sam Curlewis Isabel Dean , Maxine 1 Team from: Lucy Andrews (Capt.) • Cla~r~ ~1d~ar~~~~ S;I~~~e ~~~~~~n.r~~~ah Thackwell , Mill ie Stewart, Michelle ' Gibson Deborah Kenyon, Sarah Mu 11 en, n cl a Traylo;, Susie T ydeman.

RESULTS Played 7, Won 5, Abandoned I , Lost 1. Goals for 8, Goals against 5. v Sir Roger Manwood's (H). Won 1-0. v Dover College (H). Won 3-0. v Kent College (H). Won 1-0. v Cranbrook (H). Won 1-0. v Sutton Valence (A) . Won 2-0 . v St. Edmund's 1st XI (A). Match abandoned . v Eastbourne (A). Lost 0-1. Coach's Footnote: My special thanks to Lucy for captaining the side and to the entire squad for playing with such determination and making at all so enjoyable fo r me- except when the score was 1-0, which is far too nerve-wracking with a whistle in your mouth ! Good luck to Deborah on the Lancing pitches. J.D.P.

Under 15 XI We have had an excellent season, winning two of our matches by 5-0 and 7-0. Annabel, as centre forward, was the main scorer with Penny , Laura, Oli , Beth and Mary also finding the back of the net. Some of our matches were cancelled because of 'flu; however we bravely ploughed on through the snow up on the hill against St. Edmund's , until the match was called off with about ten minutes to go. In all , fifteen players made up the team and everyone took part in most matches. Starting at the back with Dominique in goal who began playing only this term, there were many fine saves and a few scored against. Moving up into our defence, Beth as sweeper kept the ball out of the circle with great tackles and impressive hits. Our remaining line was formed by Amy, Maria, Caitlin and Kirstie, all of whom cleared the ball up the field frequently, reliably and ferociously. In midfield, Oli and Felicity shared the left, Laura left the centre and Penny the right. They supported each other and the attacking line well and also made some great moves on the ~oal. Up front, Justine, Mary, Annabel, Jo and Jenna alternated as the main attackers, putting pressure on the oppositions defence and scoring some excellent goals. A b ig thank you must go to Mrs . Fox for great coaching throughout the season and to the members of staff for driv ing us up to Polo Farm and back . . . We forgive those of you who forgot! PENNY DAIN AND AMY JOYNSON-HICKS. Team from: Kirstin Bush, Jessica Crouch, Penelope Dain, Maria De Haan, Beth Hicklin , Amy Joynson-Hicks, Justine McConnell , Olivia Neame, Laura Perrin , Caitlin Prince, Joanna Pringle, Dominique Rowe, Mary Stevens, Felicity Wacher, Annabel Whibley. RESULTS v C ity of London, Freemans. Lost 0-3 v Sir Roger Manwood's. Lost 1-2 . v Kent College. Won 5-0. v St. Edmund's. Lost 0-2. v Dover College. Won 7-0. v St. Lawrence. Drawn 1-1. v Cranbrook. Drawn 2-2.

Under 14 XI Since their first game the team have slowly come together well . In a series of close games they did not lose by more than the odd goal. They also managed a hard-fought victory against a strong Kent College side. The defence has been superb . Ally Aitken has made an enormous contribution to keeping us in many a game with many excellent saves. In fro nt o f her Nancy Colchester and Frances Houghton have both played very well, frustrating many opposition forwards time and again . Our midfield generals, Louise Squires, Iona Colthart and Delia Williams, were llreless in both defence and attack. T heir passing and positional awareness has improved with each game. Rachael White, our top goal-scorer, and Rebecca Martin have worked well together to form the centre of the attack. They were ably assisted by Fleur Moes, Mwaka Kamana and Megan Morris. A.M.M. Team from: Alexandra Aitken, Ophelia Beer, Nancy Colchester, lona Colhart, Raylah Elsom, Kim Farbar, Jessica Gulland , Ralur Hill , Alexandra Higgins, Francis Houghton, Mwaka Kamana, Elizabeth Lamb, Robella Martin, Fleur Moes, Megan Morris, Kajsa McLaren, Zoe Nathan, Louise Squires, Delia Williams, Kate Willoughby, Rachel White. Goal scorers: Rachel White (2), Fleur Moes (1), Morgan Morris (1) .

ACTIVITIES C.C.F. NOTES ARMY SECTION For the fourth time in ten years the A rmy Section went abroad for its summe r camp - this time to the Royal Tank Regiment in Fallingbostel. Twenty cadets and staff took the night train out on 8th July, and we re plunged immediately into a n active weekend of baseball , volleyball , a visit to Hanover, and rides on the ro llcrcoaste r at the nearby fun park (password : 'Wu!llbo' ). Then it became serious . Early runs and P.T. followed by range tiring and ticldcraft practice. We were shown plenty of kit , ranging from the Cheshire Regiment 's Warriors, still white, and newly returned from U.N. duty in the former Yugoslavia , to the ma in battle tanks of the R.T.R. W e soon became used to the roar of the latter , and the ir movement added excite ment to the first stage of the 24-hour exerc ise o n the Lunebu rg Heath. This continued into night with the setting up of a patrol base, and the n, in the early hours, a move through the forest into position for an ambush at first light. All in all this was a n exc~llent a ttachment, and the staff were ~ept on !he ir toes by the int~rcsting changes in plan . The camp gave the new semor cadet N.C.O.s a c hance to work mto the1r new respons1bll1t iCS, and the value of this was seen at the beginning of this term when we faced new c hallenges. For the first time Shells were to choose just between the C. C. F. and pre-Duke of Edinburg h Award training, and right from the first week we had to introduce large numbers of Shells to what we had to offer. A very satisfac tory number chose the Army Section, so o ur N.C.O.s are to be comme nded on the enthusiasm with which they approached their task. This phase lasted until half term, when the new intake came to us. They have spent the first few weeks doing necessary weapon training, first -aid , and drill , but on the last Thursday of term everyone moved up on to Scotland Hill s for basic tieldcraft and patrolling traini ng, which culminated in a Simple night patrol. These skills w ill need to be developed quickly next term , as we have o ur annual weekend exercise from 21st to 23rd January. There were two night exerc ises during the term. The first was a ticldcraft exercise o n Scotland Hills, whereas the second was a more wide-rang ing competition between all th ree sections (and three teaching staff) . The result was a dead-heat between the R.A. F. and the Murch/Kenwright team: the run-off wi ll be he ld next term . Everyone who took part thoug ht that Mr. Franks had pla nned and run a very good exerc ise - even those whose navigation was energetic rather tha n accurate. Finally a highpoint of the term was the presentation to the C. C. F. of the O.K.S. banner. Mike Brown, Esq. Pres ident of the O .K.S. , came down a nd handed it over to us at a spec ial ceremonial pa rade, attended by the Headmaster, and Kern G ross, Esq., forme r O. C . of the Contingent. A spec ial display stand has been insta lled in the Armoury, and is on view to any O.K.S. who care to call in. I would like to record o ur warmest thanks to the O .K.S . for this generous g ift. Easter Adventurous Training Camp - open to cadets of all ages - w ill be he ld this year at Dunmail, in the Lake District, from 26th Marc h to 2nd April. GEORGE: born 11 .4.79; died 15. 10.93 I cannot finish this repo rt without recording the sad loss of George, Wg . Cdr . Paul W enley's go lden retriever. Generations of cadets w ill remembe r this splendid dog who accompanied P.G .W. on most cadet occasions . Starting in 1980 he attended no fewer than thirteen adventurous training camps that took him to Capel Curig, Loch Ewe, Troutbcck, and finally Nant Gwynant. He was a welcome sight , appearing m advance of his maste r as we came in towards the waiting Wenleymobile after a long day on the mountams. Snow and rain seemed to have no e ffect on him , and he clearly de lighted in the freedom of the hills. The R.S.M. and I were convinced that he was a consummate navigator, scormng maps a nd re lying on bra inpo wer a lone. (We were also convinced that on occasion he actually drove the Wenleymobile. ) P .G . W . himself g ives credence to this belief by stating that George did in fact guide his master back to the ve hicle one summer camp , afte r three hours of d isorientation in the middle of the night o n Pen hale sand dunes. For this he was awarded the rank of honorary corporal in the fie ld . George attended three summer camps, and scores of nig ht exercises, fie ld days, and training weekends. We sympathise w ith Pau l Wcnley in his sad loss, and salute the passing of a good companion to us all . M.J.V.

NAVAL SECTION The first ha lf of term was spent sailing down at Westbe re. We have obtained a new topper - which is a very lig ht fast dinghy. The programme fo r the recruiting of the She lls involved a short voyage out in one of the sailing boats - with a c hance to try things out for themselves. The first two weeks lacked the w ind that is essential for sai ling and so the going was a little slow. The other two weeks however were much better. In o ur fie ld day just before half term we had orig ina lly planned to go sailing and powerboating at Dover docks. Unfortunately there were north gales blowing o n that day - which would have made launch and recovery virtually impossible. So we returned to Westbe re where we were limited to fi ve knots, instead of the twenty-five that the boat is capable. However thro ugh this we a ll achieved our R. Y .A. powc rboating level I.

68 THE O.K.S. BANNER (T.R.H.)

After half term we received our new recruits and at the moment we arc training them with the aim of them all becoming essentia l now that Rob Corbally, Steve Gourma nd and Amy Shepherd all hold the rank of Petty Officer. Thanks to the new recruits that have managed to learn a lot in a very short space of time. Also to C. P . 0. Mitchell , who helped us on the field day and with the jackstay, and finally to Bill and Sue McConnell. AIS by the e nd of the summer. We built a jackstay which made the seniors practise their leadership sk ills -

D AV ID B IRD.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION The Summer Camr at the beginning of the summer holiday was atte nded by nine cadets, Sgts. Guy Towl son and Nicholas Forrest, Cp . Ryan Mannering, J/Cpl. Douglas Morrison a nd Cadets Charles Foinette, Alex Perkins, Danie l Pullen, Mark Belsey and Jan Sundt. This year the camp was at R.A.F. Coningsby. A varied programme of visits, exercises, sport and flying was provided which kept everybody busy and happy for the week. F.Sgt. Robert C layton completed a B.G.T. course at 617 Squadron, R.A.F. Manston. The first half of this term was occupied with introducing the Shells to the Section . This proved very successful and we now have thirty new recru its. In addition we also welcome Jessica C rouch and Melissa Dawson-Bowling as new me mbers to the Section. With a total of forty-fou r membe rs in the Section , we had to make some new and some rapid advancement in the rank structure. The follow ing promotions were made: J/Cpl. Ryan Mannering to Warrant Officer; J/Cpl. Doug Morrison to F.Sgt.; J/Cpl. Will iam Welbourn and Cdt. Charles Foinette to Sgt. ; Cdts. Alex Perkins and Danie l Pulle n to Cpl.; Cdts. Jan Sundt and Mark Belsey to J/Cpl. We have had two afte rnoons at R.A.F. Manston fl ying Chipmunks and for Field Day we arranged a day at R.A.F. Manston with the C hipmunks and gliders. Unfortunate ly, low cloud , rain a nd high winds forced us to cancel the trip and we joined the Army Section o n the ranges at Hythe. It gave the cadets a chance to become more familiar with the Cadet G.P. rifle, and they all fired a few rounds on the range. Wg.Cdr. Paul Wenley has been busy putting the hoverc ra ft together after repairs to the engine . A trial run will be made early next term . The new recruits have been busy with first aid, drill and learning a little bit about the R.A.F. a nd flying C hipmunks. In a small drill competition, 'B' Flight narrowly defeated 'A' Flight. Next tenn there will be more intcr-fl1 ght competitions. We finished the term with a mass trip to the Dry Ski-Slopes at C hatham . Once again I would like to thank Wg.Cdr. Paul Wenley for his great help over the term and welcome Mr. A. McFall to the Section. I hope that it will not be too long before he receives his commission. D.J.B.

SOCIAL SERVICES You may have seen some of the recent programmes on television about autistic chi ldren. Autism affects 4 or 5 children in every 10,000 and means that the child has great difficulty relating to the world around him or her. Philip Macdonald, aged seven, suffers from this, and once a week a small number of pupils visit him for about an hour. One hour 's pfay time can be quite tough . The theory behind the treatment is quite s1mple. We arrange things so that Philip wants to rejoin this world and try to make people more attractive than his obsessiOns. The process requires us to start where he is, enjoying the things he enjoys. Then we can try to vary them slightly , apply exciteme nt , energy and enthusiasm so that he cannot help but notice us. Thus we gently invite him to interact , to look at us and even to ask us to join in. When he decides that we are useful to him, the social pathways in the brain will begin to develop a~ai n . Philip has a lready responded to the process a nd is noticeably cal mer a nd more ready to relate. T he future will requ1re patience and much time, but truly it is a miracle in progress. ELIOT SHRIMPTON.

We have a ll experie nced sadness, happiness , lone liness, sympathy and love at times in our lives, but it is inc redible to find these feelmgs a ll mingled together and live the m in one great place such as 'Mustard Seed'. This is my fi rst Social Service experience and it has been great, truly worthwhile. For a start everybody in the centre, altho ugh full of proble ms or illnesses, is a lways happy, cheerful and ready to help and understand others; T here is no violence or abuse of any kind . On the contrary everyone is intelligenmt and also very gifted in many different ways. The wish to he lp these people clearly has to come from the heart, and though it may seem hard work to begin with , it is wonderful to see how appreciated all your slightest efforts are. Whenever I go to ' Mustard Seed', I feel at ease with myself and the surroundmgs: it is amazing to witness such a perfect atmosphere a nd be part of it, although you are aware of the terrible life situations and stages all these people must be gomg through . Helping at the centre is a touching experience, which really makes you appreciate how lucky you are and I'm sure many people will get great pleasure from it. VALERIE SCALEITA.

69 SUMMER CAMP (M.J. V.)

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD SCHEME

· h file this term , with many of the Shells choosmg at as thear ~hursday The Award Scheme has taken on a hi~ .er pro ve been involved with the service section of the Award smce half f~ partlclp~~ts ht options including First Aid, Road Safe ty' Care for Animals and aft ernoon activity. Most of the new term and we have been able to o .er a van e y o Conservation Work. . . d f Adrian Cheong o ne of the part1c1pants: In the wor s o ' . rtici at in in the conservation work at the nature reserve along 'Wellies on! Gloves on! We have had a sure~ um~~~ted fime ~ we have razed a whole area of thorny bushes a nd Broad Oak Road . In only five ~ee~s hal e ta~r~~t~ve to butte rfl ies. Under the helpful g uidance of Mrs. Wakeh.am shrubs to the ground to make. t e an mo; o f the reserve, we have achieved and learnt a great deal. It . was not JUSt and Mr . Harman , the very fn endly warde . breaks whe n eve ryone stopped to share a joke or to listen to what Slash ' Slash! Chop! Chop! The re we re occ~s 10na 1 k · h d teach us Afterwards 1t was back to wor . Mr. Harman a to : . bra nches off a bramble bush . Jo Ste phe ns dumped loads of waste Mark Williams went on chpJdng a~~ th~.t~~riawed thick stems into bits. Safety was particularly stressed so.everyone material in the fire among the re s, w 1 a ~ s' work each time a nd although our ha nds were riddled w1th thorns was carefu l with the sha rp tools. A so11 two ourt"sfied The m inibus was full of singing from the g irls and Simon and we were all extre n:ely ured.~M very~e ; ags ~aJ. ~S; si;nply adore the Duke of Edinburgh's Award! " ' . Cleobury, as usual, sa1d to me r. e • P.A. W .

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O.K.S. PRESIDENT'S NOTES As I write these notes, we have had anothe r good year, with an active calendar of O.K.S. sporting events, Regional gatherings for the third yea r running in the Midlands, the Cotswolds a nd the Solent a rea, and a most e njoyable Summe r Luncheon in St. Augustine's in May. T he Annual Dinner was well attended in March at the Middle Temple, with a large and welcome younger contingent; and London Suppers continued to be popular. O .K.S. please note - although London Suppers are j olly affairs and might well , as reported in the last Cantuarian , ta ke place in an 'Oranger ie' , they actually take place quarterly in 'The Orange Brewery in Pimlico Road , S.W. II . O.K.S. are asked to take note that the next Annual Dinne r is on 19th March 1994 . Full details are ~o i ng out with a new-look Annual Report and if you have not yet applied for tickets, now is the time to do so. The re as a substantial reduction in price fo r O.K.S. under 23 . Do contact one or more contemporaries and apply to Alison Hunte r. On 25th November , the O.K.S . Association presented a new Union Flag to the C .C.F. and I was honoured to be asked to attend a parade and to make the presentation o n your behalf. Today's cadets, of both sexes, are more ' high tech' than most O. K.S. wou ld remember from their own days at King's - in fact the senior cadet regularly fl ies a Chipmunk trai ne r! My thanks to all the Comm ittee members fo r their support and hard work during the year, and to Kern Gross and Barbara Slimming who give us muc h help and e ncouragement in Cante rbury. M IKE BROWN .

THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY MASONIC LODGE Pre parations a re now well advanced for the Triennial Meeting at Canterbury on Saturday, 4th June 1994 and a good representation is expected from our 'Siste r' Lodges of St. Lawrence Ra msgate a nd Dover College. T he Prov incial Grand Master of East Kent hopes to attend. Eligible O. K.S. who are not me mbers o f the Cantuan an Lodge but who would like to come should contact the Secreta ry as soon as possible because the dinner after the meeting at which lad ies and othe r guests a re welcome will be at St. Augustine's and owing to fire regulations numbers have to be limited. T his is always a ha ppy occasion and g ives O .K. S. the c ha nce to see the striking developments at the School. It bears little resemblance to the batte red bui ldings a nd spartan conditions those o f us old enough to reme mbe r found on the return from Cornwall in 1945! Through the benefaction of a former me mber , Anthony Fox-Male O. K.S., the Lodge has been able to provide a small bursary every year for an outstanding s ixth-form pupil and the third such award has now been made. T he Sec re tary's adress is: 43 Upper T ilehouse Street, Hitc hin, Herts SG5 2EE (0462 452269). He will be pleased to deal with any enqu iries about the Triennial meeting or membership generally. JOHN STONEHOUSE.

O.K.S. NEWS H. B. A. Philip ( 1967) has been in South Africa fo r the past twenty years a nd has now returned to Engla nd with his fam ily - h is wife Carole and 11-year-old son, Michael, to sett le in the U.K. Lt. Colonel C. R . Romber g (1968) Commanding Officer , 29 Commando Regiment , Royal Art ille ry, presided at a dinne r o f serving a nd forme r Commando Gunner Officers held recently in the R .A. Mess, Larkhi ll. C . H. Morgan ( 1973) moved to Italy in 1984 and set up his own compa ny in 1990. He has two c hildren: Nicholas 2 years a nd Francesca I year. J . M. C . Hewes (1976) produced ' Concerto on Four' for whic h he won the Performing Emmy Awa rd. N . P. Morgan (1 980) now teaches at Whitg ift School in Croydon after several years at St. Dunstan 's College, Catford, London. J a ne Ross-McDona ld (nee Graham-Maw) ( 198 1) works in publishing as Editorial Director of Thorsons, a division of Harpe r Collins Publishe rs. C a r oline Simpson (1985) who worked in publishing for some years, now teaches at a pre paratory school in Newto n Abbot. Coincide ntally, one of her puplls is the daughter of the O.K.S. President, Mike Brown . He r brother, James ( 1982) , is now a Master of Wine a nd recently moved from Metzendorffto Pol Roger Ltd ., who a re the agents for Pol Roger champagne in Engla nd. Sama ntha Ha rdingha m ( 1986) has published a best-sell ing London - a guide to recent architecture whch was featured in a double-page Sunday Times spread . She is now working on a follow-up: Great Britain -a g uide to recent archi-

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P. E. Jessup ( 1989) has been teaching E nglish in Granada, Spain , for the past seven months after graduating from L.S.E. with a 2:2 in Geography. He now intends to travel and gain work experience in the U.S.A. and Australia before returning to the U.K. to do a Masters degree in Environmental Stud1es. D. N. Lawrence (1990) writes: 'I am now in my final year at Southampton, still doing Mechanical En&ineering . .. I bump into Bronwen (Aldridge) (1990) every so often. You may be interested to hear that Lovcne Bhaha ( 1989) fin ished a Masters course here last year .. . Ben Eaton ( 1989) has also taken on the Masters course in Electronics but is doing some form of Euro-Eng. degree ... ' P. W. Van Notten (1990) graduated from the College of William and Mary in Virginia , U.S .A. , with a Bachelor's Degree in History in July 1993. T he Housemaster of Meister Omers, Mr. Martin Miles, is looking for M.O. House photos from 1939, 1940, 1943 1945 and 1946 to complete the otherwise now unbroken set on the House walls. It would be enough to borrow, copy and return, if an O.K.S. is unwilling to part with his copy, but could spare it for a sho rt period.

MARRIAGES Vawter- Lisa Vawter ( 1979) recently to Mr. Suits. Maxtone-Graham-Ysenda May Maxtone-Graham ( 1980) to Michael James Smith on 14th August 1993. (To be known as Mrs. Maxtone-Smith) . Graham-Maw-Jane Graham-Maw (1981) to Rupert Ross-McDonald in June 1993. Schwartz-Stefan A ron Schwartz ( 198 1) to AIison Begg on 16th October 1993. Philpott-Russell John Lewis Philpott (1984) to Lisa Frances Valpy (1984) on 24th Jul y 1993. Preston- Nicholas Oliver Preston ( 1986) to Annabel Frances Davies (1989) on 24th July 1993 . Conybeare-Lucia Conybeare (1987) to James Quinault on 24th July 1993. Lowe-Heidi Lowe (1988) to Ben Merrett on 17th April 1993. It is interesting to note that five O.K.S. were married in Canterbury on 24th July 1993.

BIRTHS Morgan-to Nicholas Morgan (1980) and his wife, a son, Patrick , on 5th October 1992. Watkins- to Adam Watkins ( 1982) and Niki ( 1982) (nee Redsell) a daughter, Camilla Charlotte on 24th October 1992.

DEATHS Bacon-N. V. Bacon (1925) on l i th July 1993 , aged 84 . Senior-The Reverend Canon D. Senior (1934) d ied early in 1993. T . L. lremonger writes: 'From the earliest age David Senior manifested his truly remarkable character- gentle-but-strong and, if the words may be permitted, saintly and holy. He was always a civilising influence in the school. When I was Captain of School House in 1934 , David was one of the three other school monitors who shared the Mid-Front Study. At university we had our different preoccupations: but my visits to the great, elegant , while-panelled room in the New Build ing, overlooking the Deer Park - which he had as a Choral Scholar of Mag dalen and which suited him so perfectly - always left me refreshed and encouraged. After we went down we kept in touch , but I never saw him again . However, it is movingly clear from the recentlyproduced David Senior, Faithful Priest of the Church England: a Memoir from Some of his Friends what a deep and lasting impression - as Deacon, Priest, Vicar, Vicar Choral and Chamberlain of York Minster, Rural Dean and Canon of York and Prebend of Ampleforth - he made on his peers and, especially, on those he served for thirty-eight years as the greatly-loved Vicar of Helmsley. If there were more Davids, then we really would still have a Christian Church of England'. Clark-Colonel J. H. Clark, M.C., D.L. (1937) on 24th September 1993. His son writes: ' I know he enjoyed his connections with King's ... He was immensely proud o f his athletic and rugby record at the school , and the fact that he left as Head Boy ' . Price-J . G. M. Price (1939) on 27th September 1993, aged 72. Gall-Or. D. Gall (1940) on 1st September 1993, aged 72. Bennion- W . W . Bennion (195 1) on 30th January 1993. Jenkins-D. S. Jenkins ( 1952) on 7th August 1993, aged 60. In the August 1993 issue of The Cantuarian we announced the death of Peter J . Irwin (1976), hav ing been given incorrect information. Happily Peter is very much alive and l i vi ~g in Australia. Our apologies have been sent to him. 72 MARTELL PRESS l TO.. Aamsgato, Ken1 108431 582567

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THE CANTUARIAN

APRIL, 1994

VOL. LVIII No. 2

CONTENTS PAGE

THIS AND THAT

FOCUS

SERMONS

MUSIC AND DRAMA

100

CHAPLAIN'S NOTES

117

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

118

CREATIVE WRITING

119

THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

123

HOUSE NOTES

131

SPORT

140

ACTIVITIES

164

O.K.S.

166

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~his & ~hal Miss Honor Griffin, one of the nursing staff in the School Sanatorium, died on 3 1st December at the age of 49 after a long illness which was a well-kept secret. She had a remarkably varied career. After leaving T onbridge Grammar School she did a secretarial course, then went to St . Thomas's Hospital to train as a nurse. After a time she decided to a do a degree in music, and subsequently taught music theory at Simon Langton Girls ' School for fifteen years. In 1989 she embarked on a conversion course at Christ Church College with a view to becoming a primary school teacher , but decided a year later to return to nu rsing work. She began at King's in a part-time capacity in September 1990 and later became a full-time member of staff. Her outside interests reflect her varied career: dogs, homeopathy, cordon bleu cookery and the study of German were among them , and she travelled to many parts of the world. We are all greatly saddended by her premature death and offer our sympathy to her family and friends . The addresss delivered at her memorial service is printed elsewhere in this issue . Two disti nguished O.K.S. scientists have d ied recently . Dr. David Double (LX 1957-63), one of three brothers educated at King's, was a lecturer at Oxford and invented new forms of concrete for use in aeroplane manufacture. David Gall (MO 1934-40) wor ked at the C hemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down. He achieved national recognition when he played a leading part in unravell ing the cause of death of Georgi Markow , a Bulgarian who was killed in London in 1978 by a pellet containing ricin. Small world footnote: he started work in 1956 at the Well come Research Laboratory. This laboratory is a few hundred yards from the parental home of the present Lower Master , who began his schooling at Dulwich College in the same year. Requiescant

Two new members of staff joined us in January . Miss Janet Taylor is now Head of Classics. A native of Manchester, she is a graduate of King's College, London where she also studied for her P.G.C.E., and she remained in London teaching at Alleyn's School until her appointment to King's. She is particularly interested in Greek art and architecture. Miss Joanne Riley j oins the Art Department. She studied textile design in Birmingham and Winchester, moving to Brighton fo r her P.G.C.E. Her designs have been sold in London and New York. Common Room

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T he School is greatly indebted to Miss Mary Edmondson for generously handing over her life interest in the estate of the late Miss Kathleen Noakes, whose bequest will assist us in providing future bursaries .

Canon Christopher Lewis has left Canterbury to become Dean of St. Alban's. He is replaced by O.K.S . Canon Roger Symon, the Archbishop's Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs, a post to which he was appointed by Dr. Runcie in succession to Terry Waite. He recently accompanied the Archbishop on his mission to the Sudan . Canon Symon was at the Choir School and went on to be Captain of School in 1953-54. He was in the 1st VIII in 1952. Jocelyn Brooke left King's for Bedales in September 1922 after about ten days. John Mortimer's The Oxford Book of Schoolday s records that he then realised, for the first time in his life, that it was possible to be happy at public school. During his ten days he ran away twice, and the second time he was allowed by his father to stay away. He wrote (but never published) an autobiography in which, according to his contemporaries, the account of King's is largely inaccurate. He explained his calm when called up fo r World War II by his knowledge that the war, however horrible, would be a better experience than being at King's. He later lived at Bishopsbourne, making a literary third to 'judicious' Hooker and Joseph Conrad - surely a record for so small a village. Jonathan White (GL 1987-92) is joint President of the African Drumming Society at London University. Colonel White - presumably no relation? - is of course Captain Scarlett's boss in the cult television series of the Sixties, currently being repeated on B.B.C .2. Aidan Kernan, a mature student at the University of East Anglia, has discovered the Colonel's curriculum vitae in his five-year-old son's Captain Scarlett comic. It reveals that Colonel White was educated at King's College [sic], Canterbury and U .E.A. The fact that the story is set in 2068 has caused 'some laughter' at U. E .A. 'At least' , writes Mr. Kernan , ' it shows that the university has a future' . Perhaps there is hope for us all . Any reader who knows the source of this C .V. is invited to contact the School Archivist. Sir Edward Heath recently commissioned a pesonal coat of arms following his appointment by the Queen as a Knight of the Garter . It was designed by Hubert Chesshyre (GR 1954-59), Chester Herald at the College of Arms and Secretary of the Order of the Garter. M r. Chesshyre's two grandfathers and three brothers were educated at King's and his nephew W illiam Bryant left T he Grange only last summer. Rebecca Vye (MT 1986-88) has been appointed Personal Assistant to Paddy Ashdown, M.P. Martin Le Huray (SH 1984-89) scored the first hat-trick in a University hockey match since 1979, contributing impressively to Oxford 's 5-0 victory. He also saved Oxford from defeat by the Army by scoring in the 50th minute when Oxford were 2- 1 down. The Daily Telegraph 's report of the latter event was accompanied on the same page by one on London University's trial row ing eights, which included Ben Long (WL 1986-90) . Elizabeth Ayling (WL 1988-90) has won he r second Blue as stroke of the Oxford VIII in the Women's Boat Race. O.K.S.

Sebastian Dawson-Bo~l ing (MR 1987-92) has been _rowing at No. 7 in Goldi~ after a well~ documented training sess10n m the Pyrenees for potential members of the Cambndge crew for the Boat Race. Till Triebel (GL 1992-93), back in Germany whilst his sister Julia joins us for a spell in Walpole, writes that he cannot help comparing his present school. with ~ing's, .'~hich it is no.t muc~ of a match for'. Since.his return h~ has ~ecom~ the best pupil C?f his form wit~ comparati~ely httl~ effort' and relishes m embarrassmg his English teacher by usmg some of the Peter-Brodie-words which the said teacher does not appear to know. The series of King's School monographs started last year has now reached No. 4 with the publication of the lecture given in King's Week 1993 by Professor Richard Proudfoot. Copies of this monograpn, as also of No. 2 (Dr. Maltby on Dr. Mitchinson) or No. 3 (Dr. Hands on Dr. Galpin) may be obtained from the School Shop at ÂŁ2 each. To the delight of bibliophiles, No . 1 has yet to appear. We apologise to John Twyne (Headmaster c . 1524-1561) if delay in publication of~ trans~ation ofh~s pe Rebus Albionicis appears unmannerly. There was also trouble, though, m gettmg the ongmal work published, that ta~k eventually .b~ing taken up by the Headmaster's son, Thomas Twyne, who enjoyed a reputation as a magician. 'Starting an A Level Physics course these days can be a daunting prospect, but this thoughtfully written book will give students the confidence and practical help they need to achieve success.' Thus concludes one reviewer of Physics, the co-author of which (need you ask?) is Mr. Millar. The reviewer was particularly impressed by the inclusion of photographs of baby bouncers and monorails, which strongly suggests two contributions from the Galpin's area. Dr. Pickering's textbook Introducing Biochemistry has now appeared in two new editions: (i) in Arabic, (ii) in Chinese. Keen students of life sciences will be pleased to note that both ' ATP' and 'DNA' appear in their anglicised forms ! King's Books

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Radio 2 began March with a 'Best of British ' week. Out of the archives came Frank Delaney's two-hour Hardy programme, with half an hour of awkward questions popped to Dr . Hands , still described by the presenter as 'fresh-faced'. Wonderful what boarding house life can do for you.

King's musicians distinguished themselves in this year's Chamber Music Competition for the Schools Trust. The Brass Quintet (Matthew Brown (MR), Matthew Hillier (MO), Tom Wacher (MR), Alex Neame (SH) and Nicholas Tattersall (MT)) won a special tutorial session for their splendid playing of Baroque brass music. It was the Piano Trio however , who produced performances of really outstanding merit. Sarah Petrie (LX), Jeremy Bines (MT) and Laura Marshall (LX) gained the distinction of not only winning through to the semifinals, but getting through to the national finals concert that took place in St. John's, Smith Square on Sunday, 13th March . They were all awarded certificates and also have merited a special tutorial session in May when they play to a distinguished panel of musicians. As they were up against national competition, this deserves special congratulations. King's musicians have entered for this competition for many years but never before have got into the finals. They played the 1st movement of the Dumky Trio by Dvorak and the slow movement of Mendelssohn's D minor Piano Trio. Michael Peat (LN) is to be congratulated on gaining a place in the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. He has been a member of the Chapel and Crypt Choirs for several years. The National Youth Choir engage in many overseas tours and so he can look forward to some exciting ventures in the future. Felicitations

On 5th March there was a celebration concert in the cathedral for the Save The Children Fund's 75th Birthday. Musicians from all over Kent took part in the presence of Countess Mountbatten. Iona Coltart (MR), Ophelia Beer (WL) and Robert Van Allan (T) played the Golden Sonata by Purcell. These players visit Reims in May. to play for various civic ceremonies as part of the twinning link between Canterbury and Re1ms. Michael Davies, K.S. (BL) and Theo Moore, K.S . (LN) were chosen to compete in a general knowledge quiz chaired by Bamber Gascoigne at Waterstone's bookshop. Their competitors were not from other schools, but included a local head teacher, university dons, students and Waterstones' staff. M ichael won the third prize fo r the highest individual scores . T he evening raised £250 for the Save the Children Fund.

So many staff, parents and friends of the School have supported the Addenbrooke's Scanner Appeal that Dr. Maltby has provided a progress report: ' In an endeavour to help the transplant team at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge save the lives of more children , I set up an Appeal to provide a high-tech ultra-sound scanner dedicated fo r the paediatric intensive care unit. Thanks to the generosity of hundreds of people we have so far raised over £65,000 towards the full cost of £90 ,000, with the final £ 10,000 pledged by the Children's Liver Disease Foundation , which leaves just £15,000 to raise (during the Easte r holidays) to reach our target by the end of April. Among many schools and organisations, the Appeal was supported by the Leys School, Cambridge, where Dr . Clare Anderson (who was a member of staff at King's from 1990 to 1991) organised a sixth-form dance and a Valentine's dance as fund-raising events. Support also came from members of my old sohool , Monkton Combe, near Bath , among whom were two King's parents, whose children I have taught. (Both parents, like myself, now live in Kent. ) As for walking 400 miles last summer from Canterbury to Cambridge (via Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth, Southampton , Bath, Oxford and Bedford), I would put the endu rance of such~ trek down to a traditional Public School education - all boarding at the Combe - and to res idual fitness and discipline twenty-five years on! O utreach

The Librarian would like to thank J.K. S. and Dr. T. Thomson for generous gifts of books . We should also like to thank Mrs. Seymour-Ure for giving us a copy of Smoke Signals: Stories of London , published by the London Arts Board. This collection of prize-winning short stories contains ' Acacia A venue' by Kirsty Seymour-Ure (MT 1982-84) , another in the rapidly growing list of lady O. K.S. authors. The memories of some O .K.S . might be stirred by the opening of The War of Jenkins' Ear , the latest novel from Michael Morpurgo (GL 1957-62) . '''Benedicat nobis omnipotens Deus ... '' The first grace of a new term. Henry Staff, Headmaster and lord of all he surveyed, intoned with fresh vigour, his fingers flexing ominously as he gripped the back of his chai r at High Table.' Glimpses of God , a collection of personal statements on religious experiences by leading churchmen and other well-known figures, was launched in the Schoolroom on 23rd February. This was an appropriate venue fo r a work edited by Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, and including contributions from the Headmaster, Canon Peter Pilkington, The Very Rev' d Michael Mayne, Dean of Westminste r (MO 1943-49), the Dean of Cante rbury and Mrs. Audrey Eyton. On the foll owing Sunday, the book was given a further ' plug' from the pulpit by our preacher, Canon Pil kington. (A case for the Broadcasting Complaints Commission?) C hanges are the order of.the day in the lib~a~y this year . The intentions are to assess the stock, initia lly to weed out those titles m poor condition and perhaps no longer relevant, and to replace with new editions or to introduce new material for new topics. · Lib rary

The school has purchased the Heritage Library Management System to enabl~ us to go on-l!ne 路th a fully automated library service in the near futu re. Firstly we ~re tackhng the dauntmg WI k of putting the bibliographic details of the (approx .) 25 ,000 stock mto the computer. W~en ~~~s is completed pupils will be issued with bar-coded personal library cards and a fast and efficient service should ensue. At the same time the bookstock is being reclassified by the Dewey De<?imal. Classification .scheme. This will group similar books together and should enable users to fmd titles more easily路. The art section has been completed, history is progressing, literature is just under wa~ and sc1en~e 路 due to be embarked upon soon. When all th is has been completed, the ~ooks will have their ~ew classification numbers on their spines and will then need to be ~hys1cally ~oved, s~ that the library can be ordered in one numerical sequence . We offer apologies for any mconvemence suffered during the re-organization, but are confidant that the new service will benefit all. The first computer to be introduced into the library last Nov~mber is being used to ac7ess information electro~ically. Our first Cf?-~OMs were the. Groher and. the Encart~ ~mencan encyclopaedias. T h1s opened up the traditional reference library matenals by P.rov1dmg sound and video for certain items. These have remained popular, and we have added English newspapers. There are now an increasing number of subj ect CD-ROMs which are being used. It is strange to realise that under Butterfield's roof incunabula, printed books and electronic images co-exist. K.J.H. Mrs. Elizabeth Tuck, who works in Jervis House, owes her survival of a diabetic coma to the presence of mind of her six -ye~r-old son Ashley. ~e realised in the middle of the night that she wa.s .ill, and ~ucceeded. m telephoning his grandfather, rousing his mother from the coma and prov1dmg her w1th somethmg to eat and drink. Full marks, Ashley.

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We think that eve ryone ought to know th~t jo~rnalis( Anne. Robinson ~et Cardinal Hume over twenty years ago on B1rley s. She told Timf?S. Magazme readers that she would have been converted to Roman Catholicism on. the spot if she had not al ready been a Catholic. She concludes that the Card mal must have had the same effect on the Duchess of Kent. Presumably not in the same place? You never know .. .

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The School's campaign to increase intellect!Jal an~ cultural activity in_pupils' free time started with the name Life after Six. Th1s was changed to Life after Hours, not least thanks to a request fro m one member of staff for an outing on Sunday under the auspices of Life after Six, scheduled to start at 10.45 a.m . and end at 6 p.m. 路 The Life of The Mind

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FOCUS THE KING'S SCHOLARS' DINNER SUN DAY, 23rd JANUARY

Headmaster, Colleagues, King's Scholars: May I first thank the Headmaster most sincerely for inviting me to propose the toast to the health of the Scholars this evening. Some of the younger ones among you may not know that these dinners were revived only a few years ago by the Headmaster after an interval of some four hundred years. I hope that they will now continue for the next four hundred years, at least, without interruption, If so and if, as I also hope, a Jist is kept of those who have spoken at the dinners, it is a matter of great pride to me to think that my name will be on it. I suppose that to be a half-decent teacher one has to be reasonably articulate but after-dinner Âˇspeaking of this ~nd is not, I think, pa~ of the normal job sp~ifi~ation and it i~ certainly. something which is unfamiliar to me. I am anxiOus, therefore, to avoid 1f I can the pitfalls which I know await the unwary speaker. I am told that there is an old Castilian saying - a rather indelicate one but I am sure you will forgive me - that an after-dinner speech can be like the horns of a b~ll: a point here, a point there and a great deal of 'bull ' in between. I will note to avoid that accusation. Another danger is illustrated by the story of the speaker who droned on and on and on, to the increasing fury of his audience, one of whom could stand no more and threw a pepper pot at the speake~, narrowlÂĽ n;tis~ing him ~ut unfortu.nately kn_ocki~g out his neighb.our. When this man was revived he said Hit me agam. I can still hear his voice!' . I hope I will not bore you, but If I do, please aim to miss! In fact I will try to be guided by a story told by Harold Macmillan late in his life. Macmillan , of course became one of the great parliamentary orators of modern times but the story he told was of his maiden speech in the House of Commons in the early 1920s, with which he was very pleased. He felt it had gone very well and could not help thinking of Disraeli 's maiden speech in 1837 which, as historians among you will know, had been a disaster, Disraeli having been shouted down by Irish members. One wonders sometimes whether there is really anything new in British politics! Macmillan was the more pleased because he knew that the master orator himself, Lloyd George, had been in the Chamber and had heard him. He was thrilled when the great man came up to him in the tea rooms afterwards and said: 'Congratulations, young man, most promising; but you're doing it all wrong'. Taken back, Macmillan could only say : ' Thank you, Sir, but could you please tell me how to do it right?'. 'You're try ing to say too much' , replied Lloyd George. ' Make three points at most, better still two and best of all, one. When you've done that, sit down. Leave them expecting and wanting more.' Good advice, which I will try to follow, though by the look of the size of my notes, I am afraid I may fail. In deciding what to talk about this evening, I was bound by no particular brief from the Headmaster, though I did promise that I would definitely not mention John Muir and mountains ~ so of course I will not do so! However, I felt that I must bind myelf to follow precedent, 1f I could establish what that was. Probably very few people in the room have had the privilege, as I have, of attending all the revived dinners and therefore hearing all the speeches which have been given. I can tell you that they have all been excellent. I have enjoyed every single one and each has been memorable in its own way, not least the very first, given by Mr. Pollak, now the Archivist, who delivered a good part of his address in Latin, a severe challenge to those present that evening! And most of us , of course, remember Mrs. Pickering's very interesting talk last year on the nature of intelligence. What has linked all these talks, it seemed to me, apart from their high quality, is that they have all in some way, quite appropriately, touched upon some aspect of scholarship or education. I would therefore like to offer you the Scholars this evening some personal thoughts and, perhaps rather presumptuously , some advice, on the nature of scholarship , as I have observed it during my very long experience at this school. 81

However, I hope you will forgive me if, for a few minutes, I digress and reminisce a little. I do this partly as an act of pure self-indulgence which I justify to myself on the grounds that I am unlikely to have another such opportunity, partly because I hope it will be of interest to you, but mainly because it is relevant I assure you to what I really want to say a little later on. Of the company here this evening, only Mr. Millar has a longer experience of this school than I and therefore only he can share my very long perspective of change at King's . When I first came here in 1965 the school was as traditional and far back as it's possible to imagine. Soon after I arrived a film called If, directed by Lindsay Anderson , came out. Perhaps some of you will know it. If you do, you will know that it was, of course, a caricature of public school life as it was perceived at that time, but to us at King's it seemed anything but a caricature, being almost an exact portrayal of this school. Although shot at Cheltenham College and therefore with a different architectural back~round, everything else was uncannily like King's, right down to the wing collars, personal faggmg, compulsory C.C.F. and , believe it or not, the beating of boys , not only by staff, but also by senior pupils. Since then, in almost every important aspect except one, I suggest, the school has changed, going through an enormous transformation, and I say without hesitation that this has been entirely for the better. If I may take three examples among many. In 1965 King's was, of course, an all-male school. There were no girls and never had been , if we discount Canon Shirley's daughter, whose status at the school was rather obscure, and a young lady who appears, I am told, in the middle of a M ilner Court photograph dated 1940, about whom nothing at all seems to be known. I remember very clearly how in 197 1 the first girl , Jane Baron, came to King's and joined Marlowe. Soon there were six g irls, then thirty, then seventy - numbers got stuck there for a while and then moved on into three figures, until of course, more recently , the school has become fu lly co- . educational, with all the enormous benefits which that has brought, and to which I can testify, particularly from my privileged position as Housemaster of one of the two co-educational houses in the school. Co-education here ...:._ if by that we mean the educating of boys and girls together, is therefore of longer ancestry than perhaps some of you may suppose, and when the history of co-education at King's is written I hope it will be recorded that I have played some small part in its development, in three ways in particular. The first girls wore no uniform. They could wear what they ltked, and did. I remember very clearly how this was inevitably abused, because I was responsible for six girls in Linacre when I was Housemaster there, one of whom came in one day wearing a pair of jeans and a tee shirt emblazoned with the legend 'Guiness is Good for You'. This was too much for me and too much for the then Headmaster, who introduced a form of uniform from then on. Nor was there any question in those days of girls becoming monitors. So when there was a quite outstanding girl in Linacre, who I felt really did deserve some sort of official status in the school, I was able to persuade the Headmaster to create the post of Senior G irl . She didn't then have a purple gown but it was the first step on the ladder that I hope will lead eventually to the first girl Captain of School. F inally, I take pride in the fact that it was in my House and on my recommendation that the first girl Head of House was appointed in 1984. In 1965 King 's was also an all-white school. There were no non-white students, although I am told that there had been three Burmese boys here before the war. Therefore it was a very big change when the first African pupil arrived in 1970. I remember him very well. His name was Diko Mukete from Cameroon and he was in Walpole. He was the first of many foreign students who over the years have helped us to enjoy the great benefits of a multi-natwnal and multi-ethnic community. My final example is that of pastoral care. Of course thi ~ phrase did not exist thirty years ago. Although pastoral care certainly did exist and was carried out , often very well , this was almost entirely by Housemasters, tutors then having a much more restricted role. I have to say too that occasionally it was exerc ised in a rather unconventional way which I hope would not be acceptable today. I recall that in one House, which I am certainly not going to name, discipline had largely broken down, as a result of what we used to call the 'revolution' of the late 1960s and a great dea l of bullying of younger boys by older ones was going on. With, I believe, the tacit agreement 82 DR. DAVID PASCOE, THE MARLOWE PRIZEWINNER (T.R.H.)

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of the then Headmaster, the Housemaster was persuaded to go away for the weekend, some very lar e members of the 1st XV were sent in from other Houses, heads were knocked together and thegprob1em was largely solved. I am sure that nothing like this would now be necessary because of the enormous increase in the scope of pastoral care, with all members of the academic and other staff involved, as part of their responsibility, which has obviously been to the benefit of everyone. The one thing which I suggest has not changed in thirty years, however, is the importance attached to academic excellence and achievement. I am not saying that standards have not changed. 1 am certain that they have and for the better, throughout the school, though if there had been league tables in those days King's would have been , even then, very well up in them because then as now, the highest prionty was attached to academic work. You may find this hard to beli~ve as I know that some of you feel that many people in your peer group, at least, still seem to attach greater importance, certainly so far as status is concerned, to other aspects of school life such as the arts or sport. Sometimes they may even disparage or affect to distJarage academic excellence. This is nothing new. In 1728 Daniel Defoe wrote, 'We must distmgutsh between a man of polite learning and a mere scholar. The first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should beÂˇ the last is a mere bookcase, a bundle of letters, a head stuffed with the jargon of languages , a ~an that understands everybody but is understood by nobody'. A sort of Mr. Casaubon of Middlemarch, if you like . But this has never been the attitude of the staff nor, I submit, has it ever been the ethos of the school as a whole. Of course, these other things are very important and no one would dream of suggesting that education begins and ends in the classroom. Mark Twain once wrote that he was ' looking forward to leaving school so that he could begin his education' . I hope that he wouldn't have felt it necessary to leave this school before his education could begin. Nonetheless, at the end of the day we all know that it is acadamic work which is most important and in this you, the King's Scholars, have always been seen as the flagship of the school; the jewels in the crown. It's true that we have never, and I think rightly, thought it necessary, as at Eton , to put you all in one House, a rather dramatic form of recognition. It's true also that on occasions we have approached the Scholars in a somewhat misguided way . For example, when I first came here Scholars were concentrated into one form and advanced at a very rapid pace, bypassing the Removes entirely and doing 0-levels in two years , proceeding then to A-levels withi n two more years, thus often arriving at University' at a very young age. In some cases this approach was very damaging and quite rightly it has long since been scrapped. However, we have al ways regarded you as special and it's for that reason in part, at least, I understand, that these dinners were rev ived, to accord you a form of recognition you may have rightly felt you deserved but which you didn' t often seem to receive. Of course, Scholars at King's have always been special in the sense of being Foundationers of the Cathedral and I hope that it does give you all here tonight a sense of pride to feel that you are in direct line to those fifty Scholars first elected under the new statutes imposed by Henty VIII in 1541 and also feel proud to be successors of some of the greatest names in English scholarship and letters. Christopher Marlowe, William Sommer, Somerset Maugham were all King's Scholars, or- if you are looking for achievement in a quite different field - so too was David Gower. It would be very nice to think that sitting among you this evening there is one, or some, who may go on to make as big a mark as these . Of course all this begs the question: what is scholarship? What are the qualities needed to make the ideal King's Scholar? At last I come to my three points la Lloyd George, although I am afraid there are more than three. Dictiona ry definitions of scholarship are mostly unhelpful, focusing as they tend to on the wider meaning of the word, but I have found one which is quite useful: 'A scholar is one whose learning or whose approach to learning is scrupulous and exact' . But what does that actually mean in practice? I suggest that there are four qualities necessary for successful scholarship, in the true sense of the wo rd. The first is obvious: intelligence, cleverness . It is impossible to be a true Scholar without being intelligent. The Scholarship exam papers are all des igned to test not knowledge, but intell igence and the ability to use it effectively . It's interesting that only the Entrance Scholarship candidates are required to take a formal Intelligence Test before entry to the school and I assume that the results are taken into account

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when the awards are made. Intelligence is, of course, difficult to define and difficult to quantify, but it's very easy to recognise whe.n one comes into contact with. it. As an exam~le, I thought that the series of talks given at Mornmg Prayers last term by the Se.mor Sch~lar and h1s colleag~es, and also the talk by the Captain of School on Thursday last,. were qu1te exceptional as .demonstrations of intelligence in their content, stru.cture and prese~tat1on. Young teacher~ com1?g to a school like King's have to come to terms m most cases w1th the fact that they w1ll rap1dly encounter pupils of far high~r inte}ligence th~n themselves. !his ~~esn't make ~he teacher re~undant of course. There is st1ll a role, and an Important one, m gu1dmg such puptls from expenence. Nor does it necessarily mean that teachin~ them is. more rewarding or sti~ulatin~ than teac~ing other pupils who are less gifted. But t~er~ 1s a ~pec1al challenge and a spec1al excitement wh!ch C<?mes from teaching those of a '(ery. h1gh u~tel ltgence. Of course not all those who are very mtelltgent are King's Scholars and 1t's mterestmg to reflect that perhaps the greatest figure produced by the school William Harvey, was not a King's Scholar. That's why I am very pleased that I was able to pl~y some small part in recommending that Honorary Scholarships should be awar~ed to those who demonstrate, with outstanding achievement in G.C.S .E. or at the end of the f1rst year in the sixth form, that they do have an excepti?n~l intelligence and. t~e .ability. to use it. This is, of course, now the case and some of you s1ttmg here are benef1c1anes of 1t. The second quality is that of intell~ctual ~uriosity or, as the Headmaster .Puts it so well on some of his reports, the love of learnmg for 1ts own sake. I hope that you w11l no~ re&ard Y<?Ur work as simply a means to an end, that is getting good grades. I hope that you enJOY 1t, denve intellectual excitement and stimulus from it and feel it is something which enables you to expand your knowledge as widely as possible. ~here. is a story about Oscar Wilde .who was given a viva or oral examination when he was at umvers1ty as was customary at the t1me. It too~ the form of unprepared translation from Greek of an obsc.ure part of ~e New Testame~t, and Wild~ started off very well with fluent transla~ion. The exammers, were 1mpres~ed and tned ~o s~op h1m after a very short time, but he presseCi on , so that they were forced to mtervene agam. Please stop, Mr. Wilde', said one. We are well satisfied'. 'No, no', said Oscar Wilde. ' Please let me go on. I do not want to know how it ends'. Perhaps Wilde was being sarcastic, but taken as read, this makes the point very effectively, I think. It's always sad if one of the excellent talks arranged by Dr. Hands and by departments is poorly attended. And when you ask clever pupils afterwards why they weren't there, the reply is quite often ' It's not my subject' or 'I know nothing abo~t it'. Of course you must specialise to some extent, even at school , more so later on. There ~s no point in being an intellectual dilettante , a jack of all trades. But no field of knowledge IS independent of any other. An understan.ding of one is ~lway~ ~elped by .~owledge and understanding of another. That's why the mcreased emphasiS on L1fe After S1x (or whatever it's now called) is such an important development here, in that it's designed to encourage and help people I.ike you to ~evelop that intellectual curiosity which, quite apart from anything else, is bound to 1mpress at mterv1ew. Thirdly, it is vital to question critically accepted views. Never be satisfied with what you are told or read. Challenge it critically and accept it only if you are then satisfied. If not, try t~ come up with an alternative. That is the way in which th.e whole of hu~an ~owledge and mde.ed civilization has advanced. If I may refer to the Semor Scholar agam, I f1rst encountered h1m at a Euro-seminar last summer, where I was deeply im~ressed by the way in which he rejec~ed almost everything I said and produced alternatives of h1s own. We had a good old battle wh1ch I think he won on points, though at least I avoided a knock-out. Christopher Marlowe was a fine example of someone who chall.enged the accepted ideas of_ his t!me. May I take two others, one from my own field of economiCS. John Maynard .Key~es IS umversally accepted as ?ne of the ~reat intellects of the twentieth century and certamly as one of the greatest economist~ of all t1me. He became increasingly disillusioned with the traditional classical and neo-class1cal economics which he had been taught at Cambridge before the First World War, what today .we call market economics. He could not accept theories which claimed that there co~ld b~ no h1gh and persistent unemployment when between the wars there was an awful depressiOn w1th never fewer than one million unemployed in this country, a far higher percentage then even today. 84

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tightenmg of belts. He therefore, courageously, given that he was already anathema to the es~blishment as a r~sult ?f his public denunciation of the Treaty of Versailles, sought an alternative, wh1ch he p~rfected m th.1s work, the General Theory, published in 1935 and which became known as 'Keynes1an Economtcs'. !'lot only did this totally transform economic thinking, particularly in the area of macro-econom1cs, but it provided the basis of policy in the capitalist world, without challenge for the ?ext forty years or so, to the great benefit (I believe) of mankind. Another example I offer w1th some caution because I am not a scientist, but I can remember as a young man ho:v exctted I was by something which we remembered last year, being the fortieth anniversary of the ~IS?Overy of the structure of D.N .A. and hence of the structure of genes by Crick, Watson and W1lkms. These men.â&#x20AC;˘ too, refused to accept the conventional view, advancing instead their theory of the double heltx structure and putting their reputations and careers on the line. Their discovery whef_l proved wa.s to have, and still does have, enormous importance, again for the whole o~ mankmd. Such thmgs would never have happened without the willingness of men and women ltke them to challenge accepted ideas, and it's the task of Scholars like you to do exactly that , so that civilization may advance . Finally.â&#x20AC;˘ and perh~ps most important of all, a true Scholar needs to apply himself or herself. Industr;: IS an essential quality. In preparation for this evening and with the help of the Master of St~d1es, I have ~one some research on Oxbridge results over the past few years. Of course Oxbndge entraf_lc~ IS not th~ on.ly measure of academic achievement, nor even perhaps a very ~ood one: But IS IS one whtch IS generally accepted and you will be interested to know that, m the penod I have looked at, the proportion of King's Scholars achieving Oxbridge places has averaged 55%. It's nev~r begun to approach the 100% which in theory we might hope for although there was one year a little earlier when 100% was achieved, albeit in a perverse way: not one of the ten Scholars who applied in that particular year got in. The figures mean that each year between four and five on aver~ge. of eye~y ten Scholars have not been successful in going to one of the top two se~ts of learnmg m Bntam. Of course there are many reasons why an individual may not get af_l Oxbndge place i~cluding , quite simply , bad luck. But my colleagues and I could, I am sure, qu1c~Iy draw. up a fatrly long list over the years, of those who although intelligent enough, have s1mply. fatled to appl,y themsel~es .and so have not fulfilled' their potential. The converse of all of th1s, of course, IS that a stgmficant proportion of non-Scholars have been succe~s~u l. Not necessarily as gifted as the Scholars , though some certainly have been, but able ~nd w1l.Img to work really har~ to .ensure success. I am not sure who it was who said that genius IS 1% mtellect and 99% applicatiOn, an exaggeration of-course, but food for thought. It's ti':lle now, Ladi~s and Gentlemen, for me to bring things to a close before the pepper pots start flymg. John MaJor told us a few weeks ago that he believed the education and ability of the top. one or two per cent of British schoolchildren to be the equal of that of any comparable group m the world .. I hope that you, the Scholars, together with others like you elsewhere, will go out and prove htm nght. In 1749 Samuel Johnson was very pessimistic about the life of a Scholar. He wrote: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from letters to be wise, Then mark what ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the j ail. I hop~ that you d<?n't .end up in jail , at least! .Instead, I hore that you will fulfil Disraeli's expectatiOns set out m h1s marvellous novel Syb1l, published m 1845, in which he wrote 'the yout~ of a nation are the trust~es of posterity'. Later he added 'Upon the education of the people of th1s country, the fate of this country depends'. Education, the same Mr. Casaubon remarks in Middlemarch, 'is a possession which no one can ever take away from you'. Please use it and do so in a scholarly way. I have been privileged to teach only a few of you but from those Scholars whom I know, and from what I have heard of others, I am confident that you are a group of young men and women who can go on to make a real mark in the world. Fmally, I would like 85

to leave you with this thought, which I only wish I had time to develop: whatever position of power and responsibility you achieve I hope you will remember also one of Disraeli 's most enduring sayings, also from Sybil - 'Power has only one duty: to secure the social welfare of the people' . I hope that you will never forget that and will do whatever you can to achieve it. And so now I invite my colleagues, the staff, please to stand and join with me in a toast to the health of THE KING'S SCHOLARS. D.J.R.

The reply of the Senior Scholar: Might I begin by thanking the Headmaster on behalf of the Scholars for arranging and indeed re-establishing these annual dinners, designed to make stomachs and Head Scholars groan. Speaking as I am to the country's pinnacle of intellectual achievement in a fully co-educational environment, you will of course be waiting for my comments on the intellectual achievements of Life After Six. At the beginning of the academic year, there was no Israeli-PLO peace deal, no multi-racial constitution in South Africa, no world trade deal , no Downing Street declaration and no democratic Russia. Life after Six changed all that. As the government looked for a suitable company to run the nuclear police force to guard plutonium from terrorists, a King's debate showed that science could never endanger society; they chose Group 4. The decision that there was significance in the name Jesus Christ put paid to the more radical ideas of the Bishop of Durham, while a genetics debate added weight to Spielberg 's accountants' report that it would have been easier to breed the dinosaurs and teach them how to act. Perhaps the prospect of such power scares us as Scholars. But I believe it is the duty of those who have benefitted from the many advantages conferred by scholarship to repay what we owe; not just by working academically, as I'm sure you all do, but by living academically. We have reached the stage where the idea of pupil-based events has become established, but surely given the abilities, interests and intellect of the people in this room, we could go so much further. With your enthusiasm, King's could be so much more. And, more importantly, you yourselves could be so much more. Argument is intellect's tutor, academia merely its luxury . Living academically, by contributing to school life, doesn 't just mean filling up your U.C.A.S. form and then stopping, or feeling pressurised by your Houseperson - it might well mean ignoring totally what the staff want. Consider anything. Go for something original. Challenge existing ideas. Take chances. Have flare. Have fun. T he qualities of risk, flare and fun are perhaps best encapsulated by Richard Feynman, the late American physicist, whose unorthodox approach was his making. Already well established in the Manhattan project during World War II, he was shown the plans of a proposed nuclear establishment at Los Alamos. The engineers who had produced these gazed at him, anxiously looking for approval. Looking at the complex tangle of symbols , he looked for a way out. Then he hit upon an idea: he wasn't sure whether a square symbol used all over the plan represented a pump ... or a window. He decided to risk assuming it was a pum~ and ask a question to feign unde rstanding. He pointed his finger at one of them, at random. What would happen if that failed?' he asked. A technician thought carefully and replied 'Well. .. that would shut down the system ... which would stop coolant flow ... which would allow that to ... My God! You' re right!' . Out he ran, and the plant was never built. That is not luck. It is greatness, I hope you may gain some of this through your experience of the pursuit of your interests, at , what is in the end, your school. DUNCAN PARRISH. 86

THE CRYPT CHOIR: FORMAL (Lynne Elwood)

CRYPT CHOIR TOUR TO GERMANY SATURDAY, 12th FEBRUARY- TUESDAY, 15th FEBRUARY

The written wo_rd can never d.o justice to Detmold a.nd Wu~pertal. The eyes of all (twenty-six to be precise) wa1t upon the wnte-up to see whether 1t contams the truth, the whole truth, and

nothing but the truth. They are assured now of that being accomplished. The Lent term is a good time for a choir tour to Germany. A-levels and G.C.S.E.s are still far enough away, and Europe presents a mild climate for a lengthy journey in a minibus (if less comfort than British Ra il , and no inflight trolley service). The early start from Canterbury (thank ou Bottomley, for remembering your music) with tuna sandwiches prepared sometime in the fate 'Middle Ages for breakfast, left us all in jovial spirit. Admittedly, Calais to Wuppertal is a fair distance, but bladder weakness meant that we had frequently to resort to pulling over to use the French/Belgian/Dutch/German fac ilities. The level of sanitation on French autoroutes meant that it became necessary to pull over into a builders' yard for a lavatory that looked more like a miniature Tardis than a W.C. Nevertheless, we arrived sane in Wuppertal after every combination of Fawlty Towers joke about the War, and who started it in the first place. Our hosts were extremely friendly, too much so in some cases- Miranda Scott-Barrett became very fond of her little evenings out with Philippe â&#x20AC;˘Pizzaaah'. It is a tradition in Germany that on arrival one gives presents to the hosting family, and this we did with due accord. Presents ranged from Earl Grey tea to pictures of Winnie the Pooh. An unfortunate result of one individual's donation was the misunderstanding that the handkerchiefs and soap marked with the royal crest meant that he was himself royal. On describing the events of Commemoration Day and tea on the Green Court, the image of Buckingham Palace garden parties may have unintentionally been given. Pro-royalist fan mail may now be addressed to: The Prince, c/o Mrs. Elwood, Music Department, K.S.C. Sunday was Detmold. T he atmosphere became fraught as the concert approached at 5 p.m. The rehearsing had gone well and the slips from the Friday night concert in Canterbury Cathedral Crypt had been mended. The pressure on the choir was increased by the high reputation of the Musikhochschule in Detmold . Frau Harris did not soothe our nerves when she revealed her acquaintance with a number of the audience, and we learned that a high standard would be expected. Nonetheless, the evening was a success. We moved the Mozart into the gallery because of acoustic problems, and the performance in Detmold was perhaps the best standard we achieved. The acoustic was better for the choice of music and for the size of choir. The audience was very compl imentary about the quality of singing, and we have received several invitations to return next year. The two pieces which deserve mentions were The Call by John Tavener, and The eyes of all wait upon thee by Jean Berger. The members of the choir would agree, as would the passengers on the P & 0 6.45 p.m. ferry from Calais to Dover, that these two became our theme tune. The hard work was rewarding, and the meal we had afterwards in a German-Italian restaurant was a suitable way to celebrate. The venue was, shall we say, informal. We ate on a bowling alley, but unfortunately no strikes were scored over pizza. Friendships had begun to develop, however, and there were twinkles in the eyes of certain members of the choir who shall not remain nameless. Mrs. Elwood and Mr. Miles began to enjoy their adjoin ing bathrooms and their walks around Wuppertal late at night. There is one logistical problem with taking a group of musicans to Europe in minibuses that date back to the days of the crank-shaft engine: these individuals prove totally incapable of changing a spare tyre. Admittedly the minibus did not have a spare tyre to replace the flat one with; but this is no excuse in weather conditions that resemble something out of the film Lost in the Himalayas rather than Detmold H igh Street. Miranda's constructive comments summed up the episode: 'Shh, you' re making Mr. Harris angry'. It was fortunate that we only kept our hosts waiting one-andhalf hours in sub-zero conditions owing to this slight hiccup. Monday too was eventful. Sightseeing is a simple enough operation. One walks out of 35 Mozartstrasse in Elberfeld, turns right, then left and catches the bus to the city centre: sightsees for several hours, then catches the Schwebebahn in an easterly direction, and then back again 87 THE CRYPT CHOIR: NOT SO FORMAL (Penelope Curtiss)

in a westernly direction hoping desperately to find Mozartstrasse. One then discovers that the Schwebebahn does not go anywhere near Mozartstrasse, and attempts to speak the native language to a few unhelpful bus drivers . (Receive advice to take the No. 21 bus, receive advice from the No. 21 driver to take the No . 62 bus, receive advice from the No. 62 bus to take the No. 48, etc. etc.) Momentarily the tenor line was depleted by two (or a half) . It was comforting to know that the rest of the choir had been so concerned about these two missing males in Wuppertal . Copies of the new publication Lost in a strange city called Wuppertal will be on sale at the Crypt Choir concert in King's Week. The concert that evening was hard work. Fatigue had begun to play its part and the acoustic presented problems for tuning in the more exposed pieces. The audience, however, was very receptive - bar two very irritating children who insisted on giggling throughout Warum ist das Licht gegeben. Mr. Harris was forced to restrain himself and required the patience of Job with these distractions. The enthusiasm of the audience in calling for an encore is both a credit to the choir and to Mr. Harris for all his time and effort. Entertainment for the evening was laid on by the Catering Manager at Herr Meier' s house. It must be added that it was thanks to the expertise of the Catering Manager that the food was so good. The evening was, to say the least, eventful. The relationships formed were creative, innovative, and unfortunately short-term. What the Germans now think about teenage relationships, or what they now think about how friendly the English are these days cannot be considered. It is perhaps best not to attempt any witty puns on the partnerships that were established - they will be recorded here for posterity: Miranda Scott-Barrett and Dan Bartlette; Luke Singer and Jo Houghton ; Michael Peat and Penelope Curtiss; Christian Bottomley/Tommy Tallon and Sarah Petrie; and Jeremy Bines and Emily Elias. So there you are, I've said it, and now you know, lest we forget! The journey back to our respective hosts resembled something out of Steven Spielberg's new film Sodom and Gomorrah. It is amazing how steamy it can get in a minibus; so much so that we. needed to stop and take in the view. Unfortunately , certain parties had to be rather distastefully forced back out of the bushes and general shrubbery, rather than breathing in the fresh city air and admiring the sights of 'Wuppertal by night'. It must be added at this point than not all of the choir were engaged in the aforementioned manner. Some of us took great pleasure in reciting the Latin Mass to keep temptation at bay , or indulging in a quick round of Oh I do like to be beside the seaside . Mrs. Elwood and Mr. Miles, unfortunately, were unable to be with us . They spent an exciting evening at Wuppertal municipal museum at a lecture on late Romanesque pottery in the surrounding area. Needless to say, there were a few red-faced and very quiet individuals the next morning who were regretting the romances of St. Valentine's Day. The numerous jokes about (and with) Bratwurst and Ausfahrting made some females blush, but unfortunately these jokes were a prophetic omen for Michael Peat's forthcoming illness - appendicitis . He was not the only one looking the wurst for wear on the return journey. The 'Posh Bar' on the P & 0 6.45 p.m. ferry from Calais to Dover unwittingly , and probably undesirably, became the venue of our fourth concert. Families travelling back from Calais with crates of Jager were treated to our theme tuines as well as some Bruckner. The short journey back to Canterbury on English soil was spent reciting Right said Fred and other rude songs which would have knocked spots off the rugby tour singing any day. Mrs. Elwood became more fully acquainted with E lmo - our mascot - and Bug complained of Bratwurst-sickness. It only remains for me to thank Mrs. Elwood, Mr. Miles, Frau Harris and Fraulein Harris for their most excellent company; and to thank Mr. Harris for such a successful and enjoyable tour. The written word can never do justice to Detmold and Wuppertal. ELIOT SHRIMPTON. 88 (James Hessey [Sh d])

PHYSICS TRIP TO CERN THURSDAY, 17th FEBRUARY -

SUNDAY, 20th FEBRUARY

As seventeen physicists - most aspiring, some accomplished - gathered at the Green Court at 2 .00 a.m. on 17th February, there was an atmosphere of mollified reluctance yet inward expectation. By now among the subdued conversations, the Crypt Choir trip grapevine epic had already begun to creep in, thanks to our resident choristers Jeremy and Penelope, who were looking as tired as zombies. There was no hope for a swift departure whi le we numbly sat in the coach: an alarm clock, in a study at the top ofThe Grange, lay uselessly silent beside a deeply slumbering Sacha Delmotte. However, we were soon on our way on the Dover road after Douglas ' Spider Man' Morrison came to the rescue. The Crypt Choir bratwurst saga was now in full flow and continued unrelentingly, on the ferry, off the ferry, right up to our arrival in Geneva. With M. Dath having delivered us smoothly out of the hands of the Swiss customs officials, CERN was only a little time away. After the gruelling 600-mile journey we thankfully welcomed the invitation of our host, Neil Calder, to dinner at a restaurant called 'Midi Pyrenees' , back over the border. There, the last two members of our contingent, Rodolphe and Adam J., our Geneva Ramblers, joined us. After an interesting meal, all crashed out to bed. The next day's schedule was packed out from 9 to 5. There was an extremely stimulating guided tour of CERN's science and technology exhibition called the 'Microcosm'. It even included a life-size section of the LEP (Large Electron Positron collider) tunnel. Our Finnish guide, Hannu Miettinen , spoke excellent English, but betrayed his accent to our very own linguist, Jeremy, who managed to summon a Swedish greeting to him. Explanation of the workings of the accelerators and the construction of the gigantic LEP tunnel (27 km in circumference); educational mini-cinema and CD-ROMs; and a presentation of future projects were only a small part of what the impressive exhibition offered. Having seen sd many models and animated pictures, all that remained to be seen was the real thing. Our first English guide John Miles along with Jean Collombet took us through the tunnel by an. overhanging monorail. A sense of claustrophobia really began to set in as we passed electromagnet after eletromagnet. Continuous tunnel and machine curving away slowly on either side of us gave us some indication of the sheer magnitude of the construction. John Miles then proceeded, at length, to provide the engineering details of the collider - aspiring physicists beware! It was with an air of revelation that he talked about the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) as a whole new chapter in the history of particle physics would be opened when particles as large(!) as the proton will be able to collide in accelerators with other particles. Dr. Allday was our guide on theory for an hour after lunch. We were finding the Standard Model of particle physics (very soon acquiring its corresponding spoonerism) ever more familiar and comprehensible. Our first encounter with this theory had been in a crash course at school, again with J .A. , when our frightened state could have seen us described as having 'contrition oozing from every paw '. Armed with new knowledge and worksheets, back we went to the Microcosm exhibition. Delving into the CD-ROMs, watching the film , filling in the crosswords, and sliding around on those chairs with wheels, we enjoyed ourselves considerably. One of the most dramatic displays was an array of horizontal, parallel metal plates, through which was administered a large potential difference. Streaks of light accompanied by loud cracks shot through the plates, as cosmic rays from space were being detected. Mr. Butt declined a suggestion for a similar set-up in our Physics department. With the ideas of the Standard Model more or less firr;nly set our grasp, it was for CERN's Head of Theory Division, the enigmatic John Ellis, to give us a reinterfretation. Throughout his presentation there was constant marvel of his expertise and length o beard . A photograph of him in black and white might be mistaken for being of some great late nineteenth-century scientist. The last day in Geneva consisted of visits to two detectors, DELPHI and ALEPH. The technical engineering skill needed for building massive instruments to detect and identify minuscule particles is immense. The following facts about the detectors are staggering: DELPHI consists 90 (M.P.H.D.)

of the world's l~rgest supercon~ucting mag!let- ?.4 m. lon.g, 6.2 1?Âˇ in diameter. A~EPH'~ magnet is only slightly smaller With a fine gram calonmeter equipped with 80,000 readout towers for picking up electromagnet energies . The afternoon was spent in the city of Geneva, giving us a chance to buy postcards, chocolates, souvenirs, discover how expensive Swiss McDonald's was, and take in a measure of the city's id Uic grandeur. But th~ e~ening was what everyon.e had been wait!ng for - fon~ue for dinner. 8 {ead dip after bread dip m melted cheese, all enJoyed the expenence. It certamly proved to be an appropriately exotic ending to an extraordinary school trip. Clearly any mention of our departure time the follow ing morning was avoided until well after dinner. On behalf of the whole party I would like to thank Dr. Allday for his impeccably thorough organisation and especially for his arrangement of the fondue dinner which few of us will ever forget. T hanks should go to Mr. Butt and M. and Mme Dath for the invaluable instructional nature of their help. I hope that futu re pa1ties to CERN will benefit from the trip as much as we did. CHARLES A ITKEN .

THE INTER-HOUSE DEBATING COMPETITION The first round of the inter-house debating competition kicked off with the motion that 'This House laments the ded icated follower of fashion' proposed by Galpins (Will Davies/Leo Fransella) and Walpole (Georgina Salmon/Chloe Oakslett) and opposed by Trad and Bailey (Nick Jenkins/Mike Davies) and School House (George Roberts/Alex Neame). Although the motion was carried after an extremely impressive speech by Georgina, it was Bailey's quick wit and presentation that won them deservedly a place in the final. The motion for round two, that 'This House would legalize the production and use of cannabis', was proposed by Luxmoore (Fiona Townend/Ishbel Bruce) and L inacre (The Moore Brothers) and opposed by Meister Omers (The Parrish Brothers) . Where were Jervis? After several unexpected votes, the motion was defeated and Linacre went through to the Final with M.O. joining them as the best runner-up. Owing to lack of opposition in the th ird round Mitchinson's (Hugh Gledhill/Lawrence Potter) and The Grange (Josh Tod/ Alex Maines) took on the floor proposing that 'This House is content with the cur rent pornography laws in th is country ' . After a battle part!y concerned with a certain make of German tights(?), the motion was defeated after being argued very well by both houses. The Orangy won a place in the last round. The final show-down, attended by a tenth of the school, was the motion that 'This House would not die for King and Country'. Astonishingly well argued by both proposers (M.O./Linacre), opposers (Grange/Bailey) as well as the floor (thank you, Mr. Simon Johnson!), the debate was of the highest standard of any so far this year. It was extremely encouraging to see Shells speaking from the floor , and the hu mour of the speeches was enjoyed by all present. Josh Tod's absence was notable but Rupert Mead stepped in well, Alex Maines' presence was, as usual, impressive. Graham Parrish's speech was short and amusing, if a little too rhetorical , and brother Duncan spoke cleverly, as might be expected, like a man who knows the answers. Tom Moore's speech was perhaps too rushed for him to make his!oints clearly; sincere con~ratulations to Theo fo r getting any votes after being so cynical an obnoxious to all . The undisputed winners were Bailey for their sharp presentation, confidence and entertainment that led the motion to be defeated a close 37 votes to 36. We wish them the very best of luck in the National Schools Debating competition. Thanks to all who supported the first of these debates, the adjudicators (P.J.B. , Grant Chum and the Headmaster) and the Chairpeople (Duncan Parrish, James Drever, Alex Maines and Fiona Townend) and also to Mr. J. White for organising them. The Gateway Chamber has never been put to bette r use . I hope the competition will run for years to come; for England , Harry and St. George! CHLOE 0AKSHETT. 91

THE RUGBY SEVENS SQUAD (Mike Waterman)

ACADEMIC CHALLENGE The last thing you want in a national competition is to find yourself playing the national champions, a year older and wiser but completely unchanged in terms of personnel, in your regional final. This is what faced this year's King's quiz team after several victories, including one over Tonbridge (to whose Spanish department we had donated Stephen Wainde, little suspecting that we would find him reincarnated as master-in-charge of the Ton bridge team and penning subversive bons mots to heighten the drama of the competition). Maidstone Grammar School are always one of the best teams in the competition: rigorously practised and deeply serious in their commitment to winning. This year they amassed enormous scores in their early games and were audibly confident that all would fall before them. And so the 1993 national champions met King's, who had beaten them on the way to the national finals themselves in 1992. Only Michael 'Sport' Davies remained on the team from that glorious year, but he, Theo Moore, Leo Fransella and Andrew Ribbans could cover most question areas between them. At first it looked as if Maidstone Grammar's confidence was well justified, but then Theo and Michael decided enough was enough and the competition turned into a thriller. Not since the 1992 national finals had we seen such speedy buzzing, such anticipation of questions and such high blood pressures. The men from Maidstone watched the clock anxiously as it looked like King's could snatch glory. When the end came just three points separated the teams. They were Maidstone points. But the King's team knew how hard they had made Maidstone work, and that to come so close to beating such an exceptional team was a reward in itself. P.J.B.

THE INTER-HOUSE ACADEMIC CHALLENGE COMPETITIONS Marlowe House provided further gripping games in the inter-house competitions. Its Juniors beat Meister Omers 320-310 and its Seniors beat Galpin's 230-210. Walpole Seniors became the first girls' team to buzz the lads into oblivion, defeating Tradescant 250-140. In the finals the Marlowe teams put up a gallant fight, but Linacre Seniors won the competition for the sixth time, 490 to 170, whilst School House Juniors (alias Tallon and Tallon Ltd.) won 460-210. The latter competition was particularly memorable: the Schoolroom was packed with School House supporters in a show of house spirit doubling as sackcloth and ashes for their egregious House Song entry earlier in the day. Few penances can have been more enjoyable, for aside from watching the Tallons' performance (which at one stage involved them coming to blows over who had the right answer) there was the hilarity following the questionmaster's hint at the correct answer to the question 'Which county has the longest coastline?'. When he suggested that anyone not getting the right answer might be expelled, he imagined that it was general knowledge that the Headmaster (who was present in the front row to award the trophies) was devoted to his native Cornwall. He had not anticipated the reverence/awe/fear of Tallon senior for his housemaster which prompted him to answer 'Shropshire' - where his housemaster gardens - despite the fact that Shropshire is landlocked. Much mirth resulted as the Headmaster reminded all that 'I do the explusions.' P.J.B.

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SERMONS A MATTINS SERMON THE RIGHT REVEREND DR. GEOFFREY ROWELL, BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE SUNDAY, 16th JANUARY

'The God whom I proclaim is the one whom you already worship without knowing it. ' (Acts 17.23) A few years ago I went with a party of students to the central American republic of Guatemala. It is a very beautiful country, with volcanic mountains, lush valleys and large tracts of rain-forest. Of all the Latin American countries it is the one which has the largest popufation of native peoples who were there before the Spanish conquest in the s ixteenth century. The ancient Mayan people are in fact the majority, though they have little political power and there has been a long history of oppression and violence. One of the places that we visited was Lake A titian - a stunningly beautiful lake, overlooked by three perfectly shaped and placed volcanic mountains. Round the edge of the lake are twelve villages, each bearing the name of one of the twelve apostles . In one of these - Santiago, or St. James - we discovered that there was a strange cult practised , and we ho~ed to be able to learn something about it. We asked in the village for the ' Casa di Sant Simon or 'Maximon', and were directed up narrow streets, to a small doorway which led into the courtyard of a house. We explained the purpose of our visit and were taken into an inner room, where we were confronted with a life-size statue of 'Maximon', who had feet but no legs, and was a cross between a Mayan god and a Spanish Franciscan friar. Several Don Juan hats were placed on his head, a Spanish cloak was round his shoulders, and a smouldering cigarette was pushed between his lips. At his feet were several bottles of Quetzalteca - the local strong spirit - and packets of cigarettes and cigars left as offerings. To one side there was a large Spanish crucifix, and a young man was prostrating himself earnestly in supplication before Max1mon . We were told that on Good Friday and other days when there are religious processions, Maximon is carried along with Christian banners, crosses and the Sacrament. I suppose that encounter with the cult of Maximon must rank as the most explicit example of what we know as 'syncretism', or the merging and mixing of different faiths , that I have encountered. The Spanish conquistadors brought Christianity to central and Latin America. They found native Mayan religion, which included many practices such as human secrifice, and in general they stamped it out. But, as the worship of Maximon shows, not altogether. Alongside the new faith, and mixed up with it, elements of the older religion survived , and were accommodated. The encounter between Christianity and other religions is high on the agenda of the churches today , not least because clashes of religious identity contribute to many of the world's most bitter problems. I am a member of the Church of England Doctrine Commission, and at the moment we are writing a report on Salvation. Part of that report will inevitably have to deal with the question of the salvation of those of other faiths, and there are tough questions here . Just before Christmas I found myself called up by the JimmÂĽ Young Show to answer questions about hell. (The Sunday Times later described me as the Bntish authority on that subject - I once wrote a book called Hell and the Victorians .) In the last century part, though not by any means all, of the motivation for Christian mission was a desire to save the perishing heathen from the eternal flames. But as the world grew smaller, and people in the churches realised the numbers of those who had never heard of Jesus Christ simply for reasons of geography, the picture of a God who would condemn such people to hell for not believing in Jesus Christ, of whom they had never heard, seemed utterly intolerable. It flew in the face of the very God whom Jesus proclaimed as Father. 93

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O n the other hand if it is a matter of sheer indifference what our faith is - what is the character and nature of the God who is our ultimate reality in which we place our trust - then not only are there no grounds fo r Christian mission, there is no gospel, no good news of Jesus Christ. It may be tempting to say that all religions are equal ways to God, but that ignores the fac t that there are real differences between diffe rent religio ns as well as some elements which seem to be shared in common. Paul came to Athens, as we heard in our lesson . He was on a m ission to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to the Gentile world . St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles tells how the Christian gospel spread from Jerusalem to Rome, to the heart of the ancient world. In Paul 's visit to Athens we see the gospel of Jesus and the Easter hope proclaimed in a city that was the symbolic centre of G reek philosophy and theological reflection . In co ming to Athens , with its many shrines and temples , Paul was ho rrified. We heard how Luke puts it: 'His whole so ul was revolted at the sight of a city given ov.e r to i~olatry' . ~au! had been a strict Jew. He was schooled in a f~ith which fo rbade the makmg of Idols and Images. He knew the struggle of the prophets agamst the Canaanite religions which surrounded Israel. Pagan worship ho rrified him. He debates and disputes, and is invited to speak before the. great Cou':lcil of the ~reopagus. ~ow ~oes he cho~se to communicate the gospel? He looks, amidst all the Idolatry wh1ch scandalised h1m , for a pomt of positive affirmation . You people of Athens, you care about religion, you have so many shrines, so many gods, so many even, that you have an altar s imply inscribed 'To an Unknown God'. 'Well , the God whom I proclaim is in fact the one whom you already worship without knowing it', Paul does not endorse the worship of Athene or Zeus, or any particular Greek deity; though he does endorse the religious quest; and he tells his Greek audience that the God whom he proclaims is o ne who is the source and origin of all , and d raws all of every nation to himself. All nations, by feeling the ir way towards him, might succeed in finding him . Yet in fact he is not far from any o ne of us, since it is in him that we live and move and have our being. And Paul ends by proclaiming the resurre~tion o.f Jesus Christ, the o ne ~ho i~ the r~velati?n o_f <;Jod and the criterion by which the world wJII be Judged. And at that pomt h1s aud ience IS divided. There are pointers in Paul 's address at Athens to the way in which Christians co ntinued in the past and have conti nued still to proclaim the gospel in a world of other faiths. In the early centuries the re were Christian apologists - the most famous is Justin, martyred for his faith about the year 165 A .D. - who saw anticipations of Christ in Greek religion and philosophy. Christ was the word of God , but there were seeds of the word to be fo und in the religious quest of humanity. Christ was the fulfiller of truth o~ God partially known , a~ well as th~ j ud~e. of distorting error. There were others more consciOus of contrast, of the lig ht of Chnst shmmg in a dark world - and their words are words of judgement. But for both Jesus Christ is the criterion , is the revelatio n of God by which all are judged . And the j udgement is a j udgement of love, for what Jesus shows us is a God of love and g race and mercy, who goes to the uttermost to save the wo rld he created. It is in that same love that Christians are to proclaim and live out the ir faith. They are to ' speak the truth in love' . And part of that ' speaking the truth in love' will be a reverent receptivity to the faith o~ others; a ~illingness t? se.e in them the face of J~sus Christ. And that can and should go hand m hand w1th a deep faith m the God who has g1ven himself to us in Christ, and whose gift of Easte r life is our hope, and our foretaste of heaven. In one sense 'Christianity' even fo r Christians is as much a human religion as any other faith. It is embedded in history fro m the beginning . When s t.Âˇ Aug ustine was sent here by Pope G regory in the sixth century he was given wise advice by that most pastoral of Popes: ' Don ' t condemn the customs of the people unnecessarily. Some things you will have to stand against in the name of Christ; but baptise all that you can into Christ'. So customs and ways of worship were included, j ust as Christmas started as a Roman festival taken over by the Church. The feast of the Unconquered Sun at the d ying of the year, became the feast of the Sun Of R ig hteousness, Jesus Christ whose lig ht shone in the darkness and the darkness was not able to overcome it. Maximon in remote G uatemala , with his c igarettes and Q uetzalteca spirit stands, perhaps a little uncertainly, in the same traditio n. And all religio ns will in the end be j udged by the love revealed to us in Jesus Chr ist, which moves the sun and o ther stars . For that love alo ne is heaven ; and separation from it is hell. T hat is the real choice of eternal life and eternal death. ' At the end he will examine you in love' . 94

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT HONOR GRIFFIN'S MEMORIAL SERVICE KATHLEEN M. COURT SATURDAY, 5th FEBRUARY AT BRIDGE

First of all I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ho nor's parents for this wonderful opportunity for us to co me together and thank God for the part which Ho nor played in our lives, and to celebrate her memory. What started out as a chance fo r her Canterbury and Bridge friends 10 say ~oodbye has grown into S<?mething much wider, and we welcome here with us today family and fnends from several counties. w e all have in common with one another that there is an Ho nor-shaf ed hole recently appeared in the fabric of our lives . How large and what shape that hole is, wil vary from one to another of us. Some of you probably o nly knew Honor in a fo rmal, professional way, and so the hole is small. Some of us here today, and most notably her close family, had the kind of relationship that means that the hole is very large indeed. Yet the whole emphasis today is not on how much poorer we are for her departing, but on how much richer we are for having known and been loved by her. In the words of the Hebrew saying : ' Say not in grief, she is no more, but, in thankfulness , that she was' . I have been fascinated recently to meet and talk to other friends of Honor, some of whom were previously o nly names to me . Much of what they had to tell me chimed in with my own perceptions of Honor, and it is o n that basis that I wish to speak for the next few minutes. It will be ~ood to talk to many of you at the tea afterwards and find out if you can relate to what I am go mg to say. This is not then the sort of potted biography type of address, but more like a character reference , I think; my only qualification for doing this is based on twenty years' acquaintance, fourteen years of close friendship. The read ing from I Corinthians 13 was especially chosen with Honor in mind; it seemed to me that she exemplified in her attitudes and personality the best aspects that Paul describes here as representing Christian love at work. May I read to you again the middle portion of the passage which Sue has j ust read, verses 4-7 . T he patience and kind ness, the tota l inability to push herself forward in a world increasingly aggressive and competitive, the total lack of vindictiveness, are all Honor's q ualities - as are the honest and upright stance and the capacity for endurance and hope. O ne of her neig hbours in Tunbridge Wells said to me that he never heard her say a bad word against anyone. Neither did I. Honor was one of the most positive people I have ever known . In fact 'positive' has been the single most used adjective I have heard from all quarters. Whatever the problem she never sat down unde_r it and bewailed her lot. She found some way to cope, picked herself up and carried on, usually w1th a cheerful smile too. T he main , but not the only, problem that I have in mind was of course the cancer, which she concealed to a large extent from those working around her. She pro~ected others by and large fro m a complete picture of ho w she was affected; but she read everythmg she could lay her hands on, and talked to as many experts as possible, in order to grasp intellectually what was happening inside her. She never failed to face up to the threat it posed. She showed this positive spirit in the way she enrolled and enjoyed the return to nursing course at Benenden Hospital for six weeks last summ er, meanwhile fitting in her no rmal hours at King's. Her positiveness gave expression to the dig nity with which she bore the unjust sentence she had rece1ved. It was also shown in the target setting she made for herself. None of us present will ever forget that memorable fiftieth birthday lunch party , boo ked a year ahead with participant gu~sts as well as the hotel. That was a real achievement. Like so much else in the last year or so .1t required real courage , and done at a time when she was talking about the sword of Damocles p01sed over her head - and that was the phrase she used. Honor was also a very co mpassionate person ; I don 't j ust mean in a professional capacity, as part of the job, whether as teacher or nurse. I mean on the personal level. I was certainly gl~d of her sympathetic ear during problems at school. For eighteen months she was the only fnend I could risk having at the meal table with my seni le mother, for fear of what m ight happen; 95

Honor was always patient and kindly with Mum, however ?ifficult t~e oc~asion, and ~upportiv.e of me. When we ran the big New Testament Conference m the Umvers1ty of Kent m 1983, It was Honor who helped us , and on her own judgement left our school minibus behind and put Bishop John Robinson in her comfortable car to reach the Cathedral or Leeds Castle .. He died of cancer a month later, and she had read the signs aright. Compassion became self-givmg when the cause was right. Honor lived life to the full; someone said to me last week that she fitted as much into fifty years as most of us fit into eighty. In her meticulous way there were always lists - lists of things to do, places to go to, programmes to see, letters to write ~nd people to v.isit. She used,to rush in at our back door, scan the contents of the oven for charnng or dehydratiOn, and say, I know ·I 'm late, but I just had to do whatever it was ... this or that'; and you kno.w she'd just squee~ed another few items into a packed schedule. She was such a good comJ?anton you could fo_rg1ve her anything. It was in fnendship particularly that her life was very nch. Ahson appropnately quoted Dr. Johnson o_f Honor, that ' She kept h~r frien~ships i~ good repai r'. The pres~nc~ of so many people in this church today , representmg vanous penods and areas of Honor s hfe, is testimony to the truth of that. She loved travelling and I am so pleased she had that last trip to Austria with Sue last summer; she proudly reported on her return how you had hired bicycles to get around and how she had cycled without getting puffed. She loved reading: newspapers, magazines and books were devo~red avidly and the T .V. news was seriously watched. These all supplied her excellent convers~t10n. She h;d broad experience from travel round the world and in Britain, and from h~r readm.g to make her very interesting on a wide range of topics. John and I have fond memones o~ Fnday nights with a bottle of wine (she had good. taste in that too), while we moved fro~. a gossip about the Langton to wider issues. Many's the time that the D . ~.E. or the N.H.S. pohc1es c~me un~er severe scrutiny; deservedly so. She had views on everythmg, I can only remember us d1sagreemg once - on the Common Agricultural Policy of all things, though for the life of me I cannot remember why. The vicar at her funeral said some of us would be asking if this premature death was a waste? It had never actually occurred to me that it was. All that love and kindness could not possibly be· a waste. It benefitted the giver as well as the recipient. Honor was an asset, she .packed a lot of living and a lot of experience into the shorter than average ti.m e she was per~Itted_, and even if the thought that it was waste does cross th~ mi~d, may I remm? you of th~ Ed1th S!t,well saying: 'Love is not changed by death, and nothmg IS lost, and all m the end IS harvest .

A MATTINS SERMON THE REVEREND BRIAN PORTER, CHAPLAIN OF IVANHOE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, VICTORIA SUNDAY, 13th MARCH

From this morning's lesson from Acts 6:8-15 about the trial preceding the f!Iartyrdom of ~t. Stephen : 'We have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed on to us'. · As young people you ' re probably not frightened of change: you accept its inevitab ility .a~d see most change as for the good. Not changing things is viewed by you as mor.e character~stiC of the old. Some of you would like to change the world and see as utterly cymcal the saymg. ' If you're not a socialist at 18. there's som~thing wrong ,with your heart, and if you' re still a socialist at 40 , there's somethmg wrong with your head . 96

In a church epicentre such as this, some of you are bound to see the Church as inescapably entombed by its past , t~e 'T ory party at prayer', and all that. But more often than not, the tombs which tourists inspect m cathedrals commemorate movers and shakers like St. Stephen , agents of change . Let's consider this morning one of this cathedral' s tombs dear to me as an Australian. It's down there in the south ais~e, ne~r the south-west porch. It's the tomb of one of your old boys _ or should we say more mclus1vely these days - one of your former pupils: William Grant Broughton. He signed his letters 'W. G. Australia ' because he was the first and only Bishop of Australia. He died in 1853 while on one of his periodic visits back to England. The Dean and Chapter at the time decided to bury Broughton here in the cathedral, the first bishop to be so honoured since Cardinal Pole during the Sixteenth-century Reformation. I wonder why this decision was taken? Let me propose three reasons. First, Broughton loved this school, and here he was changed. Here as a King's Scholar between 1797- 1803 his intellectual fo undations were laid down . Here he decided to be a priest. Here he met his wife Sarah, who was the daughter o~ his housemaster. Here he came on his regular visits to the mother country and whenever possible, down to the school 's Feast Day . He died on just such a visit, and so they interred him in his native earth. Of King' s he wrote: ' The odour of piety and goodness was inhaled here, and has lingered in my memory all my life'. There is no doubt that an environmental osmosis must leave its influence on all of you who today worship in such a magnificent bu ilding and learn in such a noble setting . Second, King's at the time of Broughton 's burial was very much under the direct control of the cathedral. The Dean and Chapter must have noted that when their important old boy founded Australia's fi rst Anglican publ ic school in Sydney in 1832, he named it, with royal permission, The King's School, and adopted and adapted the Canterbury crest for its own. I served on the staff of th is Austral ian King's School in the 1970s, and on my fou r visits to Canterbury I have always. looked fo r the Australian school's cres~ twinned with yours above your quadr~ngl e . In 1848 B1shop Broughton helped found St. Augustme's College, now part of Kmg's, as a miSSIOnary training college. , Third, Broughton was a very significant colonial churchman , who set in train the eventual establishment of an Anglican Church of Austral ia . He realised that the English established church could never be perpetuated in the Australian colony. He worked hard to see government by synod introduced well ahead of the same process in the Church here.Âˇ Bishop Broughton felt that dec isionmaking should be shared by the bishop with his clergy, and by the clergy with the lay people. Broughton was a man who embraced and worked for change. As Bishop of Australia , even though physically handicapped by lameness, he lived a hard and strenuous life, travelling by horse north and south , east and west, around our vast continent. He endured bush fires, drought , 40 degree temperatures, the silence of the great Australian bush, and the emptiness of the interior. He attracted contention because he was a strong leader. However, 'he was everywhere honoured', concludes Broughton 's entry in The Australian Dictionary of Biography , 'for his devot ion and probity . He did nothing to court an easy popularity' . He was a tough and somewhat crotchety character. .Why then should you spare a thought for th is old boy, when next you pass his tomb? For th1s r~ason : parents need to be open to the possibility that they can learn from thei r children. Cons1der this : the daughter colonial church in Austral ia 150 years ago pioneered the democratic process of synodical government, which the mother church came to emulate later on . Then in recent years many of the thirty-two provinces which make up the worldwide 70 million l~em.b~rs Anglican Commu nion have ordained more than 2,000 women to the priesthood . S1gn1f1cantly, the fi rst of these was a Chinese woman ordained exactly fifty years ago; the first won~an consecrated a bishop in 1989 was a black American; and the first woman diocesan bishop was mstalled in 1990 in Dunedin, New Zealand, which is about as far away from mother Canterbury as you can get. 97

The decision to ordain in each case would have been made by general and local synods. Yesterday in Bristol Cathedral the mother Church of England, after a protracted and tortuous synodical process, and with the ratification of Parliament, ordained your first women priests - as one of the last major Anglican churches to do so! And English pessimists are saying that this will destroy the Church of England, because it is changing the customs handed down to it. The Church of England is currently fearful of division and defection. So was the Australian church. But as Bishop Penny Jamieson of Dunedin said to us in Australia as our debate ground on: 'Do not be afraid. The gifts of women will enrich your church immeasurably. Your church will grow from strength to strength '. Now Bishop Broughton would never have even contemplated the ordination of women, but church government was his speciality, and he was all for national and provincial church self-government and for widening the Anglican variety of Christianity. Mother did come to learn from her children. And that is a message for any parent, or teacher for that matter: be open to the possibility that your children will challenge and change you in undreamed-of ways . Parents and teachers: children are not your property, and in many ways they are your best teachers of a rounded humanity. And pupils, gently educate your parents from time to time to let you grow up . Wean them from regarding you as their property. Teach them to value your unique individuality and to cope with your growing up. King's was one of the pioneers of co-education in the English public schools and today perhaps its best exponent. No doubt the debate about this issue waxed strongly at the time. But some movers and shakers were unafraid, and obviously carried the day. Who would go back now or claim that this school has been impaired rather than enriched by its outward and visible acknowledgement that half the human race is female, and that the world is co-ed and co-res? The complementarity of women and men, in all walks of life, is now here to stay. This mornin~'s lesson has focussed on the trail-blazer Stephen , honoured for his devotion and probity, who dtd nothing to court an easy popularity. Far from it. For St. Stephen, soon after his trial, became the first Christian martyr. He so rattled the elders and the scribes that they accused him of blasphemy in upholding Jesus as an agent of change. And so the roll call of Christian martyrs began. This great company of witnesses is movingly memorialised in the Chapel of the Modern Martyrs up in the Corona here behind the high altar. All the saints are those who have lived out Cardinal John Henry Newman's aphorism that 'to grow is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often'. Commemorating the saints is to do with re-membering, putting together again aspects of their life and witness. Re-membering in this context is usually to do with loving. Philip Larkin' s poem about another tomb in another cathedral expresses this ever so eloquently. Do you know it? Larkin visited Chichester Cathedral and saw there the scarred and despoiled fourteenth-century tomb of the Earl and Countess of Arundel. They lie there in state, much disfigured, but their effigies are hand in gloved hand: 'What will survive of us is love' concludes Larkin. And so it is with us. ll How would you like to be remembered at the end of your long life? By being buried in Canterbury ~ Cathedral? That is a very remote possibility. Sit at your desk one day when it is wet and morbid and write your own obituary. Would you like to be remembered for the quality of your loving, ., I wonder? And who has taught you to love? Writing your own funeral address is a salutary exercise, which I commend to you. T hen again, in an introspective moment, ask yourself these questions: What in my life would I like to change? What changes can't I face? What is the most tmportant thing I would like to be remembered for? Who and what do I love the most, and why? And as you leave the cathedral this morning, should you pass by Bishop Broughton's tomb near the south-west porch, spare a thought for one of your own. He loved your school and this place so much that they honoured him by burying him here. I speculate that it is even faintly possible that as Bishop Broughton spoke in the councils of the church in Australia and Westminster as with Stephen , some hearers would have feared his urgings. Others, though, might have looked intently at him and seen that his face, like Stephen's, sometimes shone like the face of an angel. For he was a visionary and we certainly need such catalysts of change in church and society today. Headmaster, I thank you for your friendship over twenty years, and your kind invitation to speak this morning. May King's Canterbury continue to flourish. Amen. 98 (Clare Baldwin [She))

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MUSIC AND DRAMA WALPOLE/GRANGE HOUSE CONCERT SUNDAY , 30th JANUARY, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

The concert opened with the combined Walpole/Grange House Orchestra playing Purcell's Rondo, conducted, somewhat statuesquely, by Emma Pyke. The opening was confident, a nd the tone from the string department was good, although the intonation was, at times, a little shaky. This was followed by a vocal trio, Helena Ancock, Claire Alder and Harriet Burgess, singing two Negro Spirituals - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Steal Away to Jesus . The balance between the voices and the diction was good , although the singing was just a shade sharp in places in the first item. A fine performance of Mozart's Rondo in D was then given by Tak Loon Khong. He played with much sensitivity , and his dynamic expression and rhythm were very good. This was followed by another trio, this time on three recorders, of Rachel H ill , Mary Stevens and Annabel Whibley. Three items were played , Swinging on a Star by Jimmy van Heusen, Summertime by Gershwin and I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter by Fred Ahlert. The coordination between the players was good throughout, although in Summertime, the accompaniment sometimes overshadowed the melody. The Capel freres then played Minuetto by Mozart, with James on the oboe and Peter on the french horn. The horn is not an easy instrument to get to grips with, but despite a few ciphers here and there, Peter the younger managed his part well. The balance between the instruments was good, but there were a few shaky moments towards the end. Yet another trio followed, this time an oboe trio by Beethoven played by Annabel Whibley and Ophelia Beer, oboes, and James Capel, cor anglais. They played well as an ensemble, with a delightful light tone. The Walpole and Grange Tutors then gave a rendition of Ernst Toch's Geographical Fugue. It" was Mendelssohn who wrote several songs without words; the Geographical Fugue, by contrast, comprises words without a song. Nevertheless, it is rhythmically extraordinarily demanding, and this seemed not to be always appreciated by the audience. The performers seemed to have been divided into teams rather than voices, and I have to say that, competitively speaking, there is no doubt that Mr. Wood's team won not only on its virtuosity but also on its vtsual and aural impact. Next, an exceptionally fine performance of Elgar's Salut d 'Amour was given by Laurence Ridges, accompanied by C hristian Bottomley at the piano. Bearing in mind that Laurence is only in the Shells this year, I'm sure we shall be hearing much more of him and his saxophone in the years ahead. He was followed by two vocal items, Linger a While by Vincent Rose, a fourpart close harmony piece. With the voices divided up between ten performers, the harmony was sometimes a little too close! Vive l 'Amour was a traditional song sung in an appropriately lighthearted way. Philippa Gort-Barten and Emma Pyke at the piano then played The Arrival of the Queen Sheba by Handel. I rather gained the impression that the Queen had arrived by Network SouthEast rather than by TGV, or even camel! This was followed by two duets by Mozart, played , firstly, by Georgina Salmon and Rupert Mead , clarinets, and secondly by Rachel Hill and Andy Saunders, clarinets. Both duos were well together and played expressively. The final solo item was Chanson by John Rutter, played by Michelle Traylor, flute, accompanied by Philippa Gort-Barten on the piano. The coordination between the flute and the piano was sometimes somewhat aw ry, and Michelle didn't give the appearance of having very much enthusiasm for the piece. Finally, the customary House Song: an opportunity for not only those who can sing, but those who think they can' t and those who know they can't, as well as those who demonstrably can't, to cram themselves onto the stage and ' have a go'. The stage was so crowded that the Shells 100

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ad to sit with their legs dangling off the front edge of the stage. The combined forces sang

~ershwin 's I got Rhythm. Fortunately, those in the first two categories swamped those in the

last two, and a great time was had by all. There is undoubtedly a great deal of musical talent in these two Houses. Not infrequently, pair of bright yellow ear protectors is de rigueur at House concerts; I didn't have to get mine ~ut at all thts evening! Well done, one and all. R.V.J.B.

MARLOWE HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY , 5th FEBRUARY, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

To an outside r such as myself the Marlowe House Concert came as something of a surprise. Out of a house of some four or five dozen pupils one would expect to find a certain amount of talent emerging, but to be confronted with such a cornucopia of varied abilities was not at all what I had expected. It is a remarkable achievement that it should be possible to assemble an orchestra of twenty p layers (even if two, the violinist Michael McConnell and the viola player/pianist Jeremy Bmes, were imported fro m elsewhere). To think up a repertoire for an ensemble consisting of seven violins, one viola, three cellos, four flutes, one saxophone and four assorted brass players would be an ass ignment to set many a seasoned impresario scratching his head. To perform a challenging and varied programme to a standard which never dropped below the enjoyable and several times rose to the outstanding deserves multiple pats on the back. For such an evening's entertainment to be not only planned but actually performed there has to be both a mastermind and a firm hand at work - don' t tell me that all these participants were begging to spend their precious spare time rehearsing - and I am told that in both capacities we have to salute Matthew Brown. During the course of the evening I had already mentally saluted several Matthew Browns - Matthew Brown on the trumpet, Matthew Brown on the treble recorder, Matthew Brown on the bass recorder (that weird-looking instrument which could so easily be mistaken for part of the guttering), Matthew Brown of the Barber's Shoppe Quartet, and above all the Matthew Brown whose sophisticated phrasing in a Purcell sonata for the notoriously tricky piccolo trumpet marked one of the high points of the programme. I have no doubt that in the dragoon ing of his forces his assistant directors Adam Bissill , Jo McConnell and James Murch did him proud, but even so he must have been a busy young man. Versatility was in general the key-note of the evening. In a team of such consistent excellence it is perhaps invidious to single out indiv idual talents, but some do deserve special mention. Iona Coltart impressed both as violinist and vocalist ; in a Shostakovich violin duet she and the admirable Dan Bartlette worked up a fine degree of Slav ic intensity, and there was plenty of feeling, too, in her delivery of the song Why can't it al ways be this way? (If she had had time to memorise it it would have hit the audience even harder. ) In this she was admirably accompanied by Melissa Dawson-Bowling, who proved herself to be as much at ease at the piano as she was on the flute. Then there was Camilla Pay, who followed up two outstandingly sensitive harp solos by seating herself at the piano and both playing for and singing with another delightful vocalist, Hannah Mackenzie. They performed their own arrangements of two songs by Willy Russell - and how delightful to hear this style of song sung by people who don't need to swallow a microphone in order to get themselves heard . There was a dazzling virtuoso display on the recorder by Jo McConnell, who skipped her way through the rhythmic complexities of a movement by Heberle, soon to reappear showing equal expertise on the flute. Dan Bartlette, when not leading the orchestra, the string quartet and various other groups on his violin, made a surprise appearance in an excellently coordinated trio of alto saxophones (along with James Bissill and Jonathan Murch), before adding sterling work as a member of the aforementioned Barber's Shoppe Quartet - though emotion threatened to overcome him during the ir impassioned and doubtless richly deserved tribute to the outstand ing virtues of Matron. 101

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Mention must also be made of Jonathan Murch's dramatic dashes from one orchestral section to another - I have never come across a professional orchestra in which one of the violinists would also oblige on the sax- and of James Murch's several contributions on the cello. Nice work too by Dom Pett, Tristan McConnell, Justine McConnell, Nancy Colchester and Kate Porges in the opening orchestral selection . Another contributor whom I cannot possibly ignore was Madeleine Morgan. Not content with her role as orchestral violinist she performed a clog dance of remarkable expertise while Matthew Brown (natch) , Adam Brown, Thom~s Wacher and ~amuel Park~r provided the.brass quartet accompaniment. I must confess to havmg known nothmg of the sktlls of clog dancmg, but~ was . lucky enough to be sitting scarcely a couple of yards from her flashing feet (to many of the audtence she was unfortunately invisible, and they missed something special) but in a brief conversation afterwards she was kind enough to shed a little light on my ignorance. I am still not sure what is the normal costume for this style of dance, but the air of formality bestowed by performing it in the King's academic uniform added an intriguing element of solemnity to a delightful display. Miss Morgan was not , however, the only. terpsichorean particip~nt. As a surpr!se ~nale the hall was invaded by a stalwart gang of morns dancers, complete wtth patchwork Jerkms, bells concealed about their persons and stout staves in their hands. These were the Marlowe Shells, and right lustily they laid about them . Not a staff was dropped, not a pate was clouted, and should any of them have parents who are niggardly with allowances there w.ould a~suredly be rich p~cki~gs for them busking in the High Street. As an encore they repeated thetr routme plus the parttctpatton of an unrehearsed Mystery Celeb~ity . The disappointment of those who were anxious to see.the lissom figure of the Headmaster tmpressed from the front row was soon assuaged by the stght of Marlowe's purple, Adam Bissill , who had already distinguished himself as a flautist, leaping into the fray and adding to the choreography a soup<;on of the noble art of self-defence. T he list of credits would not be complete without the names of two seasoned experts, Mr. Bill McConnell as conductor and Mr. Stephen Pinnock as accompanist, or of our genial comperes, Thomas Mackenzie (also a pillar of the Barber's Shoppe) and Barry Cameron, Marlowe's answer to the Two Ronnies. T hey kicked off with the best John Major joke I had heard all week and their slick and sophisticated routines set the seal on a con~istently sparky evening. In his welc.orning speech Mr. Reid expressed the hope that we would all enJOY ourselves. It would have been dtfficult not to. N IGEL DOUGLAS.

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR THE SCHOOL HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY 5th AND SUNDAY 6th FEBRUARY , IN ST. MARY'S HALL

T he essential difficulty in having to write up a House play is that one is generally expected to be fully complimentary . It is a further difficulty, when the play was genu ine~y excellent, to do it justice. Nonetheless St. Mary's Hall became the venue of an excellent ptece of drama. The scenery, costumes and lighting were ke~t very _simple . La~ders wer~ used to gi':'e visual variety to a space which present~ a number of ~tfficulttes to t~ose. mvolv~d m a productiOn. The set consisted of a number of flymg frames whtch wer~ effe~ttve m the ~tlhouettes they created, and the irregular style they gave to the stage. Extra dtmenswns were gtven to the dr~ma by the use of these with neat lighting. T his gave the impression of tightly rehearsed and stmply well organised theatre. Congratulations must be awarded to the technical crew for this great achievement. T he greatest pleasure of the evening was, however, the acting. When the Postmaster says: 'You ought to put this stuff in a play, it would be a riot', he is right. It was a riot. The actors brought across Gogol's emphasis .on the comic psychol~gy of the corrupt townsfolk very wel.l. Paranoid nervousness, coupled wtth a perverse compulsiOn to confess was seen perhaps best .m Robert Thomas and Adam Chataway. The farcical nature of the play was developed well wtth 102

set-piece routines _in ~h!ch Gogol 's jur_npy provincial person~el project the identity of the incognito inspector ont? ~n mst&mficant clerk. Stmon Johnson gave a htgh-energy performance that displayed vocal talent m tts. v~ne_ty, a~d a great ability for comic timing. Through the casting we received a number of comtc mstghts mto the play wtth the aid of successful cameras. Adam Withrington and Peter Lambert should be congratulated for displaying a depth of acting that is not frequently shown on the stages of Hou~e plays. The audiences came away with a refreshing sense that this is one of the gr~atest comedtes in world drama; and this must be attributed to cast, crew , Gogo! and Mr. Dobbm. ELIOT SHRIMPTON .

CRYPT CHOIR CONCERT FRIDAY llth FEBRUARY, IN THE EASTERN CRYPT

It was a wise ~ove to select the Eastern Crypt of the Cathedral as the venue for a concert by the C.rypt Chotr on the eve o~ their departure for Ge~m~ny for a shor~ to':lr at the beginning of the mtd-te~m exeat. ~ot .only ts the Eastern Crypt, wtth tts early Gothtc ptllars and vaulting, admirably smted for thts kmd of recital from an acoustic point of view but also, it provides a more intimate atm~sphere. ~~n the larger ~oma~esque Cryi?t to the west, which is usually a li~rgical setting for the mustcal acttvtttes of the chotr. Mtchael Hams, who conducts the choir, had compiled an excellent ~nd well varied programme for his singers and players in which unaccompanied motets (four m each section) were interspersed with pieces of chamber music for instrumental players, ~ ith the recital culminating in a Mozart mass in which the full choir with soloists and a small stn ng orchestra and the organ were all able to take part. Regular worshippers in the cathedral greatly appreciate Michael Harris's abilities as an organist, both as an accompanist and also as a recitalist with a large and varied repertoire. This concert revealed him as a gifted trainer of mixed voices and as a conductor capable of getting a fine response from his forces both choral and instrumental. The first group of unaccompanied anthems included familiar items from the cathedral repertoire -notably Byrd's jubilant motet Sing joyfully followed by Britten's lovely Hymn to the Virgin which has now attained the status of a Christmas carol with many choirs.' A novelty was The Call by John Tavener, a modern composer whose membership of the Russian Orthodox Church is revealed in the strength and character of his writing for unaccompanied voices. A charming verse anthem by Henry Purcell 0 God thou art my God which closed this group may have enlightened some members of the audience as to the origin of the very popular hymn tune 'Westmin~ter Abbey' (lifted from the anthem by a former organist of Westminster Abbey, Sir Sydney N tcholson). Two fine motets by Anton Bruckner, Locus iste and Os justi, prepared the way for the mo~t impressive of thes.e un.accompanied pieces, the ~otet Wamm ist das Licht gegeben by Brahms whtch the composer, msptred by the unaccompamed motets of J .S. Bach, wrote in 1897. This was perhaps the most finished performance of the evening from the works sung by the choir alone. Variation in the programme was achieved by inserting two pieces of chamber music- a trio sonata by the French baroque composer, J. B. Loeillet, in which Matthew Brown and Michael Peat produced delightful sounds from two recorders supported by Emily Elias at the organ and Alice Lascelles on the cello. The second part of the programme was devoted to Mozart. First came a Church Sonata in C for two violins (Sarah Petrie and Daniel Bartlette), cello (Alice Lascelles) and organ played by Emily Elias. This made a charming introduction to the piece de resistance of the evening, the Missa brevis in F. Mozart's best known settings of the Latin mass are usually magnificent ?Ompositions - richly scored for full orchestra with plenty of solo work. But a Missa Brevis ts naturally a liturgical composition on a small scale and some of these are now becoming well kno~n in England and can be heard in Anglican churches and cathedrals no longer tied to the English communion service text of 1662. Of the nine settings of the Mass by Mozart in this short form, this one, lightly scored fo r two violins, cello and organ was an ideal concert piece 103

to conclude a recital either in Canterbury or in the German towns of Detmold and Wuppertal where the Crypt Choir and the instrumentalists were to proceed for their half-term visit abroad. This is a lovely work to listen to and Michael Harris conducted it with great zest, keeping up a steady pace and giving the four young soloists plenty of support as they alternated with the chorus in some of the numbers - no elaborate solo work in this setting of the Mass. Organ and string players complemented the choir in making this a fine finale to an excellent evening of sacred music. Those who were present will be looking forward to another recital of this kind in a not too distant future and some may be encouraged to be present at the 9.30 Eucharist in term time, not merely to listen to fine music, but to participate in a very worshipful service of which the music is an integral part. D.I.H.

THE TEACHER ACT THE KING'S SCHOOL STAFF REVUE APPRAISAL PROCESS The revue meeting took place in the Shirley Hall on Friday 11th February, at 7.30 p.m. We were accompanied thro ughout by the Maestro and the Meistersinger. It wasn 't always easy to work o ut what was going on, but Dr. Mallion and Dr. Hands were there as observers and they have placed a full record of proceedings in the School Archives. Since a written revue statement is required as a basis for discussion at the appraisal meeting, I have compiled this self-revue summary, following the guidelines set out in documents 1125a, b, c, d and e .

I. Do you look forward to seeing all your pupils? It can be frightening at first. There are so many of them, and only one of me. And it usually takes some time for them to settle' down. Fortunately, the Revue Coordinator gave me a perfect demonstration of what to do. It's obviously important to put on a bold front (and a bright red shirt) and to model yourself on an experienced teacher like Rowan Atkinson. At the same time, you have to be patient: make it clear that you can wait all day , if necessary. Above all, forget everything you were told at the staff training day on bullying, and pick on individual pupils. Start with Adams, and then single out those with silly names or other peculiar characteristics. Throw in a few jokes about Anthony, remind them that thwacking is still permitted, and in general show your complete contempt for the little blighters. After that introduction to the profession, I reckon I can face up to anything.

2. Do you enjoy what you do as much as you would like? It's nothing to write home about. In fact it's pretty awful. This place is no holiday camp. My uncle and auntie would have a fit if they knew what it's really like. What with the housemaster's cake, the lumpy custard and pasta shells (again) for tea - not to mention the boring science lesson (to say nothing of the naughty bits). I'm looking forward to early retirement, so that I can spend more time with my girlfriend, without her ho usemistress enforcing the six inch rule. Kindly disregard this section. Young Ron has put new heart into me. On second thoughts, therefore, perhaps th ings are not quite so bad after all . Tomorrow is another day.

3. Do you think pupils have changed or are changing (attitude, ability, willingness to work)? I don 't think that the pupils have changed all that much. Take the four 'old lags' who came round after the O.K.S. dinner. (Can it really be twenty years since they left? It seems like yesterday.) T hey were in nostalgic mood about the 'good old days'. It certainly makes you think, after all, having a new headmistress- especiall y one like Fiona Phillips. If you can believe them, it was no fun living ro ugh in the Undercroft pigeon-holes, or in the back of Dobbin's mouldy old Volvo, or even in a St. Augustine's wheelie-bin. Seven hours Life after Six, sixteen lessons before break: life was hard. And a ll the time the risk of being confiscated - or worse- by Humberstone.

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But one has to .sar that i~ doesn't se.em to .have done them any lasting harm. Perhaps it really was character-buJidmg. Mmd you, th1s particular quartet looked just the same when they were at school - lounging around, smoking and drinking, and going on about how much they had to do. But most of the time, if the truth were told, they were leading the life of Reilly. 4. Js classroom observation something practised in your department? I'm not quite sure wh.ether you'd describe it as 'classroom observation' exactly. It's something I practise as part of my b1rdwatching activity, organised through the Life after Forty-Six programme. If you kno"':' wher~ to loo~, you ?an see ~II kinds of interesting wildlife swanning around in the labs, 1.n the ltbrary! m the k1tc~ens , m Lardergate, and even in Hodgson's Hall. As with the ice-danc1~g .at the ~mter Olymp1cs, you're supposed to award marks for technical merit, but that's a b1t ltke takmg a nutcracker to hammer a sledge. So I tend to concentrate on artistic impression myself (and there's no shortage of perfect sixes). The trouble is that it's easy to get so excited and confused that you can't tell your Tonya from your Nancy or your Odette from your Odile (or even you're Siegfried). ' So the answer's 'not as often as I would like'.

5. What do you think about coursework? 'Moderation in all things' is my motto. Coursework can be very exhilarating when it's done well, even though it never seems to stop. No sooner have you started one l~t, than another comes along- and then another, and another, and another. You fi nd yourself go1~g round and round the houses, with hardly a moment's pause for breath .. Of course 1t he!ps hav~ng the great Mrs. Pickering right in the thick of things, but even then 1t gets so confusmg. at t1mes that Y?U need a n:ap from the geography department to find. your way around. The tn ck, of course,. 1s to keep nght up tt? date. If just one person gets behmd, the whole system collapses. (I can JUSt see why the Mus1c Department throw up their arms in horror at the whole affair.)

Eheu fugaces! 6. To what extent do you find departmental meetings helpful? Period.ically, they ~an be very helpful, but they do need careful preparatiop. It's also important to make .1t clear w~o s really m charge so that everyone works in harmony . You've got to get the chem1stry nght 1f you want your department to stay at the cutting edge of educational technology. Sometimes, however, the meetings are ab?ut as excit!ng as watching the chess on Ceefax , and even the head of department nods off. In wh1ch case, a b1t of Tomfoolery helps lighten the mood . Elementary, my dear Arnott. 7. Do you have time to read anything related to your subject? _In my subject~ it's particularly i!l'!portant to keep up wit.h curr~nt affai\s, so I try to read The T_Imes. on the tra1~ every day. Bu~ 1t s not always easy. Th 1s evenmg, for mstance, I was quietly d1gestmg the r~v 1e-v.; o~ A Question of Taste, when I was interrupted by this boring little man who looked as 1f he d J.ust come from the Pole. You know the type: anorak, woolly hat, multicoloured socks - obviOusly an escaped biologist. . I li ke a bit of vintage comedy myself, but this man 's 'humour' was not to my taste. In fact 11 really turned my stomach. The not so clever dick just went on and on and on about grasshoppers whales, mosquitos and giraffes - a sort of rondo perpetuo. ' Why ki ll 'em and cart 'em to Cante rbury? Now you know.

8. How do you identify teachers who are experiencing particular difficulties and who need particular help? That's easy. They're all short. About 5' 5" - that's the cut-off point. They've got little hands, little eyes, little noses and tiny little teeth, so they try to cheer themselves up by getting together and ~aving a little sing~so~g - pretending that short peop~e are just the same as you a.nd me. (They re very good at smgmg - perhaps they'll cut an abndged version on compact d1sc.) 105

From my point of view, however, it's only a minor problem. A quick pick-me-up is all they need. Or maybe they'll grow out of it one day.

9. How are this year's groups developing? (You may wish to comment on individuals.) There's one group that needs careful watching. They were fine when they were sweet little sixteen, but now they're just seventeen - you know what I mean? - they want to drive my car. They creep in so quietly on their rubber soles, but then they make a tremendous song and dance about everything. The girls are all right - top of the pops as far as I'm concerned - but it's the boys I'm worried about. Young Anthony is obviously a bit of a problem. He does a lot behind the scenes, and he's always popping up between lessons, dressed in non-standard change and moving the furn iture around. Do you think he's an attention seeker - the younger son syndrome, perhaps? He certainly gets plenty of it (attention, that is): the girls in the back row adore him. Young Steve used to look to cherubic - a real 'Johnny B. Goode'. But don't be fooled. He's been taking the lead in too much monkey business late!y. He's got no particular place to go, at present, so the sooner he gets back on track, the better. Chuck it, Steve. As for young Nick, the starr of the show, he strikes me as the traditional type - one of the original Dixieland jazz band. He's got a lot of talent, and he's one of those who wants to keeP. bashing away at things after everyone else has finished. He needs careful management, but tf he can drum up enough support, he might make it in the end. 10. Are equipment and facilities adequate? I'm a chalk and talk man myself, but I can appreciate the value of visual aids such as the B.B.C. 's public service fi lms. Practical demonstrations can also come in handy , so long as you've got an expert to show you what to do. Departmental resources are rather limited, and our first attempt at this sort of thing was a bit dicky. But once we'd mastered a simple experiment, we moved on to something more sophisticated. We're suckers for punishment, and even though the departmental budget was feeling the squeeze, we softened the blow by making the most of our own resources. Next time it should go with a bang, if the price is right. 11 . Are you content with the time you are able to give to your interests outside school? No. Even a simple thing like organizing a supper for my birthday seems to take all week. The Lower Master puts on a great show of being sympathetic - he's very good at that. (He's the nicest chap in Kent, when he wants to be.) He' ll even sing you a song about it, at the drop of a baseball hat. But can you imagine him going through all the hassle himself? Does he really understand the distractions a bloke has to face , what with Cocklin and his lady, that little chap called Pod, and all those fat piggies, with silly grins on their faces, who keep popping up in the background? The Canterbury police are light relief by comparison. So when Saturday night does come around , there's nothing much to do except mooch around waiting for something to turn up. I'll probably end up with a Chinese take-away. T he ultimate canard. 12. There are almost bound to be occasional 'traumas'. How do you feel you cope with these? Evenings can easily get out of hand . So if it looks as though there might be a crisis, and I can't find Dame Edna or Rumpole of the Bailey, I get John Parker to do duty. He can be very reassuring . He's got this knack of reminding you that however bad things may seem to be, there's always someone worse off than yourself - usually at Tonbridge. And that's enough to cheer anybody up . Of course Bridget's a great help, too. Her operatic approach can be a bit over the top at times, though I'm told it goes down very well in Shropshire, but she's particularly good in a tight spot. 106

John's always got a trick or two up his sleeve (and up his stairs). And he can usually find safe way of making even the most difficult situations vanish, as if by magic. After all, could aou find anyone else who can work out what the Parrish twins are thinking? Or who can tackle ~yles Orsler? Or who can cut Ryan Mannering down to size and get away with it? You're a real brick, John.

!3. Are your departmental resources adequate? They're fine . But it's i~portant that we don 't ~et carried away by the new technology. The cumulative effect of the Ntmbus may cloud our JUdgement, so that we can't see the word for the windows. In my opinion we should get back to basics and show our pupils the black and white classics from the golden age of silent cinema - those good old days when 'IT' meant Clara Bow. My own particular favourite is Das Cabinett des Dr. Pickering. That's the one where the innocent medical student Adam is led stray by the villainous 'Buster' Parker (Max Schreck at his chinjutting best), taken to ~he laboratory and dism~mbered by the I?anic Doctor and his staff.(Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fatrbanks, Jr. , D. W. Gnffith and Amenca's Sweetheart, Janet Ptckford). It's a masterpiece of expressionist horror, and it shows the Biograph Company at the top of their form. 14. To what extent and how often do you change your teaching techniques, and why? It's important that your lessons aren't over-prepared. A bit of spontaneity never did anyone any harm .. In .fact it' s the unpred i~tability tha~ makes it all so much fun. So you must be ready to improvtse tf necessary. One mmute you thmk you ' re the world 's worst teacher; but the next you're working wonders with a recalcitrant music stand; and then you are exercising your ingenuity on some strange new piece of equipment. You have to keep going, keep a straight face, and try to give the impression that you know what you're doing. Sometimes, of course, it works brilliantly, and you can have a whale of a time with the admission of scholars. But on other occasions, it's almost as nerve-wracking as proposi.ng ~arriage to a colleague. (I really must try that myself, one day. ) I think I'd feel safer bungy-Jumpmg.

15. When prospective parents visit your House, what pattern do you follow ? Are there any particular questions or lines of enquiry that consistently come from them? Take the classic case of a prospective mother, trying to choose a prospective housemaster for her prospective children. She turns up in her short skirt, fluttering her eyelashes and seeking her Platonic ideal - the fabulously absolute Apollo Milesitis. Of course, it 's unlikely that she'fl meet him in the groves of Academe. Indeed, you can't help sympathising with her on her odyssey, as she tries to steer he rself between Scylla and the triumviri nocturni. The three most common questions she is likely to ask are about attention spans, animal behaviour and, above all, discipline. Different housemasters react differently . Some adopt the traditional approach and emphasize their all-round sportiness; some hope that their artistic training will strike a cord ; while some rely on the purely technological approach. When it comes to the crunch, though, it's all in the lap of the gods . However carefully rehearsed you are - and even if Mr. Graham gives her that quick reminder - she might still end up making an unwise choice and teetering off with you know who. It goes to show we must be very careful. It's no longer a sellers' market.

16. Is there anything the school can do to help your development? I seem to be faced with a chorus of agreement on this one. (Indeed, it's profoundly reassuring to see such unanimity amongst the staff.) At this late stage there's probably not much anyone can do. After all , I don ' t know much about history - or politics- or anything, for that matter. But as long as everyone else is enjoying themselves, that's what really matters. It's a wonderful world. Appraisal Statement RA, RA, RA. Jolly Good Show. 107

(T.R.H.)

JAZZ CONCERT SATURDAY 26th FEBRUARY, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

The usual packed house, the usual anticipation, and the new age of King's School jazz got under way with St. Louis Blues. Philippa Gort-Barten on tenor saxophone was the first soloist of the new season, and she handled th~s r~sponsibility w.ith considerable poise. Cute, O?e of Hefti's fireproof arrangements, was played mc1s1vely, and w1th an excellent use of dynam1cs. HawaiiFive-0 was surprising and effective, and Little Brown Jug swung well. Insouls played two driving rhythm and blues numbers by way of contrast, and the big band show ended with Cy Oliver's Opus One, followed by a deserved encore, a reprise of Hawaii-Five-0. Jazz often discovers the true version of a song hidden within the original; and just as Louis Armstrong's version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife is clearly definitive, so the once-glib and once-dead T .V. themeHawaiiFive-0 was brought back to life . Colourful waistcoats signal Trad Jazz, and the small group produced confident and delightful performances. Best of the four numbers they played was Basin Street Blues after the interval, which went beyond the sixties trad feel of the group to deliver performance of real feeling, especially from Alex Neame on trombone. The barbershop quartet were pithy, compact and generally accurate - Ed Millard , Tom Jackson , Matt Brown and Luke Singer. Tom Jackson 's singing of Ain't Misbehavin' was perhaps a little formal for this quintessential jazz song, but his delivery was mellow , and he swung. No female singers, unfortunately , but it is good to see three girls in the saxophone section. Tremendous hard work is put into this event, from staff and pupils, and they must all be congratulated. Occasionally notes were split in the trumpet section, but there were high points too , the saxophones at times played with real ensemble flair, and the trombone section was at times as gruff and burry as if three Vic Dickensons were on the stand. Aided by professional drummer Ray Wilson, the orchestra kept time well and swung with considerable power, and there were times when they achieved that gorgeous unrolling-of-plush-carpet sound which is one of the things big-band jazz is all about. One of the high points of the evening was the stirring tenor sax solo in Sweet Home Chicago by Ed Millard, who unconsciously invoked the great Joe Henderson. Another high point was his energetic and accurate leadership, and his relaxed manner on stage when things went wrong. Another high point was his shorts . Fears that the King's School Jazz Orchestra might have been terminally weakened by the departure of last year's 6as were brushed aside. The orchestra will undoubtedly improve, and soloists will develop in confidence, but this concert was already very good, and the concert in King's Week will surely be something to hear. H.W.B.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT FRIDAY, 4th MARCH, IN THE OLD SYNAGOGUE

This varied and attractive programme opened with Requiem, Op. 66 for three cellos and piano by David Popper, a distinguished Austrian virtuoso cellist of the late nineteenth century. The three cellists , Nigel Field , Laura Marshall and Julia Triebel accompanied by Mr. Pinnock, were well-matched and apart from occasional uncertainty in the top register, their intonation was good and the rich overall sound very satisfying. A movement from Naderman's Sonata in F minor showed admirably the technical progress which Camilla Pay has made with her harp . This was attractive music and Camilla managed its considerable difficulties well with good variation in dynamics . Watkins' Fire Dance was more remarkable for its technical tricks than its musical content but Camilla carried them off with panache and to present both pieces from memory deserves special commendation. The J .K.S. Old Boys quintet - Matthew Brown and Matthew Hillier, trumpets, Tom Wacher, horn and Alex Neame and Nicholas Tattersall , trombones - gave us several movements for brass 108

from a sevent~enth cen~ury ~uite by Johann Pezel. This is essentially town band music written for the open a1r an~ a~ ti!JleS 1t was rather overpowering in the confined space of the Synagogue. But this IS ~ well-~1sc1plmed ensemble and th~y played. the contrasting movements with exceflent attack and mtonat10n, the dotted r.hythms bemg espec~ally weii,-P,ointed. It was also good to see the group make a proper~y-orgamsed bow to the aud1ence as 1t IS all part of concert etiquette. Matthew Brown and .N1c~olas ~attersall. displayed their ~e:satility by putting down their brass instruments and returnmg 1mmed1ately. With recorders to JOtn Adam Brown and Mary Stevens in two Rendsburger Dances composed m 1957 by Hans Poser. Sometimes the descant recorder was a little too strong for t~e lower i~struments but the overall playing was most accomplished and the gentle sound was Ideally suited to the Synagogue. . The string quartet of ~arah Petrie ~nd Tessa Coombe, violi?s, Jeremy Bines, viola and Nigel F1eld, cello are now qutte an e~penenced group but they dtd not seem at home in Puccini's Chrysanthemums. After a tentative start, the playing did improve but this essentially romantic music nee,ded more warmth and emotional commitment and a greater sense of flow . Stephen Matthews clever a~rangement of the Scott Joplin rag Country Club proved more to the quartet's taste and al~hough ~~ was a touc~ too solemn at times, the ragtime mood was generally wellconveyed with a particularly effective pizzicato section. The quartet's ensemble would be enhanced if they S!lt close~ together, the first violin and cello in particular being too far apart to hear each other w1th confidence. Further co~trast wa~ then pn~>Vided. ~y Emily Elias who sang two of the soprano arias from Bach ~ Magl}lficat? Qma respex1t hum1l~tatem a.nd Esurientes implevit bonis. She has a clear and att~act1ve vo1ce whiCh shows much prom1se and m general she sang musically and with confidence. Thts was another performance from memory which assisted rapport with the audience. Purcell's Golden Sonata is a fine :-vork and it :-va.s given a convincing performance by the young ensemble oflo?a.Coltart and Oph~II.a Beer on VIOlin and oboe respectively with Robert Van Allan and Anne-Chnstme ~arstad provtdmg cello and keyboard continuo. Despite a slight mishap in the sec<?nd slow sectiOn, Iona led well and there was some excellent tone and phrasing from the o~oe w1th confident support from t~e other two. For four players all only in their first year here th1s was a most commendable achievement. ' .The e~sence of Dvorak's Dumky Trio !s its contrasting sections of despair and elation and th1~ cont1ast was well caught by Sarah Petne and Laura Marshall with Jeremy Bines at the iano. Th1~ was a brave a~d l~rgely succe~sful at~empt at a technically difficult work and with further detailed re~earsal th1s tr10 could ach1eve a h1gh standard . There were occasional balance problems when the p1ano and cello ten~ed to ~>Verpo_wer the violin but the ensemble was good and by the ir prolonged applause the aud1ence nghtly JUdged this to be a fitting end to the concert. D.S.G.

THE BOY FRIEND THE JERVIS HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 5th AND 6th MARCH, IN ST. MARY 'S HALL

. From t~e recent spate of house plays, there cannot have been any that conveyed the enormous JOY of t.akmg pa!'l more .clearly than. th~ cast of .Mrs. Browning's production of the musical The B~y Fnend. A highly enJoyable evemng s entertamment was provided on both Saturday and Sunday ntght; there was a real warmth created by this show. It was not an easy sho~ to put on, requiring musical accompaniment, singing, dancing, tents, umbr~llas, boaters, and .fnlly dresses. Anthony, the theatre technician, had to be, I believe, forcibly ~csthamed from spreadmg sand from Dover over the stage to re-create the Nice beach featured m t e play . (He also had. to appear on stage himself, on Sunday, to disentangle his wonderful umbrella/beach hut crea.ttOn.) There were further difficulties in that the Drama examinations lrecluded any .re~earsal m St. Mary's Hall until the Friday before the show . These factors taken nto account, 1t IS truly remarkable that anything happened on stage at all, let alone anything as good fun as the final resu lt. 109

Mrs. B. trawled the boys' houses for male talent, and there were some surprising discoveries. I would willingly pay money to see Dom Cocklin do the Charleston just one more time. Josh Cole was, as he often is, relaxed and confident, yet there were several of the ' Boyfriends' (and casting was to a certain extent determined by the state of play of real-life co-ed relationships) who looked , at times, lost at sea - rather than in love on the beach. The real stars, I felt, were the girls. The cast was drawn mainly from the Jervis 6a, a vivacious bunch if there ever was one, but also a very talented bunch. Here was a group who, unlike many, were not afraid to enjoy themselves, and it is this that was passed on to the audience. It was also passed on to the venerable Mr. James Drever, who, in a roof-lifting performance, more or less stole the show. He has a superb sense of comic timing and his role as a lustful elderly gentleman, although not entirely true to type, was brilliantly delivered. I am sure neither he, nor Olivia Homan (another star of the show), will ever forget their duet. Wac-a-do, Wac-a-do. The lead roles were played with impunity (but with the odd giggle too) by Ed M illard and M iranda Scott-Barrett, and I feel that the high spots of the evening, certainly in terms of artistic integrity , were provided by these two. ' I could bee happee with yoooo' was heard to drift down Broad Street j oyfully. The plot resolved as nicely as the melodies - Miranda and Ed found out that they were both rich after all, and could therefore get married. So did everybody else. Meanwhile, many people backstage were working very hard: George Bingham and Tania Still are intent on proving that girls are just as good stage technicians as boys, if not better. Also, credit is due to Mr. Stephen Matthews, who not only played the piano for the show, but also arranged an accompaniment that could include the stringy talents of Julia Triebel and Sarah Petrie. I think this production was good , and important. Why? Because it demonstrated the following: firstly, the patience of Mrs. Browning; secondly, the talents of a particular group of girls soon to leave the school; thirdly, that House drama, although very demanding, and rarely perfect, can be good fun for everyone. The rough edges become (if the whole matter is treated as sensibly as this was) the silver lining. Can I have my underwear back now? S.H.D.

MITCHINSON'S HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 12th MARCH , IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

A gala evening opened with the House Orchestra playing Ponderous Prelude, the first public performance of a piece composed by Mr. Stephen Matthews. His Fiendish Fugue followed, played by The String Quartet who gave an accomplished performance. Jo Chesterman's version of Fantasiestiick, Op .73, No. 1 on cello was warmly received. The mood swiftly changed with a made-for-television performance of the Jeeves & Wooster theme by the J & W Band. Anna Lewis (violin) delighted her audience with a Brahms sonata. Eric Clapton would not have been disappointed by Hugh Gledhill , Tom Robertson and Graeme Parki n who treated us to Tears in Heaven. The mood, and the century , changed for Musica Antigua Mitchinson' s period piece: four Dances from Lachrimae. In contrast the Traditional Jazz Band, including guest trumpeter Matthew Brown from Marlowe House, gave a vibrant performance of Blues in C dedicated to the mothers of certain band members who had overlooked Mother's Day . The whole House, nineteen playing musical instruments, joined together for Y .M.C.A. which had vitality plus. Penelope Curtiss and Anna Lewis had obvious empathy with each other and with their mstruments in the first movement of a Bach Concerto for Two Violins. Concert director Jeremy Bines gave a vigorous and demanding piano performance of Bartok's A llegro Barbaro followed by the House Choir singing Teddy Bears' Picnic . Perhaps the most memorable performance - best enjoyed by the tone-deaf - was the Mozart Horn Concerto played by John Parker, accompanied by Jeremy Bines, on bicycle frame. One can now understand why the British cycle manufacturing industry has collapsed. Âˇ 11 0

THE BOY FRIEND (Jon Alcock)

penelope Curtiss returned for Telemann's Fantasia for unaccompanied violin. Jeremy Bines d Nick Tattersall on piano changed key for a Swiss Jodelling song with the voice of Hugh anedhill on megaphone. The mood changed for a confident piano partnership of Jeremy and Nick q~ying Richard Rodney Bennett's Four Piece Suite: Finale . The Baroque Ensemble came together P ran evocative item - Schickhardt's Sonata in F major. The Madrigal Choir followed with ~~ pieces, reminiscen.t of. the King's Sin~ers, including Old McDonald Had a Farm followed by two vigorous contnbut10ns fro~ Soul ~ Out. . A catholic programme, and splendid evenmg, concluded With the Orchestra, Tutors on assorted to trumpets, and Monitors playing the first movement of Joseph Haydn's Toy Symphony. Although st;ong on originality, it can be safely asserted that it was not quite what Haydn had in mind. All the cast gave excellent performances making it invidious for a reviewer to single out individuals for spec ial praise. However, the quality of the performances and the rapport between the performers made the evening very worthwhile. C.J.L.

MY FAIR LADY THE MEISTER OMERS, LUXMOORE AND LINACRE HOUSE MUSICAL SATURDAY, 12th AND SUNDAY 13th MARCH, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

In the last few weeks the Housemaster of M.O. was often to be seen scurrying round the Precincts, moonlit or otherwise, occasionally glancing at his watch, disappearing into the cake shop for a quick doughnut, conversing hurriedly about how long it was since he last ate. This was not a sign of psycho-pedagogical stress, but of true creative aura - a harbinger of the Triangle drama production. Finally the night came. Such was the reputation that went before the production, that I had to fight through queues of the ticketless young in order to get into St. Mary's. I was even accosted by one Maria de Haan, who begged me to sell her my ticket. What greater recommendation? I resisted manfully and made my way into the thronging auditorium, wondering if any production could live up to this. A stillness in the packed auditorium as, at last, the conductor raised his baton and the music started. At once, both ears and eyes were captivated. There were acrobats, flower sellers, gangs of ne'er-do-wells, even a wanton girl in red who was promptly fought over by the boys - all to the familiar, heady strains of the well-known My Fair Lady melodies. In short, the show did live up to expectations, and went beyond them. Firstly, tremendous credit must go to the leading actors. Eliza (Amelia Stewart) was superbly convincing. She could switch from being aggressive to hu rt, humorous to serious, flower girl to young lady with consummate ease. Her barrages of rapid cockney were very authentic, yet the voice was never strained and all the words were clear. Her singing was good, particularly in faster passages when tension and anger were portrayed. Both Amelia and Theo Moore (Higgins) actually sounded like the characters they portrayed. Theo is blessed with a voice which is older than his years . His manner put me very much in mind of a young don I know, complete with mania, hang-ups, neuroses and poor manners. There are rumours that Theo was type-cast. I do not know him , and therefore cannot comment. I was impressed too by the fact that he never (quite) went over the top, even allowing for distinct shades of Ben Elton when he became excited. In fact both Amelia and Theo did manage to portray a tremendous emotional range without hamming - a considerable achievement in any school produ~tion. Theo's singing voice was exceptionally suited to the part. He managed to half-speak, half-smg his words with just the right modulation, really coming into his own in the Why can't a woman song. All the main characters managed to create a lot of very entertaining ' business' involving swords, mortar boards, cakes pinched from afternoon tea at Ascot, empty chocolate boxes and so on. These touches never failed to add visual interest and were rarely artificial. Ill

(T.R. H .)

Mrs. Pearce, played by Naomi Chamberlin, had excellent stage presence, and set off the other character admirably. She knew perfectly just how and when to fade into the background, and did a very good line in looking crestfallen. Colonel. Pickering was convinci~~ly portraye~ by Duncan Parrish, who managed to convey a warmth , kmdness and sense of precisiOn. He pro~Ided an admirable foil to Theo's Higgins. Mrs. Higgins (played by IUrstin Gaymer) swapped charmm~ly from being snooty to genuinely warm towards Eliza. Freddy (Peter Baines) was a very entertainmg public schoolboy parody. One of the most virtuoso acting performances of the evening was undoubtedly Tom Barwell who stepped in at very short notice (three days!) to portray Eliza's father. His posture, bearing -and accent all captured the essence of the part. He cut a splendid figure in the song routines too. T hough I knew that one of the characters had to be replaced, I did not know which when the curtain rose. It is a great tribute to Tom that by the time the curtain fell I still did not know. So many scenes in the play were genuinely very fu nny. All the characters demonstrated an unusual sense of timing and vivacity, yet they never stepped out of their parts. O ne of the things most often forgotten in school musicals is choreography. Good dancing is the vital ingredient in creating the energy necessary for this form of theatre. T he choreography here was very well put together, as for example in the Rain in Spain number, a~d some for the larger ensemble was P?Sit.ively inspired. The choreo~raphe.r~ ~ar~ Woodman, IS to ~e thanked for injecting so much hfe '.nto th~ perform~nce. One tmy cntiCISm IS ~hat there were times w~e.n the chorus did forget to smile. Still, the audience loved the broom routme, the acrobats, the damty quadrilles at Ascot, the Russian-sty le dancing , the Little Bit of Luck routine and the final chorus which led to rapturous applause. The music was of a very high standard. The part singing (featuring Stephen Gourmand and Emily Eli~s) worked partic~larlx well. Mr .. Pi~nock sho~ld be thanked for sustaining a long and difficult p1ano part. Mr. M iles did a splendid JOb of holdmg a large band and ensemble together so expertly, and the band acquittea themselves with great skill and panache. Sophisticated set changes were han.dled so professio~ally one to?k ~hem for .granted. Costumes were a del ight. Make-up was unobtrusive yet very effective. Mrs. H1ggi~s (IUrstm Gaymer) actual~y did look as if she could have been the professor's mother, and Jessie Gulland looked splendid with her sparkle ... So much work went into so much detail that it is impossible to list it all. It is remarkable that 110 people were involved in this production. M rs. Tennick, the resourceful, calm collected and undemonstrative producer (i.e. not seen scurry ing round precincts), together with Mr. M iles and Mrs. Creissen should be thanked for providing so many with such a wonderful opportun ity to be stage-struck, and also for creating such a delightfu l evening for the audie~ce. Most schools would have been more than thrilled for this to have been their major annual production. T.J.A.

HOUSE SONG COMPETITION MONDAY, 14th MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL ADJUDICATOR: GRENVILLE HANCOX

THE GRANGE (3rd)

A Smuggler's Song

LIN ACRE

Jailhouse Rock

Michael Mull inar

Conductor: Alex Maines Accompanist: Christian Bottomley Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller

Conductor: Michael Peat Accompanists: Charles Aitken/Peter Fearn LUXMOORE

The Mammas & The Papas

California Dreaming Conductor: Emily Elias Accompanist: Laura Marshall

SCHOOL HOUSE

Old MacDonald had a Farm Conductor: Ed M illard 112

Traditional

rRADESCANT/ BAILEY (2nd)

Let It Be

Lennon/McCartney

MEISTER OMERS (1st)

Shipmates 0 'Mine

Wilfred Sanderson

WALPOLE

I Got Rhythm

Conductor: James Longstaffe Accompanist: James Firth

Conductor: Matthew Hillier Accompanist: Alastair Stevens Conductor: Emma Pyke Accompanist: Philippa Gort-Bartcn

JERVIS

Ira & George Gershwin

The Boyfriend

MARLOWE BROUGHTON

MITCHINSON'S GALPIN'S

Sandy Wilson Conductor: Miranda Scott-Barrett Accompanist: Natasha Reilly/Emma Stephenson Nellie The Elephant Ralph Butler/ Peter Hart Conductor: Thomas Mackenzie Accompanist: Melissa Dawson-Bowling American Pie Don McLean Conductor: Alice Lascelles Piano: Clare Simmonds Guitars: Francesca Meynell/ Alice Lascelles YMCA Village People Conductor: Michael Davies Accompanist: Jeremy Bines When the Toad cam e home H . Fraser-Simson Conductor: Tom Jackson Accompanist: Tom Jennings

BAZAAR AND RUMMAGE THE WALPOLE HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 19th AND 20th MARCH, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

It i.s ~ot g ive.n t~ every H~use play that it should need to run a second publicity campaign explammg that Its firSt ad':'ertlsements ar~ ~ot in fact for a genuine bazaar and rummage but for a corned~ about agor~phob1c females orgamsmg one. In the eyent, I spotted no disappointed bargain hunters m St. Mary s Hal! ; on t~e contrary, I saw an ~udience thoroughly enjoying a talented and well-rehearsed cast give their all to a powerful p1ece of ensemble acting. Bazaar and Rummage packs a punch: what seems initially to be a comedy deepens into an exploration of the causes of agoraphobia and the ways women are abused. As its author, Sue Townsend, puts it: 'Bazaar and Rummage is also about the nature of "caring" and the sometimes parasitic stra.nglehold that care~s ~ave on those they are supposed to be caring for. Who needs whom? I thmk ~h~t agoraphobia. IS only an. outward symptom of other deeper problems. And, something more sm1ster perhaps, 1t often su1ts husbands and children to have their wives and mothers at home all day every day and if the sufferer talks about seeking a cure this will be seen almost as an act of betrayal. ' T~is W~lpole production was particularly strong o n sensitive interpretation of character and relat1onsh1ps_. Everybody had got to grips with their role, and their performance had the intensity of the best k.md of workshop productiOn. Sarah Thackwell was superb as Margaret, a workingclass _vu!ganan. She .got numerous well-deserved laughs, but there was immense pathos in her descnpt1on of th~ m1sery of rape, pregnancy and embarrassing birth. As the lighting dimmed so. that the only lig ht seeme~ to come .from her, one could not fail to be deeply moved . Until this moment I. had been feelmg that th1s was such a talented cast that they ought to be tackling Caryl Churchill, generally regarded as our finest feminist socialist playwright, but this won me over. Sarah made the most of many good moments in the play, ringing her lines for humour. 113

The aud ience particularly enjoyed, 'He only came out of my womb just to see what he could nick' and 'Where have you been since decimalization? ' to which Margaret replied, 'At home'. My own favou rite was: 'You use nice words and even say 'em in the right order.' Helena Ancock excelled as Gwenda, a volunteer social worker and ex-agoraphobic . Here was remarkable maturity and sensitivity as Gwenda bustled about the stage, hands poised in perpetual ill ustration of her belief that bri-nylons do more for humanity than demonstrating denim. The more she attempted to control, the more she seemed to crack before our eyes as m isery surfaced. I hope it will not be long before we see Helena again in an important role. Chloe Oakshett played Katrina, an ex-variety 'songstress', capturing well the airs and graces as well as the disappointments and emptiness of her life. I was particularly moved by her account of how she was terrified by Maurice into staying at home: 'You're all safer at home.' Her lethargy contrasted well with the youthful crispness and vitality of F liss, a young trainee social worker. C harlie Hunt seemed so at ho me in this rol e that it was hard to believe that she is only a Shell. She made the most of her lines, and I particularly liked her delivery of 'My parents are dead people - I mean they live in Reading.' She also carried much of the deeper concern of the play: 'Agoraphobia came second , but what came first? ' Bell-Bell , an obsessionally clean agoraphobic who plays the piano, was ably portrayed by Priscilla Parish . This is not an easy part since it carr ies fewer laughs, but Priscilla was suttably anxious, gauche and o bsessive. F ina lly, Sam Goulden pl ayed the W.P.C., a woman who is te rrified of community pol icing. Here, too, was a maturity of feeling and arti culation that belied he r years. The stage business of the bazaar was deftly handled. If the j unk looked authentic that is because it was, courtesy of Maureen Behrens: I would love to have seen the faces of the real jumblesale organisers when she told them she wou ld buy everything no one else wanted. There was also a very realistic staging of the rapac iousness of bargain hunters as the doors opened and much of Walpole, including tutors in tattoos and leathers, and P.G.W. with dogs , swarmed in. I liked the use of backlighting through gauze to suggest the fearsome nature of the outside world. Maureen Behrens d irected sensitively and with good humour: the cast had been given room to develop thei r characters, but the play had pace, prec is ion and cohesion. We look forward to many more such Walpole productions. How about that Caryl Church ill? P.J.B.

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL THE GRANGE HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT TUESDAY, 22nd MARCH , IN ST. MARY'S HALL

The G range enterta ined its parents and friends to a celebrat ion of the possible opening of the Channel Tunnel. T he House began with another performance of the House song, in case we hadn't been at the competition , and a topical versio n of 'Lig ht at the End of the Tunnel' from Starlight Express . The pattern of the evening was quic kly established: sketches punctuated by songs for the audience to join in, the whole held together by the housemaster as conductor and Tom Burges Watson and Seb Vance, e legantly dressed in tails, as the chairmen, who oozed confidence and spoke most articulately. The songs were led by a fifteen-strong choir, who included Helena Ancock, C laire Alder, Harriet Burgess and Rachel Hill from Walpole, and the piano (with a glass of beer on it, for a short time, in true pub style) was mostly played by Mr. Stephen Pinnock and occasionally by C hristian Bottomley . T he first sketch - an extract from A Penny for a Song - involved the Shells, including Lau rence Ridges wearing a Napoleonic hat and spending a lot of time on a tall step ladder; there may have been a script , o r even a plot. Between this and o ther sketches Alex Maines gave a convinc ing impersonatio n of a cross between C live Anderson and Jon Snow, as he linked unlinkab le items of news in the way that news readers do , and passed us over to Ha rry McDonald , the repo rte r who roved across the centuries to tell us what had happened on previous twenty-seconds of March - one event being the first rug by international between England and France, and we saw what the Removes could do with La Marsei/laise and Land of Hope and Glory. Bill Vidal deli vered a sermon of the ' L ife is like a railway line' type on a text by the Revd. W. Awdry and he deserved more appreciation from an audience who had clearly not 114

read thei.r Thomas t~e Tank Engine recently . Tom Mann touched a chord with the audience as he descnbed how his day was aff~cted from dawn to d usk by the French schoolchildren who seem never to be at s~h?ol, and. Ntck Bray and Ben Massingham gave an assured and ossibl knowledgeable descnpt10n of ftve. stages in the progress towards drunken oblivion . fen fifth formers found ten ex~uses to explam why they should n't have been out for very low scores while the eleventh, a most y unseen Tak Loon Khno~g, survived to carry his bat. There were two appearances by Sacha Delmotte, who h~d acqu ired a French accent from somewhere. In one of these he. was repla~ed as Tsar by Chns French in a revolutionary but obscure sketch Th was in-audience heck:Jmg from Marcus Riccoboni and Joshua Tod, and there were football· res~~~~ (Amsterdam 303. or 304, Brusse!s 12a) read by Matthew P ink. A four-line version of Wordsworth's po~m accompamed ~y a daffodil , and a version of Hamlet (about a dozen of the im ortant Jines which took about thtrty seconds, were .thought to be about the right length for f!reigners. T~~ Grange tutors e~erg~d from the aud tence to demonstrate their harmon b sin i environme~tally mva~tve bedsteads in the .style of A Smuggler's Song. Song iheeis we;ec~. ~f3~J for the audtence to smg such old favo untes as Me and My Shadow Yes Sir Th t' p B b and The Gr~nge's own One hund~ed years from now as a fi nale to a show which ke;t ~~die~/e and entertamed ~rom start to fi.msh .. I~ was an excellent example of an entertainment rovided by a House workmg together wtth mtmmal rehearsal and without enormous expenditurfof time.

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WORDS AND MUSIC FOR LENT AND PASSIONTIDE FRJDAY, 25th MARCH, IN THE QUIRE

This beautiful and moving service prepared by John Thackray and Ste h p· k h · ve all the human·t f Ch · T h' . P en mnoc , emp astsed 1 abo . Yo nst. ough .expe~tm~ and accepting to die for his fellow-mankind h~w natural for Ht~ to be aware of the bitter IrOnies of His Passion dh · h ' Hts people fo r thetr supreme ingratitude: • an ow ng t to reproach ' I gave thee to ~rink of the water .of salvation from the rock: and thou hast given me gall and vmegar to drink. 0 my pe?ple, what have I done unto thee? or wherem have I wearied thee? Answer me!'

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CHAPLAIN'S NOTES Lent i~ the term for Confirmation. Twelve members of J.K.S. were confirmed on the penultimate sunday of term in Sturry Church by the Bishop of Dover. In the Quire on the last Sunday of term seventy-two pupils were confirmed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Both services were spiritual ones, the solemnity of the occasion being not overwhelming . The Cathedral service in particular was pleasingly personal: it would have been easy to have been subsumed by the logistical arrangements required for the largest number of candidates from the Senior School - for a quarter of a quarter of a century. That it went so smoothly is testimony to the cooperation of many people, not least the Stewards and Virgers of the Cathedral. The candidates themselves played their part well: no-one could have told that the official rehearsal had been distrupted by a bomb alert. It was indeed a memorable event. Junior Christian Forum and Christian Forum have continued to meet weekly. The quality of speakers for the latter, and of discussion at both, is inspiring. Although holy huddles are to be eschewed, there is a sensible realism about the faith of the members of Forum. Thanks to the Mitchinson's House Concert and the Triangle House Play as well as the collections in Mattins, well over ÂŁ1000 was donated to our charity of the term, the Canterbury branch of Relate. The beneficiary of the King's Walk next term is to be Britaid, a charity seeking to establish and run a children's hospital for victims of the conflict in what was Yugoslavia. The founder of this charity made a particular impact at a sixth-form talk. The Lent Visitor from Madagascar, John, became the first of our theological student visitors to take part in a House concert when Tim fixed it for John to play his guitar in Galpin's Entertainment. My thanks to Janice Reid who organised his stay, and to the pupils who helped look after him. This year the Visitor also had some time in parishes, to help give a wider experience of his mother church. Lent term is always a long and demanding one. It ends incomplete, with the drama of Holy Week and Easter as yet unexperienced. But it is as Easter people that our P,Upils are confirmed. Together we can indeed say: Christus resurrexit! Alleluia! ' J.A.T. Confirmed on Sunday, 20th March by His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury in his Cathedral Church:

School House William Pritchard George Roberts William Tallon KMS Robert Thomas

The Grange Jide Adesanya Dele Alakija Folarin Alakija Henry Eccles Alexander Hayes Peter Mayberry Laurence Ridges Michael Ziegler

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Lucy Canney Tessa Coombe Claire Eliot Jessica Gulland Rachel Johnson Catherine Lester Jessica Mary Fleur Moes Lucy Newton Joanna Pringle Katherine Rouse Louise Squires Kate Willoughby

Stephen Adams Alexander Bland James Longstaffe Simon Peel Thomas Stazicker Malcolm Todd Alexander Walker Harry Walker Alistair Williams Gareth Williams

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Walpole Dorelia Adeane Penelope Dain Rachel Hill Emma Torry Alice Walker Delia Williams

Meister Omers Duncan Parrish KS

Marlowe Timothy Hamlin Charles Munday Camilla Pay MS

Galpin's James Harborne Thomas Harrell Robert Justice Thomas Morton Benjamin Shephard Linacre James Campbell Adam Fendius KS Samuel Knight KS Thomas Lloyd-Smith Hugo McPherson Damian Stewart James Squires Broughton Elizabeth Hanson Georgina Lake Joanna Stephens

Mitchinson's Charles Carr Simon Cleobury Penelope Curtiss Hilary Myska Nicholas Tattersall MS

Bailey Christopher Dain Edouard Sebline

Jervis Frances Armstrong-Jones Anita Fernqvist Rebecca Fordham Sarah Knight Emma Stephenson

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 4 Blackstable Court, Canterbury Road, Whitstable, Kent CT5 4RT. 11th April, 1994. Dear Sir, May I through your columns, thank all the O.K.S. fencers who so kindly contributed towards the most handsorn'e sword they gave in Maurice's memory . It was a touching moment when it was presented to me at the match between O.K.S. and the school team on 19th March. This sword , upon which the names of the winning teams will ~e en$raved in future , is a lo:velÂĽ and thoughtful tribute to Maurie~. He woul~ have.so ~horoughly apprec tated tts splendour and enthustasttcally approved its intended role m encouragmg Kmg s fencers old and new. Yours faithfully, MRS. M . M . MILNER.

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An Ode to Autumn Autumn, your boughs hang eavy with slowly-changing reaves. Green to brown, brown to Gold As a child I would run And kick my way Through piles of leaves so Carefully raked together. But like the wolf in the Sh~pskin, there is something sinister Lurking behind your carefree fa~ade. Its name? Winter, whose limbs are stark and bare. Black trees against a White sky. Then, as I kick through the frozen sludge, I wish for the comforting Hues of Autumn.

Dear Humanity

Andrew Ribbans (Shb)

James Campbell (Rc)

Hiroshima, pleasant at the heart of the east, Where children had not a care in the least For the war and complexities filling the land, But frolicked contented by riverbank sand. Then all of a sudden a noise changed it all: A screech .and a smash and a cry and a call And a shr!ek and a shout. The ~oung children fled, And scurraed away from that braght river bed. A flurry of men in chorus lay wailing, Melting away, their lives slowly failing; The drunken river pranced gleefully glad, Like an air marshal's order, mournfully mad. Writhing and screaming I saw a child die 'Mummy, Mummy,' was the infant's last 'cry. Her ~oice .die~ out like a smouldering fire: Of H1rosh1ma s screams may the world never tire.

Sententious Trivia

Grant Chum (A6a)

Hymns of grandeur thunder through your ears, St~etches of memories that might conjure tears; W1th one lonely year to see what it is all about, Your confidence shaken, sown are healthy seeds of doubt. Que~l your insecure fears; qualify your brash hopes. ReJect; deny; refuse to accept: 'You cannot cope'. Whosoever m~int~ins i!ltegrit~ through honesty shall rise, Whosoever pers1sts m vam self-Importance shall meet demise. BUT, Five years to adjust, Now leave, you must. 119

Georgina Salmon (A

Chapter the First

The book o~ns - the first page is written but is left unheaded. The pen speeds and falters as 1t reaches the shadow of the edge, the page turns and the pen ploughs "'"'"'"h-..1 . into the blank. It draws in an apple orchard, bursting with fruit riper than the sun in but rawer than the earthworm's harvest. The grass is long, tinged faintly yellow like page the pen draws in the butterflies, the bloated birds and the ignorant daffodils ess1en1tiat to the scene. It draws a Ion~ winding river down the middle, dividing the setting into hemispheric entities. On one s1de stands an altar - fashioned from a superstructure of red, ruby-red apples. A girl is kneeling at it, on the opposite side of the river. As the pen moves, she dips her head into the inky waters, until her hair is floating on the surface, like a tight mesh of misunderstandings. The water is warm, but the air is cool - air and water, corresponding halves harmonious in their disparity. The pen fills in the chapter with a stream of supplicants trailing their way t? the altar, a never-ending triumph train of uncertainty and greed. The girl watches all, standmg beneath the closest apple-tree, so close as if one breath would mould her into the living bark and her legs become the roots to bind the orchard together. The pen refills with stronger ink and begins the new chapter confidently. The scene remains the same the water is rippleless, transparent but unreflecting as the word on the page. The heat is piacid the trees abundant and the grass curling upwards as if it would embrace the daffodils ~bove. A figure emerges from the shadow of the binding, a figure that dwarves the diminutive yet fertile trees. It is a man, for to make a woman so godlike in stature would require another pen than this. His strides are small, but uneven; his hands grip the thyrsus rod swung out in front and to the side of him. His hair is loose and long, longer and yellower than the grass and daffod!ls. He too kne~ls d<_)wn on !he nearest bank. of !h~ stream, laying his thyrsus down beside h1m. He too bones h1s head m the water, until h1s Ivy-crown floats off in its own eddy of motion. 'He kneels for a long time, but it never grows dark for the pen needs light to write. He plaits and replaits the leafing round his thyrsus until the leav.es curl in complaint and point also toward the altar. Finally, when the grass rests from Its striving toward the yellow bloom that is denied to its own inheritance, he rises quickly, bends his head towards the apple-altar, turns his head triumphantly and defiantly towards t~e shifting canopy, before levelling his head parallel with the page. He moves to the tree opposite the semi-metamorphosed girl, and presses hard against it, waitin~ expectantly, for the apple is the favourite word of the pen and there must lie the answer. H1s eyes. are. a natural ~reen, the green of creation, greener than the grass, the two-chromed shade of Instinct and rational. The girl uproots herself, for she too is of a bi-creationary mould. 'Shake the whole tree in the summer-prime. But bring to the last leaf no such test. 'Hold the leaf fast!' says the rhyme. The man turns. The girl is small; she stretches up to him her tiny branching band, offering to him an apple from her tree. He takes it, but she folds his hands over it until the apple can no longer be seen. She rests her face lightly against the dark tree, dividing it behind the red apples until the man's face lightens. Not an apple, but a leaf falls down, eddying rootwards untii it finds her face. She grasps it, then suddenly shivers away in Bacchic frenzy, plucking a leaf from every tree, then joining them together to create a lengthening garl~nd of apple leaves ..The pen win_ds 1:' circuitous journey, round a_nd round the orc~ard, weavmg an ever-increasm~ vernal bmdmg around the words, drawmg them tauter hll they merge ' in just one meamng. Still she dances, whirling beneath Se~ele's .sign, winding capriciously in and .ou! the chapter, obeying the Uranian not the Pandem1an d1ctate of her goddess. Longer shll1t grows, but smaller grows the or~hard as it falls within her chain. Holding the furthest end in her grasp, she floats toward the Nysan idol and hands the binding into his control. Still holding t~e unsullied apple, they stand in line beneath her potential anonymity. Slowly they bow their 120

eads towards the ripe red altar - unchanging in its phantasmic abundance and proscribed

~rfection. They walk towards the water's edge, and stare down at the inpenetrable clarity.

He bends down and retrieves his withered thyrus from the Sissyphian grass, and in one te both cross the river, for the pen has only a small nib. He places the end of the lush :W~d at the foot of the altar and weighs it down with the round and sacred apple. Without pausing they continue, two alone, yet like air and water, complementary in their diverging existence. The pen returns to the beginning, writing in fading letters at the top: 'The forests had done it, there they stood Standing there for once and for good.'

Mark Sweny (Shb)

Older

Isolated from the outside world, frail and old, bored and lonely. My grandmother now lives in an old people's home because it is impossible to cope as she can barely walk, let alone climb up a flight of stairs. She needs specialised help and equipment. Visiting her is the worst part, as she needs all the company she can get, although she could not remember if you visited her the day before, for those few minutes that you are with her make her extremely happy. In this old people's home they all sit in one room with the T.V. blaring, and as soon as you enter all eyes are fixed on you. Their eyes are faded and sad, but piercing. Wrinkled faces and glasses, hearing-aids and blankets. Their life slips away. Everything is done for them: they are even hand-fed sometimes. Maybe it's just a nightmare. All they can do is stare through the widow and watch others play and be joyful, some of them not missed until they are dead. Life: you can do nothing for yourself at the beginning and nothing at the end, life is a vicious circle. My parents say to me when we leave the home, 'I hope you do not leave us alone like that!' They live in a different world, better or worse I do not know, but hopefully better. Sleep, rest, eat and watch the television, take medicines and stay alive. It is a battle to keep them alive but maybe they would really rather be dead. Life starts fresh and steadily deteriorates, crumbles and then there is death. What happens after life, only the dead know: nothing, everything, heaven or hell.

The Sublime Executioner

Chris Dain (A6b)

There is a tangible feeling of lethargy percolating slowly through the room. It is so oppressive !hat it infiltrates even the indomitable Adrian who, despite starting keenly on another mstalment of the intricate details and traumatic development of his love life, is gradually subdued until, on perceiving he is receiving no sympathy, he hesitates in his torrent before lapsing into silence. It is clear he is far from satisfied, however, as he continues shaking his head in frustration and methodically peeling the cover off his hymn book in long, loving strips. This seemingly trivial task appears to appease him and certainly solves his perpetual problems as, ten minutes later, he is scribbling contentedly on his denuded hymn book. ~iles is also silent, excluding his perfunctory moan at the tremendous work load which he Is currently having to endure and how unfair life is. Despite the innumerable times he has repeated this saga during the last six months that we have inhabited this same room occasionally even on the verge of hysteria, he once again regards me plaintively, though !he nature of his spectacles makes it unclear as to which of us should reply. Usually I launch mto a lengthy and inconclusive diatribe which appears to placate him as he settles down to write incessantly for the remainder of the time allotted. Tonight I have a disturbing urge to forcefeed him the strips of hymn book, but I refrain. 12 1

With the obligatory rituals completed, I consume one carton of milk to stimulate nn•~:n.,uulll prowess and attempt to concentrate sufficiently to scrawl a coherent paragraph ,..n.n,..,•rn; .._ the greatness of 'Peter the Great'. This task is made considerably more taxing as now sulking throu~h lack of attention, is obstinately endeavouring to consume his packet of cereal wtth as much excess noise as he can possibly generate from a ,.. ...~.,rnA•· orifice situated on the lower part of his face. It is at thts point that the duty mo,nit~[)r looking harassed and entirely unsympathetic. If he is surprised to find comelete Slliem:e our room he conceals it remarkably well and having briskly confiscated Giles' cereal future consumrtion, one of the perks of the job it seems, he promptly orders me with a string o curses stressing my incompetence. I was supposed to be presiding over Shells as 'Hall Official'. I deem it not worth arguing as fines are lavishly dispensed comparatively minor offences and while my meagre Supper Leave fund would be severely dimmished, the next monitors' drinks would be considerably ameliorated. Having hurriedly gathered the essentials necessary for a spell with the Shells and pausinlli•l briefly on the stairs to mentally compose and prepare myself for the stamina-draining exercise ahead I enter dynamically. It is vital from the start to assert one's presence in the room; it is no use making a tentative entrance and sliding surreptitiously to one's desk, this being virtually impossible anywar as the desk is strategically positioned in the centre of the room from where, with an occasiOnal 360° sweep, the entire room, including occupants, can be surveyed. The room is vast and crammed with little bodies occupying desks at various intervals round it. The battle ensues immediately. In order to establish control it is necessary to issue copious quantities of Breakfast Gatings or lines or both, none of which will be heeded. It appears I have interrupted a particularly intense pillow fight as the entire room has been razed to the ground. The arsenal of weapons is clearly not limited solely to pillows, as was the case in my day, as books, files and assorted lethal objects are liberally strewn around the room. One particularly unfortunate creature is lying prone, perchance concussed, with a phenomenally large jar of peanut butter beside him; this object seeming to have terminated its trajectory rather suddenly and painfully on his forehead. I scold them briefly and obviously succeed in restoring a vestige of respect to our relationship as silence then ensues. This harmony is inevitably doomed to failure as almost immediately each of them dons their headphones and adjusts the volume of what they jud~e to be the critical one, namely the loudest they can risk without incurring my wrath. Thts antic has the added bonus of them now being able to feign deafness should I choose to address them. Faced with hundreds of hostile Shells each contributing to the cacophony of sound I merely relax, thankful that they are abstainin~ from any form of bickering or fighting. The only advantage the music has is to rouse the tnjured Shell. It is possible to observe him slowly rising through the layers of consciousness until, on initially registering surprise at my presence, he shrugs resignedly and shuffies to the sanctuary of his desk. Gradually the dreary nature of the evening begins to take its toll. A few have already succumbed to sleef, others nod vaguely to their walkmans while still others gaze fixedly at the opposite wal with glazed eyes trying desperately to remember how dominus declines. I myself am still debating the justification of 'Peter the Great's' title. At this juncture the letter home which one's parents are constantly clamouring for seems infinitely preferable to work of any description. Once past this stage when it is approaching 9.00 p.m. and the insect has successfully completed its trek, fraught with danger, it is easy to justify not doin' any work; after all with such a minute fraction of time remaining what would be the point. The bell sounds dolefully. The room is entirely vacated, excluding the injured Shell who is lapsing periodically in and out of consciousness; no doubt all his friends are avidly watching television. My own study is also devoid of life though Matron has kindly pasted one of her small yellow stickers to my desk. It proclaims boldly: 'Fined for messy area' . Adrian, coordinated chap that he is, has managed in missing the bin to deposit the entire remains of his hymn book in a pile near my desk. I resolve there and then never to be sympathetic about his love life agam. 122

THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES For those readers of The Cantuarian who have recently returned from Tibet (assumin they bdeathen up by the and as such have managed to miss Ir" ~.., ~m tes an t e P?Ster c~m~atgns throughout the school: there has been an . . . . esty group operatmg at King s for several years now strildng fear into the heart of evil d1f~torsh1p~ h d ~bitch states acro~s th~ world, through its many letter-wrlting campaigns highlightin: abuses o bu!Tan ng dt~. edt ey tort~re, tmpnsonment without trial or 'disappearances'. Operating as part of the g1o a Y co-or mate campa1gns Amnesty International runs the rou t kl · 0 govemmeft or authorities about a for e~amp e,, o e 1e m1ster of PunJab about persecuition of the Ahmadi ah comrn · · ' to an amount of international pressure, those in i'Jhority

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Over the last two terms, appeals of well over one hundred letters (15% of the shoo!) have been 1m and these have been sent across the world: to countries as diverse as India South K own, Cameroon, Guatemala, the United States, Morocco Israel Turke and Uzbeldstan Ob o.rea,l V~~ezuela, not have been achieved .without help, and it remain~ to tha~k: Fat&er John Mr W. dl VlO~·fi·t •tco~ld and of course those ded1cated supporters throughout the school without wh~m ~e :guid>;;chi~::~o~~n~~ Thank you - but as ever, your contribution remains essential. (Amnesty meets every Friday between 6 and 7.30 in Lattergate 2) DUNCAN PARRISH.

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~s;eg as tpedreg.ular Thursday afternoon activities, Bridge sessions have been held

m e urn1or L1brary each Tuesday evening between 8.45 and 10.00. The informal A House com etition w~~h:Fcr~~e has enabled a number of players to improve their biddin~ and play.

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1 ~ t~ef,last C~ntu~rian I reported that we were affected by the declining intake of stxt - or~ g1rls mto the school and that we found it necessary to admit a number benefits The ualit off Shells m order. to r.e dress the balance. This policy is now beginning to reap real is secur~ for t~e fu£ure. ~eftecto~~~~ ~~~sn~~vi~l~ood indjjd ahd ~is has meant that the soprano line

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~o~s~~~~~~~~~a~ih~~e6 1°{hf~k fu~~l :stab.lti s~~d t~th fo~d~-~irl~ ~i~ toa:er~~~~the~dda~ ~~h~~ge~l~~~~ tb at when th h . ays a . t goo to know that we have them for five years so a number of ~J;;:a~csch~ia~s elm~~!s~h~~ gperien~ed ~in~ers. It would be nice to think that there' are represent the long-term future. Well don~, i~Je~Jcla 1 t an s are due to all our younger members. They I

Co~~~~1o~fs 1~~j~::Jb:~~~~~~fc~~a~~~~~~~~ :;;at .al~ ouLe r majordePven~s h~ppen in one week. The I am afraid that at the time f . . usic lOr nt an assJOntlde some five days later. performance. It is worth n~ti~om~ to pressth , neither event has occurre~ an~ so ~ cannot comment on their last ear We a b . . g, O';Vever,. at the. format of the servtce IS gomg to remain the same as knoXest . Lord r~ egmmng the service With a semi-chorus singin~ In ieiunio et fletu by Tallis and Thou !}le full ~~oir slngi~;e;r;~~::O~~h~e;g; ~~e~ri~~~1offg:~hb T imtyr~r:peJ and ending the service with m the mtddle of the service have been changed . Such an arrangement Y sac worked ea sore wounded. anthems very well lastThe year and a

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number of people commented to me that the framework ought to remain as a King's tradition in the same way that the Carol Service always begins with the Advent Mattins Responsory . I intend to follow the advice of our audience for this year and we can review matters in the future. There were certainly a number of people who were deeply moved by last year's devotional service. I believe that the sight-reading of the choir has got a lot better in recent months. We seem to cover the ground at a faster pace and there have been some favourable comments about recent Mattins anthems. On this day earth shalf ring by Hylton Stewart, the first anthem of the term, was well received by a number of colleagues. The performance of Lord, Jet me know mine end by Maurice Greene was heard by Stanley Vann, Mus. Doc., sometime organist of Peterborough Cathedral who in a letter to me said that the erformance was enchanting and that it would stay with him always. Such words are very encouraging. would like to add my own special congratulations to Miranda Scott-Barrett and Emily Elias who sang in that particular performance so well. Sectional rehearsals have been a feature of our work recently. The sopranos have met early on Wednesday mornings and I am sure that this has considerably helped their progress. The tenors have met on Wednesday evenings and I have to say again that that particular section in any school choir are a rare breed. It takes years for voices to settle down to make real tenors and we have a number of people who are improving all the time in that area, particularly amongst the younger element in the choir. Finally, I would like to say a word of thanks to my colleagues. To Michael Harris for playing the organ, to Dr. Thomson for his work on the bass line and to Mr. Butt whose skill with programme planning is very much respected by all. He also helped considerably with the arrangement of The Reproaches by Palestrina. Thanks are also due to Jeremy Bines who has accompanied many of our rehearsals. I believe that he is gaining valuable experience by so doing , which in the years ahead will stand him in good stead. The music for the term was: On this day earth shall ring Hylton Stewart When to the temple Mary went Eccard Lord, Jet me know mine end Maurice Greene 0 Lord look down from heaven Battishill Mozart Spatzen-Mess'e (Kyrie , Sanctus and Benedictus) In ieiunio et fletu Tallis Purcell Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts Hide not thou thy face Farrant The Reproaches Palestrina Sal vator mundi Blow S.D.P.

This term has been dominated by the choir's tour to Germany at half term in February, owing to its preparation and after-effects (perhaps better described as withdrawal symptoms). Undertaking a foreign tour does demand a considerable amo~nt of plan~ing , no~ least in the preparat!on of the repertoire needed for a full concert programme. Most ofthts had been mserted mto the Crypt Euchansts through the year, but there was still plenty that had not been. We therefore took the opportunity of including in our plans a concert in the Eastern Crypt ~f the Cathedral on the evening before our departu~e . T.his was a most enjoyable event, an account ofwhtch appears elsewhere, and was also a new departure m bemg the first full-length concert that the choir had put on in many years. Tours such as ours to Wuppertal and Detmold have the great benefit of instilling a sense of teamwork into a choir and this has been one of the great successes of the weekend - we are certainly a more coherent unit than p~rhaps we have ever been, and this has also paid dividends for the ~usic:. T here were !lumero.us individual performances of note, and we were very ably supported by our stnng tno (Sarah Petne, Dame! Bartlette, and Alice Lascelles) both in their fine account of the Mozart Church Sonata in C, K.328 and in their accompanying of t.h e Mozar:t Missa Brevis in F, ~. 1 92. It is hard to single out indivi~uals when everybody, without exceptton, contnbuted so much, but Mtranda Scott-Barrett' s soprano solos m the Mass lifted us all heavenwarcfs. The strains of touring - minibuses at dawn, etc. -are offset by many rewards. In this case, the choir learnt the results than can be achieved when one is totally familiar with complex repertoire, as opposed to sight-reading it at 8.50 a.m. on a Sunday. T~e perfor~ance in Wupp~rtal of Brahms' Wa~um ist das Licht gegeben - a work to tax even a professiOnal chotr - stands out m my memory. Soctally, there were plenty of rewards , and Valentine's day - in c<?mbination with Carnaval- wa.s celebrated m some style at a party laid on by our very generous hosts m Wuppertal. Many of the ch01r had never been to 124

Germany before and by the time we ~ad returned that unanimously wanted to go back again immediate! such had been th~ effec~ of the hospttaltty offered to us by the Wul(pertaler Kurrende the choir who~~ Director, Dr. Hemz Meier, had don~ mu~h of the German organisat ion for us. T he Crypt Choir are now great experts on wurst, not to mention pizza, et a/. The enth~sia~m of the lar~e ~ud!ences in both Detmold and Wuppertal was matched by their enerosit and by the ·~sumg of three I~VItattOns to do more .concerts next year. At the time of writin greliminai'' plans are bemg made for this , as well as for a tnp to Reims in September this year. gp Y None of this succe~s would have .been at all p~ssible without the unstinting assistance given b Mrs Lynne Elwoo~, both m the prepar~tiOns for the tnp and during it: one of the things about sin er/is thai they always thmk t~ey need s.omethmg for their voice, and the cough sweet supply etc. was much fn demand For her part, plentifu! supplies of co_ff~e were to be fou nd round many a corner. We were also extreme! . ~rateful to Mr. Martm Mil es. for dn vmg t~e other minibus, which together with my wife and dau htlr 1n our car,. made up a very suitable red , white and blue convo):' across ~urope. His help with the Ian ~a e was also mvaluable to many of the party, for whom he provided an mstant guide to 'h t 8 g German'. ow o survtve m The rest of the term·~ work has not been without its excitements either. Our first Sunda Eucharist on ~3rd January, saw us m a strange envm;mment, namely on the Nave Pulpitum steps owing t~ th B B C ' havmg converted the '7'hole of the Crypt ·~to a film set. While unusual' thi s was not' without adveanta .es. . and the s~>Und of Byrd s ~mg Joyfully nngms around the nave was something to be savoured M th g k' to Mr. Pmnock for playmg the organ on this occasion. · Y an s The question no~ is.- where do we go from here? There is plenty in store as I have al

an~ the <;:rypt Choir will also have a major .Part to play in the St. John 's Ga;den concertrf: Jli:~~t~ne~, w~1ch will give us plenty of secular repertoire to learn. This term has been for me without doub~ the ~e ' enJoyable, and my thanks go to all those who have worked so hard to give much pleasure to many peopf:~ The repertoire was as follows: S~nday, 23rd January Epiphany 3

Smg Joyfully

Sunday, 6th February Sexagesima

0 God, thou art my God

Sunday, 6th March 3rd in Lent Warwn ist das Licht gegeben Friday, 11th February, at 7.30 p.m. Canterbury Cathedral Eastern Crypt Sunday, 13th February at 5.00 p m Erloserkirche am Markt zu Detm~ld · M~nday, !4th February, at 7.30 p.m. ~Ich~elskirche, MozartstraBe, Wuppertal Elberfeld

Smg JOyfully Hymn to the Virgin The Call 0 God, thou art my God Meine See/e erhebet den Herrn - Fuga

Je~emy Bine~ - Organ (Detmold only) TriO Sonata m F.Op.2, No. 2 for two Treble Recorders Ma~thew .Brown, Michael Peat - Recorders Emily Ehas - Organ, Alice Lascelles - Violoncello (Canterbury and Wuppertal only)

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Will iam Byrd Henry Purcell Johannes Brahms

William Byrd Benjamin Britten John Tavener Henry Purcell J. S. Bach J. B. Loeillet

Anton Bruckner Jean Berger Johannes Brahms W. A. Mozart

Missa Brevis in F , K. l 92 Kyrie - Gloria - Sanctus - Benedictus Miranda Scott-Barrett - Soprano Laura Marshall - Alto Thomas Tallon - Tenor Luke Sin~er - Bass Jeremy Bmes - Organ Continuo

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M .D.H. The term has seen a number of Durnford Society meetings, some of them held in conjunction with the Canterbury Branch of the Historical Association which organises a resular programme of lectures each year. The talk entitled 'The Teutonic Kn ights' turned out to be on the ' Med1aeval Religious Knightly Orders' as the original speaker had moved to Singapore, but it was nevertheless attended by a number of sixth-form historians in the School room. ' Women and War in the Middle Ages' at Christchurch the followin8 week was less well attended as a number of other things were going on, but those who did not come m1ssed some interesting and challenging material on the fairer sex. ' Why History?' proved a starting point of discussion in the Durnford Library and subsequent meetings consisted of the showing of a varied number of slides to stimulate discuss ion and a video of the excavations at C hristchurch Spitalfields which have revealed so much about life and social conditions in the late ni neteenth and early twentieth centuries, showing also how other disciplines such as pathology and weav ing can assist an historian in his researches. It is hoped that meetings wil l coninue next term and suggestions for fut ure activities will be welcome . G.D.W.

DURNFORD

The prospect of the forma l instroduction of the Film Club as an After Hours initiative proved attractive , to an elite, who, though stunned by Fassbinder 's somewhat hall ucinogenic Lola , a study of prostitution as an interpretation of the German postwar economic miracle, and made aware of the artific iality of the film, persevered to return fo r the rather different challenge of Badlands the week after, with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek doing their thi ng in classic road-movie style. Our anticipation was too great when we had to wait two weeks for the second instalment o f ou r road mov ie theme, Thelma and Louise, Ridley Scott 's film of male power and female liberation, which provided the most jovial entertainment so far. And so to our next fi lm, where we were diverted from our ma in theme of women and cri me: La Ronde was our introduction to the humanist c inema of Max Ophuls, a study of what makes the world go round, or how to have an affair without getting caught. It was strangely ahead of its time for 1950, but things were to get stranger still with Bui'luel 's Belle de Jour. Was it ' the purest expression of surrealism in the history of the cinema' or 'an amoral comedy of manners' was the question presented to us. The last fi lm of the season was Nicho las Ray 's Rebel Without a Cause, a classic of Hollywood cinema. We look forward to havi ng the video projector next term. EDOUARD SEBLINE.

FILM

The major initiative of the term was the setting up of a 6b pupi l committee to provide a firmer base fo r the organisation of a variety o f in formal events, in add1tion to the formal lectures and presentations. It is not appropriate to list the various ideas under cons ideration here, but a regular discussion evening was launched with a viewing o f the Horizon film on the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene. This will be followed up next term with a lecture by our own expert on the subject , Dr. Roger Mallion. The most exciting event of the term was a four -day tri p to CERN for sixth-form physicists. This was organised by Dr. Jonathan Allday and a full report on the trip appears elsewhere in this issue. Other trips included a visit to Kent and Canterbury Hospital, by a 6a group study ing the Medical Physics A-level option. A party of 6b chemists visited the Shepherd Neame brewery at Faversham - a real pupil initiative as it was arranged by Alex Neame! Dr. Michael Bai nbridge, a friend of our Head of Modern Languages, gave a superb presentation on the use of computers in medicine (and then fo und time to make a guest appearance in our staff revue!). See below fo r an account of it by Dr. Pickering.

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A team cons isting of Duncan Parrish Th T d · south East Final of the B A y s M t ' _omas a 0 ~ .an And_rew R•bbans did extremely well in the two po ints to R.G .S. Guildford . has e_rmmdds cobmpet•_tiO_n, beatm8 fourteen schools, but losing out by . . .. . . , w o p1ppe us y a Similar margm two years ago. I hope that pupil •mt•ahves Will help the extra-curricular science in the school to flourish in the years ahead.

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C.J.R.J. 1 Another fi rst for King's! Dr. Michael Bainb ·d by a talkmg computer. Perha s this is n n _g~ m~st s~re '1 be the first guest spe~ker _to be introduced since the theme of his presenfation was ?}~~D-~~·~r c~ hmdtgh~. a~h~~~h ~t the t•me ·~ certainly was, areas in which eomputers may contribute to medical pr~ri~:rs m e •cme . The talk Illustrated three 1. as diagnostic tools (our demonstrat"o h d h · presented to a G.P.) ' n s owe us t e range of respiratory infections which might be

as pra~tice d_~ta- _and patient-record stores (quicker and safer than conventional card index systems) · as tl~ac mg afJ es m surg ical procedure - here Robodoc was seen to perform a repair of a meniscal tear t G B · · · · A g 1mpse o the future? No an outli ne of the to computers for general practidoners but don't Iot;~s~nfi .. theat. ntham leads the wo~ld m accessibility Casebook. ' u 01 em m t e newT· V. versiOn of Dr. Finlay's W.R.P.

JAZZ

Th is term has been a busy one for the Jazz Club. The Chari! Jazz Concert wa ~n Sat~rday, 26th February, and is reviewed elsewhere in thi/Cantuarian by Mrs Winged Fellowship Trustr~nd~~nl~ke\~ ~h~a~ein~~e~e~r~~:~eJui. n~ooyefiar, hthe Conc~rt _was in aid of th~ 19th March, the Traditional Grou and h B r er 0 . '?r t at orgamsat1on. On Saturday, Spring Event, as the g uest of M/ Has~e~. arbershop Quartet d Jd a stmt at the J unior School, at their The Big Band has been directed by Ed M"ll ·d dh · · George Bingham _and James Bissill (alto-saxop~o~es) a~hil ~~~~Bs~ted o~ ~~n.ablel Wh•bley, Dan Bartlette, a en an ns oann?~ (tenor saxophones), Alex Neame, N1ck Tattersall and Sam Parker ( • (trumpets), Jeremy Bines and Charlie Aitken (pi~~:;}b~~es), ~att (~row)n, Matt Hllher and J\ndy Brice Jackson (vocals) and Dan Drury (drums) Dan Drury' had~s ~rr hass , Tom Robertson (gUitar), Tom replaced by Mr. Ray Wilson ( rofession~l) o .m•ss t e _concert, through illness, and was at such sho rt notice. (They alsophad an impro~p~uh?.m the e~t•r~ ~~~\!S very grateful for his joining us by all!) We also appreciate Mrs. Elwood's effort _Jam ses~ •C?n wh•.t Jm ~fte_rwar~s. which was enjoyed .t . J B . s m orgamsmg t IS substitutiOn n ght at the last mmute Th e T rad 1 10na1 azz and cons1sted of AI N ( b · (tenor saxophone) , Graeme Parkin (clarine~) N~~~~a~~~~a~n(e/_lead)er)T, MatRtBbrown (trump~t), Ed Millard • plano • om o ertson (banJo), and James Capel (bass). d. d b M A more modern group called Insoul s himself of Ed Mi ll ard (tenor saxo was •recte Y a_tt Brown (trumpet) and consisted, apart from (drums)', with Tom Jackson and t~~~e~ln~~~\~~~t: ~)~11 (plano), Tom Robertson (guitar), Hugh Gledhi ll The Barbershop Quartet compri d Ed M"ll d Matt Brown (bass). se ' ar and Tom Jackson (tenors), Luke Singer (baritone) and

h 1· In connection with the Charity Concert I sh ld technical expertise on sound and lighting For th~u I very Imuc . •ke to thank Mr. Anthony Alderson for their help - Ollie Nash and Tim Jack . IS, am as~ very grateful !O two O.K.S. who volunteered mention of Grant Chum, Jon Alcock ~fcnha~h~ sh~nt hoJ3 m th~ pre_parat1ons. ~should also like to make and lighting. I should also like to exp;ess thanks t~ ~: ~~te ~end. uckdn~ham for mvaluable work on sound Traylor) fo r front-of-house support and public ity a~d tic~etr~a/:s~n IS team (Rupert Mead and Michelle We are now concentrating our efforts on the King's Week Concert. R.B.MA.

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There is probably more political activity in King's than one might imagine . T here are of course the great set-piece lectures, by the likes of the Rt. Hon. Norman ~!RLIAMENT Lamont , M.P. and the former Irish Prime Mimster, Dr. Garret Fitzgerald. However, there is also the King 's Parliament. T his takes place once a term in St. Augustine's rectory : o n the one side sits the usually more serene opposition, with distinguished personalities such ~~ Father John on the far backbenches, while on the other are the raucous, exuberant wielders of the NG'S

Telegraph.

This year we have had an impressive line-up of talent speaking from the front benches. Comrade Davies, Chairman Moore, and Citizen Parrish have confronted those stalwart defenders of the status quo , Messrs Tod, Katz, and (after a histrionic crossing of the floor) Mr. Singer, allied by the P.M. Lord Johnson. In the autumn the motion was 'That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government'. This was lost 43 to 64. However, in January we decided to change the format of the debate. It is always difficult find backbenchers willing to speak, so after the set-piece speeches from the front benches we allowed 10 questions from the floor to P.M. and Leader of the Opposition and the ir colleagues. This made for a much more lively session, and Mr. Vye's calls for 'Order' resounded more frequently than usual. The motion accused the government of being hypocritical over its Back to Basics campaign . No doubt because of the frequency of scandals at that time, the P.M. and government front bench had to use all their skills to avoid a disaster. In the end , for the first time for years , the opposition won: AYE 29, NO 23, ABSTAINED 4 . Our thanks to the speaker, Mr. Vye and his hardworking Deputy Mr. Teeton . We hope next term's debate will fo llow the same lively pattern . SCOTT M CL EAN, CLERK TO THE HOUSE.

Sebastian Barker, an old boy of the school , gave an entertaining talk on Friday , 2 1st January in the Walpole House Room, the venue chosen because he had belonged to Walpole when he was a pupil at King's. T he poems he read covered a wide range in style and content, and there was variety of tone even within individual poems. Some notable successes, such as his translations of Li Po, and some powerful verse about poetry itself, were distinctive and effective, but perhaps the most impressive piece was in prose, reminding the audience how hard it is to write consistently persuasive verse in a culture in which genres blend into one another so readily. Although his work is distinctive and different, there are ways in which Sebastian, in the unevenness and eloquence of his work , and in hi s determined stance as a dedicated poet, resembles his father, George Barker. It was a valuable evening, and the audience responded well to the readings. H.W.B. The Gothic Evening on T hursday, lOth February was certainly the most peculiar Marlowe Society that I have ever attended - peculiar, that is, in the old-fashioned meaning of the word : specal. For a start , we all had to dress in black or in virginal white. The results were extraordinary and how certain gentlemen ever plucked up the courage to walk past The Jolly Sailor I will never know. Messrs Browning and Davies sat in command of the evenin~'s instruction on the subject of the Gothic nove l, and one can say that the talk was interesting and informattve, and , most importantly, fu nny, even if, like myself, many people knew less about the Gothic novel than Kenneth Clark knew about Maastricht, and for the same reason : we had not all read the relevant texts. We were taken through a deep and carefully planned tour of The Castle ofOtranto and then on a romp through Vathek . It was a voyage that was revealing both for the literaryminded and for those interested in the more mundane gossip of the Age of Reason. The whole presentation was punctua ted by the most splendid quotations read with extreme suggestiveness by Matthew Knight and Rebecca Fordham, with the result that the audience were weeping tears of laughter into the glasses of Gothic - Moldavian - wine. (Well , it was better than drinking it). T he whole evening passed regrettably quickly and it was a measure of the success of the event that a large number stayed on to discuss the ideas raised by the talk , even daring to drink another glass of wine.

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SIMON JOHNSON .

. 'It's going to be boring ... ' T his modest and extremely self-effaci ng remark made by the speaker to h1s Theatre Studies 6b class not more than eight hours before hi s talk on Wednesday, lOth March could not have been more inaccurate. T he society met in Jervis House to discuss the connection between the garden and l iterature, a subject which is commonly recognised but rarely discussed in detail. This was soon rectified by an impressive and memorable talk by Mr. Dobbin, who animated the discussion in a characteristically lively manner. 129 (Kirstin Gaymer {S6b] )

Having centred the theme upon an abstract sculpture by Ben Nicolson called 'The White Wall', the society embarked upon a journey through gardens of paradise and balanced harmony, whose images were projected upon the Jervis Common Room wall for the benefit of the ignorant. We were then introduced to four specific writers to whose works horticulture is particularly relevant: Chaucer, Pope, Cowper and Coleridge. Cowper's long poem, The Task, as we saw, included a long section about the cultivation of cucumbers which Mr. Dobbin assured us was infa llible . The evening was interesting and thought-provoking and provided us all with an extensive collection of comments about gardens and horticulture, some to be used in A-level examinations and Oxbridge interviews others to be dropped impressively at cocktail parties. It was a most e njoyable discussion. ' SARA MILLWATER.

T he last meeting of the term, on Wednesday, 23 rd March, a discussion of the poetry of Tony Harrison is too late for inclusion in this issue . '

On Saturday, 12th March, ' Los Siete Magnificos menos uno' provided a talk and economical supper leave for an invited and privi le~ed audience of six pupils and eight teachers, the only qualification apparently bemg the possession of a British Rail Young Person's railcard. Having been together in the same set for over three years under the charismatic teaching of 'EI Jefe Newbury', this sextet provided a great advertisement for teamwork and what pupils can actually achieve without a teacher's d tctated notes and material. Matthew Edwards had selected Don Quijote de Ia Mancha , Chapters 1-25 as the text, a wise limit as the novel as over 150 chapters, running to I ,000 Penguin Classics pages. A futher reason, he added, was that the set was reading it in class purely for enjoyment and interest. Unde r his guidance the hosts offered a series of talks ranging from the highly analytical to the highly comic. With only K.M.R. , C. P.N. and Q .N. having claimed to have read the novel , Karen Robinson and George Roberts gave a detailed summary of the story, bringing out both its comic and narrative aspects whilst al so introducing the main the mes. Matt then prov ided an essential biography of Cervantes (for those who thought it was a type of Spanish beer) which concisely conveyed his origins and motives for writing, vital if one is to 'fully appreciate a text. At thi s juncture therefore the keen aud ience were well-informed so that Ben Massingham , Miriam Lwanga and Mike Davies could explore the novel, d iscussing the madness of Don Quijote, the chivalric tradition and romanticism of the novel and the role of Sancho Panza, the squire, respectively. Ben wittingly described the insane character of the title hero and even the ever-merciless Mr. Sellers laughed at the incidents mentioned, including the infamous ' Windmills assaulting' episode. Such were the cascades of short ling at Ben's anecdotes that he capitalized upon this and promptly offered more wine to his lively audience. Miriam d iscussed romantic elements of the story in a sharply analytical fashion that must have left her ex-English teache r in attendance (Mr. Brodie) more than happy. She commanded her audience's attention superbly so that no one could have left without a fair degree of appreciation fo r the novel. Digger then proceeded to alienate the female minority of his audience by providing numerous analogies between Don Quijote and English footba ll , in the justi fied hope of making the text more accessible to the rapturous male members. 'Surely Cervantes could not have envisaged the character of Sancho being remcarnated as Terry Venables?', Digger mused. However, he d id offe r a lucid account of Sancho's role in the novel and his characteristics. Supper ensued , including wine, excellent salads and scrumptious fish dishes that together proved to be conducive to some witty and entertaining conversation , with guests and hosts ci rculating freely. Despite Dr. Humberstone' s absence, Voltaire and Candide raised their heads as the party began to claim exorbitantly high amounts of novels read in foreign languages . T his wonderful occasion was something to treasure; the hosts can be proud of themselves for being so audacious as to threaten the present Saturday evening regime with a genuinely informative and amusi set of talks. The pupil members of the audience certainly enjoyed themselves, as Seb Vance testified follow ing day in true Graham Taylor style : ' Did I like that? Yes, Yes, Yes . . . ' while Annabel football knowledge was increased beyond reasonable hope. Mr. Newbury deserves special thanks generating such interest in the often-mocked literature of Spain. Matt Edwards also deserves credit successfully coercing his ever-willing volunteers to write their speeches. His organisation was outstanding. SPANISH

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HOUSE NOTES Benito's grip on the House has now become so tight that it has choked off freedom of speech. Luckily, the underground press has managed to smuggle out what life is like this side of the iron curtain. With the introduction of conscription, the Hice's sporting achievements have changed . . . very httle. However, Frazer 'the j?ke' Hu.ghes was drafted into the Nati?nal Squad- pro_vi~g t~at his fencing is infinitely supenor. to his ,se_nse of ?umour: Ed and Tim both had the distmctwn of captaining the Seconds ... while our Big Boys Jay, Giles, Russell were the hardcore element of the rugby sevens. The School House minister for culture (Benito Mannering) declared in his latest communique that this was another victorious period for the state. The Government Inspector (the play) parodied life in Clungunford. The standard of acting was superb - though Simon did not feel the need to . Other memorable roles were played by Peter Lambert and Ivan Strugatsky, and Matthew wasÂˇ 'worringly good' as the Postmaster. Grant adopted the mantle of totalitarianism, but luckily 1t was returned to Ryan the next day. What a relief! The Department for Military Information (run by Benito) was proud to announce to the hushed rally that four rising members of the House stormed to victory in the Junior Academic Challenge, leaving the opposition weeping. As a reward, the Captain Thomas Tallon has been granted a week's watersports off the coast of Shropshire. The Dictatorate for Social Affairs had his budget cut by ÂŁ2.50, though this lack of leading by example did not deter others . Francis has continued to fly the red flag - but other attempts at an alliance with Broughton had all the hallmarks of failure - but as Luke says, one can' t be picky! Giles and Tim discovered The Age of Innocence, whilst Simon developed links with western Europe. Ole! However, allegations of emotional connections between Ed and Lucy have been catcgon cally denied by the powers that be. It only remains for us to thank the cleaning ladies, Matron for a job well done, and the assistant Houscmaster Mr. Dobbin for filling in during the absence of our 'glorious' leader.

SCHOOL HOUSE

When considering the short length of this term, there seem to have been a surprising number of events both internal and inter.. house in nature. On the sporting front the intermediates outswam the oppositi~n to give The Grange a conclusive victory in the House swimming and Harry McDona.ld led .the mter-house badminton team to a shining third place. The juniors have shown great flair gettmg through to the final in the inter-house hockey and football. They also beat Walpole in the final of the basketball. Our other engagements with Walpole were less physical; the Grange/Walpole house concert was .a complete suc~ess, for which all credit goes to Christian Bottomley whose organisation earned the whole thm& off. Our other sibling encounter was the fete which raised a staggering ~284 for the Leu~aemm Research Fund . The Grange/Walpole dinner was extremely pleasant and gave the two Sixth-formers a real chance to mingle with each other (and their napkins). Other enco~nte~s were of a more personal nature - Marcus certainly put his money where his mouth IS. Bill tned ,frantically but got as far as Josh did. Amid all this physical exertion (or lack of It) we v.:e.ren t lo.st for words with Josh and Alex getting into the final of the House Debating Competition, which at the time of writing hasn't occurred yet. Our vocal cords were flexed even

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more by the inter-house song competition where we came a hearty third place . Finally we are looking forward to our music hall extravaganza at St. Mary ' s Hall next week (as we write) and would like to thank all those participating for all their hard work. It only remains to thank the cleaning ladies and matron for all their help in maintaining the house. And to thank Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge for keeping the house running so smoothly throughout this extremely busy term.

CHEZ JANET

WALPOLE

C ' EST LA FETE

(raised ÂŁ294 with Grange) COCKTAILS Bazaar and Rummage - mixed by Mrs. B Chloe, Sarah, Priscilla, Helena, Charlie, Sam , M iriam et a/.) STARTERS Fresh lake Salmon OR:

McConnell's Cucumber soup Pitta Bread (j ust for Michelle) . MA IN COURSE Try our new Stingray delicacy (as recommended by Emma) OR: Go for the meaty Burrrger (We' ve got a hunch some would like a munch.) Chargrilled Steak - courtesy of Olivia Arthur Duck a S'olange, or why not tackle our pasta shells (they really won over Marlowe.) DESSERTS 'Ka 'rna 'na ' have some Moir ' Miriam + Sally's Kentish creme de Ia creme OR: Lush Lem on Pie (a great favourite with Walpole and Grange 6a) If you have had too much to drink have some millwater and run terrybly fast to the loo men 's left, women's right (queries to S.H.D. and P .K.G. ). After your marathon main meal make your way to the bar;kerb your thirst with an ice-cool beer, while Miss Virden totals your bill. Why not buy your lady a carnation - dig in , you know you can afford it - to add to the already raised ÂŁ1066.20 for L' Arche. And if you don 't like our menu go for a Mcdonald 's chicken samwich. BACKGROUND MUSIC Supplied by our talented Walpole musicians as heard at the Walpole-Grange concert and our resident choir and remember on Saturdays we have our live jazz band The Whibley -Barten Sisters. Thanks to: the head chef Mrs. Pickering, the waiters : Doc P. , Messrs V. , B. , D.& C., to the chief washer-up Mrs. B. , and to the accomplices who work so hard behind the scenes : Lorna, Hazel, Sheila, Sue, Michelle, Diane and Lorraine. Please drive carefu lly (esp . Mr. Vye!) 132

And it' s here, right in the middle of it all , that we fi nd the ~ost fascinating of habitats: Meist~r Omers , known to .the n~tl.ves tn simply as ' Em-Oh '. Long smce abandoned by 1ts ongmal ants this old site is now rife with living things which coexist, at times ~!most peaceably . ~cuhabit~t is remarkable for its broad cross-~ection. of the evoluti<?na.ry sptral , .a~d we must e marvel at the success of such a comparatively tmy ecosystem m tts compettttve struggle aIso . 'th the natural world around tt. wtThese-creatures have emerged triumphantly from the water, though they still return t<_> po?ls .1 large numbers . Indeed, life in an.d on the water is rif~: codfish , coots and strange species like ~ lesser-crested gourmand, the big-toed lobb, the smith and the wall are very much at h.o me ~ ~e as is the odd paddling bird. Once on land , of course, fitness becomes the. key to survival. T~is' may show itself in the ability to outrun predators seen in the chattering n bbans, the sleek orbally and the brightly coloured stevens and raf, in the fancy footwork and bo~y movements c f the crested hillier defending its territory and of the outstanding boardman, or It may take the ~uscular rugged fo rm of the !au and the g~eat~bellied ron,. T~e so-?alle~ colts, in parti~ular, seem especially well-adapted to a form of tern ton al demarcation mvolvmg little-understood n tuals in groups of seven. Higher up the spiral, on the other hand, the use of simple tools becomes apparent. T he curved sticks wielded by the doust, the bowl-headed bucher and the sixsmith a: e clearly some sort of primitive weapon, and one which the bush-bodey has used to secure leadership over a dominant tribe . The brightly plumed mudzaffar and greater wyn pugh have developed the use of strung clubs , not unlike those of the kingston and ioannou which serve to fend off strange feathered creatures and beat neighbouring predators into submission . Still further up the evolutionary ladder, behaviour becomes more complex, and bizarre rituals enacted by some species spring up, including an annual occurrence which involves mimicry (best demonstrated by the parnsh species), warbling (most notably by the gourmand an~ the lesser wy n pugh) and highly elaborate dancing movements of creatures such as the !au, pe rnn and ev~n the codfish. The role of the bucher in these rituals is clearly crucial, but seems to be more domestiC than public. The Sl;lgg~stion that these happenings as a w~ole relate to courtship is .d ismissed by most eminent scientists because of the smgular lack of evidence of any success m this respect. The doust and the smith seem to be near remarkable exceptions here, though the extensive studies of Schmidt-Merz in this field conclude that it is the early bird that catches the signorina . Elements of verbal communication are apparent in places, but usually take t~e form of ritua!is.ed dispute (as with the parrishes) . Song, on the other hand, seems to be a dommant group activity within this ecosystem , with great subtlety of tone and melody . Such a beautiful and varied habitat could not, of course, survive without careful management by M.J.M . , Mrs . Young and their team of wardens. Thanks to them we are able to glimpse and enjoy such natural splendour.

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Another term . .. smiles, tears, sweat, anguish . .. Intrigued? P robably not, but read on anyway ! Sporting achievements have been numerous. Our boys practically made up the 1st XI Hockey under the disciplined vice-capta inship of Tom ' ooerr he's long' Aldridge. Whaler was quick on the tum and our own Marlovian prodigy, Simon, played for England. James ' Pe!ican Man' Munday often spread his legs and received 1st colours. Oh yeah, we also won the Junwr House Hockey. On the footy field , Adam B. was a veteran regular in the 1sts and Don Pett was a smaller regular in the 2nds. Alex and Baz sank/swam gracefull y and Ben L. E . continued to stroke towards a place in the G .B. crew via the 1st VIII . Gumbi also rowed for the sacred VIII and Jon 'Big Break' Norman took time off to play with his shuttle. The House Concert, under the superb organisation of Matt, was a great success, putting Marlowe right in the centre of the musical map. The talent doesn' t stop there: not only does the Hou~e have brawn and Beethoven in its midst, it also has brains . We reached the finals of the Academic Challenge in both age groups !

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As far as action within the House goes, the place was a pit of perpetual excitement (almost!). Tom and Barry are still looking for that six-pack of crisps, while Bussey continues to crack in the curlers. Dan 'Not quite the man ' went Purple after a choir trip and Simon Houghton quickly in Spain . Donna's fallen for a right Kelvin and Charlie Munday got on with the 6b Gamer. Baz's heart is still in his homeland but the question on everyone's lips is 'Will Bissill Still Chill Still?' Ed has been spotted twice this term and Frank's still making regular trips to Blackfriars. Many thanks and respect to Trev, Matron and Mr. and Mrs. Reid; and also to Don for being a continual source of amusement!! !

LUXMOORE

Experiment Aim: To question man's existence.

Apparatus: Regardless of gender , race, height and political aspirations, out of 700 applications the obvious prime candidates comprised 59 girls with one ultimate element in common - Luxmoore. Method: Place 35 girls in St. Mary's Hall to ensure success in My Fair Lady, introduce one star in the form of Milly to advance popularity. Results: Sodium Gaymer + Iron Bennett = effervescence and first colours on the netball court. 'Treasure' + 'the star' = secondary reaction on the colours court. CL(aire) + pH(ipson) + LX-oars + H20 = astounding finesse. Conclusion: Volatile reactions: Nylon was removed while Ant and Jo sing a duet. More sustaining reactions could 'be found in confessions of the Hart(ley) and the lingering Barcelona buzz improved relations between 6bs and Removes. Moore trouble in the bullring. Having failed to reach an adequate verdict, Pix, Claire and George resumed investigations . . . Acknowledgements: Mr. and Mrs. T. , Mrs. Creissen, Tutors and ladies = guaranteed success and supremacy . From a retrospective of the Hands years (1990-1994), published in The Cantuarian , 2004 . Lent '94 - 'The calm before the storm '. As the Hands regime moved to the final term of the Four Year Plan, it appeared that the house had settled on a winning streak. The fourth victory in the House swimming since the advent of the glorious dictator confirmed Galpin 's as a sporting house, ably led by comrade Elliot and prime-comrade Haggis . The grand 12-term sporting plan was nearing competition and was responsible for other successes such as the democratic election of Matt Edwards, Bruce Curzon, Wacko Jackson, E lliot Ashurst, Haggis McGregor and Wolfgang Einbeck to first teams. Matt and L. -J . had divisional rugby trials. This was the term in which Galpin's began to reap the benefits of the Brainwashing Programme. With six Oxbridge offers to members of our 6a the tactic gave the appearance of success to neighbouring states. Despite contacts within the Ministry of Academia, Galpin's representatives were however eliminated from the Academic Challenge. This unfortunate episode was to be overlooked in future history books . And Chairman Hands gave a stern lesson to dissidents, as Elliot suffered two weeks gated to the Gulag of Is lay, to be followed , for public relations reasons, by the elimination of that Gulag, transformed into an information station for the benefits of the proletariat. Comrade Shrimpton of the Ministry of Pseudity presided over the glorious House Concert, supressing any civil disobedience with his iron fist. It featured the Hands Youth in their play, The Victim , demonstrating the evils of capitalism with a Maoist, Comrade Cheong (on loan from China) rel?resenting the proletariat. Another member, Nigel Field, excelled in the wake of this grade 8 distmction in his fl ute exam .

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(Peter Baines)

With the controver.sial t~ler~nce of fe.m ales within the coalition.of ~t~tes , the secret poli~e _lea~ed ort containing d1sturbmg mformatwn to the effect that certam c1t1zens had been part1c1patmg ~ rePn atriotic behaviour. Comrade Cocklin had broken the security webb and defected to ~iggham. A population control plan was reported to be under consideration. As Chairman H0 nds prepared to celebrate the purification, there were those who felt him complacent and :prepared for uprising . What might follow? . u The editors would like to thank the three Hands, the cleaning and linen ladies and Mrs . B. for their help and support throughout the term.

Welcome to the start of an institution and the death of an art form. Welcome to the Linacre House Notes. For fear of being offensive to lesser lights Linacre streaks away on all fronts and no one else could catch us, even if they got up very early in the morning and tried really hard. If Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, then Linacre could supply the shock troops of the next British war: Andy W. & Timmy P. stock the Hockey Firsts; Mylesy S-0. filled the entire 1st VIII; Jamie G. , Adamy W . , Simony G. , Robby A. and Sammy K . crammed themselves into the top string teams of their years . To produce our elite close combat troops we turn to Jamie B. , Eddy W., Timmy B. and Trevor, blademasters one and all , even though Trev wants a chainsaw and entrails competition introduced. Ollie C. proved his officer material leading the Jsts Footy . And for practice at winning we tried out the Waterpolo and the Colts House Sevens; though in a fit of generosity we gave the Badminton Final to M.O. , to go with their other cup. For Linacre, war isn't just about being the roughest, toughest house in the school, its about thinking and caring and sharing. Hence our triumphs in Bridge thanks to one Shaw and his Frog, not to mention the Academic Challenge (Senior , of course) with the stunning combination of Tom M. 's height, Tom B.' s bulk, Theo M. ' s nose and Adam F. 's friendly nature. As of now Linacre are tearing their way through the Chess Tournaments , intent on keepmg last year's double crown. And for culture Linacre showed the rest of the Triangle that we can still run the acting, lighting and backstage on our own even with Marie Celeste-like disappearances from the cast . Andy W. has all the attraction of a Walrus with halitosis. His only friend is somebody called Jim. Mikey P. and Trev spent the most on carnations in the whole school. Is romance dead or just sleeping? Here follows the fully edited list of relationships in Linacre: P**** & **y***, *i*e & a spot welder from Liverpool. The rest are just too hot to even put down in print. What more to say? Have we mentioned everyone? To those who have not been mentioned we can only apologise , but some people have to be weeded out. And now the ceremonial thanks to the ladies, without whom the corridors would be filled with reeking socks and intelligent sports shirts. Mrs. White, a paragon of matronhood, who has performed life-saving surgery with two frozen haddock and a cocktail stick . And finally a thousand thanks to Mr. and Mrs . Thane, who have kept going despite all that has gone on. Life without them is like a broken pencil.

LINACRE

Some people think that Broughton girls are naughty. Well, we' re not! This term we have proved them wrong. We haven't had time to fool around. Instead projecting an image of angelic productivity, we have been too busy playing the field. Louise and Lizzie are 'heading' for Kent hockey, Clare and Gunners and hordes of Shells were on the netball court, with Theresa and Mwaka excelling; Broughton practically made up the whole Lacrosse team (wow, what a sporty h~use! ); Pooja was made Captain of squash (now it's actually down on paper for all those who dtdn't believe it); and Sarah Clarke triumphed in the House swimming . The 6bs astounded everyone by ~ppearing in a play that no-one really understood but that everyone agreed was truly brilhant. Am1d ch~ers Broughton stormed onto the stage to sing the House song American Pie, only to creep qUietly off again. Thanks anyway to Cesca , Clare S. and especially to Alice.

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(Peter Baines)

(Mark Sweny [Sh b) )

of romances. 'I can resist a lot of things but I can't resist temptation'. Sounds familiar, ~? Oh, O.K., we'll elaborate on the breaking of the six-inch rule. Pass the Cheese please, Ant<?ne (but she dropped it on the way). Fran, Dawsey and Hannah got dragged up the garden Lo~tbut all seemed to leave in a hurry. Many of the 6bs followed in our footsteps : Lizzie and pat G Annabel and Jules, Bex and Arby, Sian and Giles. To our new arrival Becca (and T om)mrel~~me to the Broughton community. It's really nice to have you. And boys: keep off en , ourThe lawns! · acqUJre · d a pseu do-purp1e, s I'tg ht Iy Dappter · th an th e ongma · · I one. They horny little devils rtainl needed some help. Thanks to Mrs. Booton and the cleaning ladies, Miss Reidy, the ~~tors a~d last, but not least, Mrs. Wakeham who provided great entertainment in and after the staff revue. 01

Trad is an expanding empire comprising of ninety-four pupils, making us ' officially' the largest house in the school. But are we a superior race? None of us has blond hair and blue eyes and few of us can speak German. However, we have evidence to suggest that the 'new regime' under Herr Graham has more power and force than all of the Gladiators put together. As usual Tract had representatives in all major sports teams, including (shock, horror!!) rowing. Richard T~zer and our pasta connoisseur Pete Cawston hit the dizzy heights of S.J .G.'s 1st VIII. Pete very nearly rowed his way in to a G .B. squad, but j ust missed out. J.E.F., Pete Hunt and Little Big Lynch all aspire to the same in a few years time. In the hockey, Tommy G. was captain of the 1st XI as was 'Buster' North, who proved to be a high-class player. 'Cookie' and Morgs played in P.T.'s 2nd XI, while Ed, Barny and P.J. made the Colts As. Dave Smith played in A.M.M. 's Junior Colts As and seven of the Shells were in the U14 As. In the footy, 'Big Deano', O.K. and 'Hardcore' all made the top team , while ' Maccers' Katz, ' Little Deano' and our answer to Peter Schmeichel (exactly the same, apart from Matt being German instead of Danish and unable to keep goal) starred in the 2nds. What else? Oh yes, how could we forget the most important '>ports? Jules and Male. ran fast for .e~tremely long di.stances and 'Tall Boy' Vaines.pl~yed high quality squash. As a House, we annthtlated everyone m the House cross-country, wmnmg every year group by record margins. The Junior hockey boys came second to a pretty hot Marlowe side. On the cultural side of things, this term saw the production of Hemy IV (not by Shakespeare, but by some Italian bloke) in combination with our sister house Broughton. It was superbly directed by Mr. Davies, who was afterwards awarded with his favourite video Jungle Book for all his hard work. Jules starred as Henry, but has convinced himself that he really is Henry IV and has been acting strangely ever since. Moz gained credit for being very funny in the play, but promptly lost it again for his unsuccessful sideburn efforts. We also came second in the House Song to the M.O. choir (who seem to win every year). It is not surprising that many ofthe Bailey boys fainted soon after the results were announced , considering they have held on to the wooden spoon for about a decade. On to the so-called 'social' aspects. T he two Dans impressively ensured that good relations were kept up with the other Canterbury schools. Dan D. was also banned from the J.C.R. and ther~fore had no way of getting Beer (no surprises there!). Plant went to Spain to find a compatible spec1es and found one in the form of a 'Bizzy Lizzie'. Meanwhile, Jules, or Henry, as he now ltkes to be called, enjoyed a goblet of coffee. He rather worryingly keeps murmuring. 'My Cuppage IS hot'. Staz seems to have taken advice fro m his big brother about relationships and has unfortu~ately suffered the same fate. Harry seems rather excited about the completion of our ~ew soct~l room, a.s the cinema is becoming a little too expensive. However, little Simon insists e can. st1ll afford tt. And finally, Malcolm received seven carnations but says he doesn't want carnations. W~ll, that's it ~or another term, apart from mentioning that Gus , who was not going to get menttoned otherwtse, has been unleashed on the roads- so watch out!! As always, most sincere thanks g? to th~ tutors (~specially N.C .W .S. and A.M.M. as we tend to annoy them more), the cleanmg ladtes and Dtck and Tony not forgetting M iss Brine whom we cannot live without and also our Fuhrer, Mr. G. ' '

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A is for As hockey, played by Pardip, Richard and Kenny. Ada111 and Kenny (the other one) played in the 2nds. B is for Bridget, who starred in the staff review , and for sick, lame and lazy her office beckons. C is for Crouches who play for us in hockey and soccer. D is for Dr. Maltby who looks after the House should anything occur. E is for Excellence - Tom and the senior swimmers who win and win. F is for Fencing and footy - that's Sam, Graeme, Rob , Mike, Umar and Espin. G is for Growth, two more inches, Chris P's getting so tall. H is for House concert, to Jeremy we owe it all. I is for me, King of this Ho~se. . J is for Jess and Adam Fendms and also Tim Douse. K is for Kathy and Liz who clean our House, working hard. L is for Lighting and sound looked after by Owen and Richard. M is for Musicians who played so well - Jeremy , Jo, Mike, Penelope, Hugh. N is for Nick, Anna, Emma, Graeme, Tom, Espin, Chris, Simon - phew! 0 is for ' OOPS' - nice one Priyan but he's made up for it, so I Aird . P is for People who never get mentioned - this is to show we care. Q is for Question - Who writes these notes? R is for Rowing, Vicky, Priyan (see 0) and Dave get our votes. S is for Sirens, but with so many choices can Rob take his pick? Tis for Thrashing, Lawrence does it at squash (and Tennis and Academic Challenge) and he's going to Oxford - it just makes you sick). U is for Ultra cool - the monitors that we all love and know. V is for Voices, those of our choirs: Penelope, Graeme, Anna and co. W is for Water-polo into the fina\, what a sensation. X is for Mr. X - who sent the carnations? Y is for YMCA- what a song, thanks Mike D. Z is for zzzzzzzzz and well-cut head of hair, Leigh.

MITCHINSON'S

We proudly present this extract from one of the less popular sociological studies: The Public School in British Society by L. E. S. Moniters: Bailey Hous~, inco~orating 2 and 4 Monaste~y Stre~t is. situated on the south side. of St. Augustine's, with the sixth-century monastery rums restmg m the background. The mam part of Bailey, known to those who reside therein as 'Main Bailey' , is a fine exa.mp~e of ~or man architecture. Fourteen young gentlemen as well as the Houseperson and fam1ly mcludmg two dogs and a hamster are housed here. Numbers 2 and 4 ~onastery Street meanw~ile house fifteen full-time boarders, and one young man who leaves at mght. The least mathematically challe~ged amongst you will have realised that there are in fact thirty young fellows who not only contn~ute to the resounding success of this fme house, but also to the more triumphant aspects of co-educatiOn. This could not have been demonstrated in any way better than the achievements of the finelytuned cross-country runners who, in combination with Tradescant, the sister house, monopolised the House Cross Country trophies. This is further emphasised by the potential for victory in both the inter-house association football and water polo competitions. It is due to such interhouse competition that such a close-knit and friendly atmosphere has been established and that the members of the said house were able to perform so melodiously not to say vociferously in the House Song contest. This fine establishment has also c~ntributed widely to the sporting prow.ess of the school, fostering immeasurable and exuberant talent m 1st XI footballers such as E. W. Dnnkwater, A. 0. Ogedegbe and M. J. Davies with T. Stazicker, J. Cole and F. Fadeyi providing able support from the ranks of the 2nd and 3rd XI. And what about the chess then! This veritable pillar of collegiate society

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also provided the Captain of Boats J.W.H.M. Bishop, the able-bodied B. M. Rolfe of swimming

ha~oriety C. N. A. Crowe, master swordsman, R. D. Swanson, international coxswain and 00

untless' other sportspersons, who exude confidence in all directions. This is chiefly due to the cohievements of the Houseperson S. J. Graham and his good wife who manage the House in ac almost nonchalant yet firmly correct manner and to whom the members of the House are eternally a~ateful. Not to mentiOn the ubiquitous Matron Mrs. McGuire . And finally of course the cleaning Fadies who have taken so much off the boys' 'shoulders. ' So there w_e are - House notes that are as trustworthy but quite as interesting as the rest of The Cantuanan.

' It's a miracle!' Jervis, as Ed reminded them, with the help of all their friends began their pilgrimage to the Mecca of St. Mary's . Before the departure, Charlie gathered the Cole, Suzy picked a quince, and Marni shopped at Mace(y). They found a river, which Mrs. Browning mistook for the ' Riviera' and so danced across with Pierre in tow. Tom rowed George, whilst Miranda and Dan took the ferry. The three new drivers took an alternative route, but the swimmers came first everytime. The seniors successfully continued cross-country , protected by the invincible army of juniors. En route, honorary members joined the clan, namely Elliot and Mike. But Elliot, with a bout of Jenningitis, returned to the Doctor. Elated, they reached the Mecca, still searching for The Boy Friend, and grabbed their dancing partners. But where had Olive seen hers before. . .?! The lucky boys were slightly shown up by the 'Perfect Young Ladies' (!!) from Jervis, not forgetting those who developed a Spanish flair, helped by Diana . And all appreciated the tremendous effort from Julia and Sarah, but especially Mr. Matthews and Mrs. Browning. Lola, tired from the long journey curled up on the stairs and dreamed of how they should thank M. Oath (our friendly gendarme who protected them during their adventurous term!) and the 3 Bs.

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Boys' Hockey 1st XI The re have been two notable landmarks for the 1st XI this season. Martin le Huray became the first O. K.S. since 197 1 to win a Blue. Playing for Oxford, he scored the first hat-trick in the Varsity match since 1979. Simon Gittins was selected to represent England at Unde r 16 a nd won three Caps in a series against Ge rmany , a furthe r three in the Home National Tournament (when he became the first King's pupil to score an International goal) and will take part in the European Championships over Easter. There have been othe r representative honours: Tim Pa lmer for the South East of England Unde r 17 a nd Under 16 sides; Charlie Munday fo r the South East Under ISs; Tom Grant for Kent Unde r 18. Within the school the Junior Colts A have enjoyed an outstanding season, playing some very impressive hockey a nd scori ng a phenomenal number of goals. And the Under 14 Bs were unde feated. When the 1st XI Squad 's dec ision to go to Los Reyes Inte rnational Tournament was announced, I was confident that it would b~ p~ssi ?Ie to select an eleven that cou_ld play the best team hoc key the school has seen, despite having fewer outstandmg mdtvtdual players than for some lime. Indeed that squad had some moments of play of outstanding brilliance in the pre-season. The moments c reated very high expectations a nd thoughts of a n outstanding season but it was not to be. T he expectations were to be unfulfilled and the dream unrealised . Many in the side felt disappointed at the end of the season but one must be objective. Statistically it was not bad - indeed better than average but all in the squad knew that it could have been better a nd were left wondering what happened , what went wrong? The re were three occasions wh ic h will stay in my mind when brilliance was realised. There was a training session in the Michael mas te rm whe n team play was at its best. The movement off the ball was supe rb , the passes unbelievably perceptive and the commitment second to none. Much of this was orchestrated by Charlie Doust who injected an energy and dynamism to our play that could have been devastating during the season had he not been out for over half of it following a rugby injury. The second me morable moment was in our last matc h in Los Reyes Tournament in Barcelona in Janua ry. We played aga inst the Spanish Under 18 s ide . T his was quite a challenge but for the first twenty minutes we played hockey of a maturity away beyond our years and expj:rience. To hold an internat ional side to 0 -0, to have a ttacks that came from some marvellous two touch passing in midfield which could not have been defended, is some achievement. Then Tom Aldridge received a quite frighteni ng facial injury and was taken to hospital. The side reorganised was less committed, stood off from tackles and had lost heart. We sha ll never know what might have happened. The third moment came in o ur first match after half term against Ke nt College. It was time to learn how to beat a side with tho ug ht rather than skill. I was astounded by the team's ability to adaJ.>t and learn new tactics. All did not go perfectly but they made it work. To see the XI playing attractive hockey whilst changing formation was very pleasing indeed. T hey did something that afternoon that no other King 's side had done. T he match was a g reat spectator spectacle. King 's went into the lead; Kent College equalised. King's bounced back into the lead , Kent College equalised but we finally slotted home the winning goal fi ve minutes from time. Although no quarter was given, the match was played in great spirit and epitomised what sport should be about. Against both C ranleigh and Reed 's we could have finished the game in the first fifteen minutes. We had countless cha nces and a ll the pressure. We shot just wide, hit the posts but never the net. It was a frustrat ing story and one tha t was to be famihar to us for much of the season. We oft en had a tendency to over-complicate in a c irc le when a stra ightforward whack at goal on the first or second touch was what was needed . Too o fte n playe rs would d rift left and be forced to make impossible shots with the reverse stick. Cranle ig h, hearte ned by our failure to convert pressure, g radually grew into the game but never threatened to dom inate. A defensive e rror from a breakaway gave the m a goal and suddenly we were 1-0 down. We fought back, Andy Wilson winning a penalty stroke with twenty seconds to go. The fli ck predictably, based on the flow of the game, went over the crossbar. At Reed's we went behind again, against the run of play. Again it was Andy Wilson who was instrume ntal in giving us a chance to salvage the game. Afte r some exceptionally fine dribbling mid-field in he played a ball into the c ircle from which we got a short corne r. Jay Spencer , one of our two short corner strike rs, completed one of the slickest routines on the c ircuit. We salvaged a draw but there should have been no need to salvage anything. In recent years King 's have never pe rformed well in mid-week games. This year was no exception . A case could pe rhaps be made for not playing them, for they are rare ly of g reat e ntertainment value and do little in the way of educating the players. Maidstone Grammar School put us under a lot of pressure initially. They capitalised on our weak tackling a nd slow start to the game but it took a piece of extraordinary individual skill to settle the game down. Jay Spencer picked the ballup outside the 25, took it wide, left and powered a reverse fl ick into the roof of the net to score the outstanding goal of the season. We went from the re to play C hatham House in the next round of the Kent Cup. This was a good game. Evenly balanced , it could have gone e ithe r way. The key moments were some loose marking ea rly on in the game when we gave one of the ir mid-fielders time to run and score a very good individual goal and a couple of goaf-mouth scrambles when even after three o r four attempts the ball sti ll went wide. James Munday did a supe rb job during this game, ma rking one of the best under 18 divisional players in the country , and kept him out of the game. As the season progressed James became a stronger, more determined player and scored a great goal against Kent College. 140

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f he XI's fi ve victories we re convincing . Against Rochester and St. Edmund' s more goals could have been Three 0 ~ as our dom inance partic ularly of the m idfield . Bruce Curzon set up several goal-sconng chances by ..cored, sue wtimed runs from t~ft wing . H ts game against St. Edmund's was his best. Duke of York's fought hard ,ome superb1Yn.tia lly quite a tight game but they fo und it d ifficult to cope with our passing and despite having one 1 1 m what was ta tented and skilful right-wingers, could never really penetrate our defence. of the more K had assembled one of the best sides for some years, T he XI , wanting to prove something, played The. 0 · · ·well Despite the O.K.S. a tte mpt to break up o ur pattern we kept our structure and did well to draw excepllohalllide that contained the better players. It was very good to see so many O.K.S. playing good hockey . I agamst 1 he hope that plans for an O .K.S. tournament next year get off the ground . very muc . narrowly fa iled to get a place in the semifi nal of the Kent Cup we entered the Frank Mason Tournament Havmfthe favourites. Several of the senior players were keen to prove the potential of the side during this tol!rnament, 0 • a' one be In the tightest of fou r groups we were unfortunate not to quahfy for the afternoon semtfinal and 1 10 ~ut (1 tna~~mes of iwenty-five minutes one cannot afford any. tar ses of concentration. It was such a lapse that allowed ~~~on Langton's England mid-fielder to score a very fine mdtvtdua l goal. It was that goal that prevented us from competing for the fi na l. The team spi rit was the best. in a 1st XI fo r some time a nd even when absolutely everything seemed to go against . it did in our match aga mst Eastbourne, the stde never gave up a nd were always encouragmg to each other, u~ a~\ ught to the e nd. The atmosphere became a little fraught in some of the later mid-week games but that was due 0 ~orc 10 frus tration. What those who remain must do is learn to how to use the frustration positively . It I\ difficult to pinpoint one reason fo r o ur not winning more matches, but at this stage that is not what is important. What is is that this XI has improved more than any other the school has had . They have shown those who are to follow what can be ach ieved by concentration and working at the basics. T hey have shown what a positive atmosphere can achteve. T hey should be proud of their e fforts this t~rm and of.th is fact : the best hockey they have played this term wa' better than anything any other ?'I has produced m the last SIX yea rs . Indeed, some of the O.K.S._were verx keen to ,ing their praises. Those who wtll be here ne xt year have set a standard they must mamtam and mdeed butld on. During the team dinner Qin Wiseman was voted most improved player of the season . Playing h is first season in goal he was one of the stronger keepers on the c ircuit and there is much potential there. Tim Palmer, prone to the Odd lapse of concent ra~i on, is capable of making the g reatest o~ tackles . He grew in confid~nce as the season went on and began to time hts runs from deep so well that the oppOS itiOn were often caught out. H ts suck stoppmg at short come!'\ consistently better than the 1st XI has had for many seasons, establ ished a p latform for one of the most effective short corner set-ups on the circuits . Chr is North has played in six positions thts season . This is a testament to hi s ~1.. 1 11 and versatility. But fo r his will ingness to do ,th is and his ability to learn quickly I would have had fewer options when injuries struck. Few worked harder on the pttc h for the team. If all who played hockey for Kmg's were to follow h1, e:~tampl e, we would be unbeatable,. Simon G ittins was u ~ab l e to play in several of our .games for he .was away trammg with the England Under 16 stde or playmg InternatiOnal matches . He has outstandmg sktll for hts age and an amMing strength and determination . He has won many short corners and started some good counter-attacks as he ha' picked off c learances. To be the second-highest scorer in the Re moves is some achievement. Tom Wacher saved ht bc't to last. He played superbly in the Frank Mason after a break from hockey at this level. Jumc' Murch has a fantastic eye for a pass and was able to split defences with many of his balls. Not quite so strong Jch:ndmg the counter-attack in the midfie ld, his style of play was better suited by a move to a left defender. James Chec,eman had one of the hardest strikes at short corners o f any team we came across and was unlucky not to score more goal\. On the right wing when he d id not c ut in he could wreak havoc in opposition circles and won many short corner' 1 orn Aldndge was a key man in our defe nce. Running from right back he was key in our attack too. He was missed grcatl) at the M~n of the season whilst he recovered from the mjury sustained in Spain. On his return there was a new dynamtsm m attack a nd sure ness in defence . He has been a n o utstanding vice-captain. rom Grant was voted player of the season by his team-mates. It was thoroufihly deserved for his play alone: he 1s the bc\1 central defender in the County . I suspect that many of those votes will have been cast for the marvellous way he has l~d the team . Deeply concerned for the team a nd its success, he tried all he knew to ensure that the potential we both saw m the team was realised . He has been a great captain. I have valued his support and am very grateful to him. There are many people to thank at the end of a season. I am indebted to Geoff Wells, a New Zealander here for u year. He h~s been a gre~t help coaching the XI. He has made the jo b much easier and both I and the team have ~prccmted hts relaxed attitude to life. I a m gratefu l to him for his high standard of umpiring. My thanks to Juliet tgano w~o has been re~dy to deal with any injury on each Saturday of the term; to the Ground Staff for looking after the pitches and c uttmg up those ora nges; to all those who have been involved with providing us with teas; to the umpt res of the lea.gues; to M r. Duncan Craik who has helped out whe n help was needed most; and to all the coaches Cpantcularly Peter Ftrmmger and Erian Fox) . It was the fi nest group we have had for some years . N .L.P. S TcamG~ro,m: 1om G rant* (Capt.), T om Aldridge* (Vice-Capt.), James Cheeseman* , Alastair Curzon, Charles Doust, 0 ltll ns, a mes M unday*, James Mu rch, Ch ristopher North, T imothy Palmer , Jay Spencer, Andrew Wilson*, Q\~ ~.Iseman.

Al.\o played: Adam Jackson, T om Wacher.

*First Colours. 141 (Terence Loo)

RESULTS Played 13, Won 5, Drawn 3, Lost 4. Goals for 25, goals against 23 . v St. Lawrence (H). Lost 0-2 v Cranle igh (A). Lost 0-1 v King's Rochester (H). Won 5-1 v Reed's (A). Drawn 1-1 v Maidstone Grammar School (H). Won 4-3 v Cranbrook (H) . Drawn 2-2 v Duke of York's (H). Won 3- 1 v O.K.S. (H). Drawn 1- 1 v Eastbourne (H). Lost 1-4 v Sir Roger Manwood 's (H). Lost 3-4 v Chatham House (H). Lost 0 - 1 v St. Edmund's (H) . Won 3-0 v Kent College (H). Won 3-2 Goal scorers: Spencer II , Gittins 8, Doust 3, Palmer 2, Munday I , Aldridge I.

Spanish Tour Notes A bleep test on arrival ensured any. ~ew Year cobwebs were swiftly removed (by Swifty). Off to Sp.ain to take part in a prestigaous tournament compnsmg teams from a ll over Europe (and Argentma, as the boys soon dascoverCdJ The school's first mixed sports tour proved to be a great success as the teams 'gelled' together both on and off tht field. The Real Club de Polo provided us with the opportunity to play on first-class water-based astroturf pitches and experience the 'Barcelona Buzz'. The atmosphere was such that our hockey thrived and improvements were made by everyone. The girls' squad just missed out on silver medals after some ampressive games .against the best Spain had to offer. This made up for fr.ustrating dra~ s duri.ng t~e seaso n. The boys managed to estab!ash themselves quickly as a strong side .and s~ured thear first ever vact~ ry m thas. tournament after thr~e years of try mg. Th.ey also held the Spanish U 18 nataonal sade to. a draw for twe~ty mmutes until one ~f the most sen.aor players! Tom Aldndge! was struck in the face by a ball travelling at supersomc speed. Although thas meant consaderable pam fo r the remamder of his tour he coped very bravely and Mrs. P. got a ride in an ambulance (wow!). Eno.ugh about the hockey.- wha~ else happened? Dawsey managed to persuade tl!e Eng land centre-forward, Russell Garcaa, to g ave her some l?nvate traaning and her ball skills improved dramatically (~ccording to him)! S? muc h so that she astounded us all wllh a n am~zing goal - REEBOUND!!! We were a ll quate ampressed by Louase s 'wmte~· tan, but Cheesy seemed more enth ~saastic than most. Two of the smoked-salmon posse were spotted throu&h a wmdow and although we were m Spam, Qin was convinced that German beer was by far the best while the boys capta in checked out the ' new ' talent. Many thanks to Jay for his interpreting skills, not that Jo, Debs , Ne t and Suzie needed any translations in takin~ on Spanish U18s. We will let him off for putting on a fresh laye r of lipsalve during a n important game for his dutaes. We would like to thank all the staff for enduring everything ran to plan. W~at ~ould we ha~e done "':ithout Mr. · ~edibag' ~iles, Mr. White (sorry about the cap though ... ), Mrs. ' Pa ra medac' Packermg, Mass ' fit ' M alls and especaally Mr. Neck on the line' Phillis for his superb organisation and such enthusiasm. It must be noted that N.L.P. adopted the name of 'Contacts Phill is' as it once took !Jim about two hours to leave the c lub because he knew, or made sure he kne~N everyone. Hopefully this will be the first of many mixed tours as it seems the girls and boys seem to bring out the best in each other. TOM GRANT AND PIXIE BENNETI

2nd XI As can be seen from the record this has not been a very successful season in terms of matches won and lost. It is safe to say that we never realised our pote ntial. The problem stemmed from the fact .tha t many of th~se.boys ha1·e played in unsuccessful hockey. teams as t.hey have progressed up. the. schoo.l. J:Ie.nce sconng goals a n~ wmnm.g arena expectations which have been mc ulcated mto them. Many boys dad dasplay mdavadual examples of fla ar and skill. Apan from a few matches, we did not sufficiently play as a team. On the occasions that we d id , we either won , drew or lost narrowly. Against Kent College, St. Lawrence and Cranbrook we were desperately unlucky not to. score. To.h• the upright in hockey is very unlucky . In only two games were we completely outi?Iayed. These .were agamst Cranleagh and the Duke of York's. In many of the other matches we would lose concentration momentanly and concede a goal. T he comeback was often immediate but failed to produce goals. Our best performances were against a strong Eastbourne side and a mediocre St. Edmund's team . . . After going down two goals in the former we clawed our way back to draw the game. We were all relieved that the season en~ed on such a high note. To score five go~l~ in the space of twenty-five minutes is no mean feat. PerhaJ?S we were try mg to make up for all the massed opportumt aes. Even .though success eluded the team , they never despaared. The level of sportsmanship was impeccable, as was the captamcy 01 Edward Millard. P.T. Team from: Edward Millard (Capt.), Thomas Bucher, Simon Cook, Adam Fendius, Kin~ston Hui , Adam Jackson. Christopher Kenwright, Andrew McGregor , James Morgan , Timothy Nealon, Edouard Sebhne, James Smath , Thomas Wacher, Sqot Wiseman. RESULTS Played 10, Won 2, Drawn I , Lost 7. Goals for II , goals against 20. v Wye College. Won 2-1 v Cranle igh . Lost 0-5 v Kent College. Lost 2-3 v King 's Rochester. Lost 0 -2 v Reed 's Cobham. Lost 0-2 v Duke of York 's. Lost 0-3 v Eastbourne. Drawn 2-2 v Cranbrook. Lost 0- 1 v St. Lawrence. Lost 0-1 v St. Edmund's. Won 5-l

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~en a season of ups a nd downs for the e leven . Perhaps the results don't do justice to what was a very competent . II ha~h some good players and there was quality hockey played at times .

,,de wa d a minor set-back at the start of the season losing 8-0 to Cranleigh owing to lack of fitness and pra_ctice. W~ h~ell put the record straig ht at Kinll's Rocheste r , splintering the back-board with two vicious ~oats. We dommated

Char~ of York's well deserv ing the vactory, if only through a penalty fli ck by the captain, J uhan Wooderson. The D~ carne unluc'ky decisions and most importantly the opposition went against us at Eastbourne resulting m a pate • sintin 3-0 defeat. But once again, the tea":~ came back with. our best ga~e ~f the season against ~ strong St. da..appoce siae. Julian Wooderson scored a fantastic goal and Charlie Bell got has thard of the season to gave us a 2-0 t..awren which perhaps could have been more. We fought hard against Kent College coming from 3-0 down in a very ' 1ctory first half to 4-2 down after we'd put on boots. Ma rk Harris scored an interesting goal, playing at the front '~~~an Wooderson scored anothe r super goal, very similar to his one against St. Lawrence. The downward tr~nd 1 .Uued at Reed 's Cobham where we were a weaker side, miss in~ some key players. The season. en~ed on a hagh ~~~~~ith a convincing performance agamst Cranbrook. The scorehne of 1-0 does reflect our dommation and three . oats' were disallowed. gThe side had many skilful players some of whom will surely go on to greater things. Charlie Bell proved to be fine striker and Alex Neame made good room. on the left. Mark Harris and Gus Wilkinson tackled reliably ~~ !he 1 ~ k and Gus's hitting was very strong and occasiOnally useful. Oily Henry made some good runs up the maddle gavmg c e ood balls to William Davies a nd C harlie Aitken who worked well together on the right. We were lucky enougfl 10 ~ !bte to chose from three keepers afte r losing Kingston to the seconds after his fine performance in our 8-0 defeat to Cranleigh. Robert Gaskell and Alex Bing ham-Wilson were consistent in goal and Dan Katz filled the goal well in 81 one match. Big Ross was solid at the back . Ma lik served the team well but his season came to a sad end during ha~ractice. Finally, Julian Woode rson captai ned the side excellently, leading by example and resisted the temptation 8 JOin the prestigious 2nd XI in order to devote himself to the thirds . He was always there when needed in defence 0 ~ut was also the highest goal-scorer in the side. Many thanks to Mr. Aldridge who made the season so enj oyable and successful. We hope he and the 6b members wall keep up the fine reputation next year. JULIAN WOODERSON AND WILLIAM DAVIES. a1

Julian Wooderson was an inspiring Captain, with a relaxed style of team talk. He took care of a lot of the administration of the team. The fact that we always had enough players and a goal keeper - even two for one game - was mostly h•s doing. Even though most of the ir games were away a nd on grass their good humour prevailed . I must thank Mr. Woodley and Mr. Wells for umpiring when I was unable to. H.E.J. A . Team from: Julian Wooderson (Capt.), Charlie Aitken, Charlie Bell, Alex Bingham-Wilson, William Davies, Robert Gaskell , Mark Harris, Oily Henry, Kingston Hui, Tom Je nnings, Dan Katz, Malik, Tom Morton, Henry Murch, Alex Neamc, James Sandry, John VernMe, William Vidal , William Welbourn, Gus Wilkinson, Ross Wingfield.

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Colts XI The season started off badly with a match against Cranleigh, one of our strongest opponents, after just one afternoon's practice. Going a goal down within the first minute meant that it was difficult to recover, and a heavy defeat followed. After that, however, the team was never outclassed. Chatham House won a close match ; Eastbourne, who had won all their matches, were held to a draw ; and it was Sir Roger Manwood 's who benefited from the team's one 'off day' as well as an extraordinary series of injuries that saw four players off the field at different times - to end a sequence of unbeat~n matches . With three boys in this age group playing in the 1st XI, the season's record was, therefore, a very creditable one. The strength ~vas in the defence. Alex Gort-Barten was a brave and skil ful goal-keeper, and Barnaby Cowin was coolness persomfied as sweeper, timing his tackles to perfection . Jonathan Murch was a strong central defender, and equally ~orceful going forward, while Richard Letts, perhaps the most improved player, and Lewis Mitchell, in completely contrasung styles, kept most opposition wingers under control. In midfield, Ed Radcliffe on the left covered as much ~roun~ as a~yone, Tom Kenwright on the right mesmerised oppositions - and sometimes himself - by his mazy nbbhng skalls_. while Nick Puleston Jones was a powerful influence in the centre where his speed, as well as his consadcrablc skall , had a decisive e ffect. In the last match he played as centre forward, and justifi ed this move by scoring ~w·~c. James Goodman did well in the difficult position of left wing, and used his speed to disrupt opposition defences. ac ard Clarke joined the squad half-way through the season, and successfully fi lled the centre forward slot until he was 1 ~u~, and Simon Garnett, who had started off as centre forward , moved to right midfield, where he was constructive ~~ F ~d~llve. Adam Williams o n the right wing was the most da ngerous forward, both strong and skilfu l, and he was ea mg goal score r. 143

The team's main problem was in scoring: there was apparently no natural striker available, so that territorial dominance could not be converted into goals . In addition,the hockef was rether hectic at times; a calmer approach might have been more productive (if, perhaps, not quite so much fun.). It was also a slightly fru st ra~ing season, in that. undo.ubted promise was not a lways fulfill ed , and that the team often started matches slowly and d1d not always dommate 111 the way that their skill suggested that they should. Nonetheless, the team should feel pleased with their fina l record, in a season that achieved more than had once seemed like ly. P.G.H. Team: Nicholas Puleston Jones (Capt.), Richard Clarke, Barnaby Cowin, Simon Garnett , James Goodman, Alexander Gort-Barten, Thomas Kenwright, Richard Letts, Lewis Mitchell, Jonathan Murch, Edward Radcliffe, Adam Wi lliams. Also played: Thomas Morton, Adam Withrington. R ESULTS

v St. Lawrence. Won 2-0

C ranleigh. Lost 1-5 King's Rochester. Drawn 1-1 Chatham House. Lost 0-1 Duke of York's. Won 3-0 v Eastbou rne. Drawn 0-0 v v v v

v Kent College. Drawn 2-2

v Reed 's Cobham. Won 3-0 v Si r Roger Manwood's. Lost 0-2 v Cranbrook. Won 2- 1

Junior Colts A XI After losing the first game of the season , as a n unprepared and unpractised team we had to work hard to do as well as last season. After this, tho ugh, the team showed its immense character by bouncing back to trounce King's Rochester 7- 1 and Chatham House 7-2. With these two victories in the bag the team played better and better hockey and much more as a unit. Winning ways had been learnt that were to stand us in good stead fo r the rest o f the season. The team played exciting hockey to watch and this came from a ll quarte rs. In goal Adam played a vital part, keeping the goals against column to sing le fi gures and ~pari n g. the defenc~Âˇs blushes with many outstanding saves .. A good side needs a good sweeper and we had JUSt that m C hns. H1s tacklmg was calm and effic1ent and h1s scorchmg balls up-field set up many attacks. Also makin'g up our formidable defence were Leo (RB), Dan (CB) and Robert (LB). Leo's marking and tack l ing.w~re excellent and his for ward runs caused problems to many opponents. Dan made mo~t opposition forwards look diSti nctly ordma ry and h1s passmg showed a perceptive hockey mmd. Completmg the umt was Robert , play ing a new position this year. He became a very good and entirely dependable member of the team. In midfield we had the talented but somewhat inexperienced Damian who proved to be a vital link between the backs and forwards. His work-rate was excellent and hi s stick-work unorthodox. Alongside him and at the centre of things was Ric ha rd. His P.lay-making_. passing_ and vision were exemplary and he contributed hugely I? our success. Making up the midfield un1t was Dav1d. H1s s1lky skills m attack we re comple mented by h1s determ mat1on m defence and upl ifting characte r. Our forward line scythed throu~h many opposition de fences. Edward on the right wing had g~eat pace and skill. His early balls into the D w~re a n c h so~rce of goals. On t.he l ef~ wmg J o~athan showed 1mpress1ve ball control and great fighting qualities. He linked well w1th those around h1111. H1s competitor for th1s pOSitiOn was M1chael. Plucked out of the B team fo r his skill and flair, he adjusted well to the higher level of game. Finally we come to the role of centre forward which Charlie fi l ~ed. He sc?red a good many goals fo the side, al.though I feel it necessary to co~ment that these were partly due to sk ill but mamly ~own to the ex~ellent serv1ce g 1ven to him by his team-mates. H1s tendency to hang on to the ball too long was stlllm ev1dence on occasiOn but decreasmgly so. After congratulating the team there is not m~ch one can add to such a superb season . I know that all the boys have enjoyed this season and I hope that the team IS preserved next year and everybody contmues to do hockey. It was clear from the way they played that the team did not have a weak point and did have a superb team spirit such as I have not witnessed before and it undoubtedly formed the basis for our prolific success. After thanking the boys for their continued comm itment with not a single player missing a game all season I must turn to the staff. Personally and on behalf of the team I would like to thank firstly Mr. Miles for unde rtaking the position of team coach and organising our side, week in week out. I know his j ob was not always an easy one, especially from the point of view of selection . Fi nally a n enormous thank you to Peter Firminger (al ias Furry) our outs1de coach for the season. We all benefited hugely from his excellent coaching and extensive knowledge of the game. Lastly thank you to all the parents and othe rs who have supported us in so many ways this season . I have enjoyed this season immensely and look forward to playing with the boys next season. CHARLIE MUNDAY.

I haven't much to add except to add a comment on the capta in . Charlie was very much the linchpin of the side. C learly his goals (27) were a major factor in the success, but on top of that he was an excellent captain. He l~d fr?m the front and provided very go<!d motivation for the team. He was a good link between play.e~s and staff and h1s sk1lls definitely deserve the recogmt1on he has gamed by bemg selected for the South-East diVISIOnal Ul5 team. A .M.M. 144

Team: Charles Munday (Capt.), Daniel Broom, Edward Dale-Jones, Leo Fransella, Richard ~om.ewood, Jonathan Norris, Christopher O'Neil-Dunne, Robert Sixsmith, David Smith, Damian Stewart, Adam W1thnngton. Also played: James Hollaway, Michael W harfe, Michael Ziegler. RESULTS

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Played II , Won 10, Lost I. Goals Cranleigh (H). Lost 0-2 King's Rochester (A). Won 7-1 Chatham House (H) . Won 7-2 Duke of York's (H). Won 2-1 Eastbourne (H). Won 2-0 St. Lawrence (H). Won 6-0 University Wanderers' 8-a-side Tournament Kent College A. Won 2-1 Simon Langton. D rawn 1-1 Kent College B (Final) . Won 2-0

for 42, goals against 7. v Kent College (H) . Won 4-0 v Reed's Cobham (H). Won 1-0 v Cranbrook (A). Won 2-0 v Sir Roger Manwood's (H). Won 4-1 v St. Edmund's (H) . Won 7-0

junior Colts B XI On the whole this was a good season: we lost only our first match. Our second match, against Duke of Y?rk's, showed a lot of improvement. In a fine demonstration of forward play M ichael Ziegler led the way to a 2-I v1ctory with a superb individual goal. Next came Kent College away on grass (a surface to which we were not accustomed). We played well without a full team and won 2-0. Our next stop was Reed's Cobham, a two-hour coach journey to play on a bad grass pitch . An unidentified illness had struck down both our goalie and res~rve goalie. Tom. Everett stepped into the breach a nd made some excelle nt saves. It was not our day. We were playmg badly and losmg 1-0, when out of nowhere Dom Fendius scored an a mazing goal in the last m inute. We were back on an artificial surface for our last game against C ranbrook, without two key players (in the As) we still played well to win 2-0. James Hollaway scored a good goal and Chris Howard got a P-flick after an attack on Henry Eccles. It was a good season and we would like to thank 'Furry ' (Peter Firminger) and Mr. Miles for the good coaching and the members of staff who fer ried us to a nd from Polo Farm. BEN WHITE.

I would like to thank Ben for his enthusiastic co-operation this term and a ll the team for their hard work and cheerful disposition this term. Well played. A.M.M. Team: Ben White (Capt.), Jide Adesanya, Matthew Appleyard, William Bax, Edward Butler, Henry Eccles, T~omas Everett, Dominic Fendius, Christopher Howard, James Hollaway, Thomas O 'Sullivan, Michael Wharfe, Michael Z1egler. Also played: Felix Boon, Thomas Lloyd-Smith, Damian Stewart. Goal Scorers: M ichael Z iegler (3), Thomas O'Sull ivan (2), James Hollaway (2), Dominic Fendius (1), Christopher ' Howard ( I) . R ESULTS

Played 5, Won 3, Drawn 1, Lost I. Goals fo r 9, goals against 5 . v Cranleigh (H). Lost 2-3 v Kent College (A). Won 2-0 v Reed's Cobham (A). Drawn 1-1 v Duke of York's (H). Won 2-1 v Cranbrook (H). Won 2-0 v Eastbourne (H). Cancelled

Under 14 A XI Devastating at home, hopeless away from home, this side were worse travellers than the average 1000-lire b<!tt1e of Valpol icella. They scored 31 goals in only 11 matches, but still contrived to lose four games - always by tight margins, and twice to last-minute goals in inJury time. It was a pity that such a talented side did not get into the allimportant habit of winning close matches, for they could have come away with an even better set of results. I cannot imagine hav ing a more cheerful and cooperative year-group to work with. The key to their success was that they wanted to learn and to get better - and they accomplished both. The passing and movement off t~e ball was often fluid and done at pace; once the attackers improve the1r line of running, and the halves and defenders tighten up their man-to-man markmg, they will be a form idable outfit. Pace John Motson, every team is made up of individuals: Matthew Gardiner, a novice to goal keeping, was .bot.h brave and consiste nt, and had an o utstanding game against Reed's Cobham; we perhaps relied too much on Ahsta1r Williams' exceptional tackling at sweeper, out Alex Hayes, Sam Knight and Tom Byford all made progress through the term . Chris Letts was as skilful a centre back as we saw on the circuit; Olukayode Akindele and Mark Preston were full of ideas and ente rpr ise in midfield, ably assisted by James Hessey or Pardip Sidhu; Rob Adams and Gareth 145

\\:'illiams were aggressive, but sometimes naive, tn attack. But th~ S!ar and i~spiration of the side was the captain, Stmon Youngman. He s~ored wel.l over half of our goal~ .Cthe maJOn ty of whtch were spectacular) and, diminutive though he appeared, ternfied the ltves ou.t of ever~ oppositiOn, whether yote were being outplayed ot not. He led from the front, and the other ~oys lov~ playmg .for h1m. Much of the c redit for the happy atmosphere in which Under 14 hockey was played th1s term 1s due to h1m. J. C.M.W. Team from: Simon Youngman (Capt.), Rob Adams, O.lukayode Akindele, T homas By ford , Matthew Gardiner, Alexander Hayes •.Henry Hardy, James Hessey, Samuel.Kn.•ght,.Christopher Letts, Jatin Patel, Samuel Preston, Mark Preston, Pard1p S•dhu , Mark Sweny, Henry Trew , Altsta1r Wilhams, Gareth Williams. RESULTS

Played II , Won 6 , Drawn I , Lost 4. Goals for 3 1, goa ls against II. v C ranle1gh. Lost 1-2 East Kent U/4 Tournament v Kings Rochester. Drawn 0-0 v Duke of York 's. Won 2-0 v Chatham House. Won 3- 1 v Norton Knatchbull . Won 1-0 v Duke of York's. Won 6-0 v Kent College. Drawn 0-0 v Eastbourne. Lost 0-2 v Harvey Grammar. Won 2-0 v St. Lawre nce. Lost 1-2 v St. Edmund 's. Drawn 0-0 v Kent College. Won 5-0 v Reed's Cobham. Lost 1-3 (Semi-Final) v Sir Roge r Manwood 's . Won 8-0 v Simon Langton. Drawn 0-0 v Cranbrook. Won 3- 1 (Lost 3-0 on pe nalty strokes) v Braunschweig. Won 3-2

Under 14 B XI . The Unde r 14 B.s have enjoyed a great. season: we won all our m!'tche~ apart from the draw against a strong F.astbourne s1de. I can say Without doubt that we Improved both our own mdiv1dual skills and o ur work as a unit. Our goalie, Henry Hardy, had a superb season, only letting in three goals; of these, two we re goalmouth scrambles. Our season opened to a shaky start with our tearo goin~ a goal down in the first half. But our defe nce and midfield battled bravely, supplymg some good passes- two of which were slotted around the opposition goalie by our forwards - and the match e nded up in our favou r. T~e defence and sweeper (Henry Trew, Tim Hamlin, ~!'m Knight, Alex Forrest and T ristan Byrnes) were always battlmg and al':"ays seemed to. n:tanage to stop the opposition forwards from gettin~ a shot on goal. Playing in front of them our midfield (John H•lher, Tom Lloyd-Sm1th and Matthew Brooks) supplted the forwards with many good passe~ and were always going back to help the defence. Our fo rwards (Sam Parker, Jatin Patel , James Harbourne a nd S1mon Bodey) scored fi fteen goals.

To conclude I would like to thank Mrs. Fox and all the staff who coached us to be the only unbeaten hockey s ide in the school. Si MON BODEY.

Team from : S imo~ f!odey (Capt) , Flo Alakija, Mat!hew Brooks, Trist~n Byrnes , Alex Forrest, James Harbourne, Henry Hardy, John H1lher, Sam Kmght, Tom Lloyd-Smith, Sam Parker, Jatm Patel, Pardip Sidhu , Leo Siu, Henry Trew. RESULTS

Played 5, Won 4, Drawn I, Lost 0. v Cranleigh. Won 2-1 v Eastbourne . Drawn 0 -0 v Duke of York's . Won 5-0 v Reed 's Cobham. Won 3-0 v Kent College. Won 5-2

Under 14 C XI

T he. Under 14 C team was n?t perf~t. We we.re not a great.side, but t~e one thing that we did not lack was determination. Even 1f we found ourselves tn a losmg position, we earned on until the fi nal whistle was blown. At fi rst, it. looked as if the attack was th~ strength. of the team, bu! during the course of the term our defence improved a lot. Leo SIU played central defence, Ch1ke Okoh and Tom Perktn played on the r ight and left. Together they made ~orne good tackJes, James Bride! as sweeper also helped a lot ':"ith the breakaway forwards. Harry Walker, the goalkeeper, Improved a lot through the term and produced some cruc1al saves in the last match. Our midfielders also played well. Hugo MacPherson was the captain at centre midfield. Sam Norris Simon Lau a nd Simon Stearn played either side - producing passes which often led to goals. ' T im Rainbird or Sola Lawson played on the left wing . James Harbourne (centre forward) and Fergus Reynolds (right wing) togethe r scored the majority of our goals. 146

PI ying against Cranleigh we were unlucky because it rained a lot and we were unfortunate not to score a~other 1aAfter being 1-0 down ag~inst Duke of York's, Simon <;teob.ury equalized and Ja.mes Harbourne scored the wmne~. ~a· ere unlucky to lose agamst Eastbourne as Fergus' fl1ck h1t the crossbar. Agamst Kent College we played the1r u:d:r 13 As and so we had to play defensively. Fergus Reynolds scored both of our goals to defeat Reed's Cobham. Finally, I'd like to thank Miss Mill s fo r training us. SIMON STEARN.

Team from: Simon Stearn (Capt.), James Bridel, David Greengrass, James Harbourne, Simon ~au, Sola Lawson, Hugo MacPherson, Sam Norris, Chike Okoli, Tom Pe rkin, Tim Rainbird, Fergus Reynolds, Leo SIU, Harry Walker. RESULTS

v Eastbourne. Lost 1-2 v Reed's Cobham. Won 2-1

v Cranleigh. Lost 1-2 v Duke of York's. Won 2-1 v Kent College. Lost 1-2

Association Football 1st XI With only six players remaining from last year 's team we knew there would have to be a lot of rebuilding. Ho.weyer, the squad sessions in the Recreation Centre again proved useful in the Autumn term and our new <;J~rm.an s•gntng, Wolfgang Einbeck, was fast emerging as a very skilful player. Jimmy Dean had s~rugged ?ff the tnj unes that had dogged him in 6b and Kamana and Vance looked as though they would stamp their authonty on many games. So it was that with only two days' preparation w_e manag~ to .sort ourselves out for the first match, against St. Augustine's. Ogedegbe got us off to a dr~am sta rt ':"•th a goal m thirty seconds a.nd we.never look~ back. We played some beautiful football and ran out 9-0 wmners, With Ogedegbe sconng a hat-tnck; th1s was. precisely the confide~ce boost that he needed and it enabled him to go on and score an impressive fourteen goals m all for the term . B1lly Drinkwater had an outstanding game as sweeper. For the next match, at Brentwood, Nicholson came in at right back for the rugby-playing E~ward. We were ~-1 down at one stage, but kept foraging ahead , especially down the right flank , and thanks to a J•mmy Dean ~at-tnck managed to wipe out the defi cit and pull back for an exciting 3-3 draw; indeed, by the end of the game our tails were really up a nd we had chances to clinch the match. However, a draw was probably the right result. A week later we travelled to Dulwich and should really have sewn Ull the match in the first five minutes. It turned out to be a very scrappy game but, having been 2-0 down and having clawed our way back to lead 3-2 after a brave header from Adams and a splendid strike from Ogedegbe, we then proceeded to throw the game away . We would have thought that Adams of all people would score a headed own-goal in the dying minutes to give Dulwich a win? The mood in the dressing room after the match was one of deep d isappointment. For the Maidstone match Ada ms reverted to sweeper to g ive us a bit more covering pace and Drinkwater was pushed into midfield. E inbeck, having failed to rediscover his Recreation Centre form, was transferred to the 2nd XI. In a very tentative openin~. with slack marking, poor jockeying a nd nobody closing down the runners we fou~d ourselves 2-0 down in eight mtnutes! However the team rallied and with a Drinkwater free-kick we were back tn the hunt. They proved to be a very ski lful side, 'as always, but we played with increas_ing determination and passion, e~pecially in the second half, with Kamana snuffing out their best player. We ended w1th a wonderful pattern of play w1th Dean in great form a nd could have equalized. Maidstone just about deserved a narrow victory. At K.C.S. Wimbledon we were to notch up a hat-trick of defeats. On the one hand I would have to admit that they played better as a team, but on the other we could say we were desperately unlucky to lose, for we defended very well indeed a nd had a penalty claim turned down. Their first goal was a farcical affair, with the Lehane's bus driver who had wanted to run the line, vi~orously flagging for a penalty against Bissill for hand-ball _in the area. We ~ad absorbed all their pressure, with Hither having his best game, commanding his defence with authonty and never lookmg stretched. Oh misery! Meanwhile, back in Cante rbury, negotiations had been going on for some time with Father Geoff, yotho was, in the end, forced to sell his best player to survive! Up came Giles Macey, with rave reports about bustlmg runs and tremendous goals. W ith two superb strikes, in his first game against Reigate1 we could see why crafty Cocksworth didn't want to lose him . It was a comfortable 8-0 win , with captain Carter m fine form, nettmg a couple of goals himself. Matt Edwards had a superb game at r i ~ ht back and got himself on the score sheet with a fine finish from a very tight angle. In the e nd it was an easy wm, but we had lost 3-2 at Reigate last year. After half term we flayed Colfe's on a waterlogged pitch which soon became something of a farcical mud bath, particularly in the goa areas. It was a n honourable 2-2 draw, with Carter firing in his most impressive goal thus far. However, we would feel that we did enough to win, and perhaps would have done so in better conditi?ns; we would rue some of those missed chances, balls stuck in the mud and shoddy defending for at least one of Its goals. 147

In our next match we competed well for long periods and had many chances but went down 4-1 against Sevenoaks who have some very good teams at the moment ; they beat us 4-0 last year. Against Westminster we never seem to do very well, but this year we thoug ht we were going to make a breakthrough when we were leading 1-0 at half-time after a superb strike from Macey who stonned up the right wing and then unleashed an unstoppable shot that flew into the top corner of the net. Westminster managed to pull one back and then in the dying mmutes, hav in ~ had a player sent off, they snatched a winning goal. Oh dear! we had deserved to win, or at least to draw. Despai r! I had already seen great courage a nd fighting spirit from the team in the course of the te rm and these attributes were to come to the fore in the remaining four fi xtures - a ll of which were victories! The boys could so easi ly have been dispirited, but they stuck to their task , rolled up their sleeves, followed the example of a tenacious back four of Edwards, Vance, Adams and Bissill and turned a very poor season into a bette r-than-average one. The recovery started at Dover College in the wind tunn~l1 a hostile environment! Adams and Bissill were outstanding and Drinkwater was a tireless ball -wmner in midfield. Macey and Ogedegbe always looked dangerous, and it was Oge who bundled in a brace to steal the booty. This win proved to be a great fillip and boosted morale considerably. The defence would only concede two goals in the last four matches and indeed, in the next game against C hrist's Hospital, 3-0 winners last year, we would only allow the m a couple of c hances in the whole match . Vance had a terrific game and the vital goal was scored by Kamana to defeat a side that had had a successful season. The fo llowing day we played the O.K.S., who looked worryingly strong o n paper, with a ll the best players, except C raddock, from the last two or three seasons: Cooling in goal, Steve and Peter Davies, Irone, C rossley, Feria, Ousey, Tester and Peachey. We were even more worried when, against the run of play, Irone putt he Old Boys in front. Again, we stuc k to the task and managed to turn things round , with an equa lizer from Carter a nd a fine strike from Macey. Then came the bullet from the Beast, from a ll of thirty-fi ve yards. Against such a strong O.K.S. team this was a magnificent win and all the lads were elated. (We had struggled to a lucky 2-2 draw last year.) Macey a nd Ogedegbe again caused problems with their pace, Adams and Bissill dealt comfortably with Crossley, and Vance had another stormer. The fina l game against St. Augustine 's was a convincing 6-0 win a nd a lovely way to end the term. The high l i~ht of the match was Ogedegbe's superb header from a c ross fired in from the right wing by Jimmy Dean. Four wms on the trot, and the best run in the last fi ve years, whic h pushed us up the table to a respectable final position. And we had played some ente rta ining football : 41 goals in thirteen matches; not bad. Many thanks to T im a nd his staff at Birley's, espec ially in view of the very wet weathe r , and to Stewart and Ann and the kitchen staff. A big thank you too to Mr. Cocksworth, Mr. Jackson and M. Dath fo r their time and expertise with the other teams. All the best to the 6a boys- come back for the O.K .S. match , a nd thanks, lads , fo r the Liverpool shirt. C.P.N . Team: Ollie Carter (Capt.), Rob Adams, Adam Bissill , Jimmy Dean, Billy Drinkwater, Matt Edwards, Matt Hillier, Dunstan Ka mana, G iles Macey, Jamie Nicholson, Alex Ogedegbe, Seb Vance . Also played: Mike Davies, Wolfgang Einbeck. R ESULTS

Played 13, Won 6, Drawn 2, Lost 5. Goals for 41, goals against 22. v St. Augustine's (H). Won 9-0 v Sevenoaks (H). Lost 1-4 v Brentwood (A). Drawn 3-3 v Westminster (H). Lost 1-2 v Dulwich College (A). Lost 3-4 v Dover College (A). Won 2- 1 v Maidstone G.S. (H). Lost 2-3 v Christ's Hospital (H). Won 1-0 v K.C.S . Wimbledon (A) . Lost 0-2 v O.K.S. (H). Won 3- 1 v Reigate G.S. (H). Won 8-0 v St. Augustine's (H). Won 6-0 v Colfe's (H). Drawn 2-2 First Colours re-awarded: Ollie Carter, Rob Adams. First Colours: Adam Bissill , Billy Drinkwater, Matt Edwards, Alex Ogedegbe. First Team and Second Colours: Jimmy Dean, Matt Hillier, Dunstan Kamana, G il es Macey , Jamie Nicholson, Seb Vance. Second Colours: Michael G. L. Davies, Michae l J. Davies, Dan Katz, Dom Pett. The Harold William Warner Cup for Player of the Season: Adam Bissill. Scorers: Ogedegbe, 14; Carter 8; Dean, Macey 5; Adams 4; Bissill , Drinkwater, Edwards, Kamana , Nicholson I.

Inter-House Competitions T he girls' Indoor shield was retained by Walpole (Removes) who beat Jervis (Removes) o n penalties a fter a 1-1 draw in whic h Este lle Davies, the Jervis sweeper , had an outstanding match. In the boys' competition The Grange took the Shell trophy away from Tradescant with a 3-1 win in the final; in the corresponding Remove match Marlowe proved too strong for The G range and ran out 2-0 winners. 148

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the senior 11-a-side Cup the Day Houses Marlowe and Mitchinson 's combined to defeat Bailey and Tradescant . In oor fin al which was bnghte ned by a stunning 45-yard free kick from Rob Adams. It was fitting that the Beast ~~:uFd cap his tre mendous contribution to school football over the last three seasons in such an audacious fashion . C.P.N.

2nd XI ~

In an adaptation of Plato' s c reation story, the Timaeus F.C. , the Creator or Managurgos, fashions his world or team The Managurgos first shapes his overall pattern of ex istence or tea m system. This pattern is based ul?on the Perf~t Forms know~ in. his day as Manchester l!n ited F.C. He then form s his world or team out of the infenor r~w matter available- Kmg s School boys who have JUSt completed a term of rugby. Although, he has the Forms to gu1de him . he knows that, at the very best, he will only ever c reate a dim reflection , doomed to fa il and fall short of all hopes. Âˇ Âˇ Such is the magnitude of the task. But, occasionally , as time turns full circle and creation begins again so the raw material contains some special quality that will take it above the usual level of long-ball , kick-and-rush, Graham Taylor and defeated dreams. Enter the timeless, although not very large, qualities of Thomas Dean , adept a nd skilful , clever in the feet and head and the centre of the centre of the central m1dfield design . Add some robust and heavy force, Danny Katz (loud and ~<_>minant) and Ben Massingham (quiet and domina nt) , both ever-pr~sent and ever-effecti~e . Throw in some adaptab1hty, subtle touches and fleetness of foot, Joshua Cole and Tom Staz1cker. Support them w1th the clinical, gene rally , tackling of Luke Toulson, the heavily laden but light of spirit Mic hael Davies and the controlled direction of Dom Pett always searching for the ultimate goal. Finally , add some foreign matter, large and Germanic: allow one to protect your own secrets, Matthias Wunsche, and give one a licence to go westwards and upwards, Wolfgang Einbeck. The above-mentioned formed the hub of a very successful 1994 2nd XI soccer side . They all trained well, improved immensely and played with great hea rt. They were joined by Giles Macey for the first part of the season - he fully deserved his elevation to the lsts - and Michael 'D1gger' Davies in his place. Michael always played well and often showed that he was indeed worthy of a higher stage. It was very fortunate for Chris Mounsey-Thear that he suffered a serious injury in only the second match - he looked like being another serious contender for promotion. The joint captains, Danny Katz and Michael Davies (G.L.) , worked well together, with the team and with me. Their overall skill factor was indeed much higher than normal - a tribute to the genuine attempts by many to improve this aspect of their game - and their good fitness level revealed itself as they generally fini shed each game the stronger side. I thoroughly e njoyed the season. I probably will not work with any of these players again - they are either leaving or will be in the 1st XI next year. So, 1t will be back to the raw matenal again . I only hope it shows the same dedication and character of soul and body as did those at this stage in the cycle. G.R.C. The following played more than one game: Michael G . L. Davies (Joint Capt.), Daniel Katz (Joint Capt.), Joshua Cole, Michael J. Davies, Thomas Dean, Wolfgang Einbeck, Giles Macey, Benjamin Massingham, Christopher MounseyThear, Dominic Pett, Thomas Stazicker, Luke Toulson , Matthias Wunsche. Also played: Femi Fadeyi and Thomas Partridge. RESULTS Played 9, Won 5 , Drawn 2, Lost 2. Goals for 23, goals against 20. v Brentwood (3rds) (A). Won 3- 1 v Dulwich (A). Won 5-3 v Maidstone (H). Lost 2-5 v K.C .S. Wimbledon (H). Won 2- 1 v Reigate (H) . Won 5-l v Colfe's (H). Drawn 1-1 v Sevenoaks (A). Lost 1-7 v Westminste r (H) . Drawn 1- 1 v Christ's Hospital (H). Won 2-1

3rd XI !he lack of soccer lower down the school always means that experie nce of match play, and in many cases ball playing

s k1 1l s~ will be very limited. This was emphasised in the 3rds th1s year, as most of the team were fifth formers. It is

to the1r great credit that they learned quickly with every game and practice, and had added a pleasing degree of technique to their undoubted commitme nt by the end of the term. The. term sta rted with a tough fixture against Brentwood and damage limitation was the name of the game. Femi Fadex1 took our only chance with a fine cross-shot. Playing down a steep slope we reached half-time 2-0 up against Dulw1ch (goals by Russell Hewett) , but an opposition goal in the first mmute of the second half meant that it would be hard going to hold on, and so it proved. Lacking four first choice players for the K.C.S. game, and defence did ~ell to .hold th~m to ~hree goals. A bruising e ncounter with Sevenoaks brought a creditable draw against an unbeaten S1de, wtth Fem1 sconng another good ~oal. The Westminster match was evenly contested , but second half goals by Paul Wha rton , Femi and Robin Ball clmched our first victory . With confidence growing all the time, despite losing our top scorer to the 2nds, the Christ 's Hospital match underlined the improvement made over the term . Nigel Boardman scored with a penalty and Russell netted the goal of the season with an unstoppable shot from 25 yards. 149

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In discussing the players, it must be said that they all made g reat progress over the term. Adam Chataway no the largest of goalkeepers, added positional sense and agility to his safe handling, dealing with high balls with incre~sin~ co nfidence. The back four of Nigel Boardman, Tom Partridge, James Cape l a nd Ed Rice played with increasing sureness and understanding, and witho ut the ir resolution the season would never have taken off at all . Nigel was my playe r of the season, for his good skills, but even more fo r his calmness unde r pressure and awareness of what was requ1red in partic ula r situations. rn midfie ld , Paul Wharton showed real pace, Afolabi Sonaike demonstrated lovely ball control and Mike Preece was a lways a ha rd man to beat in the tackle. Up front , Femi Fadeyi got better a nd bette r, as he added control to his electrifying pace, and Robin Ba ll bore the burden of ' ta rget man' with comme ndable resil ie nce. As the midfield 'dynamo ' Russell Hewett was a n inspirational captain, leading from the fro nt with total commitment from the first wh1stle to the last. I am confident that all of the team will go o n to higher things next year They have been a super group with which to have been involved . Âˇ An Under-1 6 team , virtua lly ide ntical to the 3 rd XI, played two matc hes against an impressive St. Au~ust i ne's side be ing beate n comprehensively 7-2 ea rly in the term, but doing much better in the return, losing an entertain1ng match 3-J: C.J .R.J Team: Russell Hewett (Capt.), Robin Ball , Nigel Boardma n, Ja mes Capel, Adam Chataway, Femi Fadeyi, Thomas Pa rtridge, M ic hael Preece , Edwa rd Rice, Afolabi Sonaike, Paul Wha rton . Also played: Omotayo Alakija, James Bissill , Espin Bowder, Richard C la rke, Ma urice Fakoury, Ma rcus Pyke, Umar Shariff, Andrew W ilson . R ESULTS

Played 6 , Won 2, Drawn I , Lost 3 . Goals for 9, goals against 13. v Brentwood (H ). Lost J-4 v Sevenoaks (H) . Drawn 1- 1 v Dulwich (A) . Lost 2-3 v Westminste r (H) . Wo n 3- I v K.C.S. Wimbledon (A). Lost 0-3 v Christ's Hospital (H) . Won 2- 1

4th XI We played fou r of the fi ve matches planned for this season and if games could be won on e ffort alone, we would have won them a ll . However, fatalitas was to play tricks on us . . . As usua l, it was with a certa in amount of tension that we awaited Brentwood as they play soccer througho ut the year and tend to g ive us a hard time. We were 3-0 down at ha lf-time and it looked as if a double fi gure score Jay ahead. However , James Piper e nsured that o ur slate would not stay clean and scored a great goal at the beginn ing of the second half. Spurred on by this e ffort , our de fence tightened up and were only beaten once in the second half. K.C.S. Wimbledon were simply too good for us and we just managed to limit the damage. Our next two games were to leave us absolutely shell-shocked . Afte r a superb run which took him into the area, Julian Hinves passed the ball to James Bissill who scored a love ly goal withm ten minutes of the start of the match against Sevenoaks. Despite some g reat attempts, we were unable to score another goal before ha lf-time. It looked promising for the second ha lf. Then ... How they ma naged to score seven goa ls in the seco nd ha lf, we shall never kno w. The following game against C hrist's Hospital was to be an exact replica of the previous one. O nce again , Julian Hinves, afte r anothe r of his high speed runs, this time finished the job himself with a superb kick. Ten minutes into the second half, we we re still leading 1-0. Had the oranges been interfe red with? Was the match ball not a lucky one? Was the re fe ree the j inx? Whatever the reason , they managed to score eight goals in twenty minutes. Pe rhaps next season we should only play the first half of each game! It is the practice games that we have dec ided to remembe r: but that would M .P .H.D. be too long a story . . . Team from: Hamish Lemme ns (Capt.), Stephe n Adams, Richard Ashenden, Michael Ba ughan , James Bissill , Espin Bowde r, Cha rles Curlewis, Samue l Digney, Alistair Hawkins, Julian Hinves, Richard Hume, Ben Jeanes, Humphrey Jones, James McNaught, Matthew Mohr, Simon Peachey, James Piper, Felix Von Eynern , Alexande r Walker, Andrew Wilson. R ESULTS

Played 4, Lost 4 . v Bre ntwood (H). Lost 1-4 v Sevenoaks (A). Lost 1-7 v K.C .S. Wimbledo n (H). Lost 0-5 v Christ's Hospital (H). 1-8

Cross-Country The e nd of the holidays d id not see the backbone of the cross country club at a training camp trying to restore some fitness afte r some festive celebrations. This year's I st VIII, minus casualties o f war (Darre n!), consisted of Ryan Ma nnering, Nick Cla rk, J.P . Sweny , Jules Hinves, AI Stevens, Christian Bottomley, Raf de Haan and last years souped-up Ferrari Malco Todd . Conside ring that we had to do without Darren, Ryan and J ules for a ll o r most o r half of the fi xtures respectively, the final result, 3rd in the Kent Schools' League, was a triumph of team commitment and improvement through tra ining. Our girls' team was yet again valiantly led by Charlie ' Hot pants ' Barker. The XC c lub has reaped a n e xcellent har vest from the prep. school c rop , producing seven good runners in the fo rm of Chris Pickering, Will Scott, Andy Ribbans , C hris Elworthy, Will Tanon , Mark Swe ny and Tom Shelford - an outstand ing bunch that will win the league a nd put the senior team to shame. We would also like to thank the ' Occasionals' to 150

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I: care extremely grateful: namely Lawrence Potter, Robert Corbally, Barry Martin, Simon Bird , Daniel Bartlette, "'hom der Reynolds, Sarah Petrie, Jessica Gulland, Ophelia Beer, Simon Peel , Tom Edmunds, James Campbell and Alexan 1 Pete~ ~:~n began ~uite convincingly with the Seniors and the Juniors storming to victory at the District Champs T .crÂˇ Jules 3rd, Nack 5th, Ryan 6th; Junior: Crispi 2nd, Will Scott 3rd, Ribbo 5th, Mark 6th). (Se:~~e; an extremely enjoyable Christmas and New Year, we went bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to the Knole Run , Captain Mannering. (Apparently he was at an interview.) 'Mercurial' Malco Todd cruised to 17th out of 300 manums ost impressive effort! Nack would also like to thank Jules for his companionship - is there something we need aknow guys I? .. to w the next run, only for the elite was for the 'Kent Champs' yet again minus Skipper Mannering (broken toe!). ThN~rcme de Ia creme of the XC club, namely Mercurial Malco, got the honour of wearing that tasteful blue sweatshirt! e.le Jules and Crispi were in the Kent Squad of twenty selected for an Inter-County match. Malco represented Kent W~he English Schools' C hamps and came a creditable 95th , 4th for Kent, with another Inter year to come. The following at ek we graced the ever-inviting St. Edmund's course with our presence, yet again minus Capt. Mannering, but wefortunately not without his dulce t tones navigating their way all around the course. un Home territory ne~t time,. we'~Âˇe bound to win! But alas without Scottie's Number one, toe still broken. This ~xture aw another impressave Jumor vactory, and also the emergence of ?b .hopef~ls J.-P. a~d Raf as key members, m the \~ence of their decrepat leaders ... ! Kent League at Cranbrook, thas tame wath Mercunal managmg an excellent 2nd, ~yan on his first race of the season managing nth. A severely depleted, yet keen (?) XC club turned out to a depleted Race, (more like 2 'h schools really). Capt. Manneri ng was away aiming to fly high with the R.A.F., and 5theSchools senior team was running 'per ardua' but not quite 'ad astra'. But the junior team picked up their second trophy of the season. Back to Kent College for the Relay, which our 'standby' Girls' team actually eased to victory- GOOD SHOW! The Juniors also cruised to victory ~nder the new~y appointed leadership of Chris 'crispi' Pickering, thei~ winning margin of 3 mins 20 sees was exceptional. The semor Team managed to get 4 people to complete the 2.1 male course under 13 mins (Mercurial, Skippy, V.C., Raf), and finished 3rd of the Kent League Schools: From now on we 10 would keep Sevenoaks and Cranbrook out of the League Bronze medal position. The O.K.S. or OLD KING'S SKIVERS managed a turnout of two, one of whom was slightly more adventurous than Mr. Holland would have wanted! (Eh, Sir!!) We would like to thank Mr. Holland for the scars on our legs, his natural sense of direction, but sincerely his undying ~upport and enthusiasm he has given to the team. Thank you, Doc P., for the tips for fashion and the new runs you've managed to dig up for us. Also for expertise in coaching the Juniors in their extremely successful series of victories ... five trophies for the school cabinet! Good Luck to Mr. H. with the future teams and up-and-coming Dutch people. RYAN MANNERING AND NICK CLARK.

Teams: Seniors: Ryan Mannering (Capt.)*, Nicholas Clark (Vice-Capt.)*, Christian Bottomley+, Robert Corbially, Rafael de Haan+ , Julian Hinves*, Barnaby Martin, Lawrence Potter, Alastair Stevens+, John Sweny*, Malcolm Todd. Inters: Daniel Bartlette, Simon Bird, James Campbell, Peter Capel, Thomas Edmunds, Barnaby Martin, Simon Peel, Alexander Reynolds, Malcolm Todd. Juniors: Christopher Pickering (Capt.), Christopher Elworthy, Andrew Ribbans, William Scott, Thomas Shelford, Mark Sweny, William Tallon. Girls: Charlotte Barker (Capt.)+, Ophel ia Bee r, Jessica Gulland, Jo-Anna McConnell, Sarah Petrie. *=1st Colours + =1st Team/2nd Colours. RESULTS 1St~

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District Championships

Semors: 1st (J. Hmves 3, N. Clark 5, R. Mannering 6, L. Potter 8). Inter boys: M. Todd 3, B. Martin 17. Inter girl: C. Barker 7. Juniors: 1st (C. Pickering 2, W. Scott 3, A. Ribbans 5, M. Sweny 6, K. Akindele 10, W. Tallon 14, C. Elworthy 16, J. Harborne 24).

15th January 1994 The Knole Run King's Canterbury 16th out of38 schools (M. Todd 17 , N. Clark 86, J. Hinves 87, J. Sweny 130, L. Potter 167, R. Corbally 193, B. Martin 24 1, C. Bottomley 262 out of 299). 22nd January Kent Schools' Canterbury

Seniors: J. Hinves 20, N. Clark 32. Inters: M. Todd 5. Inter Girl: C. Barker 34. Juniors: C. Pickering 12, A. Ribbans 34, M. Sweny 40, W. Scott 66. Mal~olm Todd was selected to represent Kent at the English Schools' Champs on 5th March, where he came 95th, ~th an the Kent team. Kent's Inter boys were 5th Chris Picke ring and Julian Hinves were selected to represent Kent Ill an Inter-Counties match on 12th February. 22n~ January Kent League at Tonbridge Scn.aors: J. Sweny 7, C. Bottomley 25, A. Stevens 36. Jumors: W. Tallon I, C. Elworthy 5. 151

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29th January Kent League at Kent College and St. Edmund's Seniors: 3rd (behind K.S .R. and Tonbridge) out of 8 schools (M. Todd 4 , J . Hinves 7, N. Clark 12, J . Sweny 14 • B. Martin 34, C . Bottomley 42 , A. Stevens 59). Juniors: 1st out of 6 schools (C. Pickering I , W. Scott 3, A . Ribbans 5, W . Tallon 6, C. Elworthy 7, T . Shelford 28) Girls: C. Barker 3, J.-A. McConnell I I. · 5th February Kent League at Home Seniors: 5th out of 9 schools (J . Hinves 6 , J. Sweny 14, R. DeHaan 26, N. Clark 32, L. Potter 36, C. Bottomley 4 1, R. Corbally 48) . Inters: M. Todd I, S. Bird 18, P. Capel 39, J. Campbell 43. Juniors: 1st out of 6 schools (C. Pickering 2, M. Sweny 6, A . Ribbans 8 , W . Scott 9 , C. Elworthy 10 , T . Shelford 36) Girls: C. Barker 4 . · 26th February Kent League at Cranbrook Seniors: 2nd (behind Cranbrook) out of 6 schools (M. Todd 2, N. Clark 8, J . Sweny 9, R. Mannering I I, R. De Haan 22, A. Stevens 43). 5th March The Five Schools' Races at Home Seniors: I . Berkhamsted 22, 2. K.S.C. 33, (Felsted , Harrow, Highgate withdrew) (J . Sweny 4, L. Potter 5, C. Bottomley 6, A. Stevens 8, B. Martin 10). Inters: I . Berkhamsted 35, 2. Highgate 43 , (K.S.C. incomplete team, Harrow & Felsted withdrew) (T. Edmunds 15 S . Peel 16, J. Campbell 18). ' Juniors. I. K.S.C. 27, 2. Highgate 54, 3. Berkhamsted 106, (Harrow and Felsted withdrew) (C. Picker ing I , A. Ribbans 2 , W . Scott 3, M. Sweny 4, W . Tallon 8 , C. Elworthy 9, T . Shelford 15). 13th March T he Kent College Relay Seniors: 3rd out of 9 schools (behind Ardingly [ guests), Tonbridge and K.S.R.) (M. Todd 4, R. Mannering 6, N. Clark 10 , R. De Haan 16, J. Sweny 43 , C. Bottomley 59). Inters: 7th out of 8 schools (T. Edmunds 28, D. Bartlette 34, S. Peel 35, T. Shelford 39, B. Martin 46, A. Reynolds 49, J . Campbell 52). Juniors: 1st out of 8 schools (A. Ribbans 2, C. Pickering 4 , J . Sweny 6 , W . Scott 9 , W. Tallon 12, C. Elworthy 13. Gi rls: 1st out of 5 schools (Sevenoaks, Kent College, Dover College and Sutton Valence) (S. Petrie 2, C. Barker 6, J. Gulland 9 , 0 . Beer 16). 20th March Kent League at King's School Rochester Seniors: 2nd (behind K.S. R .) out of9 schools (M. Todd 2, R. Manneri ng 7, J. Sweny 16, N. C lark 17, R. de Haan 19, C. Bottomley 32, A. Stevens 57). Inters: S. Peel 41. Juniors: 1st out of6 schools (C. Pickering 5, M. Sweny 6 , A. Ribbans 7, W. Scott 8, W . Tallon 13, C. Elworthy 14, T. Shelford 33). Girls: C. Barker 9 . 23rd March ln victa A. C. Schools' I nvitation Races at t he University of Kent Seniors: I. K.S. C. 17, 2 . St. Edmund's 19 (R. Mannering 2, R. de Haan 3, J . Sweny 4, A . Stevens 8). Inters: M. Todd 2, B. Martin 9. Juniors: I. K.S.C. 15, 2. Chaucer Technology 33 , 3. Hartsdown 42, 4. St. Edmund 's 114 (C. Pickering 2, A. Ribbans 3, W. Scott 4 , M. Sweny 6 , C . Elworthy 8, W . Tallon 10, T . Shelford 13). Kent Schools' League results 1994: Seniors: I. K.S. R. 2069, 2. Tonbridge 263 1, 3. K.S.C. 2590, 4. Sevenoaks 2565, 5. Cranbrook 2554, 6. Kent College 2439 , 7. Sir Joseph Williamson 's 2364, 8. Dover College 2353. Ind ividuals. M . Todd 5, N. Clark 12, J . Sweny 15, R. de Haan 24, C. Bottomley 5 1, A . Stevens 62 out of74. Open Gir ls: C. Barker 5 out of 24. Juniors: I. K.S.C. 2065, 2. K.S.R. 1974 , 3. Sir Joseph Wi lliamson 's 1960, 4. Bethany 1894, 5. Cranbrook 186 1, 6 . Duke of York 's 1842, 7. Sevenoaks 1660 . Individuals: C. Pickeri ng 4 , M. Sweny 6, A . Ribbans 7, W . Scott 8, W . Tallon 9, C. Elworthy 13, T. Shelford 35 out of 70.

INTER-HOUSE CROSS-COUNTRY We were not blessed with pleasant weather (as, amazingly, in the past few years), and the prospect of getting cold, wet and wind-swept on Scotland Hi lls did not appeal to many of us. However, the rain was not too heavy, and the general good spirit of all involved was remarkable. Surprisingly, I had more positive comments about the afternoon (in hindsight when warm and dry agai n . . . ) than usual, and I would li ke to thank everyone involved for making one of the most unpopular jobs o f the year more bearable! It is always good to see some of the most unexpected people doing rather well, and gett ing pleasure from their achievement. We also saw some impressive medal-wi nners: Charles Heise capitalised on the absence o f Darren Kingston and Ryan Mannering and won by a comfortable margin , while Alistair Curzon proved that hockey players can also build up excellent strength and stamina. Charlotte Barker had a convincing win in the Senior girls' slightly extended race. W1th two more attemi?ts at this course , it wi ll be interesting to see how far she can lower the time she has set. Malcolm Todd lowered Juhan Hinves' 1992 Inter record by 22 seconds, leaving the field trailing I min 40 sees behind. A second attempt by him to lower this mark next year could put it out of reach for a good many years! Christopher Pickering left his own firm print on the slightly different Junior course with a 30-second winning margin , while Julian Hinves will be pleased to know that one of his old records, for the longer race of 199 1, will stand for that course. The leading Junior girls came home in creditable 24th, 25th 152

· the field showing that this event can be a successful co-ed occasion, even if separate as well as • . 6 h places m and ~i~ed boys' and girls' results may be given n.ext year. which roduced unassailably low scores corn H use results, apart from the overwhelmmg surpremacy of T /BL, . larf. in the Senior boys' competition, In the -g~oups, there were some extremely close battles between Hols~s, Gartl~l arrival in the top three of the overall in all age 5 oints separated 2nd-5th places. School I:Iouse was~ re atJve y ne r have something to do with that where onl~t! perhaps the managerial skills of the InJured capltahm of Cross-Cpo~n}/rvis is building up a Senior girls' bOYS' .eve . maintained its customary excellence across al) t ree .age-grou . d . nJ, having Shells,

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R ESULTS

Senior boys: I T/BL 53 GR 148 2 MO !50 3 LN 15 1 4 MR 153 5 MT 18 1 6 7 SH 188 8 GL 260

Senior gir ls: I JR 2 WL 3 BR 4 LX 5 MT

30 38 52 54 68

Overall boys result: 1 T/BL 136 2 LN 398 SH 495 3 MO 517 4 5 GR 524 6 MR 550 7 MT 6 15. . . (GL had insuffi cient Jumor fimshers) Individual placings: Senior boys: 1 Charles Heise 2 Julian Hinves 3 Alistair Curzon Intermediate boys: 1 Malcolm Todd

MO 20.40.2 T /BL 2 1.00.6 GL 21.42.3

Intermediate boys: I T /BL 38 2 LN 85 3 MR 130 4 SH 151 5 GR 174 6 MO 205 7 GL 232 MT 248 8

Junior boys I T/BL 2 SH 3 MO LN 5 MT 6 GR 7 MR 8 LX 9 WL 10 BR 11 JR

and girls: 45 156 162 162 !86 202 267 287 292 350 357

Overall girls' result: 1 WL 11 5 2 LX 133 3 JR 142 4 BR 154 (MR and MT had insufficient finishers in one age group)

Senior girls: 1 Charlotte Barker 2 Lucy Dawes 3 Melanie Luther

WL BR WL

24.02 (New Course Best) 24. 193 24.5 1

T/BL 18. 19.0 (New Record) T/ BL 20.59.9 T /BL 21.07.7

2 Barnaby Martin 3 Adam Wilton J unior boys and girls: 1 Christopher PickeringMT 2 William Scott T/BL 3 James Hessey T/ BL 24 Ophelia Beer WL 25 Louise Squires LX 26 Jessica Gulland LX

15 . 19.8 (New Course Best) 15.50.6 15 .52. 1 20.45.7 20.45.8 20.45.9

Badminton Over the year our team has improved greatly under Pat Dayis's coaching, despite the temporary loss of two of our better players to other sports. But of course others took the1r place. . dG t something we traditionally regard as a great achievement. It was especially pl~sing to ~t a Gravesen d Sramm h ~r. eam~ first match against them, winning two rubbers out of The first pair also d1d well agamst Brentwoo c oo m ou 153

three. A rather below-par performance against Dover College was disappointing. However, we did beat St. Lawrcn (twice) and Sutton Valence. Several matches were unfortunately cancelled: we should obviously have won them t~ The ladies had a match against Dover College, but lack of experience showed, and they enjoyed the mixed doubles match afterwards more ! The House Cup was won by Meister Omers (Chris Ioannou and Darren Kingston) who beat Linacre in a very wen contested final. Teams picked from: Kieran Murphy (Capt.), Purav Patel, Chris Ioannou, Jonathan Norman, Tom Robertson, Tak Loon Khong and Alasdaâ&#x20AC;˘r Roman. Girls: Alexa von Schorlemer, Friederike von Lindeiner, Joanne Lim and Olivia Brice.

Basketball INTER-HOUSE BASKETBALL Last term's Senior Competition saw School House reach the fina l by narrowly defeating The Grange and then Tradescant , whe reas their opponents Linacre had an easier run with Bailey defaulting and Meister Omers being outclassed. The final was an evenly contested game with contrasting styles of play as Linacre had the height advantage; but that did not deter Giles Macey from steali ng possession a nd releasing Xavier Boureau to score for School House. With the score at 14-14 after full time, both teams had opportunities to win until almost inevitably the highest points scorer Myles Orsler won the game for Linacre . ' The Junio r competition this term involved 14 teams and included boys' and girl s' teams. There were some very close scores in the earlier rounds with Broughton She lls edging out Jervis by one basket in extra time and Linacre losing to The Grange by one point with Segun Lawson stealmg in for two baskets in the c losing stages. The Grange met Walpole in the fina l and after a tense first half where the score was 4-4, the speed and d ribbfing skills of the boys proved too much for the Walpole passing game. Henry Eccles intercepted well a nd for the first time in the competition Frances Houghton was put under pressure whe n shooting. The quick handling of Jide Adesanya and Segun Lawson saw Michael Ziegle r and Olukayode Akindele convert the many scoring opportunities and The Grange ran out winners by 34 points to 10. My thanks to R.C.W. and Geoff Well s for ' thei r assistance in refereeing a nd to a ll those pupils who he lped with scoring, time-keeping and supporting. S E . . A.

Fencing We continued the second half of the yea r in a n almost new gy m. However the dust never got the better of the fitness/footwork sessions. The influx of Juniors a t the start of this term shows promise for the future with no shortage of enthusiasm, but they still must concentrate on those basics. The larger (non slippery) floor space in the gym a llowed proper training fo r the earlier matches and competitions. The usual victories over Haileybury, Rochester and Eton were repeated and three weeks of work paid off at the U l8 National Foil Champio nships whe re Ray finished sixteenth and Frazer seventh. This led to eventual England selection for Frazer. The hig hly successful Challe nge Cup Competitions of this term enticed over six hundred people each time, including the bagllage and retinue of mothers, fathers, armourers and screaming little brothers and sisters, not to mention the competito rs. These, amongst other competitions, provided our 5th and 6b fencers with ample opportunity to show that the club will be well endowed for future years (Alex Perkins, Alex Fennemore, Ben Wyand, Jack Sundt), particularly the new trend for sabre: Graeme Parkin , Tim Breen, Rupert Mead , James Stevens . It was good to see James back after so many years, relearning how to inflict a new sort of pain (testing the par excellence armouring ski lls of Alex by breaking three epees in as many minutes). As this is our last set of notes and the end of Frazer 's two year commission, it is our o nly chance to offer our thanks to everyone. We have had some impressive results from everyone this term , despite the small number of competitions. Some c redit must go to Frazer for his work while he was captain, as well as to Alex Maines fo r years of work in the armoury. We end once again by thanking Paul Romang and Mr. Jennings (forty packed suppers for twenty-five people!), wishing all good luck fo r years to come.

Colours: 1st Team: Sameer Khemani 2nd Team: James Stevens, Rupert Mead, Amy Sheppard . Hi/dick-Smith Cup: Ivan Strugatsky.

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Gymnastics Âˇts second year the Gymnastics Club has flourished. We have as many as twelve members now, the majority of ~h~m are in the Shell year. A variety of skills have been tackled and we are developing into a club with reasonably able gymnasts. Once again we had a fixture with Chaucer Technology College who , once again, beat us. This time, however, they d to tight for their victory. More fixtures are being organised and it is hoped that we will participate in a countryh~de tournament later in the year. Jane Virden performed excellently and with her usual grace and elesanee. She held WI rb balances and demonstrated excellent uppe r body strength . Rose Skelton battled on despite bemg injured and ~~~hanie Smith finally mast~red the round-off! Sarah, Alice and Maddie all performed very well with Helen dancing her way around the floor With the utmost of elegance. Since the competition the gi rls have been working towards B.A.G.A. awards, whic h they have all been successful n gaining at a number of levels. All in all it has been a solid second year and we are going from strength to strength. 1 A.M.J.P. Squad: Alex Higgins, Sarah Hubbard-Ford, Alex Marden , Madeleine Morgan, Helen Mountsey-Thear, Olivia Price, Valerie Scaletta, Vanina Schick , Rose Skelton , Stephanie Smith , Jane Virden, Alice Walker.

Lacrosse After eventually finding the lacrosse pitch at Birley's, with the hockey goal strategically placed in the middle (presumably to fox the oppOSition), this year the turnout has been considerably higher than in previous seasons and we even had to stagger the practices for beginners and 'advanced' players. Despite losing the first match against Cranbrook, the team work displayed was most impressive and proved to be a winning tactic in the next two matches . George Bingham showed herself to be the bravest member of the team and, having never picked up a lacrosse stick before, found herself in goal. Regardless of all her broken bones, she picked up the game very quickly and played extremely well . . . Cheers, George! Priscilla, Jo, Juby and Fran B. (playing her fi rst sport at King's in one and a half years) were a strong defence and kept out the balls! Lucy A. and Helen, ferocious in defence and when chasing any loose ball , were there to provide the links between attack and defence and always played brill iantly ... (nice yellow card, Lucy A!). The goals kept on coming due to the superb stick work of all the attacks: Georgie, Frankie, Cesca, and Saskia , not to mention Sian's dramatic squeals every time an opponent so much as looked at her. .. thanks Sian, it won the free passes! Louise and Clare W. stood out on the pitch, Louise being the only 'fit' member of the team. The All England Lacrosse Tournament at Milton Keynes produced some mi xed play, but considering that all the other teams have 'five' practices a day, the result was impressive. Despite two early thrashings, we came back in the third and got our game together. The fourth game not only produced a win through ' magical' play, but also got a few laughs and odd fooks from the spectators. Daisy , Trixie, Ethel, Mildred and Co. all strutted onto the pitch with knee-high socks and bunches. Despite our 'girlie' appearance, we had the most vicious game of the day! Stowe even tried to copy our tactic, but sadly fai led. Many thanks to Miss Francis for taking the Friday practices. You probably learnt more about the game from those sessions than we did! Finally , thanks to Miss Mills for all her support and encouragement and especially for putting up with our giggles! The standard at King's has improved dramatically and with the new players in 6b, should continue to do so next year. . . good luck! LUCY DAWES. Typically, Lucy has made no mention of the role which she played this season as captain of the side. She inspired everyone with her level of skill , commitment and e nthusiasm. She was chosen to play for the East of England and captained the county side. These are tremendous achievements, of which she is most deserving. I have enJoyed this season of lacrosse more than any other at King's, because the level of motivation and enthusiasm amongst the players has been so high . I should like to commend them all for the comm itment that they have shown. S.K.M. Team: Lucy Dawes (Capt.) , Lucy Andrews , Francesca Beauman , George Bingham, Louise Hall, Frankie Jennings, George Lake, Jo Lim, Juby Macinnes, Francesca Meynell , Priscilla Parish, Sian Saunders, Clare Simmonds, Helen Thorn, Clare Watson, Saskia We bb. RESULTS Played 4, Won 2, Lost 2. v St. John's. Won 7-4 v Walthamstow Hall. Lost 6-13

v C ranbrook. Lost 6-10 v Benenden . Won 6-4 A.E . W .L.A. Tournament at Milton Keynes v Alice Ottley. Lost 4-11 v St. Helen 's and St. Katherine's. Drawn 3-3 v St. Catherine's. Lost 3-7 155

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v Queen Ethelberga's. Won 5-2 v St. James'. Lost 1-2

Netball 1st VII By the end of our first netball practice, having strolled in about twenty minutes late expecting a short a nd certain). not very strenuous session, we realised we were mistaken. Miss Price's enthusiasm and dedication to the sport mea ~ that every practice was to be energetic and taken seriously (supposedly!) and they were even compulsory! Extra practic~t were even recognised, as was fitness training - something we netballers had never heard of. ~ The season has been mixed , with four spectacular wins and the same number of unfortunate and certainly undeserved losses. The team played with great determination and has shown definite improvement in all areas of the game and a re now a force to be reckoned with (most o f the time). Sally's shooting skills proved brill ia nt throughout the season and were highly praised by all members of the team. Pixie has now worked out which way she is meant to be facin and with Kirstin made a great attacking team who intercepted all passes. The defence also proved successful and work~ well togethe r a nd by the last match had their back line passes worked out! Rebecca covered the centre third very we)J with Helena a nd Gunners defending in the circle, preventing the opposition from scoring many a time . Yes, Gunners you were in the team . ' The match against Sutto n Vale nce will not be fo rgotten for a long time! All in all it has been a great season with some very impressive p lay. Thanks to the team for turning up to the majority of practices a nd a special thank you to Miss Price for her mspiration to the team and her constant a ttempts to make us fit - whether 11 worked or not is debatable!! Good luck, everyone, for next season. CLARE WATSON

I wou ld like to thank the team for all their hard work - you did get fitter. A very special thank you to Clare who put a great deal of effort in behind the scenes to make sure th ings ran smoothly. Well done, everyone. A.M .J.P. Team: Clare Watson* (Capt.), Helena Ancock, Pixie Bennett*, Rebecca Fordham, Kirstin Gaymer*, Annabel Gunnell

Sally Lewis-Jones. Also played: Lizzie Tyler.

*awarded I st colours. All seven regular team players received 1st team colours. R ESULTS

v v v v

Played 8, Won 4, Lost 4. Kent College (A). Lost 12- 16 v St. Edmund's (A). Won 34-9 Cranbrook (H) . Lost 9-12 v Sevenoaks (A). Lost 25-32 Ashford (A). Won 24- 12 v Walthamstow Hall (A). Won 18- 17 Sutton Valence (H) . Lost 23-26 v Dover College (H). Won 23- 13

2nd VII Despite the constant changing of people and positions the 2nd VII have had a successful season with some good wins. They made a strong team who after a couple of matches sorted out some skilful routines and learnt to work well as a team, with the help of some new practice methods introduced by Miss Price (zoning!!) T he standards of the opposing teams varied, with some schools giving us some strong competition which we coped with well. Kate Cuppage played well as centre, showing a good deal of energy when attempting to catch the more extravagant passes, and often succeeding. She also played the part of reliable captain, always contr ibuting a helpful lint at half-time. Our defence was strong, making it difficult fo r our opposition to get anywhere near the goal. Natalie, although in a totally new position, caught on quickly and developed a good partnership with Miriam who managed to intercept the ball frequently, usually when having to compete against a much taller opposition. The shooters changed frequently. Maxine Gibson showed a calm consistency, always being in the right place at the right time, while Suzy Madigan was able to pass into the circle quickly and managed to shoot her fair share of the goals. Prisci lla never had a problem with tall opposition and always played a very pleasing game. The reserves had their own share of the court and fitted in very well quickly learning the set plays and tactics . The first match of the season was against Ke nt College and we were pleasantly surprised when a 11 -11 draw was the final result. We were expecting to be thrashed! This gave us the confide nce to approach the com ing season with verve and on a very positive note. This we did and managed to be successful against al but the toughest of opponents. The team have worked very hard and should look forward to a very prosperous season next year. THE TEAM.

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. Kate Cuppage* (Capt.), Natalie Freeman, Maxine Gibson, Loui~e Hall, Miriam Lwanga, Suzy Madigan , Team fiprOf1!· h Karen Robinson, Millie Stewart*, Suzy Tydeman, Jane Wtgan +. priscilla ans '

* awarded 2nd colours. reawarded 2nd colours.

RESULTS

v v v v v

Played 9, Won 5, Drawn I , Lost 3. Kent College (A). Drawn I I- II v St. Edmund 's (H). Won 24-19 Cranbrook (H). Lost 5-12 v Sevenoaks (A). Lost 25-40 Ashford (A). Won 24-18 v Walthamstow Hall (A). Lost 14-19 Wye College (H). Won 25-18 v Dover College (H). Won 23-8 Sutton Valence (H). Won 36- 10

Under 15 A VII -

ressed by their excellent results as Under 14s last year , I looked fo~~ard to coachi.ng ~he team t!1is term . A

~tad 'ustment to the team took a little getting used to, but a c hange ofposttton for Beth Htc~lm from Wm~; Defence sh~ 1 befence meant that she was able to cover a greater area of the n~~ball court and provtde the team wtth a very 10 .

oa defence. Beth 's ability to anticipate moves made by the oppositiOn ena~led her to make . s.ome remark~ble Claire Eliot, Captam, occupted th.e Centre ~ostllon and prov.t~ed tnteood link between the defence a nd the attack; new-comer Annabel Whibley occupted the Wing Defence posttton ag A Joynson-Hicks continued as a strong Wing Attack. All three centre court player.s worked well together and, an~st :rihe time, sent the ball efficiently to the shooters int ~e circle. Shooters Estelle J?avtes (Goal Attack) and Catthn ~rince (Goal Shooter) showed a lot of improvement , workmg well togeth.er an? movmg aro~nd the D ~nd under ~he 1 They became more aware of the need to help eacb other. Estelle sttll rehes on her hetght to obt~m possessiOn god· whilst that was fine last year, others have now caught up in height; she needs to work on reachmg up for the bnll, Caitlin has been a reliable goal-scorer and manoeuvres herself well around the goal. Ot.her memb~rs of the team c~niributed well: Jane Hollywood marked well at Goalkeeper and Zoe Davies and Penny Dam were reh.able reserves . The skill and stre ngth of these players was commanding, but our stronger opponents revealed certam weaknesses which the¥ all tried hard to correct. The centre court players' footwork tended to be rather rushed a!l~ uncontroll~d . often Jeadmg to inaccurate and careless passes which were then thrown away and given to the oppositiOn, so, havmg worked hard to gain possession of the ball, too often the ball seemed to be madvertently handed back. What was evident about the team from the beginning of te r~ was their highlX ~ompetitive spirit. Their first mat~h against Kent College produced a narrow win for the school agamst strong oppost.twn and they attacked the game wtth v1gour. Other good wins against schools with good netball reputations were agamst Ashford and Sutton Valence. Of our losses, Walthamstow Hall, a girls-only school, outplayed our team with some very controlled ne!ball and Cranbn;>ok's skill dominated the game a nd showed up the team's weaknesses rather than tts strengths. There slots of potenttal to build on here and a lot to look forward to in future years. Team: Claire E liot (Capt.), Estelle Davies, Beth Hicklin , Jane Hollywood, Amy Joyson-Hicks, Caitlin Prince, Annabel Whibley. Also played: Penny Dain , Laura Perri n, Zoe Davies.

~tro~!eptions and the team came to rely on her skill.

RESULTS

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Played 7, Won 5, Lost 2. Kent College. Won 12-8 v St. Edmund 's. Won 24-19 C ranbrook. Lost 13-36 v Walthamstow Hall . Lost 8-19 Ashford. Won 17-7 v Dover College. Won 16-6 Sutton Valence. Won 17- 10

Under 15 B VII All members of this team have worked very well to~ether and deserve our congratulations fo_r winni~g all four. of their matches against strong schools. In ability, the team s strengths lay with the ~aptam, Penny Dam and wtth defendmg players Jo Pringle Zoe Davies and Laura Perrin. These players helped to ratse the standard of the game and they were well support~d by Lucy Newton, a centre court player, and shooters Lizzie Blackie and Justine McConnell. Team from: Penny Dain (Capt.), Elizabeth Blackie, Zoe Dav ies, Sarah Lindfield, Justine McConnell, Lucy Newton, Laura Perrin, Jo Pr ingle, Jessica Shaw. · RESULTS

v Cranbrook. Won 18- 10 v Benenden. Won 15-9

Played 4, Won 4, Lost 0. v Sutton Valence. Won 23-11 v Walthamstow Hall. Won 13-5 157

Under 14 A and B VIIs At the end of o ur first netball season at King's we can say that we've had our fair share o f victories and failure Affected by the loss of Frances Ho ughton 's shoot ing skills, from o ur pre-season matches, we had to regroup to mat \ and exceed the strength and unity of the fo rmer team . c Thanks to Miss Reidy, Miss Phi llips and of course, Miss Sinc la ir, our gene ral fi tness and stamina were greau improved by long Wednesday fitnes s sessions of ' suicides', with sit-ups, press-ups and star-j umps, not forgett mg thy tedious jumping exe rcises (which were performed, not without numerous sighs and groans). e In our fi rst two matches (which initiated the gruelling hours of exercise) we were de feated a lthough we put up a good fight. The opposition, namely Cranbrook , were overwhe lming in size and more experienced as a unu. After these disar.pointments, however, we came together and won the remaini n ~ matches of the season . At the attackin e nd , Cam1lla Jackson mesmer ised us with her shooting skills and Delia Williams (when she was not suffering fro~ one ailment or another) , backed her up with equal ta lent whilst assisting Alice Wa lker in the centre court . Louise Squires gave up her spare moments to help us on the road to victory, whe n not too busy playing for the U 18 squash team By mid-season we had reached our peak , shown by our embarrassing victory over St. Edmund 's. Ally Aitken convened the court into a rugby pitc h, becomming totally oblivious of everything surrounding her except the ball . Her feros ity helped to h inder all goals the opposition may have scored but one. Our g rand fina le was aga inst Dove r College, where Rachel Hill astounded us a ll by scoring goal after sensational goal. .. Delia was, once again, in the san. As defences (WD, GD) we feel our game was much improved o ver the season and we'd like to think we contributed to our v i ctori e~ (though this could be d isputed!) . The Bs didn' t have a set team , but they played equally as well as the As in the ir own way , though they didn' t seem to have as much luck as we did. It must be said , however , that they had fewer matches than the As, so they had less of a chance to justify themselves. Overall we 've had an excellent season to start our careers at King's. Thanks to all those who set us on our way - we couldn ' t have done it without you!! T HERESA BOYCE AND MWAKA KAMANA

'A' team: Allie Aitken, The resa Boyce, Rachel Hill , Camilla Jackson , Mwaka Kamana, Louise Squires, Alice Walker, Delia Wi ll iams. 'B' team : Dorelia Adeane, Jessica Gulland , Sarah Hubbard-Ford , Charlotte Hunt , Alex Marden , Kajsa McLaren, Hilary Myska, Olivia Price, Vanina Sc hick. â&#x20AC;˘ RESULTS

A team

B team

Played 7, Won S, Lost 2. v Kent College. Lost 8-18 v Cranbrook. Lost 18-44 v Ashford. Won 19- 14 v Sutton Valence. Won 14-9 v St. Edmund's. Won 44-1 v Walthamstow Hall . Won 14-7 v Dover College. Won 4 1-9

Played 4 , Wo n I , Drawn I , Lost 2. v Cranbrook . Won 16-8 v Benenden . Lost 8- 12 v Sutton Valence. Lost 6- 18 v Walthamstow Hall . Drawn 7-7

Rowing Under 14 Rowing An unusual group chose to begin rowing this term - eig hteen girls but only six boys. However, the problems caused by so few boys be in~ available are more than compensated fo r by the girls' sq uad bei ng of a genuine ly viable number for the first time. Th1s really should mean that we can produce more than one competitive crew by the end of the summer. We were furthe r a ided by some very favourable weather and everyone was very soon splashing merrily around , some learning to propel a boat e ffect ively a nd some just lea rning to enjoy themselves. Pretty soon the weather warmed up and we took to singles so that people could also learn to swim . Unfortunately the pe riod of pleasant weather didn't last long and after haff term we were forced to concentrate on big boats almost exclus ively. Possibly those who had been spend ing a la rge proportion of their time making involunta ry exits from their single sculls were relieved by this but the re will be plenty of opportunity to resume in the summer . . . In the e nd , progress was limited for the majority by the numbe r of sessions they could attend and it is very clear that those who have been most successful thus far are precisely those who have got o nto the water the most times and for the longest length outings. However, two very respectable crews, a girls ' q uad and a boys' quad, have eme rged to compete at the Schools ' Head of the River Race and the next girl's crew down, whethe r a quad or an octuple, also looks as if it might do well in the long term . 158

1ST VII, 2ND VII AND UNDER 15 A VII NETBALL (Richard Bennett)

e is a great deal of hard work yet to be done on technique and fitness but I suspect the summer may well bring

The~ccess somewhere along the line. If so the squad wi ll owe much to Mr. Willis for his tireless and expert coaching ~ode ; nagement, and for his t1mely and patient ad vic~. My, an~ the sq uad 's, thanks go. to ~im an.d also to Mr. Hooper an ~s organisation a nd the rest of the club for puttmg up w1th our contmually gettmg m the1r way! for

T.J.P.

Girls' Crew: Alexandra Higgins, Claire Baldwin, Frances Houghton, Anna Hollywood , cox Catherine Lester. Boys' Crew: Simon Gomersall , David Sprake, Robert Van Allan, T homas Davidson , cox Laurence Ridges.

Rugby Sevens The Senior Seven -That a team that reached the quarte r-final o f the Rosslyn Park National Schools' Sevens, that is, the last eight left Âˇn the competition out of 105 entrants, could regard it as a fa ilure, speaks volumes for its ability and ambition. Such ~mbition - definitely not in a ny way arrogance - was not misplaced, but nonetheless, I hope that all who took part Âˇn the season as a whole can now look back objectively on a n outsta nd ing ly successful season, m which an unparallelled ~clean sweep' was tant~lisingly close. The 1993 side, because of its victory at Ros~lyn Park , will rightly be immo.rtalised, but intriguingly 11 ach1eved much less apart from that than the 1994 team . Havmg had the pleasure of watchmg both teams 1 could not put my hand o n my heart and say which was the ' better', but undoubtedly our achievements in conseCutive sevens' seasons have been remarkable a nd I hope that that future generations are spurred to emulate them. Statistics can ofte n be meaningless, but in sevens, one plays more games, the more one is successful. The 1994 1st VII played twenty-three games in four tournaments, winning twenty-one, scoring 119 tries (727 points}, and conceding only twelve (eighty-one points). Because skills a re placed under a microscope in this form of the game, success is perhaps due even more to teamwork than in the full game, and each contributed fully. Of those mentioned below, however, who played in the side, any combination of Adams, Bishop, Edwards, Lewis-Jones, Macey , Ogedegbe, Orsler, Spencer, Swanson proved irresistible in all but one match. One simply took somewhat for granted a blend of organisation, power and pace that swept away competent sides. Notwithstanding the abil ity of all the players, other facto rs, too played a part in the success. I must thank the boys themselves for thei r committment to the one practice session a week that is at our disposal, and others, particularly R. M.H. , N.L. P. and C .P.N., for their understanding in planning their activities to accommodate our mini-season. It was hearten ing to have a regular band of parents in suppo rt to enjoy every display, and even to provide logistical support , most notably as team caterers and laundry at Rosslyn Pa rk, where the contingent was augmented by O.K.S. of various vintages, notably Messrs . C raddock a nd Irone from the victorious 1993 side, and Jackson and Heyland of the winning 1964 team. R. P .B. travelled with us . The Headmaster , too, joined us there, fresh from a Governors' Meeting, and we were all d isappointed that he was o nly able to witness a rare loss. Meanwhile, although it may not challenge Spielberg, the Edwards video record of the season is bound to be a best-seller - and I look forward with relish to watchi ng it, even it I may have cause to regret a comment or two!

The Tournaments Maidstone Sevens, Wednesday, 2nd March This is a small , but very important tournament in te rms of developing patterns of play for the larger events to come. For the second year in a row, both our 'A' and 'B' teams won in style, and confirmed that not only was our best combination likely to be a very strong one, but that our reserve strength was more than adequate. Amongst all the many excellent tnes scored , the most memorable was defi nitely a fifty-metre spr ing to outpace the opposition by our regular tight-head prop , Richard Hume, in one o f the 'B' games! 'A ' VII 'B' VII v J udd. Won 39-0 v Judd B. Won 26-14 v Maidstone G.S. B. Won 55-0 v G ravesend. Won 24-14 v Rocheste r Maths. Won 27-0 v Rocheste r Maths B. Won 39-0 v Maidstone G.S. Won 48-0 v M aidstone G.S . Colts. Won 26-7 Kent Sevens, Wednesday, 9th March This year was unusual, in tha t the d isposition o f the County XV suggested that the tournament would be a two-horse race, and even more unusual in that the draw enabled the fi na l to be played out by those two schools . Both had produced r~gby of the highest class to reach the fi nal, which was keenly fought, but we seemed to have a little to spare, by VIrtue of the greater power at o ur disposal, in claim ing a well-deserved victory - our first since 1986, havmg been runners-up in 1992 . T he try scored against us in the fi na l - by a midget fl ying under Rob Adams ' radar- was the first .to be conceded in nine games, after which the points tally was an impressive 353-7. The 'B' team, meanwhile, P!aymg ?lher schools' first sides, claimed one notable scalp and performed very creditabi,Y indeed. Giles Macey played ~1msel f mto .the 1st VII with the novel but c unning ploy of prete nd ing to be injured, at mter vals, and getting up each lime lmm.edJately to score a try. His own team tried hard to gain inspiration when he was off the field and acting as touch JUdge by flatte ning him as he raised his flag a loft, but it d id n' t work. 159

UNDER 15 B VII, UNDER 14 A VII AND UNDER 14 B VII NETBALL (Richard Bennett)

King's I Pool Matches: v Christ the King VI. Won 40 -0 v Haberdasher Aske's. Won 47-0 Knockout Stages v B.E.T.H .S. Won 3 1-0 v Duke o f York's. Won 45-0 v Skinners. Won 26-7 (Final)

K ing 's II Pool M atches: v Maidstone G.S . (I) . Wo n 28-7 v St. Olave's G.S. (I). Lost 0 -33 v St. Dunstan's (I). Lost 5- 14

S urrey Sevens, Wednesday , 16th March This invitation tournament, entered by over fifty schools, draws many of the very best in the South of England. On this occasion we were without two of our normal squad, but made light of this, and other problems, in p rogressing through to the final. Jay Spencer effected the most amazing recovery since Lazarus, in shaking off an injury m an early game to resume his place in the team fo r the semi-final , but unfortunately an injury to Myles Orsler then prevented our captain from lining up in the fina l against a very powerful Mill field side, who had overwhelmed all those it had beaten in getting there. The seven who took the field performed heroically . Having fallen behind 0-5, we recovered to lead 12-5, but with two minutes to go threw away a simple scoring chance with a poor pass and th is probably cost us the title. Counting the success at Rosslyn Park last year, th is was the first defeat of our 1st VII in twenty-six consecutive games o f Sevens, and three titles. Nonetheless, the side had done very well indeed, and much confidence was gained for the big challenge to come. Pool Matches: v St. Benedict's, Ealing. Won 34-0 v Eltham College. Won 17-0 v John Ruskin. W on 48-0 Knockout Stages v Windsor. Wo n 29-7 v Wellington College, Berks. Won 22-5 v R.G. S. Guildford . Won 31-7 v Millfield . Lost 12- 19 (Final) Rossly n Park National Seven-a-Sides, M ond{ly 21st/ Tuesday 22nd March Being the defending champions does not necessarily, or even often, mean that you start as favour ites fo r the title again , but our form coming mto the tournament had been good, we had five of the squad of ten from 1993, and we were hopefu l. Unfortunately Myles was not able to join us for the first day, but our draw was such that in the preliminary rounds, we had scope to rotate selection and give a ' rest' to most players for at least one game. T his was important, as we had been allocated to one o f the five groups out of twenty-one who have to pay an extra match to qual ify for the second day, and our likely opponents were Haileybury, who had the potential to be a very good side indeed. They did indeed win their group with ease, but in our game with them we played our best r ugby of a very long day to go forward with confidence. The weather, which had been ideal for the group matches, turned overnight, and the Rosslyn Park pitch resembled the muddy patch it traditionally had been for this tournament unti l a few seasons ago . The good news was, however, that Myles had recovered sufficiently from his injury to join us, allowing us to play our fu ll side, and his strength was likely to be important inthese conditions . We played w1th control to win our first match , against King's, Worcester, and, ominously, popular opinion around the g round was that we were going to take some stopping . However in the first few matches it had soon became evident that in the rain and on such a soft and slippery surface, upsets were likely to take place. In our second match of the day, against a good , determined Loughborough side, we conceded at the start a succession of free kicks and penalties (one of which was converted), and were starved of possession. We came back to lead 5-3 at half-time, but more penalties conceded the initiative again in the second half, which was absorbingly tight, if lacking in open play. Careless defence of a kick out of defence then allowed our opponents a try with a minute left. We responded, but perhaps with the necessary control, and with the very last movement of the match failed to take an easy opportunity of a try at the corner. There was some misfortune in our defeat, but as Geoff Cooke, the former manager o f England was apt to say, the two must useless words in the English language are ' if o nly . . . !'. Group Matches: Knockout S tages v Bnstol G.S . Won 38-0 v Haileybury. Won 3 1-7 v Davenant Foundation. Won 24-5 v King's, Worcester. Won 28-1 v Abingdon. Won 29-7 v Loughborough G .S . Lost 5- 10 v Monkton Combe . Won 26-7 (Quarter-Final) R.C.W. The Squads: The following played for the 1st VII: Myles Orsler (Capt.), Rob Adams, Dele Alakija, James Bishop, Matt Edwards, Femi Fadeyi, Russell Hewett , Julian Lewis-Jones, Giles Macey, Alex Ogedegbe, Jay Spencer, Rob Swanson. The following played for the 2nd VII: James Murch (Capt.) , Dele Alakija, Femi Fadey i, Russell Hewett, Richard Hume, Dunstan Kamana , Steven Lau, Giles Macey, Paul Perrin, Luke Smger, James Stevens, Rob Swanson. 160

Under 16 Rugby Sevens ..;;....---- up of sixteen boys opted for this T hursday activ ity and enjoyed developing their rugby skills during the term. A gro ives the players more opportunity to handle and run the ball than the fifteen-a:side ga.me and in each player Sevens gs a noticeable improvement m awareness of the game of rugby . I was d1sappomted th1s year to see only one there wa bo opt fo r this activity because in previous years the sevens game has g1ven me an opportunity to begin Remo~~io/for the next Colts season. Peter Phipson , however, worked very hard, and looks a player of promise for prepf~ure who gained in confidence week by week . theTh re were two invitation competitions for us this year, the Duke of York's, and our own. Our team did not possess e ace and so our success could be gained only by play ing to a set pattern and by using the high level of fitness great! Pped during the term. This side was also one which seemed to rehsh tackling . In fact in all our games I cannot deve alloone m1.ssed tackle. r~ the Duke of York's Invitations Tournament on Sunday , 6th March we were placed in one of two pools of four n The pool winners were to play in the fina l. Against Duke of York's we powered our way to a 20-0 win and t:;am~ys realised that their individual skills were complementary and that our pattern of play worked . Our next ~arne t e inst Gravesend G .S. saw ~utstand!ng performances from Qi~ Wiseman, Adam William~, Ed Radclif~e and S1m~n a15ad and resulted in a 33-5 wm. Agamst Cranbrook I made maJor changes to the team wh1ch unsettled 1t for a wh1le 81 ~ we were behind for most of the first half but Nigel F ield gave a fine display of ball-winning after the tackle and an ie Goodman worked well on the wing. The play took on more structure in the second half and we ran out winners ~~score of 17-5. In the last game in our pool, against Maidstone , Tom Goodman worked tirelessly by unfortunately ctlslocated a fi nger and Lewis Mitchell ran in a fine try and tackled valiantly. We won comfortably 15-0. In the final we faced Eltham College. The pool games had worked out well, I was able to rest players and vary positions so that we reached the final with players who were relatively fresh and fit. We won the game 19-0 after a fi ne all~round performance crowned by an outstanding ind ividual try from Simon Bird . Qin Wiseman was an inspiring captain and he played with admirable composure throughout the afternoon. Jon Murch had an impressive tournament. His reading of the game and his strength in the tackle were important factors in each arne Ed Radcliffe displayed great creativity which was often complemented by the raw power of Adam Williams. ~imo~ Bird and Jamie Goodman worked extremely well together and Lewis Mitchell finished clinically. It was a fine all-round performance and remarkable because it was the first time King's have won that trophy since 1971! The following week there was an air of optimism as we ran out for our first game against St. Augustine's and won 17-0 thanks to three tries scored by Adam Williams. We won our ~arne against Eltham 17-7 after two fine tries were scored by Simon Bird and we beat Chislehurst and Sidcup 17-0 w1th Jon Murch contributing twelve of those points. This week there were fi ve teams in our pool. T he order of play gave little opportunity to rest players and we had to play Colfe's, a team with four of the seven players d i splaym~ outstanding pace. We were compelled to continue with out power play, but this week we could not avoid the physical toll on the individual players and we inveitably ran out of steam. We held on valiantly but after a few injuries and unlucky bounces we were soundly beaten 3 1-5 by Colfe's, our try coming from Luke Tayler. We rallied m the last game in the pool and managed to beat Judd 17-7 after two more tries by Luke and one by Andrew Brice. We had nothing left for Tonbridge in the 3rd and 4th play-off and had to settle for what was on reflection a creditable 4th place. Colfe's were cruelly beaten in extra time in the final through an interception try by St. Olave's. I have enjoyed coaching the sevens team and I congratulate the entire squad for the team's success. I wish the players well in the future. I hope they continue to enj oy their rugby . K.E.J.M .

Squash This was always going to be a transition term for the squash team. Bob Bee had retired after many years enthusiastically running the team and I had taken over with no clear idea of what the system was . We had lost some very good players from tlie previous season and some of the best players in the school were opting to do other sports as their major commitments. At one stage I was unsure if we could field a team of any standard at all . In the end I have been very pleased with the season . We may not have won many of the games that we played, but. much was learnt and next season we will be starting with a team of players who will be taking squash as their mam sport. An excellent coach has been found who has started working with these players. Next term anyone who wants to take squash seriously will have access to high-quality coaching. Lawrence Potter has been a great help in pushing King 's squash forward . He has represented the school on many occasions and this season , after a shaky start, has produced some of the best squash that I have seen him play. In several of our matches he was the only player in the team to win. His range of shots is wide and his mobility about the court is excellent. Given any small opportunity Lawrence would up his game and run through the opponent. He ~as ~en a very co-operative and patient Captain - I am only sorry that the team could not have l>een more successful m h1s last season. 161

Ryan Mannering materialised on the courts this season and immediately became o ur number two player. Ryan combi extreme fitn ess and ferociously powerful shots with an inexhaustible appetite fo r defeating certain members of stit? Only towards the end of the season, when a policy of trying to physically ma im him was adopted, was any son Âˇ balance achieved. Ryan lost far more games than I expected him to . This, I believe, was mostly due to the fact th~: we played away on some very different courts and Ryan did not have the experience to adapt to the different pace. Gordon Yaines suffe red in a similar manner. His record during the season does not ~o justice to his ability either He frequently lost to players who were techmcally less able, but better adapted to the1r own courts. All this will ~ good experience for next season. Next season's team will be built around Gordon and Dylan Wyn-Pug h. Dylan is a mercurial player with some ve good shots. However , he has not yet learnt to think about the game as it develops on court. He has great potentia( but will lose matches until he learns to adapt and alter his game plan. ' Towards the latter half of the season Alex Waldron and Danny Mudzaffar came through from the internal league Both will play regularly for the team next season a nd are already benefiting from the new coaching regime. They liav~ had a taste of first team play already, whic h will be invaluable next season. Providing that we keep up with some hard work over the summer I think that these people can become a good team (squash is a team game, despite appearances!) that will start the development of King 's squash . Our facilities are such that we should be able to take on the best schools in the area. What we need arc people who are will ing to play squash and take advantage of those facilities.

J.A.

Swimming This year the swimm ing shuttle re lays have bee n moved forward to the start o f the Lent term , making a natural prelude for the Swimming Sports. Both events were well supported by spectators as well as sw immers. The winnin& houses were Je rvis for both the girls' relays and sports; M.O . won the boys' relays; and Galpin's retained the boys swimming sports cup. The Captain's Cup fo( the most improved swimmer (in 1993) was presented to Michele Rosato; the Carboni Cup is awarded to the Captain of Swimming, who this year is Terry Loo. The Inter-House Water Polo competition was won by Linacre , who beat Mitc hinson's 2- 1 in the final. The re have been two inte r-school sw immi n~ matches this term, both princ ipally boys' events, but in both the Ul5 and U16 teams were strengthened by the add1tio n o f some girls. The matc h at St. Dunstan 's was a triangular, with Trinity as the third team p roving to be almost perfectly matched against us - King's won by ~Âˇust two points overall. In the match against Duke of York's Ad rian Cheong established a new school record time o 36.56 seconds for the U 15 50m breast stroke. In the East Invicta league this term we were represented by Tom Collins, James McNaught , Sarah C larke a nd Estelle and Zoe Davies. Tom took the bronze medal in the me n's and boys' lOOm freestyle event and a lso won the silver medal in the Kent County U 19 lOOm freesty le championship, missing the gold by 0 . 1 seconds. He had an even closer miss at the Kent Schools Swimming Championships: in this case the official times for gold and silver were equal. We had a notably large entry for the relay events in th is Kent Schools gala with senior and intermediate boys' and girls' teams in both medley and freestyle races. In six out o f the eight events, King 's were placed in the first six. Tom Collins, Elliot Ashurst, Dan D rury and Terry Loo won the bronze medal fo r the senior boys' 4x66.7mmedley race and Terry Loo, James McNaught, Alastair McGregor and Tom Collins took the bronze in the senior freestyle relay. The intermediate boys' freestyle team also did well, narrowly missing another bronze medal (Tim Mitchell, Alex Coutts , Matthew Wall and Adrian Cheong). We thank Mr. Barham, Mr. Davies, Mr. McFall and M iss Price for the ir help . During the fi rst month of this term Mrs. O ldfield of Thanet Viking club very kindly deputised during the temporary absence of our coach, Mrs. Murray; our sincere thanks must go to both of them for the high standards they imposed on us! N.J.B. Seniors: T erry Loo (Capt.) , Elliot Ashurst, Ba rry Cameron, Da n Drury , Darre n Kingston, Alex Macdonald-Bell, Alasta ir McGregor , Paul Perrin, Ben Rolfe. UJ6: Nic Bates, Tom Collins*, Nigel Field, Jane Gann, James McNaught* , M ike Rosato. (*Also swam with the seniors.) UJ5: James Caney, Adrian Cheong, Sarah Clarke, Estelle Davies, Conrad Krawczyk , Tim Mitchell, Tim Strange, Matthew Wall . RESULTS

K.S .C. v St. Dunstan 's v Trinity S: 54:35:55 UI6: 62:30 :52 K .S.C. v Duke of York 's UI6: 90:56 S: 90:56

UJ5: 51:35:58

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(Mark Sweny [Sh b))

ACTIVITIES C.C.F. NOTES ARMY SECTION As always in the Lent term the weather sets a limit to what we can do, and inevitably there are more classroo sessions than we would wish . Nevertheless the recruits - forty of them after the introduction of the new Activitilll programme for Shells - have been up to Scotland Hills to practise mapreading, a nd to learn the basics of orienteerin~ They have also had their first shoot, some on our newly refurbished 22 range, and the othe rs with Cadet Weapon. on the Howe Barracks 30 metre range. It was possible again this year to form an Advanced Military Skills cadres from junior N.C.O.s and the year below them . With a larger recruit intake we need many well-qualified instructors' ' and in the past the A.M.S. cadre has proved a very good way of preparing them. The weekend exercise in Janua ry gave the senior management, in the form of CSM Kenney, and Col. Sgts. Crowe F irth , Kenwright, and Murch , a chance to show their planning skills. Around fifty cadets spent Friday and Saturda' nights out in the field, patrolling tactically against the Canterbury A.C.F. During Saturday their role was to help trai~ the recruits who spent twelve hours out with us, going through a varied programme of training. This culminated in all seventy of them gaining their first experience of a night patrol. T he second night was stormy, with winds roaring like express trains through the trees, but the cadets sleeping out had constructed their bashas well , and were in gOOd shape at first light to fend off the final attack by the A. C. F. At Easter ei&hteen cadets are coming with us to the Lake District, and then Cpls. Haswell and Parking are going on the demandmg U.K.L.F. Leadershâ&#x20AC;˘p Course. We congratulate Mr. Franks and Mrs. Saunders on promotion to full lieutenant after completing their qualifying courses. Finally I want to thank Mr. Booth for his first ten years of service to The King's School C. C. F. At a Mess Dinner in January I presented him with an engraving of Napoleon, on whom he is an expert, in appreciation of the invaluable work he has done over this time. Mr. Boofh is the true professional, without whom the C.C.F. could not function properly, and I know there is many a serving officer who was inspired to take up a career in the a rmed forces by his adv1ce and example. M.J.V.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION As a result of an increase in numbers in the section, we now have forty-eight members and two promotions were made. Lucy Heise and Bruce Curzon who have both returned to the section after short absences were promoted to Cpl. and Sgt. respectively. The term started with specific training fo r a weekend exercise which was also to be our Field Day for the term. The exercise took P.lace in a training area north of Dover. The senior cadets were out in the woods and fields from Friday evening until Sunday morning, taking part in N i ~ht Exercises on Friday and Saturday and training the recruits in fieldcraft on Saturday. T he recrUitS joined the exercise early Saturday morning and ended with a N1ght Exercise on Saturday evening . Six cadets were successful with their Advanced Examination. Sgt. Charles Foinette, Cpls. Alexander Perkins, Daniel Pullen, Lucy Heise a nd J/Cpl. Jan Sundt in Principles of Flight and J/Cpl. Mark Belsey in Navigation. Jan Sundt achieved a maximum score of25/25. Cadets Jessica C rouch, Jenna Crouch , Gordon Vaines, James Day, Alastair Irvine, Edward Sterck and Melissa Dawson-Bowl ing were prepared for a nd sat the Part 2 examination. Results will be ava ilable early next te rm. Four afternoons were planned for Chipmunk flyin g but only two took place owing to poor weather conditions. Twentytwo cadets had flights. Sgt. William Welbourn must be congratulated on being awarded a Flying Scholarshif and he will be at R.A.F. Hullavington this Easter for a Basic Gliding Course. J/Cpl. Mark Belsey completed his Initia Gliding Course th is term. We hope to have two more B.G.T. courses during the summer holiday. Sgt. Charles Foinette and Cpl. Daniel Pullen will be flyin g off to Cyprus for a two-week Easter Camp and Cpl. Alexander Perkins and J/Cpl. Mark Belsey are off to R.A.F. Rheindahlen in Germany for a week's Easter Camp. The Summer Camp is to be held at R.A.F. Swanton Morley in Norfolk from 9th July to 16th July. Other activities this term beside the usual quota of drill have been some instruction on aircraft flying with the R.A.F., some instructions on Principles of Flight, a Map Reading Competition on Scotland Hills which was won by 'B' Flight a nd some .22 shooting on the range at St. Edmund's. Cadets T imothy Rainbird, Jonathan Warren, Thomas Davidson, C hristopher Elworthy, Olivia Arthur and Robert Van Allan proved they had a good eye for shooting and could achieve shooting badges next term if they can repeat their performances. Mr. McFall has been awarded his commission and will be joining us as Ph. Off. A. McFall next term. Wg.Cdr. Paul Wenley has repaired the hovercraft and it is ready to resume fl ights next term. Our thanks to him for h1s help on a T hursday afternoon without which we would be rather limited m what we could do with the cadets. D.J.B. 164

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O.K.S. PRESIDENT'S NOTES This year there will be no cha nges to the pattern of O.K.S. events and a fu ll programme is pla nned with add it' Regional meetings in Bristol (17th June) and the Exeter area (date to be announced). O.K.S. are remi~ded that K!on~) Week this year starts on 30th June. mg s I hope you ~njoyed the new sty le ~nnual Revi~w and Report. It was conceived and produced to a tight deadli However our a 1m was to produce a bas1c format wh1c h could be refined and extended . The drawings by Hubert Pra ne. O.K.S., who teache~ art at the School, ~ere a w~lcom.e addition and he has very kindly agreed' to do some fu~h~l sketches for the next 1ssue. If you have an 1tem for mclus1on or a suggestion or a photograph, please do contact Araben r St.John Parker at the address at the front of the Report. a A. further request - if you have n~t yet fille~ in one of our database forms please do so, as we are keen to our mfo rmat1on as up to date as poss1ble. (Cop1es of the form available via 25 The Precincts.) get During the course of the year, probably at the end of the summer, I shall be handing over the O.K.S. Presidenc to P~ter Venn (W 1954-60) and ~e would •. I know, be pleased to hear from a ny O.K.S. prior to that. He is currently commg to the e!!d of the.Ma~tersh1p ~f h1s livery co.mpa.ny, th<? Turners. I have enjoyed my time as President immensely a nd I Shall retam an act1ve mterest m O.K.S. affa1rs, mcludmg from time to time organising social gatherings in thy West Country! e

ANNUAL DINNER . For.the third year running this w.as held in .the sple ndid ~ iddl~ Temple Hall on 18th March. 200 people attended, mcludmg 50 young <?·K:S. respondmg to our 23 and under spe_c1al offer. The fare was excellent and the wines clearly found favour, contnbutmg no doubt to a rousmg and very enJoyable evening. Guests included Anthony and Vicky PhilliJ?S. The toast to the Sch~l was proposed by the President and the Headmaster gav~ the reply. Warm thanks are due to Alison Hunter for orgamsmg the Dmner, assisted by Arabella St.J.P. in the closmg stages. MIKE BROWN.

O.K.S. LONDON SUPPERS We had an excellent turnout o f nearly 40 on 2nd December, when for the fi rst time we had a Guest of Honour - Bob Bee (Staff 1960-93); also attendi ng was Peter Boorman (Staff 1959-74) so we had a most ente rtaining evening particularly as these two O.K.S. have four O.K.S. offspring between them. ' There was another excellent Supper on 24th February. This may have been due to the fact that the hot buffet meal has now been reduced to £5 a head! Thanks to the O.K.S. Association for subsidising some of the administration costs. We always have a good cross-secti?n of ages. Recent O.K .S. gentlemen and O .K.S. ladies are partic ularly welcome. If any O .K.S . cannot spare a n evenmg why not d rop in for a couple of drinks on your way home? The next Supper is o n the Thursday 29th September in the private bar at The Orange Brewery, 37-39 Pimlico Road London, S. W . I. from 7.00 p.m. onwards. Please call Richard Wilson on 08 1-446-66 11 or by fax on 08 1-446-3534: RJCHARD WILSON.

THE SCHOOL CAREERS DAY On Monday ~4th March, I brought my tea~ of O .K.S. to take part in the a nnual Careers Day which is attended by the 6bs. As IS the custom, we were entertamed by John Parker and his careers team to an excellent dinner in St. Augustine's on the Sunday night. At this dinner and afterwards back at the hotel there was much conversation as to how the 9.K.S. c~ uld extend their ~ upport and ~ss i stance to the Careers Department at the School. The conversation went on mto the mght. It was certamly most e nJoyable a nd we hope that some of the ideas discussed will bear fruil. T~e Careers Day, which i~ in fact~ full morning, was its usual frenetic self. Each pupil attended one of the four sess1ons run by John Parker m the Sh1rley Hall. They also attended three other sessions with any of the O.K.S. who ~ere dotted around .the Precincts. T he re_suh is t.hat . the period break times see 6b pupils dashing all over the place m an attempt to arnve at the1r next destmat10n m tune fo r the O.K.S. to give a fu ll-value fifty minutes. First reports seem to suggest that the day was successful. Certainly if the pupils found it as rewarding as the O.K.S. fou nd it enjoyable, then a good day was had by all. I ~ i ~h to. pass on my th a~ks agai~ to John Parker a nd his team at the School for their warmth and hospitality. I also JOtn w1th John Parker tn thankmg the followmg O.K.S. team who took part in ths a nnual event: Helen Aston Charles Clouston David Entwistle Darre n Evans Sarah Lonsdale Dr. Denyer Kittle Michael Roberts John Shepherd Nigel Wright Craig Feria Steve Crossley If any O.K.S. would l ik~ to ~ake p~rt in the careers s~pport service which the O.K.S. provides to the School, they should contact me on 081 695 9355, or by fax on 081 695-9220. MICHAEL BAILEY. 166

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fe (194 1) was awarded an M.B.E. in the New Year Honours List for services to the history and culture of Suffolk. (1953) when widowed married Margaret Jacob, widow of composer Gordon Jacob, whose son , David was in 'walpole (1978). . D Woodrow ( 1956) after graduating in 1959 spent thirteen years in civ il engineering, th~ final five years beu~g spent f. . 路 lannin Livingston New Town, Scotland. He then switched to town and country pl.annmg and took ~ar.ly re_h.re~ent !n ~ . ~e recently joined the Lord Chancellor's ~~nel ofl~~epen.dent Inspectors wh1c~ co.nducts public mqumes mto ernment projects. H1s brother, Peter (1963} JOmed Bnhsh A1rways after graduating m Law from St. Andrews; h:rs presently in the process of transferring from Nairobi to Hong Kong. . . McDonald ( 1957) has been living in Washington D.C. for over twenty-five years and is currently Ch1ef Ed!tor at the I. f~temational Monetary Fund, being responsible fo r a wide range of publications in the monetary and financ1al fields. p Chaffin (1958) is at present Chief Executive of Wellington Holdings Ltd, and also Chairman of the Gov~rnors 路 f Haysbrook School. As a member of Tonbridge Parish Council he is a licensed Reader. He much enjoyed the Lmacre ~eumon in November. M A. Sharwood-Smith ( 1960) is founding editor Second Language Research and former founding Vice-President 0 r. fth.e European Second Language Association. He is the author of a book Second Language Learning, and of ov~r one ~undred publications. He has lectured in the U.S.A., Australia, Japan, Singapore, France, Germany, Sweden, Fmland and Poland. He plays the trumpet in a Utrecht Group 'Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear' . Canon J. Offer (1962} has been appointed Archdeacon of Norwich a nd Canon Residentiary. He has joined the Cathedral where Paul Burbridge (1950) is the Dean . p F w. Reynolds (1964} with his wife, Rachel and two sons, Tobias (16) and Marcus (14) has emigrated to New Zealand. 路 F~r the past twenty years he has worked in a mixture of private practice and financial institutions as a chartered surveyor. Recent developments have resulted in his family and himself reviewing their futures, which has culminated in their decision to start a new life in New Zealand. They have literally taken to heart the saying 'Life is not a dress-rehearsal .' He would be glad to have contact with O.K.S. now living in New Zealand- P .O. Box 95, Cambridge, New Zealand. A R Gillott ( 1968) has recently returned from the U.S.A. after a period as d irector of marketing and latterly director ' 0 r iechnology fo r a large muhinational software company . He and his colleagues now provide consuhancy services to companies wanting ~o bring software to an internati.onal market. He is also enjoymg t.he more. active role the government is encouragmg school governors to play and 1t would be useful to exchange expenences w1th other O.K.S. (3, Burcott Road, Purley, CR8 4AD). N.D. King (1968) was rec~~tly awarded a Fellowship ?f the Royal College of.M.usic: This is ~n honora~y award to a limited number of rec1p1ents, conferred by the Pres1dent of the College for d1stmgU1shed serv1ce to mus1c and/or the College; he was honoured to be invested by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. At the College visits from musical Q.K.S. are welcomed. Stephen Varcoe (1967) and Harry Christophers (1972) have adjudicated prize competitions recently and close links a re maintained with Kenneth V. Jones (194 1). Nicholas continues to work as an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music and has travelled extensively in this capacity. A. W. Dawson (1970) is still much occupied with music and now conducts three local choirs. With his children's choir he is producing a musical at the Stag T heatre in Sevenoaks in the Easter holidays, The Adventures of Mr. Toad. Last year he produced Noye's Fludde. He teaches voice at Sevenoaks School where his wife, Hannah, teaches violin; his son and daughter are pupils at the school. A. D. A. Shaw (1970) is now working as a freelance teacher of E nglish in Helsinki and environs having settled in Finland in 1984. His wife, Kristina, is Finnish, a nd they have two c hildren. Lt. Cmdr. J, P. Franks (1971) is currently at the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment working as the Radar Trials Officer for the Navy's new Merlin Helicopter. His wife, Lisa, is heavily into one-day eventing and as a result he has become the unpaid groom/driver/ stable mucker-outer! G. S. Busbridge (1972} has been appointed Director of Music at Cheltenham College. Dr. P. J. Irwin ( 1976) writes: 'I left King's in 1976 and went to the Royal Veterinary College in 1977, from where I qualified with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1982. I worked in general practice in Bideford for two years, before being awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study overseas. Between 1985 and 1989 I studied at the Graduate School of Tropical Veterinary Science, James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for studies into babesiosis, a tick-transmitted parasitic disease of dogs. In 1990 I joined the staff of the Melbourne University Veterinary School where I am currently teaching Small Animal Medicine and act as Superintendent of the Vetennary Teaching Hospital. I married Annette Harress in 1987 .' M. E. C. Law (1978) was brought up in East Africa where his father was a judge. Donated a wind-up gramophone and stacks of unwanted 78 r.p .m. records, he spent his childhood wallowing in the glories of Ambrose, Hutch and Artie Shaw , while the rest of the world twisted and shouted to the Beatles. Later, Michael knuckled down to the study of 'serious' music at Cambridge then studied singing at the Royal College of Music. However, he secretly harboured a wish to spend all his time on the 1920s and 30s music he loved and in 1988 founded the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra and began his cabaret career. He has appeared with the Orchestra on television and radio and they have recorded two albums. Michael and/or the Orchestra play at London's top venues, including concerts and dances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and dinner dances at the Ritz.

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G. R. Hill ( 1980) was recently made Head of Geography at Rossall School. S. H. Lewis ( 1981) graduated from Cardiff University in Exploration and Mining Geology and spent the followÂˇ five years with the North Sea division of Schlumberger (oilfield services). He IS currently assigned to Venezu11g by a Paris-based firm call Geoservices but intends to spend next year (94/95) taking an M. Sc. in Business Syste~a Management at Warwick. I P. B. MacDonald (1981) is now working as a convertible bond specialist at Goldman Sachs International in London He served eleven tears in the Royal Mannes after leaving King's where he came into regular contact with his study- Âˇ Jeremy Hudson (1982) who is still a serving R.M. Officer. Jeremy is married to Michaela and lives in Taun~ R. C. (Bob) MacDonald (1981) has been working at Solomon Brothers since graduating from Oxford with a degree in Japanese. He spent some time in Tokyo with Solomon Brothers but has now moved to Hong Kong and works in the equity division. Lucy ~oare (1986) writes: 'Si.nce graduating i~ 1991 I went to the National Fi~m and Tel ~v ision School for ~ ix months ra1smg money for and workmg on a graduatiOn film . I then became Production Co-ordmator at The Com1c Strip and made two series for B.B.C.2, the latter of which will be screened in the spring entitled Glam M etal Detectives. I have just returned from Spain where I worked on An Evening with Gary Lineker, an award-winning stage play made for television and film release. I am currently writing and illustrating a book on London's Forgotten Shops and am also working as a scenic artist. ' Lieutenant Fiona j. Chaffin (1988) gained a 2: I Politics degree and is now a Lieutenant in the Army. Having completed a six-month tour in Northern Ireland as Intelligence Officer she is at present in 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery based in Yorkshire. She will soon be moving to London to join the Irish Guards. Rebecca Vye (1988) has been appointed Personal Assistant to Paddy Ashdown, M.P. in the House of Commons. G . A. Bones ( 1989) after obtaining a 2: I degree in Business and Managment, specialising in marketing and Spanish at Sheffield University , worked as the sales and marketing manager of a firm in Kent. He now works in Spam where he intends to develop his career in marketing or advertising. S. Williams (1989) has gained his private pilot 's licence and hopes to pursue a career in civil aviation. R. I. W. Wilson (1989) writes: 'On leaving King's I read law at the University of Birmingham and attained a 2:2. I then went to the College of Law in Guildford and took my Solicitors Finals Exams and am currently working as a trainee solicitor at Furley, Page, Fielding and Barton, in Canterbury.'

ENGAGEMENTS Pardoe-Jeremy David D. Pardoe (1983) to Elizabeth Lewis. Oliver-Elaine Oliver (1986) to C. R. Soames. Chaffin-Lieutenant Fiona J. Chaffin (1988) to Captain W. G. Holford.

MARRIAGES Barnes-Stephen D. Barnes (1973) to Florence Solange Andr~e Bernard on II th December 1993 at Mainey. Battersby- Rober! D. Battersby (1974) to Susan E. Roderic-Evans on 23rd October 1993. Poole-Colin P. Poole (1981) to Caro l A. Avern on 30th May 1992. Wood-Catherine A. Wood (1984) to Richard Mash on 29th May 1993 . (She retains her maiden name). Wright-Vanessa Wright ( 1985) to Matthew Roberts on 19th June 1993. Bones-Melanie J. Bones (1987) to Lance Scott Russell on 3rd July 1993. C larke-Nicola L. Clarke (1988) to Paul Brightl ing on l ith September 1993.

BIRTHS Hall-to Peter Hall (1969) and Kim, a son, Christopher Peter, on 14th September 1993. A brother for Clare born in 1988. Strutt- to Michael J. Strutt ( 1976) and Kristina (Tina) a daughter, Eleanor Clai re, on 6th December 1993.

DEATHS Maxted-Cedric Maxted (1930) on 21st January 1994. Lomas-Gerald Alexander Lomas (1939) on 31st December 1993. Swinhoe-Phelan-Eric Wilfred Swinhoe-Phelan ( 1941 ) on 13th January 1994 in Thailand. Double-Or. David Dale Double (1963) on 3 1st December 1993 as the result of a brain tumour. Lynch-Matthew Alexander Lynch ( 1981) on 17th December 1993 in a tragic accident in London. 168 MARTELL PRESS LTD., Romsgate, Kent 108431 582567

THE CANTUARIAN

SUMMER TERM 1994

THE CANTUARIAN SUMMER T ERM ,

VOL. LVIII No. 3

CONTENTS PAGE

THIS AND THAT

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VALETE

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OBITUARY

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SERMON

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FOCUS

185

MUSIC AND DRAMA

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THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

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CHAPLAIN'S NOTES

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HOUSE NOTES

200

SPORT

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CREATIVE WRITING

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SPEECH DAY 1994

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KING'S WEEK 1994

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ACTIVITIES

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O.K.S.

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Editors: Francesca K. Beauman, K.S.; Benedict D. T . Shankland, K.S .; Luke T. Singer, K.S.; Michelle L . Traylor. Photographic Editor: Terence T.-L. Loo. Senior Editor: T. Thomson, M.A., D.Phil. 169

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"The best GAP year of all my contemporaries" 'It was very rewarding for me to be able to lead my own troop. I feel now that I am ready to go to University as a much more mature, experienced and capable young ,,.llll!!lfi!'Y...~I woman'.

'Apart from the actual exercises in the Yakima Desert there was the opportunity for visits to Seattle and more skiing in the Cascade Mountains, .

' I wanted adventure and travel, an opportunity to practise my organisational and management skills, and to be given responsibility... I honestly don't see how I could have used my year off in a more complete and worthwhile way'.

'I have done things most people will never do - parachuting, abseiling from helicopters, sailing, living in snow holes. I have been to a wide range of countries, seen fantastic Norwegian valleys and bleak Falkland Island hills - and best of all I have been paid for it!, .

The above quotes are from some who gained a SHORT SERVICE LIMITED COMMISSION in the Army be tween school and University. This can last be tween 4 and 12 months and there is NO FURTHER COMMITMENT to the Army afterwards. It provides TRAVEL, VARIETY and RESPONSIBILITY - and pay at over ÂŁ9,000 pa. The training time at Sandhurst is short and consequently the standard set at the selection board is high. Successful candidates usually have high academic ability, they have frequently been prefects or leading me mbers of school societies or sports teams and had wide interests and a sense of adventure. If you think you could accept the CHALLENGE involved please contact:

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~his & ~hat of the untimely death, in when May' ~e of We were shocked and saddened Ito 1ear~ on a course in Thailand Requiescant Ian Monkhouse (L~ l ?84-~) . a~ w~ere buried on one of his favounte died from ~ood po1SOf1:tn~. IS as e~ hundred eople, including six o.. K.S. mountain tops in Kenya, where hiS parents stlllltve. Abod~ Jar e fir/to share their memones of who flew out to Kenya for the funera~, gathered .rour. him~n the wide open spaces of Kenya. him . Those who knew him at school wtl~ al;'a~f Vl~a IS~ituary by James Woods (LX 1984-89) We express our deepest sympathy to hiS ami y. n o appears elsewhere in this issue. ard Memorial Scholarship for a chorister, The Honourable Emma Gordon, who found~ the J:Io:ith Dean and Mrs. White-Thoms~m and died on 12th June at a great age. ~er lo(a~fr;9~~~~~p and more recently Senior Chaplam an~ also with the Reverend Peter A en . . ak a be uest to the Dean and Chapter to fout: Housemaster of Linac re) led to ~er deciSIOn tom e aq assionate supporter of King's and tn a Music Scholarship for .a chonst~~· Lady Gordon wa~le pin su ort of the lst VIII. A gran~e particular of King's rowmg, un~a.lhngly pres~nt at HeulaiJy for ~~any years, but her essent.lal dame of the old school, she VISited Canter ury re~ f the Howard Memorial Scholarship. commitment was to the establishment and p~rp(t~tl~s f-86) who was followed by Ewan Kerr The first of these was awarde? to Je(~:f~ 919~9 ) She loved to hold court in the County Hote} (LN on 1987-92) andtoEdward . her ·enter p r ise . He sharp mind and keen sense o and each visit see all Millar? those mvolved tn

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humour were belied by her extraordinarily anachronistic appearance. Hotel staff at the Cou Hotel, the Carlyon Bay Hotel in Cornwall to which King's was evacuated in the war and nty University Arms in Cambridge, where she had a particular relationship with Jesus Colleg~ ru~ around to accommodate her every wish, so unfailingly courteous and appreciative wa~ she th~ir service. ~h~ took her o:--vn champ~gne .wherever she went, and no~ody ever questioned ~f umque eccentnc1ty. Many Lmacre pupils will remember her ensconced man armchair deligh~IS 1"& in her contact with the school. Her death came as a shock because she seemed to be so resilient and ageless. Her fune at East Preston in Sussex, near Kingston Manor where she had lived since her marriage befo~ the war, was attended by Dr. Mallion, representing the school, and Mrs. White-Thomson 1 was particularly appropriate that Jeremy Avis was also present, and that the service was conduct~ by the Reverend Peter Allen. Future generations will appreciate her generosity with the provision of a scholarship at King's for an outstanding singer. She will be listening. On 9th May there was a service in the two St. Augustine's Chapels to mark the purchase by the School of the site from the St. Augustine's Trustees The address was given by the Bishop of Portsmouth, Chairman of th~ Trustees, who spoke of the missionary work carried out by members of St. Augustine's College since the middle of the nineteenth century. All the trustees were present.

St. Augustine's

A transcript of Canterbury diocesan licences to teach, for the years 15681646, has been acquired by the school archives. On 2nd January 1584/5 Anthony Shorte, the new Headmaster, and the new Lower Master Augustine Lakes, rathe~ intriguingly styled ' hip~idascalus', each paid two shillin~s for their licence, perhaps £ 100 or so m present-day terms. This was less than the cost of a licence to most applicants possibly because Shorte was a fello'!V of All Souls and Lakes a graduate of Christ Church. Lake~ was licensed to teach not only 'pueros' but also 'tyrones', 'tiros', probably boys who were working up to the standard required of candidates for King's Scholarships. Archives

The M itchinson's annual house charities day, 1st May , was dedicated this year to the Cancer Day Centre Appeal, William Harvey Hospital , Ashford. Three consultants at the hospital concerned with the Appeal happen to be King's parents: Dr. Coltart, Dr. Kenwright and Dr. Wheeler. Altogether the events, which included a sponsored walk and barbecue, raised £ 1,369.93. On Sunday 8th May 135 members of the school walked a 15-mile route in aid of Britaid. The sum of £4,200 was raised. The charity is seeking funds to run a children's hospital and rehabilitation centre on the Dalmatian coast for victims of the Yugoslavian conflict.

Outreach

Miranda Scott-Barrett (JR) has been given a place in the National Youth Theatre, and Joshua Cole (T) has had a role in their American touring production. Members of the school have again achieved considerable success in the Holmwoods/ISIS Creative Writing Competition. In addition to the personal awards to these pupils, Holmwoods make a presentation to the school which is to the benefit of the school library. Second equal prizes in their various age groups were awarded to Natasha Reilly (JR), Charlotte Hunt (WL) and Mwaka Kamana, K.S . (BR), and fourth prizes were won by Christopher Pickering, K.S. (MT) and Will Tallon, K.S. (SH). This is becoming a tradition of the best kind.

Optime Fecerunt

Frazer Hughes (SH) fenced for England in April in the Junior Quadrangular Match against Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales. On the final day, England narrowly beat Scotland 5-4. Three of the matches were won by five fights to four. In the 11 -18 Foil competition they came back from 4-1 down to win 5-4. Frazer won three of these fights . Not Foiled Again

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l Toby Brown (MR 1986-9 1) , who was Head Scholar in 1990-9 1, has come first in the Part I examinations in Chemistry at Oxford , repeating his result O. two years before in the prelims, and has won the Gibbs Prize for the best ~ rmance of all the candidates ta king Chemistry. We offer him our warmest congratulations perh~ embarks on a Y.ear of res~arc.h ~o C?mplete his degree. We suspect that this may not be 3~. last mention of h1s academic d1stmct1ons. tht: a·or Hugh Robertson (BR 1976-8 1) wrote in April , with a touch of British understatement, h ~h~s new post was 'something of a challenge'. The post in question carried the job description ~ afficer Commanding the Sarajevo Military Observer Mission', which involves commanding ~ mission of seven captains and a staff of warrant officers, drivers and signallers whilst supervising he aid effort in concert with the U.N. a id agencies and advising the Force Commander on his 1 ort to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees. This strikes one as a rather elaborate way ~0f~cusing oneself from playing for the Harvesters on their tour this summer! Lieutenant Hugh ~ndree (MO 1982-87) has also been serving in Bosnia as a liaison officer in Zenica near the British base .at Vitez. His responsibilities include negotiating the passage of aid convoys and arranging pnsoner exchanges. Peter Elam, K.S. (SH 1982-86), our man in Budapest for two years after getting his first at Magdalen College, Oxford, is now at St. Anthony's College doing a further degree on Eastern Europe and was interviewed in Hungarian on the B.B. C. Hungarian service commenting on the coming to power of the Hungarian Socialists. With a new opera house comes a novice chorus and who better to add discipline to it than a former Head of House? Richard Strivens (GL 1980-85) spent a much publicised and televised season at Glyndebourne this summer. Though the Leavers' Ball was instituted after Richard's departure from King's, few who saw his performance in the Polonaise in Eugene Onegin would have credited the fact. Paul Edmund Davies (GL 1969-73), principal flute with the London Symphony Orchestra, had a disc of works for flute and piano released in May: an article in Gramophone magazine discussed how much he owed to his musical education in Canterbury. Galpin's has also produced two members of the Philharmonia Orchestra: princ ipal horn Nigel Black (GL 1972-76) and violinist Andrew Wickens (GL 1957-6 1). The latter very kindly spoke to a group of sixth-formers when they visited a Royal Festival Hall concert as part of the After Hours programme of activities. Now what the House needs to do is to nurture a composer capable of producing something performable for baritone, flute, horn and second violin. f{.S.

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The summer holidays will see much reorganisation in the Library. As the stock is reclassified , so the books will be moved to their new order. Books from departmental libraries will enhance the Physics, Chemistry and Geography sections. With a new carpet and upholstered window-seats, Butterfield's building will become more ' user-friendly ' . A Pupil Librarians' Committee has also been established ; views and suggestions will be welcomed. The Librarian would like to thank Sir Jonathan Mance and Dame Mary Arden for a most generous donation; Dr. T. Thomson , who continues to be a substantial benefactor; Lyndall Gordon for ~copy of Charlotte Bronte, A Passionate Life, which refers to the Ellen Nussey Reminiscences m the Walpole Collection; the Aalborghus Gymnasium, Denmark, for a gift to mark their attendance at European Conferences here in 1993 and 1994; and J .K.S. for further gifts of books.

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Walter Pater (1853-58) was one of the most distinguished of literary O.K.S., even if he is less well-known today than perhaps he ought to be. He is still held in high regard around the world, as Professor Stephen Bann, of the University . of Kent at Canterbury, explained in the King's Week lecture on Walter Pater's mternational reputation, delivered to mark the centenary of Pater's death. It is hoped that the lecture will be published soon - perhaps as a King's School monograph .

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. c hn Sherbok•have s Glimpses of God may been if theologians Angela Tilby's revit?w of~abbi Dan be less than rhapsodic, but It doe~ evoke .wh~t .could b h criticall and with Matters ·cal were. to take ~he religious e;pen~h~~.0 ~ (diVI~u:~~k~! the poet~ of faith, 'fheo)og• religious s.eriOusness. Andt honyl I the~~-~~~ people around ( ...... ) who . destroyed by a entical, reasone t eo og~. ' and it IS not.t ·s to blend intellect with passionate feelmg · hat I 1. know W f · K' ' ·b · 0 tted at a local book a1r a mg s The vigilance of the Walpole LITranaf8 It is now in the School archives. School boy 's bill for Chnstmas erm · C £3 26) but this 2 f{elative Values Albert Edward Clay's father had~ pay.£;.;.~~ f~~ ~fe£2 w~s c;edited to ' blow was less heavy than normal because t e regis ra •, fees for a day boy ' would tirst 1-f~ ~oy was also a King's Scholard Hat he ~~~~e;~~~~~~:~e:ide this, but a few moment~ htfO· e to a neat round £20. Present-. ay ees . . leads to equivalence. Teachers hav; ~od!lculato~ show th~t son;ething hkhe a f"~:~~nr~:~~o~t ~~~y about half this rate: the puzzle ~11 h mam expenditure 10r any sc oo • . 1 · t about halved Houses ..alari~~~~dewhen it is recalled. th.at the putl:tea~h~r ;:~~~s~~~ ~!~d~~i~k, but seven l~tters can ~s r~ow about half as dear ag3:m If jees-m T~tiOnr~~e aof beer has remained gloriously steady: ~esent, first-class, for the pnce o o~e.' e p . chool was ordained priest in Ontano, Albert Edward studie~ at St. Augus8ti8nOehs after lea~~~~f St M~ry's-by-the-Sea, Pacific Grove, and fifty .years after Chnstmas Term 1 e was rec o . Californta, U.S.A. . .

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You will teach y our first lesson to a sixth-form set of very bright scholars who will ask many netrating questions. After several furth er lessons, each with their different challenges, you ~/1 entertain your tutor set by explaining to them an erudite and improving book. A fter lunch 1 ~01 available in school) you will referee a house league rugby game; be warned- these matches (re ferociously partisan. After two more lessons you will spend three and a half hours on evening duty in the House which will include taking House Prayers. That will do for your first day. Such could have been Mike's brief for his initial day at King's which he remembers as a daunting experience stretching him to the limits of his abilities. However, rising to the challenge is Mike' s forteÂˇ r have no doubt that he acquitted himself admirably on his firs t day and he was then on cour~e to tackle the ensuing multitude of challenges which twenty-nine years at King ' s were to set him. Like a young man in Evelyn Waugh 's Decline and Fall who applied to a scholastic agency in the hope of giving private coaching in mus ic, but who was appointed Senior Science Master tn one of our leading public schools, one has to be prepared for anything. Mike would certainly have been surprised to know that apart from teaching Biology he was destined to be in charge of such varied pursuits as sailing, chess , bell-ringing and opera-management, in addition to stmting two new boarding-houses . Unlike Evelyn Waugh ' s character, however , Mike's ar rival at King's was no accident. It was while teaching at Dover College that he came to see a King's production of Gilbert and Sullivan' s Yeomen of the Guard in the Shirley Hall . Captivated by the professional standard of the performance and the distinguished atmosphere of the school, he determined there and then that this was where he wanted to be. A letter to the then headmaster , Canon Newell , was rewarded shortly afterwards by the news that there was indeed a Biology post in the offi ng, a post which Mike secured after half a day' s intensive interviewing by F rank Stanger and Ivor Wilkinson , both highly perceptive men who recognised his great potential. Talking with Mike about his career as a schoolmaster, one is struck by his frequent references to his own education at Bryanston . No doubt we are all more or less influenced by our own schooldays, especially those of us who go on to teach , but the Bryanston philosophy of the 50s was unusual in its strong emphasis on the individual. Individual freedom was highly pr ized and pupils were given every encouragement to use their own initiative in developing their interests and academic skills, all within the framework of a strong tutorial system and high academic standards. In bringing these principles to his teaching of Biology at King's, Mike found a kindred spirit in his new head of department, Ivor W ilkinson, known to all and sundry as W ilkie . Between them they built up a highly successful department in which the interest-factor was never stifled by the demands of the syllabus. Rigorous teaching in the laboratory was the basis, but pupils were strongly encouraged to think for themselves, to write their own notes and to follow up topics which interested them by reading widely. The number of sixth-form biologists increased dramatically. Many were highly gifted pupils with Oxbridge in their sights and Mike rose splendidly to ~he challenge. He has always found teaching at th is level compellingly interesting, thoroughly enJoying the give-and-take of an intelligent, well-motivated class, and he has always taken pleasure and pride in maintaining high standards . Many have good reason to be grateful for his professional expertise. That this in no way diminished over the years was amply apparent after one of this year's A-level Biology papers. As I sat with Mike at school supper, two members of his set came up to let him know how they had fared and I was struck by his kindly concern and his good rapport with his pupils . 177 (Francis Summers)

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on~ last but not least, the kindness and companio nship of his colleagues, encapsulated in the ~ mmon Room's leav ing present to Mike: a fine painting by Hubert Pragnell of the Cathedral, i~wed precisely from the new Common Room window. \ Another picture o n display in the Wetherilt's lovely house at Marshside is a superb sailing hotograph showing Mike and Prue winning the Markham Goblet at Whitstable some twenty Pears ago. They are both leaning back precariously into the spray as the boat hurtles towards }he next unseen obstacle, no doubt successfully negotiated. I cannot think of a better symbol ~f their partnership over the years, a partnership which has been of such benefit to the school. They are much looking forward to the next phase of their life which will indeed include plenty of sailing, together with what..sounds like an .exhaust~ng schedule. of fell-walkin~, gardening, bell-ringing and off-season skung, not forgettmg lookmg after the1r new grandchild. We offer them our affectionate wishes for a long and happy retirement.

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TIMOTHY HANDS (K.S.C. 1986-1994) Not so long ago T im and Jane and Nicholas Hands took a holiday near Nerja in Andalucia. we had met up some months before in Grenada, and at my suggestion Tim and Jane had finished that particular half term staying in Ne1ja at the Hotel Balcon de Europa. Twenty years ago in the same town I made the acquai ntance of Mr. H. E. Parr, a retired schoolmaster who happened to have been Second Master at Whitgift School, the post which Tim now leaves us to occupy. It is a distinguished school, and my sadness at seeing Tim and Jane leave King's, a feeling which 1 know is sha red by many , is attenuated a little by the certainty that Harold Parr would have enjoyed the Hands' company and applauded Tim's appointment too. Tim came to King's from Oxford where he had been at St. Catharine' s and Oriel as a Research Student and then a Tutor after taking a First at King 's College, London. While at Oxford he became a conductor of the Schola Cantorum, and his talent as a musician together with his experience as a conductor landed him later with the dubious privilege of taking over the running of Congregational Practice when Barry Rose left King's for St. Alban's. To this difficult job, as to everyth ing else, he brought expertise, energy, and of course humour. His association with Schola also led to a more s ignificant experience even than that of taking Congers- he met Jane . Those who have made the move from research and university teaching to boarding school know that it is difficult to find the time to continue with personal academ ic interests . Tim has a considerable reputation as a scholar and has enhanced this during his years here with the publication of A George Eliot Chronology (1989) , Thomas Hardy:Distracted Preacher (1989) and A Hardy Chronology (1992). Despite the text of his contribution to the Macmillan 'Writers in their Time' series being obliterated by a Galpin's toaster defeating his word processor via the fuse box, he intends to finish it by the time he moves. It was started just as he went into the House. He has also recently edited the Everyman edition of Jude the Obscure, which has notes by Georgina Salmon, K.S. (WL). All this is obviously somewhat surprising to certain pupils, e.g. ' 0 look, there' s a book over there by another Timothy Hands'. It is only surprising to most of us because of the sheer hard work involved when there are one or two other demands on a H~usemaster's time, but never has he given the impression of being someone who is pre-occupied With scholarly pursuits to the detriment of the commitment which boarding school life requires. Quite the reve rse. Mr. Peter Brodie, Head of the English Department, has kindly contnbuted the following appreciation of Tim's contribution in that area: . 'Step into T im Hands' classroom, and you enter the world of an inspirational teacher. There IS money stuck to the ceiling (nuggets for good work) , strange objects of deep literary significance dangle from the beams, and the board is covered with quotations of the week, cryptic reminders 179

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. nd Jane were married by the Headmaster in the ~a~hedral in 1988. Even when she was Ttm.a ondon Jane would spend the weekends entertammg members of ~he House t~ meals based ~n L und all the time to chat with them. Her own remarkable perceptiveness and mterest and bet~gif~? welfare has made a contribution to Galpin's fo r which all who ~ow ~er a~e grateful. tn t~e~icbolas has reduced the most unlikely member~ of. the Ho~se to s1mpenng Jelly· . An h k T im and Jane for their many-faceted c.ontnbut1~n to Kmgs.and hope that they enJOY Wet ~n ortunities at Whitgift, which will contmue to bnng out t~e1r form1~able energy and th~ ~ew Inpl978. Tim wrote a revue entitled Tour de Force. Not an mappropnate comment on abthiY· . • h. career at Kmg s. IS D.P.H.

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t e. mtention of usmg It to start his own mine in K h h . o as SI~ m.onths, With an mcredible person with a zest for life that I have ~~~~ ~~~ efs had ;Ived all his life. ~e was was such that he m~de you happy simply by being in his compa~ff~ even c ose to. His spirit Ian was cremated m Thailand but there was a ' d •~ · of his friends from King 's and two from univers~~n owner or ever~one m ~enya which five and ~onsisted of a trail of candles leading UJ? to t~e~es~ ~~t for. This was nght up his street plenty of beer. It was near a game park and durmg one of the ~peecop~ens marqueelds harouhnd a fire and Th . you cou ear yena callin e next mommg twelve of us (his parents aunt t f h· · g. the English group) drove to a remote part of S~uthe;n ~o o tiS greatest ~nends from ~enya and could be seen from where he used to work at a m. eflya. o a moun tal~ called Kasigau which we set off to climb the mountain which had no at~ne.d avmg camped m the bush for a night six hours we eventually got to the top and bur~ied was. very steep a!ld tough going. After wher~ I know he will be happy and is where he sa idso~~~ ~~e a:f~~d~~cgeo~f~looked Tsavo This sums up the sort of person he was and I b r· · · · : understanding him so well and knowing this is ho e Iheve It Ilsdahgreat credit to his parents for w e wou ave wanted to be laid to I would put those four days in Kenya dow th . rest. felt very strongly , he was with us again. n as e most powerful of my life because as everyone

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SERMON A SERMON FOR WHIT SUNDAY We have just read two different accounts of how the Church was born, one by Luke and the ther by John. They are theological statements written by the evangelists to their contemporary 0 hurch. Whether either incident ever happened is irrelevant. Certainly Luke and John produce cery different narratives of the post-resurrection period. For Luke the events of the resurrection, ~scension and birth of the Church take place over fifty days; for John everything happens on one day. But as I ~ever tire o~ s~ying, our faith does not depend o~ pr~ving the historicity .of the Biblical narratives. The Biblical accounts are records not of h1stoncal events but of faith expressed at specific points in history. Our concern must be to ascertain in what that faith consisted why Luke chose to express his faith with one narrative and John another. And to do this we need a much greater sensitivi ty than the question 'Did it happen?' poses. Luke's account is modelled on the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis. There in the land of Shinar men refuse to accept their creaturely status but attempt to build towers reaching up mto heaven. They want to be God. As a result God defeats thei r efforts by confusing their language and scattering them throughout the world. Now they will no longer be able to communicate with one another and so combine to take God on. For Luke, Pentecost represents the reverse process. For the result of the outpouring of the Spirit is that a new unity is possible between men of every race. Men who hitherto could not understand each other find that now they can. The language of the Galilean carpenter is intelligible throughout the whole known world. T hrough the Spirit, mankind rediscovers its true identity as intended by God at creation, a unity which acknowledges its dependence on God. John 's account is very much more ecclesiastical , as one would expect in this last of the four Gospels to be written. He is concerned not so much with the birth of the church but with its structure. Jesus comes to the frightened disciples behind locked doors and proclaims to them his peace. Then he breathes on them his Spirit and commissions them. The church has the authority of Christ himself, the man who, to Jewish hostility , forgave sins. She is to act in God's name. John is clearly writing to a Church long established with a proper hierarchy. He confirms the validity of her authority. In the accounts of the miracles at Cana and the feeding of the 5,000, John had already indicated that the church was an exclusive society entered by baptism and maintaining its life through eucharist. While Luke is an optimistic gospel, looking forward to that moment when all shall acknowledge Jesus, John is conscious of opposition. There will be those whose sins are retained. So Luke goes on in the book of Acts to describe the spread of Christianity throughout the known world, ending triumphantly with Paul teaching openly in the capital of the Empire itself, Rome. John, on the other hand, sees the church as called out of mankind , a community apart. Nothing that has happened since that first Pentecost has altered this tension in which the church is set. At times she has emphasised one aspect of the tension to her detriment. But the looking towards the universal acknow ledgement of Christ's rule, and the living within the called-out community is the church's role. She cannot retreat from her evangelical mission and remain true to the Lukan vision; she cannot abandon her exclusive sacraments and remain true to her Johannine calling. Within the structure that delineates the community of faith , that very community must constantly be looking out, not because she seeks to triumph over those outside, as if she were some secu lar power, but rather because all men were made to be in relationship to God. In other words the only justification for mission is that men may assume their full identity, be more human than they at present are. ~ut where Luke and John agree is that whether in the proclamation of the Gospel to the world or tn the mediation of the sacraments, the Church does not act on her own initiative. She is commissioned by the Spirit. The community of faith is not to be like the men of Shinar, resentful that they are not as God. Rather they are to be like the disciples waiting in Jerusalem until God

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of his !Face gives .th~m his Spirit. Whether we are talking of the church at Jar e or . . gathenng of Chnst~ans such as our o wn community here if we are t bg t of any IndtviduaJ then we must learn to wait on God , listen to the Spirit. • o e rue to our calling, But how a r~ we to know when the Spirit speaks? Afte r all our act'o · th fro m communtty and personal. initi~tive. We don 't get proof that what~v~s me e~d ~us! result We are always called to act m fa ith. It would be so easy if it were othr w P an IS od s Will. . . erwtse. Th IS IS no modern pro blem Discerning the Spirit h b · to the letters o f Paul. Luke ~nd John provide us wi~~ s~~:~t~!~e/r~m~he laws of Deuteronomy thi~. The ~esult of the outpouring of the Spir it at Pentecost was a su~tyo;h~~ ss~~uld go about belie f. Twtce Luke says. that the crowds were amazed , o nce following th. 'th ' dmed beyond . IS :"'I an wondered' and on the second occasio n by ' and perplexed ' The kind ofu . of the Spirit !·esults. in the. same awe and dread as· whenever man~Z~~~~h sfhnn~~ fro~ the a~tivity the holy . It IS not JUSt a Jolly chumminess that g ri s the crowd f . rs e ~ er, t e nummous to a common fear, for. the Spirit'~ activity bind/the faithful to r~e~:~~a~~~~~g.r~ather it !~ad~ t~e ve~y wo rds and actwns of Chnst. One does not want to hear the S . .t t oft s a~d aciJons hts voi ce can only lead to the same costly mission that cost Christ hif~{~ o~ o t~n , or to hear church a ll t?O of~en reduces the voice of the Spirit to a call to j umbl I ~ .e. d or. at reason the The .authentic VOice of the Spirit leaves the community of faith with ae ~~ .es .~n SUits ~n Sunda~s. bewildered , but conscio us that it must go on on in ~ i h N . pi m I s.s~om~c • uncertam, fo r the future: rather the Spirit is always the Spirit of~~e.pre~~~toes the Spt.n t .g.tve ah blu~prim to ent~r the unknown . For to listen to his voice will result in bmo.ment, mv t~mg t e fatt~ful of takmg a step and wondering where the foot will fall. a astc recommitment of faith,

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It IS better understood as wholeness completeness bein II f . . mp. Jes . ather 1 wfhihc h the Spi~it .requir~s. the com~unity of fa ith ~nd t~e aind~vi~~~fcf~·it~f~ fi~~kt~~ ~he st~p o t e uncertainties whtch must of necessity follow the . . . . a In Spite wholeness, an integ rity which they did not have bef~re ~~~~:~~htit ~~ tfe md!~dual ha~e a not even that they live without threat or harm but that .they are mo re thy Ivf WI out tehnsJOn, than they had hitherto been. ' emse ves, more uman

The message of Pentecost to any Christian communit i th · 1 your h_umanity and seek to build towers into heaven? Or x ills yo~~~k~~m~ ~one. Do ~esem by waiting on the Spirit that you may know a huma~it of whi h w e ge your epen ence to! whbic.h he wh~ created you has called you and all m~n? Thatc wryo~i~v~~ ~~~~dy to tuetam t.t wanl.ldl a so nng true JOY.

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FOCUS RALEIGH INTERNATIONAL EXPEDITION TO CHILE -

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PAUL DUPUY (BR 1988- 1993) On 20th January, 1994, 11 3 nervous Ventu rers descended upon Terminal 4 of Heathrow Airport. alked towards the flock of young men and women, fro m every corner of Britain and further 1 ~~'ld who all exchanged embarrassed smiles and polite conversation. Everyone knew this was iJ IC ' he start of someth'mg b'.1g . . . . 1 After a sixteen-hour fltght and a three-day coach n de th rough the Andes, we arnved at Raletgh H Q. on the o utskirts of Coyhaique (the adm inistrative centre of Region XI), at a place ~a!led ÂˇEI Verdin' . Hungry, dusty, sweaty and exhausted we unloaded the coaches and were split mto ur training groups and hi ked the two kilometres. to the campsite and fresh food. It had seemed 0 if one expedition was over; but the real o ne had not started. a~ By the end of the journey we had gelled into one very large but happy family. The diversity of venturers was apparent from the sta~t: carpenters, ?har.tered accountants, ~tudents, de~ivery drivers, policewomen and plumbers, with only one th mg m common - Raletgh Internatw~al. Our first week in Chile was an intense period of training, from the basics of navigation, first aid and campcraft to the comple~ it ies of rad io commun icati~ns and scientific eq~;~ipment (incl~ding satell ite navigatiOn G.P.S.) whtch were used on some proJects. Even though It was the C~IIean ~ummer and the heat was just about pleasant, the joys of river crossings were never fully appreciated. Being dragged through a freezing torrent established that Raleigh was no package holiday. Each Venturer was given fou r projects, including community, science and adventure schemes ranging from land-based projects to water-based ones. At the end of the induction period we were again split into new gr~ups of twelve t.o four teen Ventu,rers, each including a local Venturer (a Chilean from either Santiago or Coyhatq ue) and a medic. My first project was an adventure phase: mountain trekking in the Andes around the area known as Jeinimeni. Afte r two days of preparation we completed packing the equipment and loaded 11 onto two small m ini-buses . We said o ur goodbyes and set off. Two minutes later one of the mini-buses returned to Rale igh H .Q.; the o ther bus had got 200 metres down the road and the suspension had buckled under the load of 360 ration packs. Finally, we made it to the Chile Chico ferry j ust before it left. We spent two and a half hours on the fer ry and met an old Chilean man who sang us poems about the mountains and the sky. Everyone had started to realise that we really were in South -America. This boat ride gave me an opportunity to get to know the Project Manager and Assistant Manager. Both were experienced mountaineers. Victoria, who was in charge, was a Chilean school teacher and one of the best female climbers in Chile. Her assistant, Angus, was a Br itish climber, who is going to climb Everest with the British Medical Expedition in August. The next part of our jo urney was a six-ho ur ride on the back of a logging truck across the Chilean desert. T he heavens opened and we had our first experience of a Chilean downpour unforgettable ! We arrived at the bounda ry of the Jeini meni National Reserve to find a flooded river that the truck could not cross. Luckily, two CONAF (Forestry Commission) workers turned up in a 4 x 4 and shipped the group across. Water poured th rough the base of the door frame and lapped up to the windows: a serious adventure. After settling into our new home (a bus shelter and an enormous tarpaulin) we started the project. We started by helping C O NAF thin a plantation of fir trees as payment for use of the National Park. This was mixed with a small ' recce' walk to plan our mountain trek. The trek lasted a week and involved walking/climbing up to a high pass in the San Antonio valley and then climbing several peaks along a ridge line which circled our temporary campsite. Each day we sighted more and more condors and achieved greater challenges . For some of the group this was mentally hard as well as phys ically . The sheer height and exposed nature of the area frightened many, even some to tears. Time flew by and before we knew it we were returning to the ferry and our next proj ect site.

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As a group we met our new Project Manager, a Scottish lady with community skills Wh was to help us on our first community project. We were situated at a small town called o Castillo. The area was barren and dusty, but it was extremely beautiful. The town was bui!~ the base of a very jagged glaciated peak which was coated in thick forest up to the snow linat Our task was to help Chilean contractors build a community centre for the 'Coup de Madres~Âˇ but owing to the local 'Manana' attitude and Chilean bureaucracy, this project was abandoned' Instead, we moved out to a small farm in the hills to help a young man build a house to repla Âˇ one which burnt to the ground, killing George's family. George was incredibly generous to Raleigh helpers, supplying them with everything he could; including many wine-filled melon: (a local cocktail). In our group we had a carpenter named Richard who was thrust to a position of authorit in order to supervise our building efforts (and remove them if necessary, which was common!~ the case!). Wtthout his help we could have never achieved what we did; by the end of the two weeks the building's structure was completed and the wooden tiles, which covered the WOOd had started to be nailed on. ' This phase also gave us the opportunity to ride horses and round up cattle for milking. George also used Raleigh's help to nurse a sick calf, which later died and had to be burnt by us one of the least pleasant experiences of the expedition. ' At Cerro Castillo we were visited by the expedition leader and the retired Director of Plans Peter Ormerod, and so, as they arrived they were mugged by a flock of rabid Venturers fo; food and the post (the high point of any week on expedition). In return for their gifts we took them into town for the Sunday night 'Bingo'. Bingo night was the social event of the month. The whole population from all the town and local farms turned out. Harriet, a graduate Venturer won a bottle of pisco (to the group's approval), which was consumed at full speed. ' At the end of this phase we returned to Raleigh base to clean up, feed up and change groups in order to attempt two more projects. My first group had become a very strong unit and none of us wanted to split up now. The changes were made and my new group set off for two more projects. The first was a community phase in a small fishing community on the Pacific coast. After a twenty-four-hour ferry journey we arrived at Melimoyu , which is an Indian name for the volcano which dominates the skyline, when it is clear. Our first week was spent in torrential rain, but luckily we were living in old school buildings with only a few leaks. The group's task was to plan and build a ferry passenger shelter with the locals' help. At first the group were all outwardly nice to each other and helpful , but this soon broke down owing to very differing views on life! After many meetings with the locals and drawing up a plan of the building, we set to work collecting timber from the thick forest which surrounds the community's settlement. The work was very strenuous at first , but as soon as the construction started, a number of us realised the help this was doing and we got very keen to work. Richard, the carpenter, was in the same group as myself again, and with Andy (the tax collector) and Neil (a biology graduate), we forged a good working partnership. Another part of the group concentrated on working with the local school, teaching English and organising sports days and a tea party, which the local adults became part of too. Many of us struck up good relationships with the locals, of whom a lot were from Santiago, the capital. They had, seemingly, packed up and set off to Melimoyu to leave the bustle of urban life behind. I made especially good friends with two of them called Ivar and Joses-Luis. We were invited into their homes and given all they had, we feasted on fresh crab and mate (a kind of herbal tea drunk through a steel straw). Again, we had to leave before we really wanted to. Our two weeks were over, the shelter structure was completed and we had made good friends. We left on the ferry for Port Aguirre in order to begin our next project. We arrived there in another rainstorm to meet our new leaders, Rob and Martin, two boat handlers from the army and police respectively. This project was a science phase, working with Dr. Keith Bennett of Cambridge University. We were to help him

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. rch the palaeo-ecology of the islands off the Chilean coast, the Chonos des Archipelagos. rese~ransport were A von inflatables with very powerful engines and we were all instructed in our dl" bOat han mg. his roject involved bivouacking out on the islands and sampling sediment from small lakes . Trdefto decide which one to core (the process of extracting a full sediment sample of cylindical 10 0es) After ten days of sampling lakes and fly ing around in boats, we cored a lake on a small c~~nd 'with great results. On this phase our medic, Tracy, was the greatest asset, after giving 15 e six sutures for a knife wound in terrible conditions. 01 8 now everyone knew the expedition was coming to a close. We returned to Raleigh H.Q. for rhe last time to clean the stores and pack our bags. After three months of sustained effort everyone had deserved a rest and the chance to enjoy the luxuries of Coyhaique town, the cafes and supermarkets, the launderettes and gift shops. The expedition was an excellent experience for everyone involved, and taught us much about working with others and under adverse circumstances. Thank you to everyone who made it possible for me to join the expeditions. I hope you will consider sponsoring others as it is a very worthwhile cause in my opinion. I hope you agree.

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MUSIC AND DRAMA HENRY IV THE TRADESCANT AND BROUGHTON PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 26th AND 27th FEBRUARY, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

.1 don't know the first thing about all this,' says Bertoldo in Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV, . riving at a lonely villa in Italy in the 1920s, dressed in sixteenth-century costume to play the ar Je of a servant to Henry IV. The trouble is he has picked the wrong Henry IV. He has been roading up about Henry IV of France. But it is not Henry IV of France that he is to serve, but r~e Emperor Henry IV who Jived four centuries earlier. 'We're four hundred years ahead of ~ou, old boy, ' the others say. Or fo ur hundred years behind? Or in the present? Or in the future? Pirandello can be difficult for an audience but Stephen Davies, by skilful cutting of text and management of cast, created a most thought-provoking production. The group of servants Landolfo Ordfulfo, Arialdo and Bertoldo, played with individual characteristics by Chris North , Sian Sau~ders, Georgie Lake and Malcolm Todd - playing their make-believe roles in the past nicely balancing the group of friends and relations - Di Nolli, Matilda, Belcredi and Frida played equally individually by Jamie Nicholason, Annabel Blair, Maurice Fakoury and Rebecca Pick _ play ing their roles largely in the present, except that it is not as clear-cut as that. Somewhere in between come, on the one hand, the old retainer, Giovanni, played, in his usual manner, by James Longstaffe and, on the other hand, the Doctor (Annabel Gunnell) who represents the new idea. In the background, and always slightly menacing, are the guards (Ed Radcl iffe and Simon Peel). But in the centre is Henry himself. Who is he? What is he? Different things in different times and different places? What is the difference anyway? The character (Pirandello does not give him a name) has, some yea rs previously, fallen off his horse when riding, dressed as Henry IV, in a pageant and this th inks he is Henry IV . Perhaps he is. Or does he know that he is pretending? Julian Hinves was masterful. Using a tremendous range of vocal tone he personified the tormented, or devious, character and his variety of movement and gesture had the audience sympathising with him and being terrified of him in turn . Such changes of mood can become caricatures, but not in Julian's case. Everything about him was convincing . At the end we were absolutely certain of the uncertainty of it all. It was visually good too. An imaginative and economical set by Anthony Alderson and costumes and lighting which complemented the actors. An evening which entertained, yet challenged the audience to think. No one can have left the performance undisturbed. The first Trad and Broughton production. The first of many, I hope. G.D .W.

IN MEMORIAM GALPIN'S HOUSE EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT SUNDAY, 20th MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

Writing retrospectively, responding regretfully now that there is no ' r' in the month to the absence of a review (and, most unusually, of Dr. Mall ion with his video recorder) of this most pleasant evening, that I can recall much of it is indeed indicative of its success. Three reasons may be cited fo r this success. First, the quality of the component parts. The opening showed Mrs. B. in all her matronal glory wielding the bass with dexterity and deftness. The excerpts from Fa1;8de were indeed as rhythmically joyous as Walton intended. Did Eliot Shrimpton outshine Stephen Woodward as narrator? Memory tells me that both were good . Eliot (again) and William Davies waited for Godot; James Drever, fresh from his triumphs with Olivia Homan, 189 (Francis Kenney)

T triumphed with Betjeman, as did George Taylor, although I have to say that I have heard h' recite better. The finale , a glorious farrago of scenes from Toad of Toad Hall was not ju ;rn showcase for Eliot's talents: it showed also those of James Drever, Tom Jennings and w 1 u~ a am Davies , to name but three. The first half was musical. As with many House evenings, there were clearly party i (although the Madagascan visitor stole that particular show), but played with ability and convfc:s Andy Brice's trumpet solo stands out most vividly, as does Tom Jackson's singing. There we~Âˇ none of th~ embarrassing moments that can characterise such programmes: all players mer~ congratulatiOn. T he second reason for the evening's success was its organisation. The most compelling overall memory is that the show had been properly rehearsed: there was no sense of delay between items Indeed, the slick and professional way in which the evening kept moving is the principal reaso~ for writing this review: Eliot and his colleagues (especially Stage Manager Ross Wingfield) merit commemoration especially for this. This was aided considerably by the reversal of the Shirley Hall seating and the use of the lobby as offstage. An inspired move. The third reason that the show worked so well is that it was indeed a House evening. It may be thought that undue mention has been made of the Drever and Shrimpton duo. This is perhaps inevitable, for the writer is sensible of the contribution to King's these two have made. However the evening itself demonstrated a good House spirit, positive cooperation and involvement of most if not all members of the House. It was a fitting testimony to the achievements of Tim and Jane Hands: Galpin's is indeed a House of which to be proud. J.A.T.

. GETTING ON KING'S YOUTH DRAMA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 23rd AND 24th APRIL, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

Alan Bennett's play, which opened in October 1971, is very out of date. This is the Britain of old-style consensus politics, when 'Tory M.P.s are better dressed, better spoken, but otherwise little different from Labour M.P.s', of dippy hippies who can't even run a commune because nobody will obey the rules, of flowered wallpaper and stripped pine furniture. The characters are victims of either of paralyzing nostalgia for the past, or of a mawkish attachment to unarticulated and faded ideals, or both. It is very much a play of its time, and directors Charlie Bell and Rebecca Fordham set themselves a difficult task in choosing it. That they sustained the comedy for well over two hours, and brought life to one of Bennett's lesser plays, is credit' both to them and their actors. Bennett's central figure is the doctrinaire, beer-and-butties Labour M.P. George Bell, played by Tom Mackenzie, who gave the performance of the night. George Bell is chained to a (second) marriage which is going nowhere and an ideology which has lost its soul. The key to the part is surely to convey his self-obsession and introspection - he can' t come to suspect his wife is attractive enough to be preyed upon, and even foq~ets the age of his eldest son - and yet retain our sympathy through sharing his self-recriminatiOns and self-justifications with us. This was achieved. In a telling diatribe, Polly points out that he's a Socialist but he doesn't like people; yet Tom's George Bell was always more likeable than the pusillanimous companions who deign to understand and pity him. I liked the monologues, and he delivered some wicked one-liners. Oh yes, and I liked the pot belly. If George is a socialist who quietly hankers for the shabby gentility of an Oxford lectureship, his wife has ceased to hanker for anything at all. Suzie Madigan's Polly was busy and neurotic - bored but never boring. Tristan McConnell's hippy Geoff Price is the chief target for George's tirade against inert sentimentalism - 'The Welfare State was built not by kindness and benevolence, not by moist good fellowship and rattling beads and tuning into the Universe ... but by hard work' 190

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VERDI'S REQUIEM SATURDAY , 30th APRIL

Ever since the days when Edred Wright was Director of Music at King's it seems to have been a tradition that the School Choral Society should give a performance, every few years, of that great 'operatic' masterpiece the Messa da Requiem of Verdi. This tremendous work needs large resources of choir and orchestra and four first-class soloists to make its true effect and at this summer's concert all these elements were in place, the result being an inforgettable evening. Once again this annual concert was given in the Cathedral Nave, back to normal after last year's upheavals, and the exhilarating sight on the platform of a sea of faces, composed mostly of young people, greeted both conductor and the large audience which filled the nave for the occasion. It is a great achievement to augment the school 's not inconsiderable vocal forces with boys and girls from the choirs of both the Simon Langton Schools and Benenden School as well, and no one will underestimate the work put in by the Directors of Music of these schools to bring their pupils up to the standard required for joining in such a great musical occasion. The Verdi Requiem demands large forces both of choir and orchestra to make its effect and all the choirs and the school symphony orchestra were well up to their work. The orchestra, of course Jed by the invaluable and indestructible Clarence Myerscough who has been the very soul of orchestral music at King's for decades, was in great form, responding to every signal from the conductor Mr. Colin Metters and producing tremendous waves of sound in the many choral numbers where the great body of choral sound was heard at its finest, notably in the opening passage of the ' Dies irae' , the 'Sanctus' with its brilliant fugue and the exhausting and exhilarating 'Libera me, Domine' which brings the work to a wonderful and unexpected ' ppp' conclusion. Colin Metters is to be congratulated on assembling a fine team of soloists all of whom were experienced in the field of oratorio and well able to handle this very special work with its inevitable ~peratic flavour. Best known among the soloists was the bass Michael George whose dramatic mtonation of the words 'Mars stupebit' (ppp) comin~ immediately after the colossal choral and o~chestral splendours of the 'Tuba mirum with its nnging fanfares of trumpets was one of the h1gh points of an evening full of great climaxes. Catherine Denley the contralto provided another dramatic intervention with the 'Liber scriptus', a solo passage which showed off to great advantage both the higher and lower notes of the register of this fine voice. Many of the delights of this work come with the ensembles of voices, the duets and trios , but Andrew Murgatroyd, tenor, had one attractive number ' Ingemisco' which showed to the full the beauty of tone of his voice. 19 1

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THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES With the energy of The Big Match Live, the political debate of Newsnigbt, marginally more interesting than Westminster Live , the 4th May Current Affairs Society headed the new-look Wednesday evening. The day carefully chosen- no JCR. The location ~VRRENT designed to attract the aud ience- Walpole T.V. room. The format -light-hearted rFAIRS 4 coverage of the weekly issues in a way that only The Big Breakfast could equal. i;oCIETY The two chiefly responsible for this much-needed society were James Burr and . hael Davies. Between them they managed to foster their creation in its early days until it became a \ I IC • · .lourishing acttv tty. 1 A wide variety of topics were discussed , ranging from the Rwandan crisis to the plight of German ostiwtes. A weekly slot fo r Sebastian Vance was reserved to inform the room of the week's sporting prents which left him tackling the del icate subject of deaths in Formula One, horse racing and boxing. e\ ~Lynam would have been proud. Mr. Jonathan White occasionally blessed us with a 'thought for the ~·which on average took some thirty minutes to explain. Jamie Nicholson, Charles Bell and several other members of 6b took it upon themselves to talk o~ a current issue which could prov~ke infor~ed debate. This debate owes much to Grant Chum representtng the moral ground, Graham Parnsh occupytng the intellectual ground , S imon Johnson and Luke Singer the Tory ground and Father John on whatever eround nobody. e.lse. was on. Some.members of Walpole also managed to stagger the three yards to their t.v. room to JOtn tn such dtscusstons. However, after thanking Mr. White and Father John for their unquestioning support , it leaves me to praise James Burr and Michael Davies, the intrepid pioneers. Their partnership combined Kilroy, Jeremy Paxman, Clive James. and Oprah Winfrey into one show. Wednesdays have been transformed. Thanks to these men, they wt ll never be the same.

rrER HOURS:

LUKE TOULSON.

When one considers the world's great duos, one thinks of Marx and Engels, the Wri~ht Brothers, even Morcambe and Wise perhaps; but Davies and White? Yes, Davtes and White, two intellectual heavyweights who entered the crowded debating ri ng of the First World War and its consequences, historical and literary. On 18th May, the all-seate r Gateway Chamber witnessed a first possibly in the school's history: two masters del ivering their own thoughts on a particular branch of their subjects. The concepts of war could easi ly be deemed irrelevant and antiquated tn today 's supposed world of peace and harmony, yet the Yugoslav ian confl ict has given notice of the fact that war, or the prospect of it, as an instrument of a nation's policy, will always shadow history, even if not in the role of midwife. The pair's underlying theme was that of futility; why did the front-liners continue fighting in a situation that Mr. White was prepared to describe as "for some of the people, some of the time, Hell on Earth"? He put it to the assembly that the so-called mutiny at Ypres in 191 7 was really no such thing, and even the collapse of the French army just before was a symptom of insubordination rather than pacifism. Rosenberg, Owen and other lesser known sources were utilized for possible answers of which still failed to create an empathetic understanding for the aud ience with the 1916 soldiers. Mr. Dav ies clearly established how monumental an effect the war had on British literature's attitude to war. A poem fu ll o f romanticised war lines and glorified battles with classic cries of ' Play the game, son,' written at the turn of the century, was contrasted with the regulation G.C.S.E. poetry of Sassoon and Owen: not very deep or difficult yet vivid and effective all the same, as a G.C.S.E. syllabus organiser might say or indeed Mr. Davies and justifiably too. !~erefore such an occasion is to be applauded and demanded. From this evening of lively discussion, opmton and arguably lucid wit, it is clear that King's is simmering with intellectual enthusiasts in the Common R?om and the tuck shop. These talents need to be brought to the boiling point on a fortnightly basis if Kmg's is going to exploit these abundant and varied abilities to the fullest degree in the Autumn and Lent terms, in order that everyone will benefit in the Summer term.

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T.his te~m sa~ the s.tart ~f a new. 6b initiative - Science Forum: a debati 0 AFfER HOURS: d1scu~s.10n soc1ety w1th sc1ence as 1ts general theme. A.fter the inevitable preli ~ and SCIENCE FORUM sceptiCISm, about twenty people, spurred on by Jo L1m and Will Finch tur~llary for the first meeting. ' n up and HARVEY SOCIETY . We ~egan by viewing a controversial video on genetic research. An 0 Ptn d1scuss1on followed and many excellent points were made. The next meeting brought a more humorous theme- a balloon debate based on scientific figures th history. Only one was to survive: the rest had to be jettisoned with the other ballast. Portraying the per~0111h were: Kathy Clark - Marie Curie, Tim Breen - Charles Darwin, Kingston Hui - Albert Einstein nagea Wallace - a geneti~ mistake (affectionately ~ailed The Three-legged _Dribbling Duke) and Alex Ne:ob -Thomas Crapper (mventor of the flushable t01let) . Everyone argued therr case well and the audiencefud me after getting over Thomas Crapper, finally selected Charles Darwin as the remaining person. Th~y ~~ afterwards t~at they would have liked everyone to stay, except the three-legged dribblmg duke, becau he was makmg a mess. se The third meeting brought the first of our pupil-presented talks, this one on 'Cars: Why The Govemme and Glenn Brooks are Wrong', by Tom Mackenzie. After the audience actually figured out who Glen"1 Brooks was, the talk proceeded to be a highly enthralling and factually astounding piece. All credit 1~ Tom for his in-depth research and excellent visual aids - pity about the car drawing though! A week later, Luxmoore was the place to be for the debate on the controversial issue of abortion. For the motion 'Abortion should be made illegal except when the mother's life is at risk' Kathy Clark argued very strongly and did manage to swing three votes. However, this was not enough to win the day against the combined forces of Will French and Tim Breen, since most of the debate's attendees were strongly pro-abortion from the start. The last item was an excellent Harvey Society Lecture by Dr. Roger Mall ion on the rare form of carbon 'Buckminsterfullerene' . He discussed the fascinating mathematical aspects of C60 and other networks and all of the attendees will never be the same again - at least our maths won't. Thank you to Dr. M;llion for that. [For further, hands-on, experience of Buckminsterfullerene the Chemistry Department's 'Buckyballs' package- complete with floppy disk- is always available, without supplement to the fees!) After half term, the Forum dwindled owing to examination pressure, but we hope to give it a new lease of life at the start of September. Thanks must go to Mr. Jackson for his refreshments and for masterminding the plan and also to Jo Lim and Will Finch, for setting individuals going. T B IM

REEN.

In the late twentieth century, in a school on the landmass then known as Britain a daring series of experiments were undertaken to inculcate a level of intellectual interest in the pupils ofthe King 's School , Canterbury, a grouf which had previously appeared immune to all such attempts. Under the universa banner of Life After Hours the project known as the Shotgun Seminars was initiated and placed in the hands of Dr. Allday, a known subversive but a valuable weapon in the school 's intellectual jihad. The objective was not to supply energetic teenagers with a forum to discuss and exchange high-powered firearms in school time. Rather, an off-beat motion or topic was elected and all made welcome. T itles ranged from 'Is there alien life and, if so, would you allow your daughter to go out with it? to "Should education be fixed or fluid?'. Those who wished to take part in the discussions were required to enter their names for a draw which would determine who gave the initial speech. Those who refused to enter their names could not speak for the evening, an embargo sometimes enforced by masking tape and a little mild physical violence. Thus a high level of debate was produced as those involved were supposedly knowledgeable enough on the subject to be able to give the initial speech. Wine and cheese were available to replenish stores of energy that would otherwise have been drained by vociferous verbal clashes and titanic theoretical bouts. Though obv iously fraught with risks the Shotgun Project proved a success for those involved: men and women, girls and boys, were all exposed to an environment of thought, eloquence and imagination that was otherwise not available to their young minds. Such immersion in the world of thought could only serve to contribute towards the intellectual richness of the experiment's subjects, its organisers and the civilization of that troubled epoch. The continued existence of the Shotgun Seminars was assured the instant they first began. AFTER HOURS: SHOTGUN SEMINARS

THEO MOORE

'We' re the young generation, we've got something to say.' AFfER HOURS: The Monkees said it them, S.O.M.A. (Society of Musical Appreciation) is saying SOMA it now. SOMA is a society reknowned for its attendance. Over the past year it has covered an unlimited spectrum of musical styles. SOMA has a mission: to spread styles. SOMA's scope has ranged from Blues to Punk, and from Jazz to Funk, Primal Scream and Psychodelic Trances - each week brought something very different. SOMA has not only provided a chance for people 194

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eciate music but over the year has spawned many new friendships. It seems that there are simply

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110soMA's sl?ecial thanks go to Mr. Wood for allowing the use of his room, and to Max Von Hurter for che loan of hts excellent tape recorder . NICK BRAY AND HUGH GLEDHILL.

Bridge has continued this te rm at the usual times of Wednesday afternoon and IDGE Tuesday evening. The domination of these informal sessions by Galpin's j uniors BR and Linacre seniors continues, and has not this term been challenged by the fearsome ff team. They hope for, and we fear, a pupil-staff encounter next term. No other matches have been sta ed this term either, but neverthe less standards of play continue to rise. Many thanks are due to Mr. ~k for his continued organisation and keen criticis m of our playing, and to our departing captain Kieron Murphy. It only remai ns to encourage more players to attend next term - all are welcome. JONATHAN SHAW. This has been another busy and enjoyable term for the choir- no such excitements such as tours or Cathedral concerts, but still plenty to do, culminating in a major part in the St. John 's Concert in King's Week. This term's repertoire has been particularly varied, from Tallis to Walton, and including as the ' grand fi nale' Bach's Lobetden Herrn, which is probably the most challenging work the choir has sung in a Eucharist in recent years. All Bach's music is demanding in many ways, and his vocal repertoire is no different; certainly the motets are works rarely attempted by groups of this age. The choir did themselves great credit in their performance of it, and it will be a foca l point of our programmes for concerts in France and Germany next year. On another occasion we ventured mto the double cho ir repertoire, with Mendelssohn's motet Heilig and Stanford's Crelos ascendit hodie. T his latter piece was also the motet for the Eucharist held 10 St. Augustine's chapels on 9th May to mark the handover of the St. Augustine's site. Sacred repertoire is of course the mainstay of ou r work, but our occasional forays into the realm of the part s<?ng prov ide a welcome inte.rl~de . Of special. note. here were !he two Debussy chans~ns Di.eu! qu 'ilia fait bon regarder! and Quant j'a1 ouy le tabourm, wtth the solo m the latter sung by Emtly Eltas, and Grayston Ives' arrangement of Edward Lear's words in Calico Pie, with Miranda Scott-Barrett singing the soprano solo. This term's rehearsals have been as enjoyable as ever, and the choir have risen to the challenge of learning complex pieces quickly. It has also been good to have extra assistance in the services from the organ-playing point of view from Jeremy Bines, Emily Elias and Clare Simmonds, who have between them accompanied and provided voluntaries on a number of occasions. Once again a new school year will see a fresh influx of s ingers into the group, as we say goodbye to some long-standing members. Our trip to Rei ms in September will however provide the opportunity for a reunion as almost all this year's choir are joining us agai n for that. More about this in the next report. Our term's repertoire has been as follows: 24th April 19th June Haec Dies Will iam Byrd William Walton Set me as a Seal 8th May 3rd July Heilig Felix Mendelssohn J. S. Bach Lobet den Herrn Crelos ascendit hodie Charles Stanford M .D.H. 22nd May Loquebantur variis ling uis Thomas Tallis

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As usual, this term's activities have been devoted to preparations for the King's Week Jazz Concert , which took place on Monday, 4th July. (al?propriately , the anniversary of the bi rth of the late Louis Armstrong!) and which ts reviewed else~here in this issue by Mr. Stephen Pi nnock, to whom I am very grateful. This year's concert sold out tn embarrassingly record time. The Traditional Band , Tradsters, led by Alex Neame, undertook three ~ ng~gements this term, one external and two within the school - these were, respectively, at a function tn atd of Multiple Sclerosis research, which took place at Cante rbury Rugby Club on Saturday , 21st May. (an eyent that I was not able to attend because of a prior commitment, and I am very grateful to the Chaplain for kmdly looking after the Band on that occas ion) , at Mr. Roy White's Kent Schools Rugby Dinner, in St. Augustine 's Dining Hall , on Thursday, 26th May, and prov iding the musical interludes in Dr. Jonathan Allday's production, Goon Ill, on Tuesday, 5th July. JAZZ

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T he Big Band , the Ki!!&' s Jazz O rchestr~ , has continued under the d irection of Ed Millard. It . of Matt Brown, Matt H1llier and Andy Bn ce (TrumJ?els), Alex Nearne, Nick Tattersall and Samcons1sll (Trombones), the entirely new saxophone section wh1ch Ed Millard has honed excellently into sha Parker the course of the year: Annabel Whibley and Dan Bartlette (Altos) Chris Ioannou and Phil Gortpe over (Tenors) and George Bi.ngham (Baritone); Charli.e Aitken and Jere~y Bines (Piano) , James Burr (~anen and To~ Robertso.n (Gu1ta~) ; Tom Jackson and M1r~n~ Scott-Barrett provided the vocals. Mr. Ray w~s). 1 (pro.fess!Onal) agam stood m on the drum~, as he d1d m our February charity concert. I am very gr SOn to h1m - as are the whol~ Band - for. th1s; he has struck up an e.xcellent chemistry and rapport wi~eful members, even after havmg played w1th them for only a short t1me. T hey have really enjoyed 1 the wi~~ him , and I know that th1s feeling was ~eciprocated. I also record here the splendid 'show-b~ ~Ying spmt' that Dan Bartlet!e (Alto Saxophone) d1splayed: on the day of the King' s Week Jazz Concert h•ness an accide~t, resultin& m a cut on the fo rehead that needed hosp italisation and stitches. Nevertheles~ hhd appeared m the evemng, forehead patched , and very commendably went through with the engagem' e The traditional group, Tradsters, has been led and directed by Alex Neame (Trombone) and cons~nt. a~art from himself~ of Matt Brown (Trumpet) , Ed Millard (Tenor Saxophone) , Graeme Parkin (Clari~~:~· !'l•ck. !atte~sall (Plano) •. James Capel (Bass), and :rom Robertson (B~nj~) . An excellent - and ve · traditional - feature th1s year has been the substitutiOn of drums for banJO m the rhythm section (courtef), of Tom Robertson) . sy The group Insouls played more modern ~ small-group, ' Blues Brothe rs' type of pieces, and compri\Cd M.att Brown (Tru~pet and Leader), Ed M ill~ rd (Tenor and Alto Saxophone), Alex Neame (Trombone) N,•ck Tattersal.l (P1ano), Tom Robertson (Gu1tar) , Jam~:s Burr (Ba~s) , H ugh Gledhill (Drums) , and Luk' e Smger (Vocalist). Finally, the Barbershop Q uartet - always a popu lar feature of these concerts - consisted of Ed Millard and Tom Jackson (Tenors), L uke Singer (Baritone) and Matt Brown (Bass). . I must ~ec?rd here the huge debt. that we o.we to those involved in the technical s ide of a production li ke the K•.ng s We.ek Co~c ert. In th1s connectiOn .we were very fortu nate to have available to us this year th.e expert1se, and mcred~ble hard work and stamma, ~f two O.K.S. who left last year - Ollie Nash and T1m Jackson. They put m extremely long and unsoc1al hours (on a couple of nights, up to 2.00 a.m ) connecting up, testing, and operatin,g th.e sound equipment !JSed. in this event and I am very grateful io them fo r what they have done . The lightmg team was led, w1th h1s usual calm efficiency, by Jon Alcock with the very able and cheerful assistance of Tom May , both of whom were, in turn , helped by Simo~ Cook and Ryan Mannering. I should also li ke to thank Penelope Curtiss in connection with sound and Mr. Anthony Alderson for his overall liaison of the sound and lighting aspects of the production. I ~ight j ust add here my gratit~de to J <?n Alcock not on!y for his inv~luable contributions, over the years, to the Ja,zz conce~ts, but for h1s techmcal help a~d adv1ce generally m other areas, such as the Film and Video· F ilm Arch1ves. I should also very much like to thank Mr. Alan Kennett who manages the Shirley Hall for all his help and cooperation ove r this concert. ' . Mr. Peter Brodie has bee.n a K ing' ~ Week Manager fo.r approx imately a decade, and I should very much li ke to record he re my grat1tude to h1m for all the practical help and moral support he has given me over that entire period with King 's W eek events, and , especially , m connection w1th the February concerts, which have been established over the last fi ve or six years (and , incidentally , I can now report that this year' s ~a ised £727.86 fo r the W i.ng.e d .Fellowship. Trust) . His calm , business-li ke effic iency and ebullient dynam1sm have put many a cns1s m Its Rerspect1ve dun ng that long period. I therefore thank him very warmly , as he steps down to take up a d1fferent burden, for all he has done over many years. It may not be widely realised that, for a considerable period , he has been a very important aspect of the Jazz Club's ab ility to functio n. I am grateful , also , to his present front-of-house people - Rupert Mead , Mark Harris, Kingston H ui, and the rest of the team . The saddest part o f the these reports is say ing the farewells. All but one of the vocalists in the recent Concert are leav ing. M iranda Scott-Barrett broke new ground in the King 's Week Concert by performing the fi rst male/female duet. Th is was with Tom Jackson, whose talents the Jazz Club discovered a little earlier in his school career than it did in Miranda 's case. Tom has been excellent in his 'matinee idol' role as vocalist for the Big Band, as well as constituting a very valuable quarter of the ever-popular Barbershop Q uartet. Also in the Barbershop Quartet , as well as being the vocalist front ing Insouls, was Luke Singer - someo ne else who became involved in the Jazz Club only in his last year. I am very glad , though , that he did eventually do so , and I am very gratefu l to all of these vocalists who are leaving for the contributions that they have made. T here are fewer leavers in the Big Band than there were last year - three, in number; nevertheless, the los ses , albeit numer ically smaller , are certainly regrettable ones. Philippa Gort-Barten has been one of the leading lights of the new saxophone section constituted this year, and it is sad , too, that we only 196

r also in her final year. I thought she showed commendable brave~y in very nobly accepting Jjscov~red lle t'to take a solo in the very first number of her first public C<?ncert With .the band •. last Febru~ry 1he ass•gnm~~h she repeated in the King's W eek concert, having once agam, as. she d1~ , a solo m the <?P~mng a feat ~hi U The Band! T he trumpet section is now bereft of the splendid services of f-:1att H illier as piece. smk~ ~peter (whom First T rumpeter Matt Brown described in a speech at the receptiOn afterwards 1M sec~nd ;~~to-none'). Matt Hillier has been a tremendously loyal an~ de~endable part ~f the. brassJ\ h.•s seco since his Removes days , always achiev ing gre~t accura~y With hiS. sol,os and dlsplaymg the ..ecuon team ter the considerable stamina that a trumpeter mvolved 111 many Kmg s Week events needs Jbility to musl am very grate ful to him for the musicality' the loyal~y - and the sheer cheerfulness and 10 call up.on. _ that he has contributed to the Jazz Club's proceed111gs over four years. · · de vivre Cl b b l 01e. f course, I have the sad duty of tenderi ng my thanks, and that of th~ Jazz u mem ers, to F•n~IIY~t on hi s departure. Ed first came into the King ' s Jazz Orch~stra ·~ h1s fifth-fo.rm days, under Ed ~·liar. ' of Barne Stevenson, and continued last year under Chns C re 1ssen and T1m M~rson . He the dlrectl~ntorch froJ them w ith a much-depleted Band - a completely new saxopl~o~e section had to tOOk updt~s well as an entirely different rhythm section . With the support of Matt Hillier , ~att Brown , be foun d Nick T attersall the 'old hands' in the brass section - he has managed to bnng together Alex Neaf:x~~ptional musicality~He has justifiably earned the !oyalty, a~d eve~ the affection, .o f ~~.Band, a groufi ~ave enormous respect for his musical opinions and adv1ce, and ~·s effic1~ncy as a Mus1ca 1re~.tor who a as a dee appreciation of the encouragement that he never fa1led to g1ve them when. somet mg - as w~l 1 layed. J e always knew exactly what he wanted in a rehearsal, and ~oul~ never detam the band was we p ·1 . morale was thereby noticeably boosted as Band members 111v~nably came away fro m unnecc~~~r}/eiing that they 'had mad~ real progr.ess and had at!ained genui!le achievement. T he e~teem 111 reh~a~sEd is held by the Band was manifest dunng a ceremomal presentation that they made to h•m a~er wh•c · ' s Week Concert. He has also been a tremendously acco~plished and rela_xe~ Mast~r of Cerem~mes !he Kmg ·t seemingly effortlessly putting the aud ience at their ease and establishll1g an 111stant chemistry mthe co~c~J ~ith them . T his extends, too, I might add, to the Ma~ter i/c the Jazz Club , for I , personally' ~~~;~~broughly enjoyed working with Ed this year, and I offer h1m my very warmest w1shes and thanks, as he leaves .

R . B. MA.

'I After weeks of planning and adapting ideas from Apic ius' Roman cookery book, members of the 6b Latin set eventually , and amazingly, managed t~ fi ndba ~te (Tuesday , lOth May) when they could all c.ome to a talk on Roman · ~od . Y r. Anthony Cubberley of Sevenoaks School. All the sixth f<?rm ClaSSICS students .and staff we~h•.nv•t.ed .~n~ the lecture was followed by an authentic Roman meal at wh1ch everyone wo~e peno~ costume. IS P!OVI e a wealth of interesting and o ften original outfits. Some people we~e sat1sfied ~~t~ the eff~ct ga111e11b~ dra in themselves in sheets in order to suggest a toga but others vane~ fr~m ~eb s Roman time trave er outht ~Mr. Holl and 's 'home-made' gladiato r costume . (O f course, 1t d1dn t really come from Marlow Costume Hi re !) . After a lass or two of a modern-day equivalent of merum , we were enlightened as t~ th~ JOYS and hazards of Roman ~ood in an informative talk by M r. C ubberley. Hav ing been made tof fee! quhlte •II by ~he Pf~spec~ of the (in)famo us Roman delicacy fish paste (a mixture of fish and salt le t toget er 111 a . arre o ro for fou r months) we were treated t~ an excellent meal in St. Augustine's ref~ctory by the.Cate~t'"~ Mana~er and his team . M~. T ennick proceeded to stun us w ith his speech ~f thanks ·~ ~uent Latm a.n t e evem!l~ was rounded o ff with various recitals in Latin and other entertamments bnlhantly co-ordmated by M isS Phill ips. d · · It was an en·o able and memorable evening , and its success wa~ due to hard work an orgam sat ~on by Miss Tay lorJaJd members of the 6b Latin set. It may well be some t1me befo!·e w~ embark upon somethmg as ambitious again but we hope to have regular meetings of the Pater Soc1ety m the future.

PATER

T OM M ANN .

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CHAPLAIN'S NOTES Two services stand out in the memory of this term: that marking the purchase by the schoo of the former St. Augustine's College and the annual early morning service on St. Augustine' 1 Day in the ruins of St. Augustine's Abbey. At the former the Bishof of Portsmouth presid~ and preached. Although the trustees of the Foundation retain contro over the two chapels it was an opportunity to reflect upon the extraordinary spiritual inheritance we receive from th~se who formed the College. The inscriptions in the Lower Chapel, redolent of Empire, are testimon to their faith. The latter was attended by over ninety pupils: which is testimony to the awarenes; of faith in the school . To be present on this occasion is indeed to feel in touch with our forebears. The servers' dinner towards the end of term reflected the fact that we do have a large number of servers. It was also an opportunity to thank some of those whose support is valued. Fred Whittaker, representing the Cathedral virgers, and Stephen Sealy, the Precentor; Olive Creissen who tends the linen, and the 'other' Canon Philips. These are people whose support is indeed valued, as are the servers themselves, and the Purples, to say nothing of Andy Wilson, our departing Sacristan, who made a very gracious speech. Whilst writing of those whose support is appreciated, I would also thank Michael Harris and the Crypt Choir; Stephen Pinnock and the Cathedral Choir; and my colleagues who take Crypt Prayers and School Prayers. These are the people who make the religious expression of the school more varied and properly representative. So many people to thank, and so many probably unwittingly omitted: this is a reflection of the fact that worship can have no validity unless it be truly representative of the community at the centre of which it is. J.A.T.

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(Francis Summers)

HOUSE NOTES THE TIME: 11.15 p.m. THE PLACE: The Mint T PROBLEM: 12 hours 45 minutes to complete the hous~ liE . , . Having called for an intravenous caffeine drip, we ben?te~! wnte the House notes. So, like, man, what have we done this term?' 'I think Sacha tumg ~ 10 ~o assem~ly once.' 'Oh ~orne on! W~ need stuff people are going to believe.' 'Like us :uiup mto the fmal of the Semor house cncket, havmg beaten M.O. and Linacre, and then ~ett'ng Jules L. -J. out first ball.' 'Erm ... ' 'And what about Bill's relationship with Fran?' 'No-one ~g to be told ~bout that.' ' Ha:ry bought a new guitar.' 'Or that. ' We thought on. Did we w~ 1 s Staff Meetmg on 19th Apnl? Or the orchestra rehearsal for Verdi 's Requiem on 20th? Or thehe .. THE TIME: 2.43 a.m .. THE PLACE: Outside the J.C.R. 'The damned place is never 0 · when you ~eed a drink.' 'Chi~ UJ?; after all. we d id reach th~ semifinals in both junior and se~~~ ~ou~e te~ms , und~r the o~gamsat1~nal ausp 1c~s of Ben Massmgham. Ben also showed his origins m d1rectmg Orph~e and h1s figure m t.he Fa~h1?n Show. Alex Maines, Patrick Osmond, and Tom May shC?we? the1r muscles by crewm~ Km.g s Week. Jimmy Capel added a musical edge b performmg m almost every concer.t g?mg.• mcluding r~citals at House dinners. All this on toy of the enormous n~mber we had smgmg m the Verdt. 'And how about some gossip?' 'Welf. I know. where bab1es come from.' 'They won 't print that!' 'OK: I wonder if Doug and Tom and the1r other halves kno~?' '~d what's that supp.osed to mean?!' 'Nothing, nothing.' Of course Da~ Broom had tro.uble. w1th Tnebels, and ~lex Mames denies allegations arising from the amount of t1me spent at h1s wmdow. 'I'm an ormthologist.' . THE TIM~: 5.28 a.m .. THE P~~CE: Cell 9, Canterbury City gaol. ' Officer, officer, we've ~ ust got to fimsh t~e last pa.ragraph! \Yell , h?w about ~II the charity work your House has done?' Oh yes!.\Yhat w1th the Kmgswa.lk, .wlth wh1~h we ra1sed much cash, and those 6as feeling less stoney g1vmg blood, we have g1ven a lot th1s term; effort as well, what with G.C.S.E.s and A~levels. Other attempts f~r the House as a whole to put in effort were rained off. The junior cncket unfortunately wasn t. (We were knocked out in the first round by Trad) . ' THE TIME: 10. 15 a.m. THE PLACE: T he Mint. THE PROBLEM: How to restore house fu nds after the bail payment. 'But we haven't thanked all the people that keep the House running. • Ah, yes, of course; we had better thank Mr. and Mrs . Aldn dge for putting the House back on the straight and .narrow aft~r it realised it sh~uld have taken that left at Albuquerque; to the clea.ners, for allowm~ us to ~1scover ea~h mormng what colour the carpet is; and Matron, for g~ttmg the House on 1ts feet m the ~ornm~ and keeping it there. Thanks also to Doll Noodles, Without w~om we are h~ngry; Mr. JUtcy, _w1tho~;~t whom we are thirsty; and Navy SEALS, without whom we d have nothmg to watch (wh1ch tnJght be marginally preferable).'

THE GRANGE

'~EOW.W! '. Wonderdunc crashed through the undergrowth, b1ceps nppling as he struggled in vain to cling on to the vine. .. . 'I Du.nc, you C~loe' he proclaimed thundering to the ground. Chloe turned ~way seemg Ben on. the honz~m, beanng. the raw meat fres h from the kill. Fearing he had lost h1s woman and heanng rumblmg from h1s tummy he sprinted off to the Walpole lunch, .collecting the .£960 from the Kings walk on t~e way. Wonderdunc petered out and Solange took h1s place. Peenng throu~h the ferns she not1ced Ben Loxton-Edwards desl?erately trying to wrench Mary fr~e fro~ the Jaws of the sava.ge crocodile, while Kirsten and Tnstram paddled peacefully up the nver w1th Sam G. chaperonmg demurely, although their peace was disrupted as the junio r members of .the trib~ (Becca, Olivia, Frances, Emma T. and Zoe N.) rowed past at ~~eat speed. Amy S. sa1led off mto the sunset followed by the cadets of her new corps whilst Mmam and Sally ran to help Ben batter the crocodile, wielding their county hockey sticks. Charlie B. sprinted off to Kent to get help and has not yet returned, last seen up a palm tree.

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h first crowe of dawn Julie, the intrepid traveller, looked up. Seeing coloured tennis 0~ 1eewondered that Mr. Barham had put in those chicken wings. She crawl~d to the water's balls shhen Kate appeared asking 'Would you change two of your normal washmg powd~rs for edge ~tra? ' Julie tried to grab the packet but Kate. was off m a shot - to help Max who s. had oaz h of digging and threw away the spade. Phtl, however, persevered and found the JUl~s enou: woody clearing. Sam, the senior tribeswoman, concentrated on the s~rolls ~nd C~arlie H'~eat all tribes countrywide except one. Many will be honoured by the B1g Whtte Ch1ef on h. Day of Speeches. . 1 e kat the camp tribal music was heard from Phil, Annabel, M1chelle, Mary, ~mma , Fran, Bac Max. Sarah and Helena tumbled through wh.ile Miriam and Karen strutted thetr s~uff. Luke Amy, luctant to give up hope. Desperately seekmg Sara he rampaged through the JUngle. was re . . adl the chieftain will be leaving us. She's been an amazmg help to all of ~sand we.w1sh 5 all ~he best for the future and thank her for all that she has done for the. tnbe -:- we ll a!l h~r her We also thank our local medicine woman, Ladies and the Tutors. Adws amtgos. Don t nuss Âˇ get lost without us.

ALBUMS: MO "Summer Term ' 94". This triumphant epic follows hot on the heels of "Lent Term '94", and is in a very similar vein. Th~ key to MO's success a band is consistent excellence in a wide variety of fields coupled wtth a togetherness t~at :~sures they make the most of their attributes. Those who have se~n member~ o_f MO perfortnJng Jive will be aware of their strength in this area, most notably wtth Matt H1llier (trumpet) and Chris Ioannou (saxophone) whose jazz/classical performances are almost legendary, Steve Gourmand (lead vocals) and, of course, ' Baroque' Rick Peat (vocal.s, r<?cor~er, etc) â&#x20AC;˘. who has recently also been turning his talent to composition, and to productiOn m hts favounte genre. Session work has been rife in the band of late. Who could forget Charlie Heise's oarwo~k with the GeeBees in 'Ghent' - in fact he is now auditioning for the Worlds tour -: or Ollie Fraser and The Kent Cricketers. Ed 'Cox' Curzon-Lewis is to be commended for h~s success with his all-girl group, and ther~ have be~n .col~mrful performance~ from Paul Pe:rm and .Ed Rice in The Swimmers, along wtth Matt H1llier m The Eleven and htgh-class ~thlettc posturm& from Raf DeHaan. It' s skill in these areas that leads to great chart success: the1r track Shuttles straight in at number one, as likewise 'Inter-House Tennis Le~~ue', an? t~e number ~wo 'Sport~ Day' was also a well-earned triumph considering the competitiOn at th1s t1me. Tom The Bowl Bucher, of course, hit the jackpot with his golden disc for 'Victor Ludorum'. Dave Bird's two-year leadership of Navy CCF will be fondly reme~bere~ by all their fans, and they will be glad to know that another MO stalwart, Rob Corbally, IS takmg over the helm . There is a dramatic quality to Graham Parrish and Andy Ri~bans' ~ .productio~ work on 'The Pink Room', and an obvious intelligence behind the albuJ? whtch cnttcs ~ave p1cked out,. most notably from award-winning youngsters Leo Siu, Matt Kmght and Andy Rtbbans, ~n~ ol~-t1mers Steve 'Purple Haze' Lau and Duncan Parrish, the promoter of (and performer on) K.mg s W~ek Lectures'. Of course it must be remembered that with all great bands comes a certam no~onety in the gossip columns. Talk of Luke Tayler's Madness and the Shell scandal su~roundm~ AI Stevens and the usual rumours about Dazza Kingston (probably true) and Dav.e Btrd (certamly all true)' should not detract from enjoyment of this, I think, their finest album smce the last one. Congratulations to bandleader 'Fat Ron' Rick Hume ~or such ~ne wor.k over the y~ar. And of course an album of this calibre could not be achieved w1thout a htghly sk11led productiOn t~am. All praise to Mrs. Young and the Ladies for the controlled, clean sound, to the Tutors and Momtors, and to the producer himself.

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The Summer term has been busy and hectic as alwa . . so m~ch going on it is. diffic~lt .to account for it atld With . .. . sportmg. front ~a~lowe IS flounshmg, winning the senior the 0 Use tenms, and sa1hng. Congratulations to Simon G1ttms for continuing to play outsta d' th.e England hockey team, and to Ben for receiving an invitation to the final Great Bri~i~ngly .for tnals. Well done to Jess, Ben, Alex (M-B), James (M) and Tom for receiving their fir t row1ng . 'd . s co1ours 0 n the ente~mme~t Sl e, Cam11Ia Pay has won the British Harp Foundation music com .. · 11hon ~nd played bnlhantly m the Serenade. Matt Brown seems to be involved in all the mu · m K1~g's Week,. Barry is strutting his stuff down the catwalk and Ruth can be found pr~~a e~ents walkmg the Mmt Yard, method acting her part in The Comedy of Errors. ocatiVely ~ocially: Ben i~ 'getting his oar in' with Mary (very Young) but contrary! Jo see domg the r~mnds 1~ Study. Tanya went ' riding' with an ex-purple of Marlowe. Trist~ss~o be to be stuck m a Canbbean (Cu) Cumber patch. Will we ever see him again? Melissa is ad .e.ms from afar ... across The Grange! Tristan Standen has fallen for a Walpoie girl ! mmng We want to thank a ll who have contributed to make this a highly successful term and for Ma~lowe. Thanks to Trevor and ~atron for all they do to keep us going. Most of !fear w~mld hke to thank ~r. and Mrs. Re1d for their dedication throughout our time here w~ ~e miss them and hope It has been a memorable year for them too. · Will

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'A blur of colour- and it's all over! ' - or so it seemed to at least one young observer of the Tour de France as it hurtled . . . through Canterbury at the end of King's Week. A pretty good descnpt1on of ~e summer t.e~m ~n Luxmoore, too. O~r crac.k team of 6as and Fifths put in rigorous week~ of trammg and revisiOn. Af~~r all ~he practice, this was the real thing: terror in the pit of the1~ stomach~ - through the pam barner - ~ast cheering c~owds - towards the chequered flag. It s all over,. A-levels and G.C.S.E.s are behmd, but who will have won the rainbow jersey? We must all wait for August for the answer. · It has indeed .b een a colourful term, espec ially on. ~he sp? rting front. It began well, with the Shuttle Rel~y victory, and was followed by an exc1tmg tnumph (by one match) in the junior House tenms. The oarswomen have had a spl~ndid ,run in the regattas. Naomi and Zoe, having won tankards and gold medals ar~ now officially n.o longer novices' ! The crews returned to the House from Poplar Regatta w1th no fe~e~ than s1x medals, and then swept us to the top of the league m the House Regatta . All that JUn.w r superior fitness - courtesy of the Oaks Run! Our sport~wom~n have done so much and wm so much, led by Pixie. Congratulations on the Sports Pnze, P1x!

LUXMOORE

For the .really exciting stuff, ~ouse Assembly is a must if you're going to keep your finger on the social pulse of the throbbmg heart of Luxmoore. 'Morning ladies I Morning hunks' Do we hav~ our select few? Plant? Stazicker?' 'Present. ' 'Fearn and Gellen? Hollywo~d (Jnr). and Adams . Hollywood, have you moved up a set ~r two? And ... Millward and ... oh yes - and Hartley and Preece, no doubt. Now for the not1ces - only some quickies.' 'Gulland, you're late.' Forget t~e school shop fo_r colo~rs jumpers -

it seems we've exhausted the stocks (with look no further;

congrat~latwns to Br1:1ce, He1se, Ph.Ipson and Stirling-Aird). As for culture -

we dommate the choirs and tyrannise the stage. .w e were thunderstruck.by the splendid House party - and some particular stars continue to shme as Cl~re pla.ys and smgs her way to a Music scholarship and D. de R. gabbles her way .. . to the Spamsh pnze. Lastly our unbounded thanks to the all-singing, all-hoovering ladies. Thank you to Mrs. T., and her entourage, without whom nothing could possibly function. P.S. Good luck to the leavers. 202

'It is with deep regret that I am writing to inform ... ' so ended an era in which Galpin's scaled new peaks of excellence as never GA before in its forty-two-year history. Sadly, Dr. Hands can now, . the words of a tutor, he described as an 'Old Galpin's Housemaster ... wow!'. In the manner 1n a rand finale, the House made farewell to the two Handses (and Nicholas) by showing ~agnfficent superiority over the rest of the school, round ing off the year with a flourish of further successes. School House suffere~ L.-J.'s ~ ighty blow~ as Galpin's won the Inter-House cricket. ~twas bviously this talent which won him the captamcy of the 1st XI. More success followed m the 0 ter-House Regatta with Galpin's taking two of the junior cups and winning overall (thanks :~our Jst VIII members Tom Jackson and Duncan Petrie). Meanwhile, in the garden, the Senior Galpin's Croquet Club fought their way around the subtle meanderings (and manicured flower beds) of the lawn. Will Davies and Eliot Shrimpton (a.k.a. Ezekiel) continued their dramatic partnership with the interesting twist that they played the four main characters between the two of them in The Comedy of Errors. Galpin's members also featured in the choirs, the orchestra, the fringe and the jazz band. All these successes have been outwei~hed by the disastrous state of Galpin's relationships. Jules B. -J. (sic) and Hamish Lemons (s1c) lost out but, more notably, Dom had a taste of his own medicine as his woman was 'Cocklined'. We would like to thank the cleaning ladies, linen ladies and Mrs . B. for cleaning, linening and Being. T he house ends the term with mixed feelings. The departure of Dr. and Mrs. Hands is upsetting, the loss of the 6a perhaps more so but the House welcomes Mr. Brodie as Housemaster and wishes him the best of luck.

LPIN'S

Summer ti me, and the livin ' is lazy, A-levels are boring, and Linacre Lawn beckons. We come to the end of another fine term in this great House we call home, and as our final days in the 'community ' fade away, we pause to look back on our achievements. Academically, our Shells shine through, with Brillo and Sam K. coming within the top ten in the exams, and together with Fergie R. and James S., they collected half the subject prizes in their year. On the slightly more active front, the two Willies did us proud in the 1st XI cricket, with Tim 'captain of the U16 As' Palmer making a guest appearance. Simon P. also played in the As, as did century-scoring Captain Bax, 'Vice'-captain Stewart, Alex 'wicked wicket taker' Reynolds and Tommy E. in the U 15s. Victory in the junior house cricket arrived just in time for printing with the boys winning by ten wickets. On the slightly wetter fro nt, Orsler made the lst VIII, Pete B. & Rodolphe paddled for the 2nd VIII, and Captain Terry and Nick carried the school swimming team to an unbeaten season. Several great captainc ies have also been bestowed on our wonderful House, including chessmaster Rodolphe, bridge-man Shaw, marksman Vernede, sword-smith Breen and badmintonist Aitken. King's Week involvement has never been as great, with Toulson, Edmunds and Fendius D. being Comedy of Errors, Shaw, Fendius A. and Breen being technical, Palmer and Loo being models, Theo & Pete lecturing, Mike P. & Charlie A. appearing in just about every concert and loads of tiny tots in the junior play. Our annual visit from Stan was superbly coordinated by Fearney, and help fro m other citizens of the L inacre empire was much appreciated . As usual, summer time is the time of love, and most ofLinacre were wearing watches. Young Sam Knight test drove in a (Hubbard-)Ford , and Damian went to a concert at Madigan Square Gardens, which apparently wasn't very successful. Luke played tennis with Jessica M. , and Robby A. made a mistake. Finch went down a narrow alley, D' Arjuzon went de Cabarrus, Edmunds had a millysecond of stew, and Terry had a good gayme of tennis .

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As we draw to an end, we must say best of luck to the leavers as they enter the harsh w over the precinct walls, and thank you to the cleaning-ladies for keeping us clean tid Orlct entertained during our frees. A special thank you must go to Mrs. White for her mother!~ canct and affection , Mr. Thane for his guidance throughout the years, and Mrs. Thane, for keep~re Mr. Thane sane. ng Once upon a time there were forty-four innocent chast beautiful princesses who were protected under the wat~hful e e, . . . of their vicious guard d~g ... Despite the dense undergro~h surroundmg the abbey, fore1gn pnnces managed to battle the1r way through to unsuspecting girlies Carried in strong arms they found their way into the world outside, where they were transformed into Broughton Babes. One babe found herself becoming a U.S.M. with Carter, while Barbie found her Ken. Some wandered further afield in search of new adventure; stopping at The Grange to pick up a rabbit without a nose and a purple sassoon. The red hair did not deter a suitor from Chateau Gal pins, while Rex also decided to go for the Punk look . And as for Annabel , breakin schoo l rules ... Some didn't venture quite so far. Fizzie must be awarded 'Horticulturalist of th~ Year', Planting seeds in Trad., and Happy Hannah's dormant relationship blossomed once again. The fairy godmother had also blessed upon these multi-gifted, academic nymphs sporting stardom ... Some shone at tennis - Toni , Scaly Malaria, Lou-Lou , Mini fred, Chess-Board and ... Gennie (?!). Dawsie and Lizzie sprinted their way to the shuttle, where they had lift-off. Five beautiful Broughton Bimbos strutted their stuff down the cat-walk under the expertise of the three good fairies . Actresses were too talented for the ma in school play , exhibiting acting prowess in the magical Pink Room. Musically, in the Requiem, angelic voices wafted heavenwards accompanied by harmonious violinists and a saxophonists, whereas the Shells just bopped away at the Shell Disco . Our thanks go to Mrs. Wakeham' and the Fairy Booton Godmother, and we hope this first year has not been marred by too many evil spells. The Irish princess must also be thanked. Sad good-byes to our Irish potato and our German Wiirstchen.

BROUGHTON

Please read these cautions carefully before attempting to operate this House: I. Make sure that all the vital components that make a successful House are securely connected together. Essential components include the right mix of sports, arts and 'social' behaviour. Overall sound quality can be improved if optional extra of James Longstaffe's conducting is included and Rob Van Allan ignored owing to stupid hair colour. During King's Week, select Dk II , Males and Jules as large contributions to the main play. It is likely than H . Core will appear more than once; do not worry if this occurs . 2. If you notice that there is much talent in the junior ranks, do not be discouraged; this is quite normal. Standard procedure is to put Youngman, AI and Gary Williams in Kent Ul4 cricket, add Hessey in the U 14 As and the result will be coming runners-up in the junior House cricket finals. It must be noted that Big Cawston did fail to make the First VIII. Hopefully the new improved version of the rowing squad will include this sizeable component next year along with Ricky Tozer who features this year. Ed and Steve are the tennis input, although they must be dealt with carefully as overheating (and perhaps overeating) is possible during Wimbledon. The cricket module can be pressed repeatedly for a variation of entertaining options. Press once for the four Shells, twice for Staz and Dave and three times for Little Deano and Pudge. For the best quality, raise levels to the I st XI where Buster and Plant will play consistently. 3. When trying to understand how the 'social' component operates, it is very important to remember that any programme involving Jules will be erased after three hours and interests will automatically turn purple. Power failures from Dan Drrrury will be compensated by the extra surge out of school. Note: it is essential that honorary Trad Lad Baz be connected in order for

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h. unlikely event to happen. O.K. 's fine tuning over long periods of time must be taken into 15 unt Although the accessory is mostly made in England, this is one German input. T his can 0 ~cseen ·clearly when trying to save Sweny . M from making a mistake only to tu rn green (with v ) Gus's memory function can be reconnected after being stored in a dry, cool place and e~ ~~atlemania w ill always rema in a favourite . If trying to obtain sustained quality, Tommy ~s has proved that pressing on/off button three times ensures this. If malfu nctions occur at any time, Buster says that a trip up to Lo ndo n can guarantee automatic assistance. 4 . Warning : none o_f the abo~~ will opera~e without the following: the cleaning ladies, wh~ ensure maximum hyg1ene conditions and D 1ck and Tony , who not only make the whole umt extremely presentable, but also contr ibute to its happy atmosphere immensely. Also, our resident ·service' men, Mr. Sellers and Mr. Miles, both able to cope with any difficulties that may arise, and Miss Brine . Without this very special component the unit is useless . Finally, it can be seen that the Chief Operator, Mr . Graham, has completed the fi rst stage of assembling this whole package extremely smoothly and successfully. His input is vital fo r general co-ordination and his hard work is greatly appreciated. Long may Tradescant House be the best buy on the shelves! 1

MITCHINSON'S

Dawn. The sun was n smg. A cock crowed in a 6a study. The dusty streets were bathed orange. O ut of the sun, five gr im silhouettes rode into town. The saloon doors smashed open,

striking the wooden walls . ' Whisky,' came the husky voice of Mike Rosato. 'Whatch you boys doon in town, said the Barman , an easy-going Nick , who had done all for this town, especially with King's Week, along with Graeme 'the sword ' Parkin, who played nights in the bar. 'We're here to take the Last Year gang.' The bar went silent. The sun went behind a cloud. Somewhere in the distance a dog howled. 'Then you boys will be wantin ' some kind of breakfast,' was the call from the balcony . 'That'd be mig hty kind of you, Maam. ' Bridgit owned the place and was there to take care of problems; and pretty good at it she was. 'Y'know this is a good town, but it's been sometime since it was cleaned up by Kathy and Liz, two deputies from Jefferson County, but if yer look in' fo r the Last Year gang, I be reckonin' on you find in ' 'em down Coral at noon. ' , The Last Year gang we re a bunch of the meanest, dirtiest, lowdown sons of snakes you were ever likely to meet , and you usually only met them once . They hadn't all been always bad. Mike ' Bouncer' Dav ies had been around when a gang of eleven ol' timers tried to take the town, but he raised a posse and literall y knocked them for six. Rob ' the Kid' had been good too, but had turned crooked in his ways. Some were mean and always would be . Young Tom K. and Sian had been in the park one afte rnoon, and had been blown away . 'Fashionable' Giles Hay, (called so, as he wanted to keep the Armani suit from Kathy 's Show), a cold-hearted killer did it. A fine ath lete, the two lovers dido 't stand a chance. Lawrence Potter, from Tennessee, had robbed the payroll and got away with over £ 1300 raised by the good citizens for Cancer Research. They totalled thirteen, usuall y unlucky for anyone they ran into. This was to be the five new deputies , Mike R. , and T om R ., Adam, Hugh and Penelope. ' We'll be needin ' thirteen coffins,' Adam half-whispered to Dave Higgins, the undertaker, who also ran a nice line of boats with Pr iyan and Ian , useful in a small frontier town, in a desert. No one will know how Tom C. became so good at swimm ing. ' Owen and Richard 's General Store' was next. They sold everything, but candles were their speciality - someday , they would make it big in lighting. ' Wwwhat can I I I do fo r you sir,' stammered the little guy . ' I guess we need some Ammo, ' replied Hugh. 205 (Terence L oo)

The Coral loomed, Penelope shouted out, and the thi rteen came out. 'What do you want? ' Joss replied, intimidatingly pulling back her long coat to reveal a Pai of Peacemakers, still shi ny from the factory. r ' We're here to ask you to leave town,' Penelope asserted herself. Giles was in a foul moOd from a run in, parking his horse, and expectorated chewing tobacco at the deputy. '~n' if we_don :t want to ... or are _you yella. ' Guns flashed in the h~t, shots fired. Mike Davies got 1t first, n ght tn the guts where 1t hu rt. One by one, they fell; Gtles, Rob , Sam, Loz, Vicky P hil, Harry , Joss , Purav , Jo and Naylah. Kenny's sixshooters clicked on empty chambers a~ the five moved in. ' ' You ain ' t takin ' me alive,' he called baring fifty pounds of dynamite in his jacket. And so the Last Year gang went out with a bang, scattered now from Edinburgh to Exeter (hopefull y. ) T he town too was getting cleaned up, the new deputies were out to paint the town Red (or purple?) . Maltby City was somewhere, no, more than a place, someone who we owed a lot to , more than we know, and may it flourish. Âˇ

( SAFE ... thank God, yet still fearing the possible invasion of Spider Man who would undoubtedly have no difficulty in shinning up the drainpipe and squeezing through the narrow bars ... Preparations for the Je rvis takeover of Broad Street were being undertaken. Suzy spied the ' Toulson Ltd .' van, but Juby was the first to run off the catwalk to help as soon as she saw the removal Mann . Lucy jazzED while Miranda sang and George played her sax. Everyone rowed well , especially Gill and Sarah Petrie,. but unfortunately Luxmoore stole the cup. Hopefully we'll get it back next year with the help of Sarah 's Terminator. Saskia held onto her j ewels but Kate, having returned safely , 'spilt a plate' whilst carrying the new Ferguson T. V . and Olive was left to clear up the POTTERy. Jane, Miranda , Sarah, Bug, Tania and Julia took a lunch break from loading the van to give concerts, but Bea was still hypnotised by the RUSSELLing leaves. Meanwhile Olivia , Diana, Julia and Miranda worked hard and got the ir well-deser ved prizes whilst ' Peltz' , Becca, Jane, Lola( !) and Serena had more success on the tennis courts.

JERVIS

Miranda, Jane, Suzy and Becca provided great entertainment with their performances in The Comedy of Errors. By Knight time, however , Sarah Hubbard-Ford was bored , but George and Tania spectacularly lit the way. Becca, Emma , Beth , Juby and Alexa had to be torn away from the fashion show to help with the move. But Becca and Suzy still weren 't ready because they were getting on with K. Y.O. 6as and fifths struggles through the exams, 6a desperately clinging on to the notion that 'after all , this paper is only worth 25% ' . ' Has anyone seen the door Matt?' said Mrs. Bellairs as we were about to leave. ' I done knowe' came Monsieur Dath ' s inspired reply. Pelz saved the day by finding it in the garden where 6as were chilling out over their revision with Mr. Freeze, with varying degrees of success due to a persistent singer. Meanwhile Julia had to remove imaginary Burrs with a Broom. Alexa realised we had Myles to go so Diana packed the Johnson's shampoo but the reindeer knocked it over. The removal van was just leaving when Frankie and Kim remembered the letters. Mr . W. waved goodbye and thanked the three Bs and our 'handsome man ' M . Dath as well as all the tutors for the ir help and wished them good luck.

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Cricket

Tcmn: J ul ian Lewi~-Joncs*_(Capt.) , Robhe rtTAhdan~s. T_h omkas A~~~~~~* W~~~l~la*el &~v~i~c~::~i~~~~~~~~c~~o~~~~~~ Gr 'lllt* Matthew Hillie r C hn stophc r Nort , o mas taz1c c r. 路 . *Colours ' ' '

R ESULTS

Played II , Won 2, Drawn 7, Lost 2, Abandoned 3. 5

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158-8 97). Drawn. Dover College 126-9 dec. (No rth 15-4-3 1-5, ~1 l so n 12-2-3 1-4); K.S.C. I - 路 on. Dulwich 160-6 (Finch 22-6-46-4). Drawn (Ram) . . Eastbournc 46-4 (Wilson 8.4-2-25-4) . Drawn (Ra 1~ ). K S C 197-6 dec路 Straggle rs of Asia 156-7 (Aidndge 13-2-44-4). D rawn . K:s: c: 2 10-7 dec:路(North 96); Band of Brothers 130-9 (North 12-2-39-7) . Drawn . K.S.C. 168-9 dec. ; K.C.S. Wimbledon 17 1-3. Lost. Sutton Vale nce 43 (Adams 12 .2-9 .2- 14-4); K.S.C. 46-0 . Won. D O.K. S. 199-7 dec . a nd 133-9 dec.; K.S.C. 178-6 dec. (North 58) and 148-7 (Wiseman 68*). rawn . M.C. C. 204-6 dec . ; K.S .C. 137 (Wiseman 52) . Lost. 207

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2nd XI A new management team was installed at the beginning of the season, which spluttered to life in between bouts of rain. We were perhaps luckie r than some teams in the number of games we played, but still did not play as much as we would have liked . Nonetheless, we can look back on an enjoyable te rm . The match against Epsom took place against all the odds, for it had been raining overnight and in the morning. The sun came out first in the west, however, and we started on time. Winning the toss , the captain inserted the home side on a drying wicket, and Matt Hillie r , eager to prove his 1st XI credentials, tore in. An easy chance went begging off the second ball , but it mattered little - he took six wickets, Epsom were reduced to 9 for 3, then 44 for 7, and despite a late rally could manage only 82. Batting on a much drier surface, we found the target undemanding. At home against Highgate we batted well ; and Tim Palmer was unlucky not to get a half-century, but we scored a little slowly; the declaration had to be delayed, and a draw was almost inevitable. In the sunshine at St. Lawrence the home side made a solid start, though Chris Mounsey-Thear's good humour was tested by the number of time~ the ball beat the outside edge , or took the edge, but did not fi nd a fielder's hands. He broke through eventually, however, and the home side lost three wickets for four runs. After a couple o f reasonably productive stands, they subsided, losing the last five for ten runs, Afolabi Sonaike takin~ th ree wickets and Mounsey-Thear returning for a couple more. Once again , a modest target was achieved with relat1ve ease, Seb Vance in particular playing with sound technique. In the drizzle against a very competent Dulwich side we bowled rather well , making them work hard for runs, so that they were never in a position to declare; Adam Jackson and Sqot Wiseman bowled especially well , and took good wickets towards the end of the innings. On this occasion however, we started badly in the chase for victory- which, given the time available, was never going to be straightforward anyway - and despite attempts to go for it, wickets fell , and we were forced to fight for a draw. As usual, St. Edmund's included one or two very good players, but once they were dismissed, there was little resistance to our spin attack- perhaps used belatedly . This time again, the target proved very straightforward , as C hris North and Tom Stazicke r strolled home. Against Trinity the home side scored slowly, but another target was reached compete ntly- the fou rth in the season. We therefore came unbeaten into our last match in an abbreviated season at Dover. Unfortunately, not only were we playing their 1st XI, but they were a very successful side against other 1st XIs, and we had a team that, thanks to exams and Kin1{s Week commitments, was only at half-strength. We batted first, and were four wickets down for eleven runs withm a quarter o f an hour. Had Duke of York's held their catches, it could have been even worse. A rally, thanks to Wiseman and Drinkwater, saw us to a total that was not good by any sta ndards, but which was considerably better than had looked possible at one stage. It did not prove difficult for the home side, though to our credit , we bowled very well, especially the captain, and they were made to work very hard indeed for the runs. Thus the season e nded on a low note; yet muc h of what had gone before had been very good. In saying that, it has to be noted that whilst the team has done well , a ~ lance at the match statistics reveals that it has been often by virtue of the efforts of 'guest ' players, from the Colts m particular. Indeed the 2nd XI had the feel of a rather select 'invitation' club, with a hard core of regular members augmented by various visitors. Ideally, however, the 2nd XI should regularly field a majority of players ready for 1st XI next season, and perhaps rather more in contention for a place in th is one than was the case . That is not to say that some players d id not do well. Adam Jackson was perhaps the player of the season, topping the batting averages and taking more wickets than anyone else. He regula rly contributed solidly with the bat. He turned the ball , and bowled with variation, and certainly might have been used more often. Sqot Wiseman too batted and bowled well on several occasions (though he sometimes overestimated his ability to swoop in the fi eld to the amusement of all present). Josh Cole and Seb Vance batted with consiste ncy, though rarely looking as if they might go on to really big scores, whi lst Jamie 'Teflon' Nicholson was invaluably inventive a nd positive at the wicket , especially in his running. Another player with promise, Richard Paul, needed a full season to tron out the technical problems in his bowling action- he had the infuriat ing knack of mixing the unplayable with the unreachable! 208

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ffered from injuries from time to time. The rest of the team - whatever its composition - played with good Ia ed an important part in the team' s success, and they were given the best of examples by the captain, ,p1rtl ""~~in~water, who bowled with enthusiasm, frequently with little luck, and who unselfishly batted rather lower W1lh:1111 der than his ability merited. Thank you all for a very enjoyable season. RCW AMM the or . . . AND . . . 10 . William Drinkwater, Josh Cole, Adam Jackson, Jamie Nicholson, Jonathan Norman, Richard Paul, Seb Vance, Te•~C\eman and from: Oily Carter, Michael J. Davies, William Davies, Julian Hinves, Dan Katz, Chris Milne, ~1 Mounsey-Thear, Tim Nealon, Chris North, Alex Ogedegbe, Tim Palmer, Marcus Pyke, Afolabi Sonaike, Tom <hrt'·•er John Vernede, Tom Wacher. ~u t ' 0

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82 (Hillier 6-22); K.S.C. 83 for 2 (Davies M. 25 n.o.). Won by 8 wkts. 0 1 J54 for 8 dec. (Palmer 48, Jackson 38 n.o.); Highgate 86 for 4 (Jackson 3-24). Drawn. . Lawrence 101; K.S.C. 102 for 2 (Vance 35 n.o.). Won by 8 wkts. St ,ich 123 (Wiseman S 3-3 1, Jackson 3-36); K.S .C. 67 for 8. Drawn. ruiEdrnund 's 114; (Jackson 3- 12, North 3-32); K.S.C. 115 fo r I (Stazicker 53 n.o., North 50 n.o.) . Won by 9 wkts . / n.ity 142 for 6 dec. (Mounscy~Thear 4-36); K.S.C. 143 for 7 (Jackson 40, Drinkwater 29). Won by 3 wkts. 1\rS c. 76 (Wiseman 30 n.o., Nicholson 23); Duke of York's 1st XI 77 for I. Lost by 9 wkts .

3rd XI =-Whilst struggling to come up with a word that would best describe th is year's season, one that continually comes 11

mind is WET. Had we been a team devoted to the welfare of ducks (of the feathered variety), or a swimming team,

~,would have been in clover, or rather water. As it is, we are, or at least pretend to be, a cricket team, and , despite

Jll rumours to the contrary , a really quite good one. The season did not get off to an auspicious start. On the first ball of the first match, the first batsman got out for the first diamond duck it has ever been our privilege to lau~h at Humphrey promised he'd do better next time. Alex M. struggled th rough the season, gradually disintegrating, bus of him falling by the wayside, until eventually we had him put down. His average has since improved. Of our wicket keeper Luke, much comment has frequently been heard in the pavilion. Unfortunately most of it was unprintable, so all that we can say is that he isn't really that bad. Honest. Juhan Hinves has imparted penetration, accuracy, speed and aggression into his love life. I only wish the same could be said of his bowling. What I want to know is who \'a' the coach who presented him with his window of opportunity (no, Jules, you won't have to pay for it. .. ). It is a great sadness to me that Alex B. -W. has not been able to play all the time; his absence leaves a substantial gap in the team. Every team has its Graham Gooch, except for the Th1rds: we have Bill Davies instead. And whilst we lost hun very quickly to the Seconds, we like to think that the runs he scored for us were far more enjoyable than the run; he scored for them. Moving from the sublime to the ridiculous, John Vernaihnwrd must be the luckiest typing aror ever to hold a bat. In fact, the team is planning a wh ipround to buy John his very own shovel, because it wouldn't make any difference. Of Dan Katz, one could say that the catch he took in the slips was one of the best slip catches ,ccn this season, but then again it was the only slip catch this season. Personal ly, I blame the bowlers. After Dan comes Gus. He may have lacked the stam ina of a daffodil , but he could certainly bowl fast. Next season we suggest he bowls at the stumps. Kieran Murphy is to cricket what a combi ne harvester is to synchronised swimming. Whilst he no longer 'murph1es' on the fie ld , he certai nly 'kierans' at the crease. Quack. Tom Barwell was a valuable player mthc same way Ratners is a jewelry shop; in a sideways reshuffle, he became captain of the Fourths. Our loss was their loss. Chris Milne promised much last season, and indeed this season went in to score a fifth and returned four balls later with a duck. He was therefore obvious material fo r the Seconds. Also, we must say a word about Tom Wachcr: 'a word about Tom Wachcr'. Simon Johnson showed a decidedly relaxed attitude to the captaincy, even failing to turn up to one match, which takes the David Gower school of comatose captaincy a little too far. Having said all that, we didn't really do too badly. We played matches, winning, drawing, and being cheated of victory. We had several fifties, and even more ducks. Above all else its been a lot of fun . Lacking the cut-throat competition of the Firsts and Seconds, the Thirds have rumbled on in genteel decay . This crumbling edifice of a team would not be what it was without the expert guidance of the two doctors, Hands and Allday. To them we extend the glove of thanks. To Ron Lobeck we award the cricket bat of contempt. If it rains again next season, he'l l get the stumps as well. Who needs fantasy cricket when you've got the Thirds? ... P.S. I take it you're all avai lable for the Ashes Tour ... The Gentlemen of the Third Eleven were: Simon Johnson (Capt.), Dan Katz (Vice-Capt.), Alex Bingham-Wilson , Julian Hinves, Humphrey Jones, Alex Maines , Kieran Murphy , Luke Toulson, John Vernede, Tom Wacher, Gus Wilkinson. Also played: Tom Barwcll , Will Davies, Chris Milne, Simon Peachey, Marcus Pykc.

Colts XI This turned out to be the most absurd Colts cricket season in l iv in~ memory. On the first Saturday it rained at lunchtime, and only a lim ited overs match, on a very damp wicket , was poss1ble against Epsom. Tim Palmer (33), Nick Puleston Jones (54) and Umar Shariff (24) took the score to 130 for 5 in the 25 overs, and a steady bowling performance, led by Palmer (4 for 27), restricted the opposition to 109 for 7. We had no match against Highgate (it was a sunny day), and at Dulwich we fielded as the rain got heavier and heavier. There was at least time for Adam Chataway to take a sensational slip catch, and for Marcus Pyke and Barnaby Cowin to take three wickets apiece, before common sense, at last, prevailed and the match was abandoned. The Eastbourne game never started as the rain set in at lunchtime; while the Cranleigh match was called off in the morning. By half term, therefore, no full match had been played. 209

REFLECTIVE ROWER (Terence Loo)

The fi rst completed game was against Tonbr idge, Marcus Pyke batted through to tea , scoring a determined 47 out, while l'v!ic h ae~ Zie~ l er (26) and Chris Moun.sey -T~ear (30), with three sixes and .two fours in a brief but feroc'IOI knock, provided him with good support. Afolab1 Sonatke bowled well, but the expenence of the opposition took IOUs to a deceptively comfortable victory. In the fi nal match , against Kent Schools, Pyke (43) batted superbly in an 0 ~hern st.and of76 with William Bax (46). T he last.six wickets fel} for just 16 in a final flurry. Mounsey-The~r then pro<J ntng his best spell of the season - fast and stratght, 2 for 25 m 12 overs - to make sure that the opposition were nuced really in the hunt. ever T he team deserve particular credit for the ir continued enthusiasm in such a fru strating season. T his was a tale group, who hardly missed their compatriots in the I st XI. They formed a side balanced enough to keep Ray Illingw~t~ happy, and they played well when they had the chance. Most are likely to be successful in senior teams - and seve" ra1 have had opportunities to prove this already. We wish them sunshine in the next two years. P.G.H. AND H.E.J.A Temn: Timothy Palmer (Capt .), Marcus Pyke, Umar Shariff, Afolabi Sona ike, Christopher Mounsey-Thear Simo . Peachey , James Capel, Adam Chataway, James Sandry. ' n Also played: Will iam Bax, Barnaby Cowin, Thomas Dean, Simon Gittins, Nicholas Puleston Jones, Alexande1 Reynolds, Alexander Walker, M ichael Ziegler. RESULTS K.S.C. 130 for 5 (Puleston Jones 54, Palmer 33); Epsom 109 for 7 (Palmer 4-27). Won. Dulwich 163 fo r 7 (Pyke 3-26, Cowin 3-33). Abandoned. K.S.C. 138 for 9 dec. (Pyke 47* , Mounsey-Thear 30); Tonbridge 139 for 2. Lost. K.S.C. 158 (Bax 46, Pyke 43); Ke nt Schools 142 for 6 . Drawn.

Junior Colts A XI Whilst writing th is report last year , I was sitting listening to a temporary resurgence in English cricket in a test match against Shane Wa rne' s Australia. The rebirth was fa irly short-lived a nd I now sit listening to the national team struggli ng against a rather ordinary Kiwi attack. Last year, however, my mood was lifted by a ver't satisfactory Junior Colts season in which most of the players improved their game considerably. Sadly , although this year's results and fi nal record were much the same, my mood is not so bright: this has been a very mixed season and we did not witness the same level of improvement. T he wins were largely against poor sides. When we came up against a good side we were found wantmg. To be fair , the Saturday weather was appall ing - three matches against strong oppositio~ (' learning matches') were washed out co!llpletetx .and, sadly, the weather meant that the grass nets were often too unreliable to e ncourage the necessary good-quality practice. Last year I wrote about the all-day game against K.C.S. Wimbledon (which was won), so why not do the same again? Again , the weather was hot and sunny, a pleasing characte ristic of this fix ture. Again, we won the toss and batted but, this time, it was soon very clear that we were up against an extremely good Wimbledon team. The opening bowler ran in a long way but smoothly and gradually increased momentum in order to achieve a near-perfect side-on bowling action . He unleashed the delivery, from a high a rm close to the stumps, straight , fast and of fullish length. He was too much for most of our batsmen: Michael Z iegler, William Bax a nd Leo Fransella were a ll comprehensively bowled. Although Simon Gittins, batting at three, showed admirable character to become the last o ut , the other wickets folded fa r too quickly to a m ixture of indiffere nt strokes and the unfo rtunate but , when under pressure, the inevitable run-out. When W imbledon batted , we had fa iled to learn the lessons of bowling strai~ht and full - an extremely talented le ft -handed batsman made short work of our total. T his was certainly the low pomt in the season - defeat in itself against a strong side matters little. W hat does matter is the manner of the disaster . .. However, I must end my moanings there. There was muc h that individuals can be proud of in 1994. Simon Gittins, Wi lliam Bax and Michael Z iegler all scored hundreds- in a year of cricketing records, that is probably another one fo r the statist ic ians (Mr. Bee?). They should enjoy similar success in the future. Alex Reynolds ' bowling improved steadi ly. He should be a fi ery and effective pace-man fo r the lsts in the future. Damia n Stewart showed aggression with both bat and ball but needs more consistency. Christopher O'Neil-Dunne became a genuine a ll-ro under, an excellent striker of the ball and an improving bowler. Edward Butler and David Smith both demonstrated very different but positive batti ng tale nts - put the two togethe r and you would have a very fine player . Charlie Munday has good hands for wicket-keeping and surpris ing mobil ity. Leo Franse lla can certa inly spin the ball but is a nother who must develop consiste ncy. James Stazicker worked hard at his bowling action - it will bring results in the future - and Tom Edmunds was always keen, whether as bowler, batsman, 12th man or scorer. As a captain, William showed a good understanding of the game and inc reasing authority. There is defi nitely talent he re . With greate r concentration a nd application to bas ic skills, they can a ll expect a great deal of e njoyment and success in the future. There is a large jump to be made at this stage in a boy 's cricketing life. Prep. school cr icket is no longer of any rea l worth - they a re now having to play against people who can sometimes live well in adult c ricket. Shots that once went for four or six now often get them out and balls that once took wickets now find their way to the boundary with increasing alacrity. It is a very much a learning process and players who wish to go on must be aware of the fact that this learning ta kes time , but it will pay off. I wish all these pla'/ers well, more learning and more success. They have been ' fun' to be with and, often, very entertaining. I thank .C. M.W. for all his help at nets and with the umpiring. Eng land arc no longer struggling - within an hour , the Kiwi attack now look very ordinary. Cricket is an utterly G.R.C. fasc inati ng and rewarding game. 2 10

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Ed d B tier Thomas Edmunds Leo Fransella, Simon Wi!liai~ll BDax ( apAt.l' . ~ar Reyunotds David Smith , Damian Stewart , James Munday Chnstopher 0 Nc1 - unnc, cxan er ' . ' Gttll.o~. Michael Z teglcr. StJZICI<er, RESULTS Played 10, Won 6, Drawn 2, Lost 2. laycd more t/wn one pame):

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G.ttins 57) Drawn. Ep~om ( 1d' (Gittins 102*, Reynolds 6-24). Won by 99 runs. St E<JmunSt~zicker 5- 11 , Butler 47). Won by 7 wkts. lhghga~0 hege (Fransclla 6-9) . Won by 9 wkts. ()over 0 n (Bax 73*). Drawn. S1InO~ La(Jf'Y nolds 5-29, Stewart 4-26). Lost by 19 runs. ouiWICh e Won by 10 wkts. suuon YalencU 14 (A. Williams 48*). Won by 3 wkts. 1\cnt Sc~?lsbledon (Wiseman 55 Sonaike 6-28). Lost by 8 wkts. K c.s. y1mk 's (Bax tOO*, Z iegier 104* , Reynolds 5- 17). Won by 125 runs. Duke of or .

JUOI·or Colts B XI

arel Ia ed as a team · the improvement m the results indicate, this has been ~ poor seaS?", : Tl~ht.eamayvf,i'v: bee~ due~o the bad weaiher which interntpted s both individual and team, dtd not matena tse. ts m · h d s· Langton G S did not take perfomlance~mes were abandoned and the games against Eas.tbourne, Cranle tg ancoutd~~~ defend agai~st a straight pll:~~ ~~~?n~ to rain. The bO\~lers were unab3lel to bow b I st,radtgt}ha~dw~: v~~tysTi~~ppointing was the attitude of players P f 48 d·smissals dunng the season, were owe · . r ball. Out o . t ·ons They made very little attempt to improve thetr per .ormances. d . . I roduced the best bowling performance (7-25) an during pracuce sessl The best batting performance was 49 by ~lm Strange. He a ~? ped by Paul Bainbridge (11! .2). Peter Capel handled st bowl in average (9 .9). The best battmg averag~ was ac tev :~~~fficult tas~ of being captain in a quiet and effic1ent way. D.J .B.

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Bushnell (8) Tom Edmunds (2), James Simon Pe~t (6)i Holloway (2), JamesRMbtller-SJ ~nes .th <'6) 'TametscStazic ke'r (I) Tim Strange (8)' Owen Thompson-Dredge (I)' M IC lac Tom O'Sullivan (3), o ert txsmt . , . ' Wharfc (4), Ben White (4), Adam W tthen ngton (7). ( ) Matches played Team: Peter Capel

(7~ (Capt.) , Pa( r)' B~.inb~~feh~i?·(~)etro~~~Nor;is (S'):~hris O'Neil-Dunne (2),

RESULTS Played 6, Drawn 2 , Lost 4.

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Hig.hgatc, 99-9 (Bushnell 4-30, Strange 4-5). St.. Au.gustinc's. 23-3. Match abandoned owmll> to ram. Dulwich, 66-3. Matc h abandoned owmg to ram .

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K.S.C., 99 (Bainbridge 33). Lost.

K.S.C .. 90; Trinity School, 93-3. Lost. K.C'.S. Wi nthlcdo n 179-3 dec.; K.S.C., 11 5-7 (Peel 33*) . Drawn.

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· · . · . . that this would be a very good s1dc and the onl y thmg From the lirst pracucc ol the season It w.as lhllC • 1 P~,,~cnt b . ~ lccllcd and several tong gaps between games. that halted its prog ress was the weather. with t rcc m.~tc :c~ c~ng ~'t' never reached the wicket. Onl y two matches 0 We were never short ol runs, were never bow lee~ out . dnl tle ~tches been he ld and in the other two drawn gam~s were won but a third ~outct have been had. on: of sc rcr•.tt ~roppT~~ onty defeat was off the ball following the fi rth m the opposition made little e ffort to go fo1 rcasonab c ta rgets. the twentieth o ver ol the last hour (afte r 6 .30). . h (though the re would have been · d b . t off the last ball of the twcnllet over . Th Against Epsom we ~ere asstste ~ a run- 0 u 'h runs des ite having more overs than we d1d. e extent time for one more). H1ghgatc made little attempt to get 1 c s aifer a challenging declarat ion and would probably of the victory against Dulwich is misleading: they went f~r ~he ~o~e at 85 A splendid example of how in order .to w~n have won had their powerfu l ~eft-ha~der not ¥?tout. Wll 1 ~~~was the m.ost extraordinary of the season. Need mg SIX one does sometimes have to n s.k lo~mg . The . onbndge res red the last over with the scores level. The final over, to win off the last two overs with SIX w1ckct.s 10 hand they ent~ k ball (which shattered the stumps). One could 0 bowled by Mark Westlake, -:vent wi~ket, wtc.kct , Sd.ot, do~ WI~ c\t,~ fielding was sloppy. (For the only time in the hardly have had a more cxctllng fim sh . Agamst tmon ng on 2 11

season and normally reliable fielders dropped catches.) K.C.S. Wimbledon made little attempt to go for the ru having as many overs as we had and despite having put us in. We did bowl straight, however (at least fromn~. dc~Pile as is shown by the fact that of the wickets which fell two were bowled and four were l.b.w. A slight anti oreclldi. a season full of exciting cricket. ·c IIlla~ to The team always batted first and usually got off to an excellent start (four opening partnerships of 40 or 111 by Pard ip Sidhu and Tim Hamlin , a right/left combination which disconcerted most opposition bowling. Theo~e) lr,J played hts shots from the start which meant we generally took the initiative at once. He perhaps needs a littleorlller patience, but though his highest score was only 37 it is not insignificant that in his only game for the A team he lllorc 62. Tim, on the other hand, was qu ite content to play an anchor role which meant that he was never first 0 ~ 01r.l was happy to wait for the bad ball and even after batting for an hour and a half or more had the discipline t~ · lie the good ball on its merits. Once established he could hit with tremendous power and timing and his straight six agpla) Wimbledon was one of the finest shots I have seen in twenty years of taking this level of cricket. am ' Rob Adams came in at first wicket down, a man with a wonderful eye who could change the course of a 01 in a few overs once he had got his eye in. In fact he only failed once in five innings and, like Tim, scored two fif~tch Unlike Tim, however, he was enti rely unorthodox and hit his sixes to unexpected corners of the ground (like 5 ~e, covc_r). The No. 4spot_varied ~ut Alex Hayes establishc~ himself as the perfect No. 5, ~ble to. stay in and accum~l~re or htt out as the Sttuatton requtred and only once dtd hts tendency to play across the lme bnng about his downfal\e These four all scored more than a hundred runs during the course of the season, a not particularly spectacular fea but certainly an unusua l one. t The rest of the batting was rarely needed. Matthew Brooks scored a dogged 35 not out against Dulwich (comtn to the wicket at 64 for seven and putting on 65 with Alex Hayes) but onfy once again reached the wicket. Fer u~ Reynolds, another left-hander, looked classy but had few opportunities and Alex Forrest developed a capacity for gen~ng out unluckily. Richard Berry was promoted to the A side (alter two ducks lasting a total of three balls) but came back later in the season to score a lusty 4 1 not out in about ten minutes. Sam Parker and Chris Pickering each scored 40 in their sole appea rance and David Greengrass did all that was required of him in the two games in which he played One point whtch emphasises the maturity of the batting as a whole was that throu?hout the season there was only on~ nm-out (hard luck, Harry!) and the running was usually excellent (though Tim s calling could have been clearer). It is, however, bowling that wins matches and, as most of ours were played on the all-weather pitch, spin bowling at that. Here the leader was Matthew Brooks. He claims never to have bowled leg-spin before but he learned quickly and developed excellent flight. At this level of cricket even the bad ball from a leg-spinner is likely to get a wicket and his season's figures of 4 1. 5-7- 147-12 show both economy and aggression. His main fault was that he sometime~ bowled too short. This was rarely expensive,· but it did give the batsman too much time to play the ball. At the other end Sam Knight's off-spin was even more economical though he took fewer wickets (47-8-141-9). It is fair to sa> that he was one of the unluckiest of bowlers, with mistimed shots frequently just eludin~ fielders. He bowled with his head and clea rly thought about what he was aiming to do. With these two there was ltttle opportunity for Fergus Reynolds' chinamen and googlies (and, he, like others of his type, found great difficulty in fl tght ing the ball in the nets, thus getting little practice). Of the medium pacers, Mark Westlake bowled with tremendous heart and accuracy and will get more wickets when he plays more often on grass, and towards the end of the season Matthew Knight made a good impression with his in-swing and scam (and actually ended up with the best average) . T im Hamlin, Alex Hayes and Pardip Sidhu all bowled tidily when they were needed. In the field the side was generally very good, with Fergus, Sam , Richard Johnson and both Alexes excelling and Harry Walker was an efficient wicket-keeper when he concentrated: he made one or two good catches and stumping~. but generally the ball came through too slowly for the latter. Mark Preston and Henry Hardy both held good catches, the latter at slip , a most unusual occurrence. The real star in the field, however, was the captain, Pardip. Imaginative in his bowling changes and even more imaginative in his field placings he always gave the impression he was controlling the game. Field placing is one of the most difficult parts of cricket, particularly when one plays on grounds with unusual boundaries, but Pardip managed to get the right person in the right place most of the time. He also managed to get most of the team involved in the game in some way, no easy feat when so many were deprived of a bat so often. Overall a fine season. It has been a pleasure and a pnvilegc to manage a team of such talented and personable players. G.D.W. Team from: Pardip Sidhu (Cap t.), Rob Adams, Richard Berry, Matthew Brooks, Alex Forrest, David Greengrass, Tim Hamlin, Henry Hardy, Alex Hayes, Richard Johnson, Matthew Knight , Sam Knight, Sam Parker, Chris Pickering, Mark Preston, Fergus Reynolds, Harry Wa lker and Mark Westlake. RESULTS v Epsom (H). King's 164-4 dec. (Adams 58*, Sidhu 37, Hamlin 30); Epsom 77 (Brooks 5-3 1, Hamlin 2-5) . Won by 87 runs. v Hi g h~atc (A). King's 171 -6 dec. (Ham lin 50, Sidhu 3 1); Highgate 93-5 (Berry 3-24). Drawn. v Dufwtch (H). King's 141 -8 dec. (Brooks 35*, Hayes 34, Sidhu 26); Dulwich 92 (Westlake 3- 18, S. Knight 3-30, Brooks 2-22) . Won by 49 runs. v Tonbridge (H). King's 163-6 dec. (Hayes 43, Parker 40, Adams 3 1); Tonbridge 164-8 (Westlake 4-31, M. Knight 2-28). Lost by two wickets. v Simon Langton (H). King's 172-5 dec. (Adams 59, Berry 41*, Pickering 40); Simon Langton 103-9 (Brooks 4-33, S. Knight 2-34) . Drawn. v K.C.S. Wimbledon (H). King's 159-3 dec. (Hamlin 50*, Adams 29, Sidhu 25); K.C.S. 97-7 (M. Knight 3-18, S. Knight 2-20) . Drawn. 212

(}nder 14 C XI ~strong side this year and I feel that we should have been unbeaten. We lost only one match: V

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wa~ aner a good batsman who also was able to bowl and catch . The latter was a strong batsman who often held

th~ fo.r~ together: he w~s strong o~ the leg side as he showed in hitting the first ball for 6 against Cranl~igh. Will thlltea batted third , scormg 43 agamst Sutton Valence, and almost became a good leg spmner, when he pitched the Ta on, the wicket. David Greengrass, complete with 'Robin Smith ' arm pad, held up the middle order very well. t>a~l 0Hi1lier the all-rounder at6, was a mighty striker of the ball and took many wickets with his spin . Richard Johnson Jo n ctcd th~ art of bowling bouncers, therefore opening the bowli ng. He also could hit very hard, as he showed with ~rf~ainst Dulw ich. ~am Norris was the other opening bowler, bowling ~traight and fast, although he kept worrying ~ legs might g1ve out. Torn Lloyd-Srnuh was an all-rounder who m less strong years would have been g1ven that c to do. Matthew Knight bowled too well: the Bs took him from us. Matthew Gardiner, James Caney and Charlie 0 l" ~h-Pcmberton also played when the Ds could spare them. We had the pleasure of the undoubted talents of the two ,f~rks {Sweny and Pr~ston). until the pressure became too much and they opted for tennis. Thank you very much F.J. ~nd Mr. Fox for copmg w1th us for a whole season.

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Simon Bodey, Ch ris Letts, Will iam Tallon (Wicket), Henry Trew (Capt.), David Greengrass, Joh n Hillier, RICh~rd Johnson, Torn Lloyd-Smith, Sam Norris, and two from: Mark Preston, Mark Sweny, Matthew Knight, James Caney. Matthew Gardiner, Christian Smith , Charlie Leigh-Pemberton. RESULTS

Dulwich 102; K.S.C. 102. Tied. K.S.C. 142-6 dec.; Sutton Valence 82. Won by 60 runs. Tonbridgc 96; K.S.C. 42. Lost by 54 runs. Cranlcigh 62; K.S.C. 63-6 {8.3 overs). Won by 4 wkts. K.S.C. 199-8 dec.; Dulwich 111-6. Drawn .

Under 14 D XI All cricket teams had a wretchedly damp May: but when the fixture list is a fragile as ours {for very few boys' ,chools. let alone co-ed schools, can run to four U 14 elevens) it hits hard. As Henry said about the Cs, this was a very strong squad: in most years the Cs would have been Bs and the Ds Cs. What impressed Mr. Fox and me most about this year's squad was not only that we cou ld fie ld a D XI for the first time in many years but that the spirit of the squad was very positive: the players were ~real fu n to be with because they cooperated and enjoyed their cricket. All contributed: Nei l Thomas. Chris Elworthy, S1mon Stearn and William Justice come to mind as people who, although not naturally talented , were wi lling to work at technique and surprised themselves by their improvement. That last match at Dulwich showed the team spiri t at its best: ten to win and last man in . A classic victory. A word about our captains. Tom Byford man a~ed to be unavai lable for the matches the Ds actually completed: Charlie Leigh-Pemberton was an admirably conscientious replacement {and had the best score of the season: 33* in the first Dulwich match). Matthew Gardiner was a pleasi ngly rel iable vice. For the Cs, Henry Trew was clearly the ri~ht man for the job: he took fu ll responsibility {and on the one occasion I was foo lish enough to offer adv ice, followmg it caused the team to lose a chance of a historic win at Tonbridge). If is 47 at Dulwich typified his batting: powerful and cleanly hit, espec ially his straight drives. If our over rate was \Omewhat slow, it was because Henry was commendably thoughtful about his field plac ings and bowling changes. A word of thanks also to P.W .F. for his enthusiasm, commitment and coaching, and to Geoff Wells for taking the o, away. Overall. despite the moist May. pleasing memories of positi ve cricketers. J.A .T. !cam: Tommy Byford, Charlie Leigh-Pemberton (Capt.), Matthew Gardiner (Wicket , Vice-Capt.), Ade Ademiluyi , Tnstan Byrnes, James Caney, Chris Elworthy , William Justice, Simon Lau, T im Rainbird, Joe Randall-Cutler, Leo Siu, Chris Sm ith , Simon Stearn, Neil Thomas. RESULTS

K.S.C. 110-5; Dulwich. Rain stopped play. Tonbridge rather a lot, K.S.C. nearly as many: Lost by 100+ runs. Du lwich 5 1; K.S.C. 52-9. Won by one wicket.

Haymakers XI The number of matches played might have been considerably more numerous if the weather in April , and especially May, had been kinder. Games against The Essexmen. Hicks Forstal and Barham were cancelled because of inclement weather. On a brighter note it was very encouraging to see so many more of the Common Room turning out to play. 01~ hands such as Nick Phillis, Roy White and Hugh Aldridge donned their whites once again. Freshmen Andrew M1Ies. Jon White and Geoff Wells brought the average competence level up considerably. Indeed in the opening game 213 (T.R.H.)

against the W an~ering ~inst rel s Andrew Miles scored ani . . as R ..P. Bee claimed h•s sixth wicket his best ever fi u mpress•ve unbeaten 80 . Birley 's erupted in a roar of expene,nced a defection of a most curibus kind in that turf. In the game against the Old Boars 1 e, avmg. been .unsuccessful that he d rather face our attack. Reven e wa sw . to date with the b e Ill for 0! A magnifi cent 54 by Geoff Wells Andrew Miles dismissing the traitor, caught a defeat at the hands of Alkham. In the limited v c ory was ours. For the first lime ever the Ha maker OW)C<J was drafted into the side to bolster gu:rs game followed Wood ser ved hat-t/ suffcrC(J agamst the Queen's and Royal Hampshire's m has traditionally been the most testing Peter a total of 126. After the fiery opening attack had b · e from being 26-6 at one a well-earned victory. The Haymakers • fortunes chan een wea.t ered • Q m WISeman and Peter Henderson ui o amass of 126 set for us to chase proved too onerous considerably m !he game versus Goodnestone Park us to 0 . .S. proved to be a well-matched fi xture . Victory Greyhounds captained by we succumbed competent Blackm ore Valers team Th e o t e last ball.. In the fi nal fi xture of the n er, the Harvesters Will avenge this particular defeat on. th e1r tou r towas however lost With only one over to spare · pseahson Dorset! er aps

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On this ' historic' tour, the weather was magnificent and the c . . and G .P.R. came to spectate ; several records were b roken a n cket always e njoyable. Five 'original' tourists pia ed record this. was our last year in Abbeylands, our ;;' thh made significant contributions. It i/ sad ave prov1ded quite exceptiOnal hospitality for so many yers ~m Of!!e '"Sherborne, where Ian and Sheila Elliott one to make our tours so enjoyab le . · e are Immensely grateful to them for all they have d P.G.H.

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Mwaka Kamana (Shb) LOng dark, narrow rooms - soulless, draughty, shadowy , eerie. All about their own lacking personality. Food as if from the gutter; hell-burning in the throat, havoc-wreaking on the stomach. Loneliness, sickness to the heart, passiveness, helplessness, hopelessness. The dark wood, sending chills down the spine of the offender - glistening varnish the swish, the crack; the cane. The pain, increasing even further the yearning for home. The feeble, sickened cry: 'Help me! Help me!' Never a response. Lifeless classrooms, identical teachers. Heartless nurses pretending to tend the sick. Expressionless faces here, there, everywhere. And friends? Not a chance. Sadly.

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The Nightmare. 'Do I really have to go?' 'Darling, it'll be fun.' 'Right' , muttered sarcastically under the breath. The ride was eventless, until they were near the school. Then she started to cry. Cries turned into screams, accompanied by the most violent of convulsions. All of this was ignored. Her mother began to hum, her father tapping his fingers on the wheel to her beat. Hmm, bmm, tap, tap. Hmm, hmm, hmm, tap, tap, tap. Hmm, tap. She had never wanted to go to boarding school. But her parents treated her like a possession. She bad no say in anything. Buzzing, happy faces. Sunlight - people's light, radiating from that inner glow. Contentedness, popularity. Rooms; spacious, homely, comfortable, filled with music and lively conversation. Social life. Boyfriend and girlfriend occupying a corner. Teachers; hospitable, stern, kind concern. Community, communication, contact, cooperation, collaboration. Fun, laughter, togetherness. Too preoccupied with this or the other to think of home. One to another; gracious, vivacious. Life, youth, spirit, joy. The Ideal Fantasy. 'I hate you!' she finally blurted out. Words fallen on deaf ears, she thought. Though she bad never said these particular words to them, their selective hearing was not alien to her. The pressure in her head was unbearable, the knot in her stomach taut. 'My God!' muttered again; it was a habit. 'Don't take his name in vain, young lady!' spoken severely, as a mother teaching her daughter morality. So she swore under her breath instead. Faces turned scarlet in the front two seats, but there were no words retorted. Instead, a silence was thrown back that increased the pressure and tightened the knot still further. The scream inside her was almost ready to surface. Work, play. Exhilaration, depression. Boredom, fun. Nice, nasty. Good, bad. Hopefulness, helplessness. Colour, dullness. Black, white. Love, hate ... All the opposites - it's what you make of it. She kept the scream in check. But not the anger. Her fists became its voice, booming, strong and powerful, pounding first the seats and then the heads in front of them . 'You beasts!' Control was lost and the scream, animal-like, came tearing from the depths of her body, vibrating in her throat, then subsiding, slowly, into an unearthly gargling sound, then a whisper, a breath, nothing. The car swerved off and on the road, the fists pounded. On and on the fists pounded. 'We're almost there, honey,' composed, seemingly. The battle was lost. She dropped her hands, trying to caress the raw knuckles. Suddenly, she felt ashamed and happy all at once. 215

Full of colour, bright and tant~lising. Posters, photos. Tidy, messy. Music. Ah Pop, R + B, Rap- always mus1c. Warmth, homeliness. A friend Another vays lllU.Sic Bo?ks, folders, desks and chairs. Lamps- for reading_ prob~bly neve;·toab~ another: the1r true purpose. Beds, space. Fun, laughter, secrets Carpets· dull bro Cused for nauseous green. And yet it has life, character _ spice ~ven. ' wn. urtains; Her studyI dormitory. She realise~ t~at by going to this school, she would be away from them Th b they wanted 1t hke that, and now she did too. · e casts The car pulled off the road and onto a long driveway Her fi ts h d them: A whole three ~onths, she thought, and tho~ght. ~ay~~ :h~'~u~~~e ::~:~rgotten ~n~on b~rs on t~e wmdows and dull grey brick crumblin walls made u h · bml~mg. Slle!lt g•rls ~alked i~ lines, two by two, with h~ir pulled bactt :.rfel~ school ~ash10nd, wearmg grey Jackets, JUmpers, shirts, skirts and gartered socks. Shiny blac~ shame rampe a 1ong the ground underneath them, army fashion. s oes She helped unload the cases. T~achers; friend.ly, kind. Students; individualists with a rebellious fa d mus1c, sports, mus1c, work and work; that's their attitude Ours? Classr ~ ei Sports, Work for classrooms. Have jokes, be cool Hard exterior ~ : . ooms or work. when alone, in prep, not in class. Good w~rk, but don't sho!r~r~t!~:~· yourhs~lf not cool. Be cool, always. Have fun. The Best Days of Your Life. · a s not lp, My School. f A cold face appeared. I! introd~ced itself as the headmistress. It said it hoped sh 'd h r"n and wSohrk hard. She d1dn't smile. Instead, she plotted. She wanted to escape th! be a;e orever. . e wondered. It depen~s, she thought. Depends on what the school is like~s s, The N1ghtmare? Or the Ideal Fantasy? Her parents left her at the door to her new dormitor F · 0 the door - hers and three others - held her attention f~~ a O:~i~aS~~ J>:;i~!~~dn~~ly ~ sh~ ~uttered, 'The damned beasts,' and proceeded to enter the ;oom. · one' It s what you make of it,' she told herself. The other girls were gossiping and laughing n1 th h d · stnolpypedh andthstood tidying their hair :nd w en ey rea 1se s e was alone. O

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Rachel Hill (Sha) 1 first came to Canterbury when I was very little to see my father be ordained here, in the Cathedral, by ex-Archbishop Runcie. As I was so young, all I can remember about the great event was having my hair curled in a hotel and a cobbled pattern in a car park. But a mirror, a chair, a hot tong brush and a cobbled carpark hardly describe Canterbury as it is, and I think I can rightfully call myself a newcomer to the sights. Therefore it was in September this year and with great anticipation that I started at the King's School, Canterbury, for the first time, and that I got my first unaltered impressions of the city. Parkin~ the car is always a problem, but after London at the rush hour and Portsmouth on a pubhc holiday, Canterbury has to win the bronze for causing more newcomers than anywhere else to grit their teeth in frustration and suffer high blood pressures. Even impassive matronly women have been known to yell out of the window to bewildered pedestrians: 'Where the hell are the carparks? Don't they have any in this God-forsaken place?' A quick reproving glimpse of the Cathedral looming above silences them, however, and after a quarter of an hour driving around narrow streets (during which the Cathedral tolls her bell and doleful melody twice), a free space in a cobbled car park is eventually found. Passengers leap out holding brochures in one hand and hollering children in the other. 'But Daddy, I don't want to see where Thomas and a bucket was killed - its not fair!' 'Darling, did you bring the picnic lunch to eat in the crypt and where did you put my wallet?' The natural focus of Canterbury is of course the Cathedral - this amazing tall building framed by the sky I?ortrays an immediate picture of the 'Queen' of Canterbury and her subjects, being a bmlding thrice as high as the houses around. She is just as grand and yet peaceful inside as she is from the outside . The interior is cool, quiet and very tranquil: only the stiletto heels of gaping tourists in the nave can be heard clicking against the stone floor. But there are many dark nooks and crannies in the Cathedral where one who desires a chance to meditate and pray alone can d? so without an accompaniment of clicks and 'Gee, Mom! Just look at that really neat PICture of God on the cross'. 2 17

As you venture down to the crypt, you pass several priests clad in black and keeping sile in check. Here the crypt, the oldest part of the Cathedral, is made for the humble nee elaborate decorations and carved patterns, just simple arched stone walls and wooden "ct.~ pews; this is where it is easy to almost see Thomas a Becket and his group of monks kneetf r at the altar and receiving the bread and wine. ng The Cathedral is a picture of peace, a place to really worship God, God's house a lac which would make any angelic person feel guilty of his few minor sins and abo~e lJt i~ a place of comfort and rest - one of my favourite places. Then the architecture in Canterbury: I don't actually know very much about architecture as a topic in general but I can tell its old and well ... quaint. The streets are narrow the houses have bare wooden beams and some of them are crooked and at an angle! It is a par~dise or goldmine for historians. The town also has many restaurants, shops and, you guessed it - pubs. The other night I was lying in bed in my house listening to the music from the open-doored, brilliantly-lit public house when I heard some of the clients dancing a jig in the street, on the pavement and politely ask my house for the pleasure of the next one! For centuries now pilgrims have ended their long determined journey here in the Cathedral which has attracted visitors from all over the world. There are many different types of peopt~ around the town: hippies, priests (always in black), elderl;t couples taking an afternoon stroll today's youths strutting around, girls with heavy make-up and clumpy shoes, boys with tangled red hair and jangly bracelets. But why choose Canterbury as a spot to live? How is it many different people live in harmony with one another? I explain it this way: Canterbury has endured for centuries and all the way through there have been more and more different classes and sects of people coming and going: monks, pilgrims, dukes, earls, kings, queens, peasants, farmers and so on. They all learnt how to live toge~her in Canterbury as a community and now people still do: the town offers so much for everbody. There are restaurants and pubs for men who like their liquor and children who like 'Big Macs' for lunch. There are newsagents and lots of clothes and shoe shops, gift shops, Christmas - All-Year-Round shops and then the alltime favourites Sainsbury's and Boots. There's the Cathedral for believers and the quaint historic city itself for interested historians. Canterbury's streets, roads, houses and pubs could all tell lively and tragic tales if they wanted to. Above all, the Cathedral stands proudly where it was built long ago to draw people to it and to keep watch over this wonderful city.

A Voice from the past

Chris Pickering and Will Tallon (Shb)

Characters: Now (1994) Joe Brown: A hardworking local businessman. Always finds himself with long jobs and the sack. He has found a job on the local newspaper. His office boss: A lazy director who likes giving the hard work to the usually enthusiastic novices. The Boss's Secretary: Rebecca, a rather beautiful and intelligent lady. She has her eyes set on Joe. Then (1980) Joe Brown: A hard-working 14-year-old student who wants to work hard for his summer exams. His Form Teacher: A strict master from the old school of teaching. He thinks that children shoud be seen and not heard and is one of the last users of the cane. Alexandra Nathan: A fellow student who has her eyes set on Joe.

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(Joe is in his office worki.ng on h~ c~n;.~:~e(}oe looks up and nods in Joe, could I hare f\·quB~s wl{e e:t:rs the office and closes the door.) acknowledgemen o IS . · h 1 ou sir? (In a worried tone of vmce) How. can 1 e P Y0 ie into our establishment Joe: Well, Joe, normally ~h':n I recrmt yo~mger d~rin this recession, their uoss: they are very ent~us1asbc ::: trey rT~~~~!~!liy results in excellent articles jobs are automatically on t e me. . 1 seem to be the case with you! and quick promotion. However) ~IS d~:~tn::port on the local football team (Growing more and more ang~~ our wspaper .) This is how big the front was a front-page st~ry · (He ho . up a ~~rna es around in a crowded tray page of our paper IS·:· a.nd thiS (_Her g t ·s Two thousand words I with 'IN' written on It) IS how big your t~Ps:ve~ ·hundred and fifty. What said and do you know how many you wro e · have you to say for yourself? ht that you had no potential I would Well ...I. .. you ... I was ... ' If I th Joe: Bro~. d b ougw' Now listen to me, 1 don't know what is distracting you, Boss: have kicked you over to n. donf Yt no · 1 want you to rewrite this article 0 kid but you'd ~ett~r gekt n . f~gstl~~. Do you hear me, Joe Brown? Do by tomorrow s1x o c oc , prm 1 you understand? k d the camera zooms in towards the (The picture befins ~ fadT~ bl~~ of~understand' is heard.) ... understand pointed.finger o the oss. d e ~ d (and deeper). (The picture comes back (The vmce gets deeper) ... un ers n ··: wooden office.) into focus on an old, gn~rled. hand mw~? Do ou understand me or not? Form Teacher: ... u!lderstand? Ar~Jo~.h~e:rb~h::i~ur fromyan exhibitioner. This essay 1 will not tolerate IS m . . b hi h-tea tomorrow. Now please was far too sh?rt. I ~ant It Je;r~~=r dfmn:d essay. Right, 1 have lots of get rid of all distractions an ?d GET OUT. (Joe snaps out of his fixed work to do now ... get out...1 sal stare/trance.) t th oak door and knocks over Joe (Junior): Yes ...sir. Of course. (He turns and runsw?n ~losed and then blacks out). the tea lady. The camerabseeks the do~~esbac' in the office of the newspaper (When the camera co~es ac up we 'th h' boss looking at him in a puzzled manner.) studio.) . d (Joe is seen m a aze WI IS Joe ... Are you all right, .sonny? . t wards the door. The tea lady Boss: (Joe does not reply. but ms!~a~ JUS~~~r~;m~ tea on her hand and swears. walks in and only JUSt rvo~ s ffie. as the camera goes back to the Boss.) Joe just stumbles out o t e o 1ce h. 1 Strange kid ... I'll have to keepJ an eJ'e .~nsta :;:,.ing still outside the door of Boss: (The camera now focuses on oed w o in a short skirt and a tight T -shirt, his Boss's office. The secretary, resse ? places her arm on his shoulder.) Say Joey boy ... are you OK., honey. Rebecca: (Jo~ moves away, still d~p in. thru;~~·~ike you could do with someone to I was thinking Joe.· .may e a smg .e d off work so 1 was wondering if... you Rebecca: be with, I mean just to take ytou.r because yo-.;·know 1 really like you ... like wanted to go out for supper orug · ·· you .. .like you. . d th ·ce goes higher. He is sitting on a bench when (Camera fades agam an e VOl . Alexandra comes and sits next to him.) me work to do but we can ... (she . ..like you ... like you.dlhkntow(Hyou ra~:~e~ogthens as she looks sadder.) ...can't Alex: giggles) ... work aroun t a ··· er we ...

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(The form master walks in He go t d J J Form Teacher: (Kindlr) Now then Joe, ... T~s isn't ;.sair~~! y~u~~~:.~~~~es r:!~tf::rf~ly .) see. It!s ~he work that's gettmg to you. Well, my advice is to make a t~;~a ...I a reahshc one, and I'll arrange for you to stay up working as long a ble, need to ... but do not overdo it... your sleep. s you ~am era goes through the routine and refocuses on Joe [Senior] ) (The Joe (Sen.): (To h1mself) ...so that leaves an hour to sort out things with Rebecca.' ~He walks «?ut,, and the ca'!lera focuses on a school photograph and zooms I(J on[ Joe. (ju~uor). T~ere IS a constant drone of air conditioning ) oe sen~or] 1s now lymg on his bed. The camera is above him and rotates around h1m. The narration is again in Joe's (senior ] voice) Narration: As I lay ther~ on my bed that night I wasn't thinking about ~ork or even wh;t I had sa1d to Rebecca, but about my boarding school memories More an more memories kept coming back to me. How shallow the w~re to have no effect on me now, but they seemed very profound to .Je as 1 '1a on my bed. I guess that I didn't need to worry about my work and othe~ hr~ssures bec~use my .schooldays would take care of them. 1 mean, people a always sa1d that 1t would be useful to me for the rest of my life ...

Equality and Justice

Leo Fransella (Ra)

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Henry paused, then strode forward, and stopped again. The moon came out and a silver rght made his white, spiky face glow. One tiny boy shivered audibly. Henry stepped forward 1 wJy, but after just two paces he was faced by only one crumpled figure; Jack stood up 510 wearily. â&#x20AC;˘Give me something to eat, or I'll break your nose.' Jack only moved forwards at these words, and could say only, 'Have you ever made anyone happy?' The silence ended. Lean, though skinny, and weak, though stubborn. Jack never spent an evening on his own. To the younger and less certain boys he was someone to look up to and to Henry and his friends Jack was there for another reason. Jack lay on the grass, his eye still streaming sporadically from the swelling. In the previous few minutes twelve others had joined him. The group sat in warm silence. Jules said at last. 'Henry really is a ... ' â&#x20AC;˘Don't say it,' said Jack, 'he'll only hear about it.' His smile looked like a grimace through puffed up purple flesh and bloodied pupils. His tidy hair and bare feet were out of place, incongruous. 'I've been thinking,' he continued to his disciples. 'What everyone says about it being natural for Henry to be Henry and us to do what we do isn't true. If everyone was just friends, no gangs, competition, Henry'd be the fool.' The next night all thirteen acted without prejudice, apart from Jules, who didn't lend jack his total confidence about a small matter of biscuits and grape juice. All twelve others _ Si, Drew, Jim, Jon, Phil, Bart, Tom, Matt, Jimmy, Thad, Simon, Jules included - lent out clothes, helped do chores, forgave all grudges and enemies, and felt more than a little stupid when Jack's jaw was broken shortly before midnight, a deep red mess spreading across his face. Blood seemed to stream from his eyes. That night, Sam, who had needed thick glasses since he could remember, was hit by Jack, and could see without spectacles within minutes . Thirty-three days of love and concord brought the deputy headmaster into the huge, darkened arena of beds and floorboards. As the door slammed behind him the hall stalled, and the previously unimportant beam of moonlight suddenly illuminated the bizarre scene of carnage in the middle of the floor. The play began as master and pupil settled to a relaxed evening of light entertainment. 'I never told him anything!' screamed Jules. 'Yes you did. I said someone "would give me away, and you did. I heard you.' The fairhaired and the dark-haired glared at each other, still and pathetic. Between them towered Henry, big ears and ugly cheeks and cauliflower ears and scarred skin. 'Who stays, who goes?' Two huge hands ripped at two shivering, quivering necks, and two muffled, high-pitched gurgles came from two juxtaposed innocents. 'Why have the last weeks been hell for me and everyone?' Jack mumbled that everyone was happy, gulped, and a tear streamed down every child's cheek. 'So who's going? Jules or Jack? The baby-face or the brat? Someone here is going to leave and never come back. I'll crucify them. The brat Jules or Jack Davidson?' And like a sea breeze, a deep, pitchless, heavy chanting arose, and every child in the hall breathed and whispered and pushed out and spoke and sang and screamed his verdict in a great chorus of 'Davidson, Davidson!' The twelve fled. Jack Davidson lay on the floor, unconcious but still a presence in the room. His parents took him away. Why had the teacher forsaken him? He never returned. Not even on the third day.

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William Cork

Charlotte Hunt (Shb)

The other day, when I was on exeat, we went to our grandparents' house. While the oldies were all having a cup of tea, I went up to my Grandad's attic. There were loads of old nostalgic objects up there, which I delved through every time I went. Everything had a story behind it. I spotted my Grandma's ancient tennis racket which had won the first Girl's School Championships, and the decrepit statue of Eros in the corner which my Grandad clairns he found in the depths of an archaeological dig. (More like the Garden Centre down the road, Gramps!). In the corner of the attic I noticed an old dusty leather suitcase. Inside was a half.moth-eaten uniform and large book with 'School Diary' written on it. Intrigued I opened it up and started reading. ' I START AT GREYBROOKE ACADEMY, YORKSHIRE. 8th September 1946 Today was an eventful day. Mother and Father (who returned home yesterday from his post at the barracks) accompanied me to the station. It was really crowded and I spotted many other boys wearing the same red and green blazer I had on! Eager to give a good impression, I made sure any farewells were brief before my mother embarrassed me by starting to cry! Honestly, I'm 13 and I have a parent who still cries! Anyway, Father gave me half a crown for the train and Mother handed me a small canvas bag with some lunch inside it. I found a seat in a 2nd class carriage and lugged my new leather case onto the luggage rack. Shortly, another boy sat down opposite me and I recognised he was off to Greybrooke's like me. He introduced himself as Henry Coast and we found out we were going into the same boarding house. The train journey was uneventful . When we got to the station, a coach was waiting for any boys going to Greybrooke's. Henry and I followed the mob onto the coach. An old fogie was sitting by the door. She told us' in a crackly voice that any new boys going into Jones (my house) were to line up by the coach when we got to the Academy. She turned out to be Mrs. Toggs, my matron. When we got into the House, Matron showed us our room. Henry and I are sharing a bunk. It was really late so we had some hot porridge, unpacked and went to bed. 9th September 1946 Mrs. Toggs came banging in at a quarter to seven, told us to grab our towels and follow her. She showed us to a dingy changing room with a long communal shower which could take about nine boys. We soon discovered that the water was freezing and didn't intend to get any warmer. 'Mr. Intellectual', Edward Weekly, cheekily asked Mrs. Toggs where the water reservoir was. She answered 'tres serieuse' that the water was drained from the marshes, since all water supply had been cut off in the war. Everyone evacuated the showers soon after the last comment! Breakfast consisted of the same lumpy porridge from last night. At 8.00 we had assembly and saw the Headman for the first time. He looks like an o~re yet has a voice as high-pitched as my mother! He loomed over the new third years Oâ&#x20AC;˘ke me) and babbled on about a few school rules and how anyone who tried to escape onto the marshes would be temporarily suspended until a sound punishment had been decided for them. Who'd try and go onto the marshes anyway? Not ruddy me! Lessons were boring; all the classrooms are identical and somehow ALL the teachers manage to screech their chalk on the blackboard. What a nightmare! We caught a glimpse of our almost non-existent Housemaster, Mr. Crab - but only from the back. When we were in bed, Matron came in to say that we weren't to go to assembly tomorrow, but go into the house room to see Mr. Crab. Wow! We might get to meet him ... for once! When the light was out everyone started talking about their families. I discovered the Jack Wright's father was killed at war. He was an R.A.F. pilot. Poor Jack. I couldn't imagine life without Father. 222

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****** 17th December 1946 . k' a er aeroplanes in Maths. Mr. Crab we were all reported by Mr. Bndges fo~t da mgDfE is hell I got a letter from mother ave us six of the very best. No-one can SI own. h mesick Henry and I were on leaf~aying how ":luch s~e ~issedtt!"e.ti st~t!e~~ f~~~~~!l~offee to hi~ study this morning. This sweeping fatigues .or .orge mg o · A demy is such a load of rotten eggs. . . ca . o ask if I wanted to run away with him. I am debatmg 11.30 p.m. Jack just wok~fie:p·!re t go I think I'll go and see my mother. Well, ye ~~~ra~~/~i~~:,t~ ~~aJ~shave m:~~ lu~k with you here, did I! Well ADIEU!

****** I suddenly felt really annoyed. What had happened to the boy whose first name I didn't even know! . h d' It turned out that my I ran downstairs to my Grandpa ~tnd ashkedhahdi~e~~opu~: i~ ch~~~~ of all tht third years. d Grandpa had been that shower mom or w o William Cork (the diary's owner) and Jack Wright ran away to the ~ar~~~ a~es~~:~ came back. There were sear~htartieJ evd'W:ll~!~~~~a~~t~[s \~rf~:eal~~:tly in grkf. There dead. The parents had. been m ?rme an G1 1 dpa who had turned out to be quite close was nowhere to put his belongmgs so my ran ' to Cork had agreed to take the things. b d' h ls ' · · I 1 0 mazed at how oar mg sc oo 1 was devastated at the story .IPoor .WJdlhtahmt. ;Ya~~h~ 0r was so leisurely compared to a had changed over the years. rea11ze 1 Greybrooke's and how lucky I was to be a student of the 90s.

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Georgina Salmon (A6b) It was the trip in the 'magic car' that held the most appeal for me I loved playin . all the buttons and le~ers? sending '_¥ind?ws fl>'in~ d.ow!l in a gloriou's whirr of efflcfe:~th Any thoughts of destmabon paled mto JUVemle mstgmficance besides this marvel of tfi · ~e~hanical revolution. I came to ~anterbury reg!llarly when I was a child, every time ~ vtstted my grandparents. It could m fact be considered to be my home town since ho life necessitated frequent moving and allowed little time for cities and I to become intimat~e acquainted, indeed to get beyond mere nodding terms. I am ashamed to say however th ~ it .is Ricem.a ns that I recollect the best from those early days - and for a ve~y good re~so a Rtcemans meant foo~, and fo~ two hungry children who had traipsed around shops by th~ score, that was a senous affatr. There was a problem, however - it always seemed to m a piece of very bad management to site the restaurant in such a place that my mother an~ grandmother just couldn't possibly avoid going through the Ladies fashions and seeing 'that gorgeous jacket' and exclaiming 'Oh loook! It's in the sale too!' My brother and I felt ver resent.ful of the entrepren~urial exploitation by the management. that rendered our tummie~ growh?g m?nster~ of famme. Seventeen shoe-shops and two pairs of legs later, it was back to the magtc car and off to the Thanet Way, through the pungent cabbage fields whose evocative smell provoked works of such Miltonian merit as: The Cathedral in the city, Is grey and quite immense, I always say hello to it In case it takes offence. ... and other more pseudo-profundo works which don't even bear mention now. As I was in the middle of one of these creative reveries there came the sudden announcement that my brother was going to go to school in the city when he was older. When I ventured to ask the name of this brave establishment, we were just coming to the Wincheap roundabout· ~e poi!lted vaguely at the imposing city walls and informed me in patronising tones that It was m there. I spent the next few years of my life imagining a school functioning entirely within the walls themselves! I was officially introduced to the cathedral myself at the tender age of 'nearly ten', when we were taken to see it by prep school. It was a lovely sunny day and for a treat we were all given a delicious soft ice-cream. Unfortunately that is all that I can remember of that day, not the beauty of the ancient building, but the way the icecream dripped onto the cobble stones before I could lick it. I was obviously not culturally minded. It was inevitable when we heard that King's had gone co-ed that I should make the move to Canterbury as well. It was, in a curious way , a sort of homecoming although the school ~eemed a~ huge to me as to anyone else and the city unfathomably large desfite our earlier mtroducbon. ~ have ~requently been told that I have an appalling sense o direction and I have to admit that 1t took me my first year to become acquainted with the whole city: the lakes, the hills, and the park. Meanwhile I became immune to the odd looks people gave me as. I a.nnounced I was going to the sport~ ce~tre a!ld ~eaded confidently for Herne Bay. By th•s. time I had become aware of t~e hts.toncal ~1gmficance of Canterbury and it says somethmg for the cathedral that despite bemg subjected to a tour no less than five times !n rapi~ succession, I was still r~sonably functiona~ after the fifth. It was definitely more mterestmg, however, the first time round. What dtd take some getting used to were the bells, particularly of a Sunday morning at 7 .45. The first time I heard them I was in a room in dangerous proximity to Bell Harry, with the window wide open, I nearly catapulted myself out of my bunk, wondering if someone had started the third crusade without telling me and got a trifle lost ~n t~ei~ way to Je~usalem. I ~ounted over a hundred rings that morning as I lay there debatmg 1f It was physically posstble to remove the bell with a complicated system of pulleys, but I never had been any good at physics so I gave up. But as they say time heals all ills, and I have even been known to sleep through them now and then, although personally I'm convinced that is due to overwork! 224

three years at school here, the city has become famili~r and vital to my well-being. After out of essential supplies to compensate for the vaganes of school food, or suddenly If Y00. ru~un on toothpaste or you urgently need a new jumper, then it is certainly convenient there ~~:e least. Coffee sh~ps abound and, if nothing else, livi!lg in .the middle of a city has to sa~ taught me that when the money has gone it's a long time till the end of the month. certam.1Yst need to get away from school bells for a while there are morris dancers on May If you.~u lers in rag week, fundraisers sitting in baths of baked .beans, ~nd huskers gal?re l)ay' J at. Failing that, there is always my pet hobby of tounst-spottmg to play, tryt!lg to ~3ggt'fy which nation the person with the lurid backpack belongs to, or who lays cla!m to 1he~ ~evolting child with the whoopee cushion: little hints to watch out for are the stze tf :h:ir cameras or the fluorescent shoelaces. The hitch comes when they mista~e Y?ur l~ok 0 fascination for a 'Can I help you?' look and they try to ask you where so!l'l~tht,ng ~~ w~tch of · es complex directions in a language you only passed at G.C.S.E. by diVIne msptfabon. re~utr frequently found it profoundly taxing resisting the temptation to ~end the ~ewdder~d 1 a~et who asks where the church is while standing right in front of 1t, on a stxteen-mde toun~' Even worse is the attempt to keep a straight face when asked where St. Paul's ca[~edral is while mentally estimating the distance to Westminster. Those who say that c:nterbury is lacking entertainment just haven't looked hard enough. . . There is, however, another side to this city too. I have counted at. least SIX chanty shops, hungry and homeless people begging on the streets, and reahsed how lucky I am to tee:iven the chance to study in a place like this, with not only a r?of over !11Y head, but t~e most impressive and significant building in Britain standing outstde. my wmdow. I h~ve seen Canterbury in all moods, in rain, fog, sun, ~ and snow, but .the Image that ref!~a111s articularly in mind was actually formed very recently. I was walk111g through the cl01ste~s ~t night in a slight daze as usual when suddenly I heard a huge crack that r~so'!nd~d 111 the empty corridor, and saw a rocket shoot up fro~ behind t~e cathedral, explodin~ m ~hvers of light and sending up a shower of bats from their refuge. m the be.lfry w.ho ang.Ily ~1rcled into the light of the tower, furious with the Canterbury festival for dtst~rb!ng theu .hitherto peaceful ministrations. When my heart had slowed down to only twtce tts normal.rat.e I began to reflect, as one does, and what I reflected is this: we had a speaker at the be~I!lmng of term who said amongst other things of praiseworthy value, that we were ve9 pnvdeged to live here, but that if we didn't know our Gothic ~rom our Roman~sq~e, '_¥e dtdn't des~rve to live here. I thought this was a bit dodgy at the time, but after th111k111g It over that mght 1 made rapid progress to the conclusion that it was definitely very dodgy. As I h~ve often been told if you study someone's handwriting too hard, you can:t read the essay; It fo~lows therefore: that if you reduce buildings to architectural techmque you cannot begm to appreciate the city - and that would be a shame.

Chris Pickering (Shb)

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Up in the North, in Nottingham to be precise, reside t~o un~nown people. The>' have had no effect on the food problem in Somalia or the hurncanes 111 the. Gulf of Mextco ..As they walk to the newsagent's they are not escorted by bodyguards or spted upon by Russtan terrorists. As the bacon fat crackles millions of Japanese tourists do not attempt to photograph my Nanny. She just sits there at 6.30 in the morning grilling sausages, poaching eggs, ~nd laying the 'Daddie's Sauce' upon the table unnoticed by anyone ... except her beloved fanuly · There are her six children all married, with a total of eleven children themselves. We all love our Nanny and of cou'rse our Grandad. Mrs. Barbara 'Bub~les' Pickering and Mr · William 'World Cup King' Pickering are now 70 and 72 respectively. My Nanny is perfect (to me of course!). She is about one inch taller than me; she is fat but not obscenely fat. She is round rather than fat and very bouncy and cuddly. Nanny is a busybody. 225

Grandad works in a garage now That is in som to his old job. The sw~aty, st~amy, ~laustrophobic, ,:u~~~~p~~sp~~gthJ.~b ~~ hwould think have was a1so to do with engmes. Steam engines H d c 1le used t his train moving. He was the cog about which his ee u.se to put coal on the fire to keeo the wheel turning on a different cog. Only distant me;:~;~e~ ~:~i~~th~~fh'hbwrer, he~ My Grandad is a pretty hard gru h . . lS e oved Past. ~ets h!m off it is CATS! He despises t~!~. cwace~e:e11~is~t~t~! ~her:0 as ore thia;ag that really hornble furballs' crawling all over him Cats hav h as pu up wath two of the out .this kin~ of person. They alwa1,s sit. on his Ia; !n~ stth:;~~' uncabn~ t~lent of finding }~ ~1m purrmg only to be told that, You have really made a bad ~~~:~keuth:s ;.ays come up, sh~s :!~:nfe~~~ ~o!~;a~~wever' that my Nanny absolutely adores cats and in h~~~'~o~~; My Grandad, of course, ignores all this and s't 路 f f h 路路 golf or. cricket and eating humbugs. While thi~ ~;~of~:t 0 t e t~evJSJOn ;vatchin~ either gardemng. Every place my Nanny visits she has to fi on my a~ny WJ I be domg the plants. In fact she loves almost anything' but that's md~he ga~demng centre. She loves returfin is lotvedd ..My Grandad, however' is ~espected mo-;.a[ th:~ve~r p~;!baSpsh~hlaot~esband in he re uses o nve on motorways Maybe h h f .路 s ecause by Japanese

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RESULTS (A.M.M. 57, J .S. H . 28*); Old Blandfordians 142 (M.J .Ho. 5-57, G.C.A . 4-30, W .R.P. 4 s!. 68-8 dec. Harvc>tcr> 1 + 3 cr.) . t'o':::be Cavaliers 259-7 dec. (J. S.H . 4-53) ; Harvesters 157-8 (P.G.H. 4 1) . Drawn. Monkt~~rs 112-9 (N.A. L. 28, C .J. R .J. 25); Compton House 11 5-4 (M.J .C. 3-26) . (20 overs) Los!. Harvcs ers 142-8 dec. (G.C.A. 27, M.J.Ha. 27, P .G .H. 25, C.J .R.J. 25); Sherbourne Town 143-4. Los!. Harves:crs 147-9 (M .J.C. 53, R.A .M. 39); Salisbury Gentlemen of the C lose 76 (A.M .M. 3-29) . (30 overs) Won. Harvesstcrs 191-7 dec. (R.A.M. 45, P.G.H. 36*, W .R .P. 34); The Lobsters 194-3. Los!. Harvc Tour Party: M.J.Ho ., P.G .H., R.P.B. , M.J .Ha., H.E.J .A., C.!.R .J. , G.C.A., J .S. H., W .R.P., M.J .C., D.M .H ., pT .. R.A.M. , N .A.L., A.M. M ., A. Jackson , C. G. P1cke nng. Also played: M . Morton , A . W . Bnce.

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Athletics The athletics team certainly did its best this season to add to the collection in the school trophy cabinet. T he senior 4 x 100 metres team carried off the prestigious Achilles Relays and Independent Schools trophies, Ogedegbe won the Under 20 Long Jump at the latte r competition and the 'open' team won the Duke of York's Cup for the first time '"many years. In all but one fixture the teams, (girls and boys) were victorious, although beating Tonbridge still remains the target for future seasons. The beginning of term saw an impressive turn out of athletes at training. Even the girls were well represented and we welcomed a small group of migra nts from c ricket who were to form the basis of a very strong j umor boys team indeed. Athletics coaches were also in greater abundance than in previous seasons, creating the poss1bility of specific technique coaching sessions for several groups of athletes at one particular time. Steve Jones from Inv1cta athletics club was adopted by the throwers and I know that they would like to thank him for all his efforts. It has been quite difficult to fi eld enough throwers in the various age groups this season. T here has been a tight-knit core of boys who have competed, comprising Giles Hay, Robin Ball , Patrick Osmond , Felix von Eynern, Alasdair Roman, Andy Brice, Chike Okol i and Simon Lau. All have made progress as the season has progressed and C hike and Simon must be congratulated for being selected for the district tea m to throw the javelin and putt the shot respectively. The middle di stan~e squad has be':'efited tremend.ously from C.T. H. 's. wealth of experie nce a nd enthusiasm. Certain mdividuals have tramed very hard mdeed a nd the1r efforts have been JUStly rewarded . Malcolm Todd has been the highest score r in the inte rmediate team, regularly running both the 800m and 1500m races. He has outrun his personal bests on several occasions this season to leave the m resting at !?resent at 2.08.7min (800m) and 4.27 .6min (1 500m). He represented the d istrict at the County Championships m June, but unfortunately had to pull out of the L.A .C./lndependent Scho<?ls Championships due to King's Week commitments. Next year he shou~d benefi~ from being in the second year of the mte rmed1ate category and we look fo rward to the performances that h1s potent1al seems to promise. Two senior middle-distance athletes have enjoyed outstanding perfo rmances this season. Alastair Curzon has changed to run 400m instead of 800m as his prefe rred event and has 'e nded the season with an impressive ' p.b. ' of 5 1.7 seconds whilst representing the district at the Kent Cha mpionships. T he same competition provided the stage for Raf De Haan to knock over fou r seconds off his previous best for 800m , registering a time of 2.04.9 minutes . Regular junior middle-distance runners have included Andrew Ribbans and Will Scott , both of whom will contribute to making up an impressive intermediate dista nce squad next year. The jumpers and hurdlers have made the most of Leanne C rutchley's coaching. Ogedegbe has recorded perhaps the most obv ious success by jumping 6 .90 metres to win the long j ump at the Independent Schools Championships and he achieved a new school record in the process. Rob Thomas also set a new school record of 1.82 metres in the intermediate high j ump and he was only l cm short of this whi lst representing Kent in an inter-county fi xture. Tom Bucher came 5th in the fi nal of the Independent Schools Championships, a commendable end to a season of tremendous commitment. Jide Adesanya, who has triple-jumped to a consistently good standard all season, was selected to represent Kent at the regional stage of the English Schools Multi-Events Competition. Kirstin Gaymer recorded a long jump of 4.67 metres to win the County Championships a nd Ali Aitken ran her fa stest race o f the season at Independent Schools, although she failed to qualify for the final. . The school seems to be the breeding ground of fast sprinters at present. James Hessey clocked 12.0 seconds in the JUnior 100 metres at Tonbridge and Akindele re presented the county at 100 metres having run 12.3 seconds at the county c hampioinships. No-one, however , would question that the most impressive of all performances in the athletics club this season have been those of the senior 4 x 100 metres relay squad. With motivation and technical coaching f~om an enthusiastic N.L. P., Femi Fadeyi, Ogedegbe , Giles Macey and Jay Spence r set new school records time afte r un~e as the season p rogressed. They won at the Achilles Relays (44.5sec), a particula rly prestigious event this year as II was a celebration of Bannister' s '4 minute mile'. T hey won at Tonbridge a nd then e nded the season by breaking the 44 second barrier to win the Independent Schools Championships at Copthall Stadium (43.8sec). Jay has yet to be pushed over the fi nal leg and it leaves one wondering just what time the team could have achieved with anothe r squad close on their tail. 227

I have really enjoyed the challenge of co-ordinating this season's athletics. There is considerable talent with' age groups, some of which has already been realised , some of which has yet to emerge into the limelight. Encour Inall scho~l athletes .to train regularly and seriously is the greatest challenge of all . There exists a h.ard ~ore of athlete:&Âˇ~~ are h1ghly motivated and they have become fine role models for the rest of the club. I remam disappointed withw,ou level of female participation, but hopefully th ings will continue to improve as the few really committed athletes mthe up th rough the club. Finally, I must thank a number of individuals who have helped make this season such a succ ove Lucy Dawes for her captaincy of the girl 's squad, Jay Spencer for his enthusiasm and fine leadership of the team throug~ the season and C.T. H., N.L.P., M.C.S., Steve Jones and Leanne Crutchley for all the coaching hours they h ave enthusiastically given. S.K.M. RES ULTS

26th April: Senior Boys: Under I 7 Boys: Open Girls:

v Sevenoaks, Cranbrook and Eastbourne. I . King's 52, 2. Cranbrook 36, 3. Eastbourne 34, 4. Sevenoaks 31. I. Eastbou rne 48, 2. King's 40, 3 = . Sevenoaks , Cranbrook 33. I. King's 4 1, 2. Cranbrook 40, 3. Sevenoaks 38, 4. Eastbourne 30.

Senior Boys: Under I 7 Boys: Junior Boys:

v Duke of York's and Skinners. I. King's 148, 2. Skinners 102, 3. Duke of York's 69. I. Duke of York's 124, 2. King's 105, 3. Skinners 96. I. King's 129, 2. Skinners lOS, 3. Duke of York 's 97.

3rd May: Open Girls:

v Ursuline Convent. I. King's 10 1, 2 . Ursuline 68.

5th May:

v Kent College, Dover College. I . King's 110, 2. Kent College 107, 3. Dover College 38 . I. King's 47, 2. Kent College 44, 3. Dover College 25.

30th April:

Senior Boys: Open Girls:

7th May: Senior Senior Senior Under

Boys: Boys: Boys: I 7 Boys:

21st May: Senior Boys: Under I 7 Boys: Junior Boys:

Achilles Relays, Oxford . 4 '>< lOOm (Fadey i, Ogedegbe, Macey , Spencer) won title (44.Ssec) 4X200m (Fadey i, Ogedegbe, Macey, Spencer) 2nd ( 1.34.8 min) 4 x 400m (Williams, De Haan, Todd, Curzon) 4th (3.39. 1 min) 4X lOOm (Tay ler, Mitche) l, Wharton , Adesanya) 4th (47.3sec) v Tonbridge, Felsted, Mill Hill , Sutto n Valence and Wellington. I. Tonbridge 199, 2. Felsted 175, 3. King's 169, 4. Wellington , 5. Mill Hill 88, 6. Sutton Valence

75. I. Tonbridge 188, 2. Wellington, 3. Felsted 145, 4. King's 120, 5. Mill Hill 88, 6. Sutton Valence 75. I. Tonbridge 196, 2. King's 17 1, 3. Felsted ISO, 4. Well ington 124, 5. Sutton Valence 90, 6. Mill Hill 89.

Kent Championships. Akindele 2nd in lOOm final (1 2.3), chosen to represent Kent; A. Ribbans 7th in 800m heat (2.20.0); F. Alak ija 4th in long jump (5. 2Sm); S. Lau shot (9.90m); C. Okoli javelin (25.0m). Intermediate Boys: M. Todd Sth in 800m heat (2. 14.0); R. Thomas 2nd in high jump (1 .78m) chosen to represent Kent. A. Curzon 2nd in 400m final (S I. ?sec); R. De Haan 6th in 800m fina l (2 .04.8); T. Bucher Sth Senior B oys: in lOOm hurdles heat ( 17. lsec). A. Aitken 6th in 7Sm hurdles heat. Junior Girls: K. Gaymer 1st in long jump (4.67m). Senior Girls:

11th June:

Junior Boys:

25th June: Open Boys:

Duke of York 's C up. I. King 's200, 2. Duke of York's 178, 3. St. Lawrence 177, 4. King's Rochester 176, 5. Dover College 168, 6. Sutton Valence 11 9.

30th June/lsi July: Independent Schools Championships. A. Aitken 4th in 7Sm hurdles heat (1 3,Ssec). R. Thomas 1.70m in high jump. A. Ogedegbe 1st in long Jump (6.90m); T. Bucher Sth in 110m hurdles final ( 17.4sec).; A. Curzon Sth in 400m fin al (52.5). 4x lOOm Relay: 1st in final (43.8sec).

Junior Girls: Inter Boys: Senior Boys:

228 (S.K.M .)

The Boat Club senior Girls' Sculling Squad =---;;n experimental year this has been a very successful one! For the first time, the senior boys and girls have Ford as a single squad, sharing training programs and weights sessions. It has become obvious that such a plan has traln~ts' for both the boys and the girls, particularly the latter who have learnt much about organised training schedules b<:nC 1'so for some of the boys who have struggled to understand that their eight is not the sole priority of the club. llut 3 n1portant in the fut ure that the club does not split into two for this could lead to competition for water time, It,,c1\ hts I room book'mgs, boats. and fimance.

T~c January term is characterised by long endurance training in cold, unpleasant conditions, often in smaller boats. 1

The whole squad shared identical training targets and times on the water and scores on the ergometers were stored r \election purposes. Squad crews were raced at Hampton where both were outpaced by a fast Kingston R.C. crew. fo c. Head at Burway was cancelled owing to the over-filled, fast-flowing river conditions, which left the crews with [~Ie racing experience for the Schools' Head. Despite this, both raced well coming second and sixth. The first crew ~Âˇa\ hampered by dreadful, and potentially dangerous, marshalling at ~he start when five crews were set off side by side. During the Easter holiday the entire squad was taken to Portugal for a week of training on a reservoir about fifty m11es north-east of Oporto by kind invitation of N.C. W .S. and his family. The breathtaking scenery, crystal-clear water, unshine and flat conditions made this a golden opportunity fo r progress and the squad made the most of it. With two ~utings a day of the winter-style training, a few eyes were opened to possible targets that could be set and the squad returned to Canterbury tired, brown and ready for the trials that would decide the selection for the term's first and ,econd quads. With the crews selected, the regatta season got underway at Poplar, resulting in a win for the first quad (if only over the second crew) vi ndicating the selection. The first quad then went to Ghent and over the two days of racing , isible improvements were made although the two doubles were a little disappointing on the Sunday. The quad performed ,cry well on both days with one spectacular victory over a French crew on the Saturday: finding themselves about half a length down after the first IOOOm the French pushed back to lead by a canvas 300m from the finish before the King's crew put in a decisive push, brill iantly lead by Saskia at stroke, to win by a few feet. Back in the U.K . the Metropolitan regatta proved to be a disappointment for the fi rst quad who were outpaced in a fast race and in which the second crew, wl10 had found new speed, put them under real pressure and were beaten only by ten seconds over the 1750m. The re&atta served as a warning to the top crew and showed that it was just as capable of under-performance a\ it was of excelling. The Schools' regatta drew the two quads in different semifinals and both qualified for the final, the first quad as the second fastest crew. The final was to provide one of the greatest disappointments of the season. The quad made an excellent start and were only a canvas down on the unbeaten Kingston R.C. quad at 700m and were over half a length clear of the rest of the field. A crab cost them two len~ths and in this standard of racing such a mishal? is irretrievable: the quad came in a tearful fourth with the second quad SIXth. At Women's Henley where there is no JUnior category, the first quad raced well but lacked the speed that they had found in the final at Nottingham and were well beaten by the eventual winners in the first round . I hope that the girls involved in this season's training have enjoyed'the year for, even if at times they have found the targets set to be extremely tiring, they have all achieved at least our aspirations and some individuals way beyond them. Three of the top quad will be with us next year and two of them for the year after that. The one leaving us is lshbel Bruce who should be an example to many others: having not made the fi rst crew for the Schools' Head, lshbcl went to Portugal and learnt an awful lot and used the week to show herself as a serious contender for a top quad seat. In the trials back home she converted this promise into boat speed and convincingly took a seat in the quad. It is very hard not to look fo rward immediately to next year's crews and while much of what we have done this year wi ll be done again , we have learnt a great deal about what we can expect and therefore aim at. We will need to get the doubles going faster sooner so that more competitive training can be done, the weights sessions must be pushed harder and all this with the target of getting at least one person into the final trials for the G.B. World Championship team for although Lucy and Jessica came close to the Easter assessment, with their performance in the long distance at Peterborough, they were clearly not in the right class in the doubles final at the N.S.R. . We all owe an awful lot to three people: Peter Willis for maintaining the boats, Andrew Taylor for the coaching m Canterbury and Portugal and R.M.H. for giving the move to unite the boys' and girls' training a driving force. M.C.L. The Summer crews were: I st quad: Ish bel Bruce*, Lucy Heise*, Jessica Potter* and Saskia Stirling-A ird*. 2nd quae/: Solange Fontana, Harriet Lester, Gill ian Luther*, Fiona Townend.

All were awarded first team colours. * denotes first colours

229 1ST QUAD AT WOMEN'S HENLEY (M.C.L.)

Junior IS Boys' Rowing and Girls' Sculling This year's group started as a small squad and got smaller. At o ne stage I found myself rec ruiting some disench hockey players, who made excellent additions to the squad . In the light of that, they have ach ieved much and hnted a ll be congratulated for struggl ing through some hard times and some hard races. s OUid The season sta rted with coaching in the basics of sweep-oared rowing for the boys, whilst the girls continu scull , follow ing A.R.A. regu lations. The wind blew cold, and sleet fell down , and none particularly cared at that cd to if they were pulling up their finish or not. Two c rews, a boys' VIII , and a girls' quad, went to the first Head Magt Hampton, where they gave it a go, but came further down the order than they should have, as neither crew took adva~~e. ~~~~m.

The re now followed a period of training with no events, as three Head races were called off owing to fast-runn water (sometimes it is good that we train on a lake!), so both crews focused on the Schools' Head race, whilst engag:ng in some competitive racing against other home crews, learning about pacing. Schools' Head came along but Pc."g Hunt , Kirsten Luthe r and Naomi Chambe rlin didn't: a ll of them out through some bug or other. Here both co~es steer~ good courses, but Jef stayed a little too far over to Middlesex at Hammersmith and a little too c lose to Surrey atth Barn ~lms, s.urprisingly. The performances of the previous year's crews were always going to be very hard to beatc The g• rls fimshed 9th, the boys lOth. · With an improvement in the te mperatures down a t Westbere at the beginnin& of the Summer term, it was now possible to concentra te far more o n technique than on keeping warm . The crews both 1mproved in great strides, and at an carl> stage the e ight were looking very 'racey' at home. T hey developed a fast start , a lthough never managed to hang on when it came to the race days themselves . The girls were rather slower off the start , but had a natural ability to build steadily , only to throw away opportunities through technical inaccuracies (crabs to you and me). Such was the story of our first regatta, Poplar: the boys established an early lead but were gradually pushed down the order. The girl~ had a good old-fashioned fight , (their races always looked more like street brawls than rowing) but then the inevitable crustacean struck: not a good day. By now the crews were starting to be plagued by illnesses, and this took its toll on such a small squad. They battled on to Thames Ditton, the girls beating crews from Kingston Grammar and L.E.H. before succumbing to Henley R.C. in the final. The boys thrashed Tonbridge. but then let Kingston Grammar thro ug h. The boys also raced in four~ both fou rs winning their first round races, despite To m Martm's efforts to pole-vault off the river-bed (right in froni of the cameras, too!). In the pouring rain at the Met, the boys lost in chaotic fashion to Hampton, the girls won their event - a rich reward for some very g utsy rowing, and for S.W.W. 's excelle nt and patient coaching. Zoe Arthur drove the girls all the way in a real nail-biter. On to Nottingham - the boys finally as their best combination, the girls now more accurate, and ready to prove the ir worth without patching togethe r a race. The girls went through their first round , but missed out in the second. The Vlll were unlucky to fa il to qualify - Peter Hunt kept them fighting the whole way. Ultimately size can be everything, c~ pecially when you throw the coaching manual out of the boat and rely on good old-fashioned rating. This was the crew's best performance, saved for the big occasion - a pity that thei r efforts took them no fu rthe r. After half term came the inter-House regatta, whe re prizes were divided equallY. in the g irls' events (there only being W L and LX involved). Kirsten Luther and Sam Goulden won the double sculls, wh1lst Zoe Arthur and Naomi Chamberlin were in the LX coxcd quad. Galpin 's swept the board in the boys' junior events - cong ratulations to Ed Ste rck for the jun ior single scull ing cup and to the two Toms fo r winning in the double. Unfortunately the VIII 's performances then began to peter o ut (no pun intended!) - their stroke was again struck down by the bug that had plagued him all year, and they rowed fairly poorly a t Marlow , lac king cohesion and stre ngth. Well done to Peter for g•ving it a go despite fee ling under the weathe r. On the same day the gir ls went to Horscferry Regatta to compete in the ir first sweep-oared rowing event , in the novice fours division. They won. So to Reading Town, where they d idn't. That said , they were now rowing in Senior three, a nd did not look at a ll out of place. The boys' B (bow) four rowed like idiots in the first round of their event to reach the fi nal, where they rowed rather better to come second to an alarmingly competent Shiplake four. An optimistic end to the season . A season o f meagre pickings, which did not really reward the form that both crews had shown against other home crews. Others in the Boat Club have had to wait a long while for their first pots - this lot should not despair, as the potential that they have shown wi ll come to frui tion. It' s early days, and most of them need to fi ll out a bit. Despite the disappointments of the season, I have enjoyed taki ng this year group very much. I have seen some splendid individual performances (Tom Har re l a nd Ari Muganda deserve a mention for their long, steady ing rowing in the engine room, as does Kirsten Luther - a natural oarswoman), and some unlikely characte rs emerge as good rowers. My particular thanks go to S. W . W. for his patience, his encouragement, his help, and his unflappability. A stalwart of the Boat C lub , h1s enthusiasm was clearly transmited to the g irls that he coached. Many thanks also to Peter Willis , for the Teal, a boat much admired at regattas, for all the repair work, and fo r so much advice. Thanks to Jef ' look mum, I haven't eaten fo r three weeks' Firth for acting as a n effective buffer between coach and crew, a nd finally to the many parents for the ir inva luable support. N.C.W.S.

230

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VIII Bow 2 3 4 5 6 7 Stroke

Sam Goulden Naomi Chamberlin 2 Kirsten Luther 3 Stroke Zoe Arthur Cox Ed Curzon Lewis Bow

David Higgi ns Tristan Sta nden Ed Sterck Tom Martin Tom Harrel Aristide Muganda M ike Smith Peter Hunt

Cox JameHs IFirt~ W4x + Schools' Head· Peter Hermon-Taylor - much-used reserve for d· Oliv•a Neame, e en ray • ' ·n Head Schools' Head , Met, Marlow. ·111 - Kampto ' ·· · M'k S ' th j\/10 rowe

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d this? It'll be a disaster! I don' t want to!' And, ten minutes later .. . That was grea . ·Wh are you ma mg us o . · .?' . w~ race again like that next tJme. . . . d that was voiced frequently. This was a Can . mber recisely who said this to me because '' was an attltu e n to to discover that they could cope I can t ~:~ of th~ many new experiences thrown at them who t~:ns w~~~ ~here isn't much doubt that t~e:f were ..qulald ·"~~ed that they were actually rather good at lal great ~a~Jn:~ct~aily- but there were a great many s•gn!ficabnt R · nd then their justifying selection Y \\e • 111 11 wins were few and fa r between - we • non-ex•s sO:·v~n~~~~s: selection for t~e girlhs' qu~d t~.re~r,~:~~Yt~~ g~auJ~e~~~\nget~~i~ ~nal at the Nationa.l Schoolsh' Regattfj ac . third in the Inter-RegiOnal c amp~ons •ps. . th 'A' event)· so many people provmg that t ey cou com•~& , d hing their fina l (and m the1r case It was e • ·1 p lar The list could go on lhC gll'l~~~~e r~a~llall boats at the end of the seas~n; a silver me~~~ :~p~;~dg:~ Sp~~ thogr g~-~mbleS aside, give the be c~~isses the point. The real achie~ement ~as I ¥,~ve.ry~~ea~itude which will bring success in due course. ~:,~ in hand a go, and learn from t~eJr expenence. liS IS . 'catch u ' with other clubs who had been sculling Obviously those racing at the. ~utt•~g edge ';\'ere Sal ways ta~'~! sometim~s even longer. Looking at actual result~. 1 11 er _ in most oppos•t•ons cases smce eptem er . 1 er and closer 10 the standard of the best 111 f~r fa~s~ n~ticeable feature was that al~ our cre';VS got pr~gres~•ve:~ecf~~ure The skills and attitude are right: I hope :h~ ~untry (including Scotland) and this mu~t g•ve ~rea\ ~~~~i~gr arc a nece~sity if they are to fulfil their considerable that the squad now sees that mcreased fitness and tee mea potential. . . in th is article precisely because the squ.ad does hav~ so I have deliberately not mentioned a smgle athlete by nam\ ad (both boys and girls) could ach•eve great thmgs ch potential. It is already clear that one or two athletes m \~ squwho will be excellent in the future but whose tal~nt ~~hey are prepared to persevere. I a lso knowbthat ·'Ser~.~~~ o T:;ssquad as a whole is good but many miles of paddling has not yet emerged and so they have not ye~ een ! en I • t'• . lie ahead and those who paddle furthest w•ll ach•eve mos . . . . their luck willingness to give of their best My thanks go to the athletes for liv ing up to boat c~ub tr~d•t•o~o'John Fi~h his excellent and fruitful coachmg mall circumstances and to work for the club as. ~el~ as t emse v~~s colleague off the wall on so many occasions and, of the boys, and, most especially, to Pet~r Wh•)hs or J~r~p•~gposition from which they could achieve so much. more importantly, for once agam coachmg t •s squa m o T.J.P.

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Girls' 'A' Quad: Elizabeth Calder*' Rebecca Martin*' Frances Houghton,

. . S bb' Higgins and Claire Baldwin for South East).. Boys' 'A' Quad: David Sprake, T om Dav•dson, Ph•hp tu mgs,

CTolf

. . h erennial problem of multi-talented golfer~ agam On paper this year's team had expenence and potential ~u~: f:fazer Hu hes, this year's Ca~tain .and playmg off prevented the strongest force to .be fielded on sever~!~ oc~s•y nd Michele ~osato was in the Swnnmmg team, Ja":Jes 9 handicap was an A-level cand idate and l~ad fence 9r n~.f . also lost Giles Macey to Athletics after recover.'ng Munday in'the Tennis and Lewis Mitchell m the Athletics w •felt~ ength and this was reflected in the results agamst from a ru b in'ury. The side therefore was almost ~ever at u s r . ~h our three ~o~gh~st opponents, Charterhouse, Tonbn dge and Cranle1g · 231

Frazer Hughes did have one moment of glory when he beat the Tonbridge No. I at Knole Park and late term Rosato and Munday claimed that they were an unbeatable combination when playing fourba ll matches wi;hm the justification. We were glad to revtve our fixture with Sutton Valence whom we defeated at Boughton. Three \QI'Ilt games were staged there now that the school has a block membership, and we won against King's, Rochester :rore with St. Lawrence College and lost narrowly to the Common Room . History was made when the Common • rew welcomed its first lady to play in a match. We hope Mrs. Hoar enjoyed playing, as were delighted for her to panic~Oolll Some very promising Juniors, mostly in the Removes, gained match knowhow when Seniors could not play ;:te. are at least six, all keen and talented so the future seems bright. · ere In the Autumn term we beat the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment at Canterbury in yet another most en·o a match. The fixture v O.K.S.G.S. at Royal Cinque Ports regrettably had to be cancelled because of the most a~pi'nble weather but Activity golf took place at Boughton for the first time. tng The Geoffrey Young Putter Competition was also staged there and was won by Frazer Hughes (Seniors) and Edwa d Butler (Juniors). Jonathan Norris scored a brilliant hole-in-one at the 9th. r This term the Inter-House, played at Prince's, was won by School House (Hughes and Butler) by one {>Oint frolll Marlowe and Mitchinson's (Munday and Rosato). The length of the rough handed out some terrible pumshment to the wayward that day. Many thanks to Mrs. Hughes for helping with transport. I am very pleased to announce that Mr. Andrew Miles is taking over the Golf. He has already been involved in Activ ity golf at Boughton and played in some matches, proving himself to be a tough opponent. I would like to thank him for all his invaluable help thts term. After over a quarter of a century (27 years) in charge, handover was long overdue, but I must say that I have enjoyed every minute of it. Some fin e golfers have passed through the school and hopefully have acquired a lasting love of the game possibly from their experiences of playinjl the famous links cour~c\ where I have always arranged fixtures. I must thank the Secretaries of these Clubs for thetr frequent hospitality and generosity over the years. It remains for me to thank the leavers, Frazer for his Captaincy and Maurice Fakoury for loyal serv ice to the Club ' and to wish them all the best in the future. They will join the O.K.S.G.S. soon I hope . My best wishes too, to Mr. Miles and to James Munday who will be Captain for 1994-95. J.J .D.C. Team from: Frazer Hughes (Capt.), Stephen Bushnell , Edward Butler, James Campbell , Maurice Fakoury, Lewh Mitchell , James Munday, Jonathan Norris, Christopher O'Nei l-Dunne, Michele Rosato, Thomas Savage. Minor Sports Colours were awarded to: James Munday, Maurice Fakoury and Michele Rosato.

Sailing The wind and weather has been superb th is term. In fact we cannot remember such a long spell of such really splendid sailing, and there have been many boys and gi rls down at Westbere during the term. Including the regular full-time and Activity pupils, there have been forty -four who have raced , been taught, or just relaxed on the water. The House Matches were well fought and the outcome in doubt right up to the end. At the start of the last race the points situat ion was such that the better scoring helm of Marlowe and Galpin's was going to be the winner of the Cup. In the event Michael Haswell sailed into first place, and Ross Wingfield into second place. House MR GL MO GR T/BL MT WL LN

1st 2 * 5 3 6 4 7 8

2nd 3 2 5 4

3rd

* 10 10

* 2 3 3 4 II 10

4th 4 2 * 3 5 II

5th

6th

* 2 3 4 5

* 2 II 3 II II

II II

TOT 4 1A 6* II * 13 14* 36 38 41

PSN 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Four races to score: Maximum of two races per helm. II points = did not start. Winners: Marlowe: Michael Haswell (Capt.) (1st , 1st), Dominic Byers (2nd, 3rd), Tristram Standen ( 1st, 4th). Galpins: Ben Alexander (1 st, 2nd), James Patrick (2nd, 2nd), Ross Wingfield (2nd , 2nd). 2nd: Meister Omers: Robert Corbally (1st, 3rd), David Bird (5th), Darren Kingston (5th), Matthew Wall (3rd). 3rd: M.N.W.

232 GIRLS' QUAD IN PORTUGAL; JUNIOR 15 SQUAD (M.C.L.)

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swimming --;- r our two wins last term the season continued along the same lines with victories in triangular matches against A '~renee and Duke of York's at home and City of London Freeman's and Seaford College away. Our next fixture St. lfonbridgc who always g ive us a close match, but all a~e groups managed to pull through, including the U 15s. wa1l done the'brave gi rls who have filled in the gaps in thiS team throughout the season. Alas, they didn't help US 1~ the w~ter polo; fo r their help to be effective, we will have to learn to pass the ball to a girl. w Our yearly pilgrimage to Crystal Palace for the National Publ ic Schools Relays was enjoyable, even tho ugh we failed qual our achievements of last year. There were individuals who stood out, though , with personal bests from Benny 10 cfc James McNaught and Terry Loo in the mammoth 50m pool. The curry afterwards was most enjoyable, altho ugh Ro~clhing didn't agree with Alex Macd.-B. The following day we swam against our brother school, King's Rochester, 0 ' hom we beat quite convinci ngly, in the water-polo too. There was some added entertainment in Drury-Loo sound ;ffccts. ilIa Pelham (but we still haven't beaten his record) . A week later we had our final match, against Eastbou rne and Epsom. Both beat us last year and put an inglorious nd 10 an otherwise su_ccessful s~ason . We ~ere therefore determined no_t to let history repeat itself and with some ccrious training and a btl of moultmg from the mfamous Drury-Loo, we achteved our first unbeaten season (both semors ~nd u16s) for a very long time. A few schools records were suitably shattered in the process, notably by Tom Collins "ith a new free-style time of 56.3 seconds and Terry Loo who swam the Individual Medley in 68 .84s. The 6a swimming club dinner that eveni ng provided a suitable celebration and with the season theoretically over (well, for Haggis it hadn' t even started) our fitness was cheerfully drowned. After half term there were the Dover Novices swimming competitions, which yielded a bronze medal for Tim Mitchell 10 the backstroke, a gold for Adrian Cheong in breast-stroke and s ilver and ~old for Terry, in free-style and butterfly respectively . Many other swimmers received tasteful bookmarks for reachmg the finals. Second colours were awarded toNic Bates, Nigel Field and Ed Rice and first team colours to Tom Collins , James McNaught, Paul Perrin and Mike Rosato. First colours were awarded to Alex Macdonald-Bell and Ben Rolfe. All that' s left is to say thank you very much to all members of staff who have helped with swimming this year , especially Mr. Davies (and his camera) and our wonderful coach Mrs. Murray. Best of luck to all the new-breeds for next year and to the soft-crust, wherever they are going . TERENCE LOO.

Seniors: Terry Loo (Capt.), Barry Cameron, Dan Drury, Ell iot Ashurst, Alex Macdonald-Bell, Alastair McGregor, Paul Perrin, Ben Rolfe, Arne Suto r, John Sweny. U/6: Nic Bates, Tom Coll ins, Nigel Field, Ed Rice, Mike Rosato. U/5: Estelle Dav ies, Zoe Davies, Conrad Krawczyk , Tim Mitchell, Matthew Wall, Tim Strange. U/4: Adrian Cheong*, Sarah Clarke*, Liz Ha nson, Camilla Jackson, Helen Mounscy-Thear, Rachel White*. (*also swam with U 15s.) RESULTS

K.S.C. v Duke of York's v St. Lawrence Sen: 75:64:21 U/6: 51 :29 K.S.C. v City of London Freeman's v Seaford Sen: 69:53:43 U/6: 72 :45:48 K.S.C. v Tonbridge Sen: 44:35 U/6: 47:31 K.S.C. v King's Rochester Sen: 53:27 U/6: 50:30 K.S.C. v Eastbourne v Epsom Sen: 69:56:43 U 16: 7 1:53:43

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U/5: 41:39

U/5: 62:42:63

Girls' Swimming The girls team has proved itself to be almost unstoppable this term. Mrs. Murray was quick to get us into the hard slog of the regular training session , which almost the whole team attended with either force or simply a keen desire to do well. As a result we had an unbeaten season, althou~h we did have a slightly disappointing draw against Benenden. However in comparison to last year we were gloriously VICtorious, and next year , I am certain, the King's girls will win. Mr. Davies and M iss Price have been very e ncouraging this term and we were even blessed once or twice with the sweet melody of Mr. Davies humming to Vivaldi's Four SC<1Sons while we were reluctantly working on one of the demanding fitness sessions. Zoe and Estelle Davies and Sarah C larke proved themselves to be indispensable to both the Junior and Senior teams as well as being capable of a quick game of water polo after the matches. Among others Rachel White revealed herself to be a very handy freestyle swimmer. 233 (T.R.H.)

In the Seniors Lauren Davies and Emily Phipson w r b h · both swan~ breaststroke they provided good competitionef~r e~~h a~~rded ~lth their well-e~rned first colours A small Sen tOr te.am. Becky a nd Natasha, despite maintaining tho er, an managed to. till m any gaps in the s. s the} Gann has conSIStently focu~ed all her energy on backstroke.o er sports, always tramed and swam very w~'ij.e7a~t Many thanks to a ll the tramers but especially Mrs M . . . . ne next year goes really well and I wish you all the best ~{~~~kMI. Davies a nd MISS Pnce for all their support. I hope RESU LTS

v St. Lawrence. Won . v Epsom v Eastbourne. Won. v Sutton Valence. Won. v Benenden. Drawn.

Boys' Tennis 1st VI

The first VI have had a successful season des~;>ite a seri f To lose only once is an indication of the competuivene ef ~ wet atu~days and hav.mg to adjust to three new pairin The two n~table achievements were a win against a ~e~e~o~ kla~%~s ~~d the effectiveness of the partnersh ips form~· the Glandvtll Cup. Unfortu nate ly we had 10 forfeit 0 ' s . • early m the season and a promising run . · date was available before the deadline. The other disa ur o~n~:~h agamst Sevenoaks owing to illness and no alternati~~ adJUSted to the astroturf courts a nd were comprehensivfJP beate~nts w.ere first ly o ur defeat at Tonbri~g~ when we never (\s smg les players, Lawrence Potter and Ben. Massingham bot~n~ secoJld~ .the form ~f. o ur first pair m c lose matches tn the second round of the Glandvi ll Cup agai nst Simon L n s o~e t e1r competitiveness and abil ity, especially 1 1 the next two sets a nd secure the match in the doubles B Jon,. wh en ,they both overcame a first set defeat to win whe reas Lawrence has been able to add more wei hi toe~ . assmg am s serve and overhead play is very effective a g_re~t disappointment when they could not combi~e t hei /~a~rotundstr~kes from the b~ck of the court. It was the~ a s1m1la r standa rd . ens consistently e nough m o rder to defeat players of

T he Murch brothers formed a dependable second p·1i rin wh' 1 · serye was very cons iste nt and younger brother Jonath~n di~ I· IC d .Improved as the season progressed. James Murch\ their parents a few te nse moments their quiet understand·1 p aye mcreased confidence at the net. Although they gave refl ected in their results. The third pair of James Munday a ~~eantJ~ 1 Jhf~ supported one another well and this was over a Sevenoaks fi rst pa ir. Although not alwa s Ia in war a c I fe had a wonderful start with a 9-7 victo Ja~es Munday's groundstrokes from the baclotth~ cgu~~~~n~~nal ~oubles .ther were neverthe less effective. Wi~ agamst Brentwood to draw the match. On two occasions whe n war Radcliffe s ne t play they managed vital sets we ~ere fortunate to have a most reliable pairing in Stephen A~ ames Mdunday or Edward ~a~cliffe were not available agamst St. Edmund's and Sutton Valence. ams a n Charlie Crowe wmnmg th ree sets in matches

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I ~ould ~ike to thank all the players for their efforts durin th . · g ~ e season espec1ally as the first three weeks were very hectic a nd mvolved many away fixtures It is not alwa matches but the pl~yers this season proved 10 be reliable ~~de~:rr or thos~ 1akmg e~?ms to .find time to practise a nd play Potter, the Capta m who has been a more mature pia er 1h' . ~ ~l~nctt!.t ·A spect.tlmentlon to those leavmg: Lawrence IS se,tson <~nd James Murch , for their contribut ions over the last few seasons. I wish them luck in the future.y

Team: Lawrence Potter (Capt.), Ben Massingham*, James Munday, James Murch*, Jonathan Murch, Edward Ra~~~r~: A l so played: Stephen Adams, Adam Bissill , Charles Crowe.

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RESULTS

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Played 9, Won 7, Drawn I , Lost 1. Judd* (H). Won 5- 1 v St. Lawrence (H). Won 9-0 Sevenoaks ' A ' (A). Won 6 -3 v S1mo n Langton G.S.* (H). Wo n 5-l St. Edmund 's (A). Won 7-2 v Brentwood (A). Drew 6-6 Tonbridge (A). Lost 1-8 v Sevenoaks* (A). Defau lted. Dover College (H). Won 5-2 v Sutton Valence (A). Wo n 6-3 Eastbourne (A). Cancelled *Glandvi ll Cup 234

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~theI st VI the results were very good apart from the one defeat by Tonbridge. In Stephen Adams and Charlie As~ there was an experienced first pair who on their day, when Crowe's serve was going well, proved too strong

crow ost teams. Stephen Adams has good reactions and h1s volleying improved throughout the season. There were

for n~l players who then combined for the other pairings, but the most regular second pair were Adam Bissill and ..:~e hias Wiinsche. The left-handed Bissill had many oppone nts confused and both players had powerful shots and Mat~petitive edge to their game. James Cheeseman and Christopher Kenwright were a reliable and enthusiastic third a co Both were capable of good shots, Chris hitting some backhand winners while James was trying to make every 1r hand an Agass1-like shot, but it was rare to see them both play well enough at the same time. Andrew McGregor ore Russell Hewett were on hand to till in when the 6as were not available and their enthusiasm and competitiveness andn made up for any lack of strategy. Charles Aitken showed that he has a very consistent game and can volley decisively, ~he was unfortunate in that there was no obvious partner for him this season . uMy thanks to all the boys who played and the spirit thay showed while retaining the enjoyment of the game. S.E.A. rcnm from: Stephen Adams (Capt.), Adam Bissill , James Cheeseman , Charles Crowe, Christopher Kenwright, Matthias Witnsche. Also played: Charles Aitken, Russell Hewett , Andrew McGregor, Jamie Nicholson. RESULTS Played 6, Won 5, Lost I. v Sevenoaks (H). Won 5-4 v St. Lawrence (H) . Won 7-2 v Tonbridge (A). Lost 1-8 v Brentwood (A). Won 5-3 v Dover College (H). Won 9-0 v St. Edmund 's Singles (H). Won 15-3 v Eastbourne (H). Cancelled The Senior Inter-House Competition was postponed owing to rain but when re-arranged, the favourites Marlowe, wilh three out of the 1st VI plus a 2nd VI player, won in the final against Mitchinson's. The Senior League was not a success partly owing to the weather but also the apathy of many pupils who opted for tennis as the summer sport with very little intention of ever playing. Luckily Meister Omers were fortunate to have in Steven Lau a consctentious organiser and they won nearly all of their matches just by having a team present. Here is an opportunity for Senior pupils to take some responsibility and organise the league as I have teams to do and cannot be in two places at once. I look forward to the non-team players showing more commitment next year tn running this event. On a more positive note I would like to thank all those whose time and support is vital for the tennis season to function: C.J .R.J. and P.T., plus the coaches M ichae l Sugg and Viv ian Smith, the parents, groundstaff and Anne in 1he catering department in supplying us with a much-needed supply of teas. A thank you to the Works Department for the refurbishment of the tennis pavilion including a water founta in at last. S.E.A.

Under 16 VI With the best two players o f last year's Under 15 Team (Jonathan Murch and Edward Radcliffe) being selected for 1hc 1st VI, two other players choosing new sports and G.C.S.E.s loomin~ ever more menacingly, it was unlikely that results would be very good - and so it proved. Despite a pleasing des1re to practise and improve, the team could nol make up fo r a severe lack of match experience. We were outclassed by Sevenoaks and Tonbridge, played disappointingly against Brentwood and Sutton Valence (both in the pouring rain), but much better in St. Edmund's match, our only victory. Despite the presence of Jonathan and Edward, we could not progress beyond the first round of the Kent Cup, going down to a goodish side from St. George's. Individually everyone made some progress . Simon Bird served and volleyed very well at his best , and was a model of good sportsmanship and polite ness, both as a player and as captain of the team. Tom Goodman and Tom Partridge played w1th e ne rgy, hitting groundstrokes with great authority on occasion. Leonard Samuelson showed a nice touch and good tactical awareness and Tak Loon Khong served with fiercesome power. Richard Letts improved considerably all round and was looking a real team player by the end of the season. In the 'season', which amounts to about six weeks these days, it is generally impossible to find consistent form and improve very much , and it is essentia l that serious tennis players play at other times of the year too, e.g., in the ~ctiv iues programme. In addition, tennis is a 'club' sport in this country and nearly all good school players play regularly tn this way, ga inin~ great experience by pitting their skills against older and often wiser, opponents. This IS particularly lrue if good techmques in doubles are to be learned qu ickly. C.J .R.J. Team: Simon Bird (Capt.) , Thomas Goodman, Tak Loon Khong, Richard Letts, Thomas Partridge, Leonard Samuelson. Also played: Jonathan Murch, Edward Radcliffe. RESULTS

K.C.L. T.A. Under-16 Cup: v St. George's (H). 3-3 Lost on games

Friend lies: v Sevenoaks (A). Lost 1-8 v St. Edmund's (A). Won 6-3 v Tonbridge (H) . Lost 0-9 v Brentwood (H) . Lost 2-7 v Sutton Valence (A). Lost 0-4

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Under 15 and Under 14 Tennis It was encouraging at the beginning of the term to see the numbers of boys who had opted to participate in . sport. Unfortunately an unusually wet Apri l and May meant that many a practice and match were cancelled. Mat:hl\ became so desperate that the boys elected to play through quite a heavy rainstorm in the match versus Brentw~\ Players have had the opportunity to have professional coaching at least once a week. In terms of results this w Âˇ not a very successful season at all. A combination of insufficiently developed talent and over-confidence on the aas ~f some of the better players are reasons advanced for th is. With?~! constant practice and the wil_lingness to heed ade1 " httle progress can be made. However at the lower end of the ab1hty scale a far more healthy attitude prevailed. Owi~e to exami nation commitme~ts amongst the Under 16A team . Under I5s .were. drafted in to play matches for that teamg Notable success and expen ence was attamed . They were mstrumental 111 gu1dmg the U 16A team to the plate fina l of the Kent Cup, RESULTS P.T. Under 15A : Under 14A and 148 : v Tonbridge. Lost 1-8 v Tonbridge. Lost 3-6 v Eastbourne. Cancelled (rain) v Eastbourne. Cancelled (rain) v Brentwood. Drawn 5-5 v Sevenoaks . Lost 1-8 v Dover Colleg. Lost 2 1 games - 3 1 games v Sevenoaks (U 148). Lost 3-6 v Simon Langton. Lost 2-4

Girls' Tennis 1st VI It has been a successful season for the girls' 1st VI, especially in the Kent region of the Aberdare Cup in which we again managed to get through to the semifi nals after a long and dramatic battle. We started off the season with two convincing wins against Kent College (7-2) and Cranbrook (6-3) and we were then able to re-establish our confidence from last year. With only two members in the team from last year, this year\ team consisted mostly of new girls from 6b Y(hO contributed not only their ski lls but also a great deal of enthusiasm and team spirit. Valerie spent a lot of her spare time on the court 'to get a jolly good knock-up' and her dedication was rewarded with a remarkable 6-4, 6- 1 wm against a very good player from Sevenoaks. Becca and Louise proved a strong couple and their confidence increased throughout the term . Julie's ability and patient rallying kept the ball within the lines and Jo's dangerous shots contributed to the success of earlier matches (when she could be bothered). Clare, however, excelled in all her matches, being able to combine her talent with confidence and experience. Owing to rain , our matches against Sutton Valence and Dover College were cancelled and at this time of term it was impossible to arrange a mutually convenient time to play. After an unfortunate and rather shaky 3-6 loss to Ashford, our following match against Benenden was again influenced by bad weather conditions. We played only one set of doubles each and therefore didn 't have time to overcome the deficit. Reaching the semifi nals of the Aberdare Cup was a great achievement for us . Clare, Valerie, Becea and I had a fai rly easy first round match against Dover Grammar. In the next two rounds, however, we just managed to beat St. Edmund's after some long and tiri ng matches and a final set in the doubles which Clare and I eventually won. To add to the pressures of A-levels and the fact that Clare couldn't play as she was unwell , our opponents in the semifinals were Sevenoaks where tennis is a major sports priority. I was defeated rather quickly by a ranked county player, as was everyone else except Valerie, as I mentioned before, who managed to beat her opponent, thus saving us from total defeat. I wish her, as the next year's captain, and the team as a whole, every luck and success. I would li ke to thank Mr. Anderson fo r the enj oyable doubles tournament with the boys' I st VI. A special thanks, however, goes to Mrs. Wood ley whose advice, encouragement and patience we greatly appreciated. ANTONIA STEINKRUGER I should like to add my thanks to Antonia for captaining the team; she has been a delightful captai n who has carried out her duties with quiet authority and dignity. Had the tennis season been a little longer, we could have pursued a training programme which would have benefi ted this potentially excellent team. As it was, the term seemed to end J.A .W. on a frustrating note with much unfinished tennis to play. The team was: Antonia Steinkruger (Capt.)*, Rebecca Fordham*, Louise Hall*, Joanna Houghton, Julie Spei rsâ&#x20AC;˘, Clare Watson*. RESULTS v Kent College (H). Won 7-2 v Cranbrook (A). Won 6-3 v Benenden (H) . Lost I-2 v Ashford ( H). Lost 3-6 v St. Edmund 's (A). Won 7-2 v Simon Langton ( H ) . Won 6-3

Aberdare Cup 1st round v Dover G.S . Won 5-1 2nd round v St. Edmund's. Won 3-2 Semifinals v Sevenoaks. Lost 1-5

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~a in this year we have had a large number of good tennis-playing senior girls who have enabled us to put out Onc~calfns with a variety of people play mg. Unofficial captain, Julie Spe1rs, and her partner Friederike von Lindeiner

,1ro:;d 10 be a very strong pair and easily and very competently substituted in the 1st VI when required. pro as been good to see so much improvement in the standard of tennis of all members of the 2nd/Under 16 squad. ~~~ hregular practice routine sessions, considerable success at volleying was gained after an initial reluctance to attack .\ ter the net and an understandable wish to retreat to safety at the baseline. fro;h outstanding result of the season was the 8- 1 win against Ashford who are traditionally a strong tennis school. t~is match Julie was again pla:ying in the 1st VI, but Friederike and Francesca Meynell, and second pair Kate ~or,page and s'usie Tydeman, had httle difficu lty in winning all their rubbers. An early match against Cranbrook at hupbeginning of the season was a challenge for all players; their newly laid artificial grass surface - an astroturf 1 e hockey pitch in winter - proved to be soft and spongy to play on and the low bounce of the ball was difficult lypeet used to. However the match gave us the chance to try out new partnerships. Harriet Willis and Jocelyn Butcher, 1 Kate Porges and Laura Leigh-Pemberton were two very useful 6a pairs who played regularly together and contributed ~uch 10 the squad as did the members of the Under 16 team who played occasionally. We always look forward to matches with Simon Langton and Benenden and these were, as always, very enjoyable. The season ended with a sen.sc of achievement ; many gi~l s have .been involved in p!aying matches for the school for the first time and I should hke to thank them all for the1r com1mtment and for helpmg to make the Summer term , 0 enjoyable. J.A .W. Those who played were: Julie Speirs* (Capt.), Clare Alder, Jocelyn Butcher, Kate Cuppage, Julia Gellen, Olivia Kirby Laura Leigh-Pemberton, Fnederike von Lindeiner*, Francesca Meynell, Serena Nutting, Priscilla Parish, Kate Porge~. Georgina Richards, Susie Tydeman , Harriet Willis.

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v Kent College. Won 8-1 v Cranbrook. Lost 3-6 v Benenden. Lost 'h-2 '12 v Ashford . Won 8-1 v St. Edmund 's. Won S-4

Under 16 VI All girl s who played in the three Under 16 matches joined in the Senior tennis squad for practice and, in addition, all of them had a chance of playing in some 2nd VI matches. Kate Cuppage and Susie Tydeman (also mentioned in the 2nd VI report) had a remarkable win over Bencnden. Kate continued to play good attacking tennis this year and her game showed an increased maturity, playing important percentage points with much greater care. Susie formed a good partnership with Kate and her accuracy in placmg her shots won many points. Clare Alder, Olive Kirby, Georgina Richards and Demelza Wi lson contributed well to the matches, particularly to the 9-0 win over Simon Langton School. I look forward to coaching these girl s next year. J.A.W. The following g irls played: Kate Cuppage (Capt .) , Clare Alder, Helena Ancock, Deborah Kenyon , Olivia Kirby , Georgina Richards, Susannah Tydeman , Demelza Wilson. RESULTS

v Simon Langton Won 9-0 v Benenden. Drawn I '12 -l '12 v St. Edmund's. Won 8- 1

Under 15 A VI There is a great deal of potential in the Under IS 'A' team. All members of the team hit the ball well and with good technique so there is much to build on. Individual strokes are well-executed in practice, but coordinating a rally and producing thoughtful tactical play, particularly in doubles, comes from sustained experience with match play. A lot of experience was ~ained th is term , not only through fixtures with our usual friendly rivals but through the Midland Bank League Competition. An early attempt to change partners from the previous year was not popular with the girls; obviously partners need to feel that they play well together and temperaments need to be compatible, but it is also necessary to be flexible ~nd to adapt and to learn from other people's games in order to gain wider experience. However, the established pairs cit secure with their partnerships and the team had a very satisfacto ry season. 237 (Richard Benne//)

" The first a nd second pa irs of the 'A' team formed the M idland Bank team . This competition consisted of

sin~les fo r all four players a nd a set of doubles for two pairs against four schools in o ur group. Despite ea: setor agamst three of the schools, our confident-looking team drew with Folkestone on rubbers but lost on games. FolkJ ~~' 1'b

team played well and were more accurate and consiste nt with their ground strokes and particularly with their p 101le\ shots; they the refore went throug h to the semifinal round . It is not easy to find space or time on o ur over- ass•ng tennis courts (we have to share our twenty-two courts with the boys) to practise smgles play, but the compc~~~lattd good experience and the girls learned a lot from it. ~~'ill I

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Of the friendly matches the team secured th ree good wins but had its usual struggle with Cranbrook and Bencnd At Cranbrook, the flight of the ball was dictated by the wind a nd the bounce of the newly-laid a rtificial surface en conditions were not ideal and were reflected in the disappointing result. At Benenden, however, the g irls played~ SO well but just lost by 1-2 rubbers. Cl) The Midland Bank team comprised Jo Pringle (Capt.) and Jessica Mary , and Amy Joynson-Hicks and Oily Nea All four girls are to be congratulated on their consiste nt performance throughout the term; Catarina Cardosa also dese: a special mention for her contribution to the team. She has worked hard to improve her game and is a tenacious playee-. She was ably partnered by Rose Skelton when Rose was not injured. r I hope they will a ll continue to play a lot of tenni s in the summer holidays a nd I look forward to them being i the Senior squad next summer. n

J.A.W The team was: Jo Pringle (Capt.), Cata rina Cardosa, Claire Eliot, Amy Joynson-Hicks, Jessica Mary, Olivia Neame Rose Skelton.

v Cranbrook. Lost 2-7 v Ashford. Won 6-3 v Dover College. Won 9-0 v Benenden. Lost 1-2 v Simon Langton. Won 8- 1

RESULTS

Midland Bank League Competition v Kent College. Won 6-0 v Folkestone G .S. Drawn 3-3 v Dover G.S. Won 6-0 v St. Edmund's. Won 7-2

Under 15 B VI This team also entered the Midland Bank League Competition but it was unfortunate that the opposit io n from all three school s in the g roup was from gi rls' schoofs with a special interest in tennis. The results were therefore rather one-sided, but nevertheless the matches were enjoyed and it was good that more girls had an opportunity to play competitive tennis. T he Midla nd Bank team comprised Rose Skelton, Cata rina Cardosa, Cla ire Eliot and Penny Dain. These girls often substituted for and were part of the 'A' team so they all played plenty of tennis throughout the te rm. They persevered with the technique of the ir strokes a nd with the serv ice actiOn wh1ch is particularly difficult ; they and regular players Frances Armstrong-Jones, Maria DeHaan, Laura Perrin and Jess ie Shaw have made a lot of p rogress with the ir game. J.A.W.

The following girls played: Frances Armstrong-Jones, Helen Bray, Cata rina Cardosa, Penny Dain ,Maria De Haan,

C laire Eliot, Lucy Newton, Laura Perrin, Dominique Rowe, Jess1ca Shaw, Rose Skelton .. RESULTS

v Sevenoaks. Lost 1-8 (they prov ided an ' A' team) v Simon Langton . Won 8- 1

Midland Bank League Competition v West Heath. Lost 1-5 v Walthamstow Hall . Lost 1-5 v Benenden. Lost 0-6

At this point, I should like to add my very grateful thanks to a ll the members of staff who have helped with girls' tennis this te rm - to Miss F ranc is for being responsible for the Under 14 team and fo r accompanying them at matches, to Miss Reidy a nd Miss Phi llips for their generous help every week for encouraging non-team Shell players; and 10 M iss Trudi Cliff, professional te nnis coach at Canterbury L.T. C., for her expert hefp; thank you too, to M rs. Brownin~, for the rounders sessions at St. Augustine's. For her he lp with Removes tennis, I am indebted to Miss Megan Sinclair for a ll her support , to Mr. Vyvian Smith for hi s coaching, and to M r. Bee for his help with transport to some of the Midland Bank matches. At a Sen ior level, I am very grateful to Mrs. Bond for being so willing to give up her valuable time to be with those who did not aspire to team tennis but who just enjoyed playing the game; to Mrs. McConnell fo r fl exibly spreading herself from court to court and age group to age group as required; and to M iss Price for chasing up a ll those g irls (eighty or so of whom opted to play tennis on Thursdays and Fridays), who fo und better th ings to do o n those a fte rnoons. Fina lly, thank you to Mr. Anderson for his support and cooperation in sharing the use of the tennis courts with the boys; for organising the Inter-House Tennis League Competition; and espec ially for arranging a very e njoyable mixed doubles e ve ning for the girl s' and boys' I st teams with supper afte rwards. The Girls' Senior Inter-House Tennis Competition was cancelled because of ra in. It was impossible, unfortunately, to find an a lternat ive date. The J unior Inter-House Competition was won by Luxmoore. J.A.W.

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~ n·o able and successful season for the Shell ~iris at King's. The standard of tenms has be.en This ha~ bee~ a M?~~~s~ i~volved have been e nthusiastic and committed. The weather was mostly favou rable, With

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111C team the first couple were Louise Squires and Theresa Boyce In the d hose concentration was excelle nt. The second couple were 1m. arrar a d firm slroke;r:t~ a~d intelligent tennis. T.he third couple were Jessie Gulland and Allee Walker who P aye to a very ~lahed accard and showed much enthusiasm.

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Played 7, Won 6, Lost I. Cranbrook (A). Won 7-2 Simon Lang!on (H). v Ashford (H). Won 9-0 v St. Edmund s (H). Won v Dover (A). Won 9-0 v Benenden (A). Lost 1-8 v Sevenoaks (H). Won 6-3

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SPEECH DAY 1994 COMMEMORATION SERMON ant to ask you one of the most important questions to be raised in the past three weeks. _I : question th~t has bee~ discussed in the newspapers, on te~evision ~nd on radio. The a_nsw_er It 15h question will determme what the world of the future w1ll look hke. And the questiOn 1s: toil\ ~ete Sampras ' baggy shorts catch on? w I'm told that Nike are investing a six-figure sum on the gamble that we will all want to be a ring baggy shorts on the tennis courts of the future . .. o.r, at least, enoug~ C?f us for .them we ake a profit! Why? And why am I talking about somethmg so daft at a rehg1ous service .. . to :rafter we have had a reading from the Bible which reminded us of the dreadful story of the 3 ~cifixion of Jesus Christ? c Why? Because there is a connection. Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Benetton all know something about human beings. It is something upon which they.base their whole sales strate~y. And t~at something is that we all ten~ to copy others .. .. to go w1th .the flow.J\nd ~hat has this to ~o w1th Ihe crucifixion of Jesus Chnst? It has everythmg to do w1th the cru~IfixiOn of,Jesus C~nst! .The reason that Jesus was condemned to die was that, to quote Matthew swords: The Ch1ef pn ests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed. ' If you remember the story, those crowds were given a choice. They could call for th~ release of a known villain called Barabbas, or they could ask for the release of Jesus, the loveliest man who has ever walked this earth. And a few people decided on what would be the fashion. And the crowd went with the flow . And they called for the release o~ the ~ilia in and for the. death of Jesus. A few days earlier on the first Palm Sunday Jesus had n dden m to Jerusalem w1th the crowds cheering him on. That was the way the flow was going. Five days later when the flow was going against Jesus ... they chanted: ' CRUCIFY HIM ' . People are like that. If you don't believe me just look at what is. happening in Rwanda .. Killin.g Tutsis is in . .. so people - quite ordinary and normally peace-lovmg people- are out with their machetes ... or at least standing by and watching. So why am I saying all this? Simply because we are at a service where we think of this school and its pride in educating people to think, and to think fo r themselves. That's what education is all about. But what I want you to ask yourselves is 'Do you and will you really think for yourselves?' If you are like the majority of peoJ?le ~round 1he answer is - that for much of the time - you will let someone else do your thmkmg for you. Do you know why SC? few people take God seriously? I'll tel~ you t~e answer ! Wait for it! The answer to the questiOn as to why so few people take God senously 1s that so few people take God seriously! Very few people have thought for themselves on the matter. It has httl~ to do with modern science or profound philosophical thought. It's all about the dynamics of selhng baggy shorts to tennis players! It's about the way the flow is going. Somebody else does the thinking for us ... or at least we presume so. This morning I simply want to ask you to think fo r yourselves, and think about the things that really matter. I want to ask you to have the courage and the common sense to be your own person. That' s what all these years of school were about - something far more important than passing any exams. Never forget that it was people who didn't think for themselves who chan~ed the execution of Jesus. Don 't do the same thing today. When it comes to God and Jesus Chnst, stand back from the baggy shorts brigade and make up your own mind. Every one of you here is far more important than just somebody in a crowd. But there ' s another reason why we shouldn' t simply tag along and consider ourselves part of the crowd. As far as God is concerned . . . every one of you matters for your own sake. I' m told that, some years ago, an American university began to get worried that its students were feeling lonely and lost in the sheer size of the university campus. Everything seemed so impersonal. The university authorities decided to write to every student to try to assure them that each one really mattered. And here ' s how the typical letter started: ' Dear 3376103, we have a personal 241

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HEADMASTER'S SPEECH Mr. Dean , Ladies and Gentlemen. We were delighted to welcome to our service this morning our Lord Mayor. We are sensible of the honour he and the Lady Mayoress did us by being here today and we would like to assure them of o~r good wis~es duri~g their yea~ of offi7e. !hese are testing times for local &overnment but this. sc~ool will pia~ 1ts full part m contnbutmg to the life of Canterbury both m the use of our buildmgs, the chantable works undertaken by our pupils, and the economic benefits which our presence brings to the city. We have already committed ourselves to taking part in the twenty-fifth celebrations of twinning with Rheims and our musicians and rowers look forward to the festivities in September. I have no doubt that when our next school history comes to be written, 19th November, 1993 will hold pride of place. It was on that day that the ownership of the St. Augustine's site passed into the school's possession. For a school which has held very little realty to acquire a site of such historic importance, architectural significance and beauty is, of course, a tnumph. It is a tribute to my predecessor that he secured a twenty-five year lease on this property and that we have for some years been able to enjoy its splendours. However, the lease was already half expended and the future remained uncertain. That uncertainty is removed and we can go forward to consolidate our position on this valuable site . Thomas Hinde in the history of the school entitled Imps of Promise (a history which all of you should possess, and which can be obtained from the school shof) records that in 1834 my predecessor George Wallace took legal advice over the purchase o St. Augustine's. Because the property belonged to a lunatic and an Act of Parliament would be required before it could be sold, he decided not to proceed with thi~ plan. Nine years later the Kent Herald of 5th October, 1843 reported on the annual School fest1val : In the course of the evening, we find, that the question of the removal of the school to a more convenient site was again mooted. It certainly is at present hid in an obscure and remote corner, and it is matter of surprise that the trustees of the School, the Dean and Chapter, and the many wealthy persons who date their fortunes and reputation from the instructions here received have never provided a building more accordant with the pretentions of this classical seminary. It has been well suggested that if possible the buildings and grounds at St. Augustine's including the splendid gateway to the monastery, should be purchased and appropriated to this object. They would be e~ery way suitable if the necessary funds could be raised. A noble collegiate school m1ght there be erected and Canterbury ere long take rank with Ru~by , Winchester, Harrow, or Eton. The citizens too in general would have a deep mterest in seeing such an establishment rise under their walls and would no doubt cheerfully aid in the undertaking. We hope the project will not be allowed to drop. It has, then , taken a hundred and fifty years for the Kent Herald 's aspirations to be fulfilled. But the legal advice which Wallace received was, in fact, correct. It took three Acts of Parliament before the Abbey could be sold and in 1848 after Butterfield's extensive rebuilding, it was opened as the Missionary College of St. Augustine. 242

. l think, no more moving p~ace within ~he school than St. Augustine's Lower Chapel There IS~alls are entirely covered w1~h plaques m m~mo~y of former members of the C~lleg.e. wher~ theh se plaques is to read the h1story of the V1ctonan church - confident, knowmg Its Read Ina t e~ enormously sacrificial. Again and again one reads of youn& men se~t overseas whose "ay an Y rematurely ended by disease or accident. It has been ~as~wna~Ie. m recent .Years to Jive~ w~~etCe whole concept of the British empire and with it Chnsttan m1s~10n. Happil,Y, ~ow denlgra. dependence of the former colonies is itself a matter of history, the a1ms and a~p1rat10ns that thee~ Victoria's empire and those wh'? served it, ca~ be l?o.ked ~t afresh. For all 1ts faul~s, of Queh acterized it was service and sacnfice. It was with th1s m mmd and to serve the empue "hat c amrany of our Victorian independent schools were founded. that so Âˇ Âˇ d Âˇ II 1 ve been privileged on many occaswns to preach m the chapel~ o~ such f~un attons genera Y h~d at the centre of the school. ~gain, .one is surroun~ed by bu1ldmgs which ooze confiden~e ~~tuat tainty certainty expressed m the lives of the pupils of those schools who accepted t~e1r and c~r to s~rve and country ' often in the most inhospitable of places and endurmg vocauon . Queen . nspeakable pnvatwns. u M family were in a way typical. My grandfather, born a m<;mth ~fter that report of the Kent in 1843, sent his son, my father, to one of the new V1ctonan schools, Kelly Coll~ge, er~ tock which he left in 1902. By the time the First World War came, my father had mmed Ta~~livia: Nigeria and Burma, usually in places where no European ha~ pr~vious.ly been bef?re. ~e was not joking when, on 6th July 1910, he wrote from Northern N1gena t~ h1s mother: We haven't been eaten yet or "chopped" as they call it in West ~o.ast vernacular . When I ~eft the same school as my father som~ f!fty Y.ears lat~r, although Bntam was already surre~dermg her empire, many of the old certamttes sttll remamed. We were sure of ~mployment, divorce w~s a rarity among my parents' frie~ds, drugs unheard o~, t~e church widely attended and a basic moral code accepted. For today s leavers none of th1s IS assured. . What then are we in this post-imperial and post-Christian age to say .to your children whom you have entrusted to our care. Are the vast Victorian chapels of. our mdependent schools an irrelevance and the ethics upon which they are built an anachromsm? 1should like first to say that we should keep our nerve. There is much to .admire in our you!lg ople. Although they adopt a common youth culture manipulated. by advertisers and commercial ~erests, and reflected in their clothes,.hairstyles, jewel~ery and votce, they are far less stereotype:<I than their Victorian predecessors, bemg tolerant of dtfferences of ra.ce, cr.eed and sex. That t.s not to say that from time to time racism or sexism d~es. not show 1tself.m our school, but 1t is a rarity readily condemned by pupils themselves. Similarly, co-educa.twn has enab~ed boys and girls to exhibit both the masculine and feminine sides of their nature with a healthy dtsrespect for the sterotyped dumb blonde and macho man . Bullying in any physical sense is now almost unheard of, and we are all much more sens!ti~e to the more subtle forms it can take. There is a ready concern for the needs of o!hers, b~th wtthm the school and the wider community, and where the pupils are confronted w1th .genu me ne~d, their response is both wholehearted and generous. They probably spend more time on SC?rtmg out each other's problems than on anything else and certamly the most successful pastors m the school are the peer group. With this greater concern for others has come also a gr~ater honesty: there is less posturing, role-playing and self-delusion. In~tead we encourag~ p~plls to hav~ t~e self-belief to become themselves with the result that there IS no stereotyped Kmg s man or Kmg s woman but a number of individual pupils within a caring community. But there are threats threats which while at school are held at bay, but which are all too often embraced within the h~lidays and when school is left. The sixtie~ revolution won.for th~ young a complete freedom to order their adult lives which, the state dec1~ed, should begm ~t e1ghte~n. Recent rape cases have illustrated the consequences of a youth S?Ciety where no barners obtam. The party culture, with its emphasis on drink, drugs and sex m s~a~k contrast t? !he rules .of an independent school, beckons with all the allurement of ~n Aladd~n s. c~ve. Y~t 1t 1s my behef that those who experience it do not in the end find that happmess whtch 1t 1s th~ nght of everyone of us to enjoy. Surely there must be some other way, some other path. It w1ll not be found by

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But 1t w1ll al ~o 10volve fac10g up to what IS deficient, destructive and illusory. Let culture. some suggest1ons. me tnake First, I believe we must encourage our young once again to take an active interest in .. No doubt their current political apathy springs partly from the fact that they have knopolnlcs. ~:me poli~ical party in P.o-:ver, though~ rev1ta.li~ed Labour Party may change that. More da~n only IS the w1despread cymc1sm concern10g poltt1cal and indeed other leaders fuelled by the gero.us I~s insatia~le appetite fo~ characte~ as~a~sinati.o~ will inevitably deter men and women fromm~~~~. ltfe,. .But 1f democ racy IS to .s_urv1ve 1~ IS poltc1es not people which must be at the centre he polt.t1cal debate and the poltt1cal~ eth1cal ~n~ moral teaching given in our school must not ~ur equ1p them for that task but exc1te them 10 1t. When I was interviewed for my present JUst was asked my political views. I repl!ed that I had been a member of two parties and vofe~s~ 1 three: ~rom where I st~nd ~ow, I m1gh.t not have done it all quite as I did. I know I was oft~r the v1ct1m of yout~ fu l 1dea!1sm. But "':'lthout dout;>t the involvement at grass roots gave me a~ yaluable an ed~catw.n bo~h 10 and for h.fe as ~nyth10g else. And the only real danger we all fac~ IS when ther.e IS no 1dealtsm. It was th~s ~as1c g.ut feeling for a better world which sparked off the extraord 10~ry respon~e t~ John Sm1th s trag1c death - a longing which extends far beyond party boundanes but wh1ch 10 the end must be realized through the ballot box. Secondly, I .wan~ to echo Eric Anderson, retiring this summer as Headmaster of Eton In a re.cent art1cl~ 10 the D_a~Jy T~{egr~ph, ~e argued that the most insidious influence on th~ young IS the pursUit of the tnv1al, c1tmg 10 particular the devastating influence of television. I quote: 'We, fellow coun.tr~men of Newton, Faraday and Darwin; inheritors of the music of Germany, the pa10t10g, sculpture and architecture of Italy the ideas of the Greek philosophers and the Hebrew prophets; we who speak the t~ngue that Shakespeare ~poke - we seem c~ntent to let our ~h i!dren spend the ir formative years under the mfluence of a successiOn of cops and cnmmals, of Nintendo and Ninja Turtles Michael Jackson and Disneyland.' ' Anderson contends that we should be content with nothing less than what is fi rst-rate and has stood the test of time. I quote again: 'It is time tha~ we. recovered ou.r confidence and said boldly and loudly that the only test of what IS sUt.ta~le to teach IS not whether it is relevant or feminist or politically correct,. but whether 1t IS great. We must speak out for civilised values - but, at the same time, we must teach those values to our own students.' Thirdly, I believe we m.ust provide in young people's lives space to stop, space to listen and space to l<?ok . From morn10g to mght .they are engaged in frenetic activity and bombarded with soun~ -:vh1ch the walk~an en~ures w1ll accompany them whether on cycle or in prep. I was descnb1~g to some pup1ls ~ow 10 a bad pat~h last. wi nter what kept me going was walking through the Prec10cts at dusk ltste~10g to the sk~lkm~ n01se of t~e blackbirds, an utterly evocative sound. I wondered ho~ ma~y pup1ls C<?uld have Identified that no1se. Nor was the reaction of my theological students at Umvers1ty f!IUCh d1 ff~rent when I told them that I had learnt more theology watching !he sea beat on my nat1ve <;ormsh rock~ than anywhere else. We may be a post-Christian age 10 the .sense ~f fo rmal worsh1p and ~omm1tment, but as that great architecture, music and literature to wh1ch En c Anderson refers test1fy, man yet has a spiritual dimension. It is this that so much of contemporary shoddiness s~ifles, whether in soulless housing estates or spurious art. Indeed, I am grateful to John Ward, pamter of my predecessor though more often associated with drawing beautiful women, who brought to my attention David Hackney's Introduction to Vogue's Book of Fashion Drawings. Hockney writes: ' It is easy to see that happens when people are not taught to draw - in fact it is visible ev~ryw~e~e else too, in one way or another, though perhaps rather harder to se~. Certaml~ 1t .ts boun~ to be reflected in design, in the environment, in the way th10gs are butlt, 10 the thmgs we use and are forced to have around us. T he serious st~dy ~f looking, whi~h is what draw ing is, affects far more than we might casually th10k 1t does. Indeed 1t goes fa r beyond the limits of art itself, in the conventional

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. nse and is all the more serious for tHat, and should be treated more seriously by s~er ~ne. Even in a field as narrow and specialized as that of fashion, we can see ~he lower drawing ,has to sharpen our eyes, and therefore the rest of our senses, to the world at large. s~ace, space to listen, space to look, we have no hope of ever discovering our spiritual W'thout 1 it It 1s only by allowing space that things can be done to us - that we can experience ,ap~h~~ the beyond. Then it comes to us, overwhelming in its otherness, not our creation, the iven' and in its givenness transforming. It may not result in any formal acknowledgement ~rb~: its awe will th~ugh hu~ble as .we recognise that we are not entirely master in our house. To live with mystery IS to begm to ltve. Fourthly I would encourage generosity of spirit - or put another way that one's pupils learn be ood iosers. Michael Stich, eliminated in the first round at Wimbledon, was booed from :~e co~rt for his bad tempered behaviour. This was his reaction: 'These people have to try and understand the game a little bit more and try to understand the players. If I had behaved in a bad way then I could understand. I did not do anything wrong. You cannot expect a player when he loses in three sets to smile and say "Thank you very much, it was a great day".' Why not? ft was a great day for the victor. Why not smile at him instead of spoiling his victory? Jeremy Bates showed that behaving well in disappointment is still a British virtue. It should certainly be unquestioned in school sport. Disappointment is not quite the same thing as failure. Here I am talking about scars which one has to carry for the rest ofone's life. It means the recognition that we are not entirely as we would like to be and have to accept that that is the case. It may be ambition unrealized, a personal re~ationshi~ b~oken, st,atus radically alter~ whether through one's ow? fault. or another's, something mbom wtthm us whtch we can do noth10g about. Generally these thmgs wtll, of course, hit us after schooldays, though even here we learn that we are not as we would like to be. That is certainly something with which we as tutors and pastors must attempt to help our pupils come 10 terms. This is particularly necessary in our success-orientated society. The new prospectus to Chetham's School of Music, where of course our own Peter Hullah is Headmaster, ends with a quotation from the Bishop of Manchester: 'This building and your school are places where we can dare to admit our failures, fea rs and fragility ... and not be thought less of for doing so.' That would be the fi nal lesson which I would try to inculcate in our young. Recognizing that despite our fragility and our fail ures, we can still be considerable people and of considerable worth is a priceless lesson which liberates us in a way nothing else can do. With this kind of self-respect based on reality and not illusion there is nothing that cannot be achieved. What then do my suggestions add up to? A concern for the community which involves active participation and is not frightened of idealism; renunciation of all that is trivial and second-rate; space to listen, look and let happen; generosity of spirit and a readiness to admit and learn from failure in order that we may fully be, realize our true potential. All this requires effort and endeavour as anything worthwhile does. This is what characterized the sermons preached in the chapels of our Victorian public schools . Effort and endeavour are costly and so we are back in the Lower Chapel at St. Augustine's. Those missionaries whom we can now call our ancestors were in their different ways motivated by my five suggestions. Their journey was a different journey to the ones to which your children will be called, but I pray that they may be inspired in the same way, driven by a vision of what might yet be if only we would let it be. I do not know quite how to put this as a non-Christian, but as a Christian all I can say is that my only fear for the future of mankind is when there is no-one left to say 'Thy Kingdom come, come in all its fulness'. . It is endeavour and effort which has been at the centre of our After Hours initiative begun m this academic year. Its purpose was to stimulate intellectual activity outside classroom and prep - to challenge much mindless use of time by broadening perspectives and experience. And 11 was pupil-led. Its success has been not simply in some boys and girls doing much better academically than might have been expected - though that has indeed happened - but in freeing them to be more considerable people than they had hitherto dared to dream. It is, of course costly 245

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hen I would expect that of a woman given to battling with the Cornish surf. It's good that B011 will not be far away from us and I hope we shall see them often. We wish them the happiest t~e~et irements. Perhaps they will think of us when sailing the boat. 0 I deed I should like to thank all who work at King's in whatever capacity. We are an enormous ; and'every member of the team matters. That the school runs so sr11:oothly and ~as enjoyed tea h success is due to common effort and endeavour and common behef that nothmg but the sue, will do. That remains our commitment and I am grateful to you parents for all your support be~nabling us to fulfil it. And a special and very heartfelt mention to all who made King's Week Â·~is year so special. It was again a superb team effort - a dream come true. 1 Last autumn in the frantic rush to write over seven hundred reports, I opened one of these small orange envelop~s whi~h we use for internal co~munications. Out fell another report ihe significance of whtch I dtd not fully understand until I was half-way through. Mrs. Anthony Phillips Form ~1. Autu~n Term. 1993. Tutor's ~ep<;>rt. Entertainments Exam. Mark 110%. Position First. Vtcky obtamed the htghest mark posstble m her end ofterm exam. She had prepared well. I hope she will keep up this very high standard in this subject. I know I could not do this job without her. Thank you.

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KING'S WEEK 1994 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS forming what is probably Shakespeare's first comedy (traceable to 1589-9 1) in the wake

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of asmbrance of benefactor Calvin Hoffman, was, to say the least, comparison-provoking. In rem:r Mallion's 1983 interview for the video archive, Hoffman expostulates against Shakespeare: ~0~ business man - I SJ?eak categorically - this money lender, this hoarder of grain, this real tht~e operator, this litigtous human being.' Forget the invective, never likely to persuade; and esta et the supposed mechanics of plagiarism, never likely to convince, let alone be proven f~r~k goodness - to the satisfaction of the manager of Lloyds in the High Street. Essentially 1 : Hoffman hypothesis (in a form which now commands widespread support) is that Marlowe thas an innovator, an explorer, an original; and that Shakespeare, by contrast, was a technician, ; money maker, a dubiously-principled snapper-up of other people's much-considered trifles. The King's Week Comedy of Errors presented the case without bias. Here, fixed upon early, s the essence of the Shakespeare play: altered dispositions after a shipwreck, a world of inverted ~rder confused perceptions of identity centred around the motif of the identical twin, some slapstick and banter for the groundlings, and an emotive escape into rebirth at the end. The Comedy of Errors' constant references to pubs and money-making tell a tale: the gregarious Shakespeare sought our personal and literary company for the pursuit of profit. The recipe for the Shakespeare lay was found early, with a businessman's shrewdness; then refined and refined and refined, ~ith a practising and performing artist's genius. Watching this production made clear that Comedy is a catalogue of motifs later re-used with staggering refinement: everything in later Shakespeare is technique and re-working. Even with Shakespeare, Proust wasn't far wrong: ' les grands litterateurs n' ont jamais fait qu'une seule oeuvre' . One striking thing about this King's Week production was new: the advent of a theatre technician has made a major difference to the school's performing community. A different excitement surrounded this production, a newly possible breadth of commitment and professionalism of slandard. Fairground organs, triumphal archways, complicated paint-patterns and lots of woodwork: the tone was set : triple As all round. As usual, backup work was impeccable: costumes (Sheila Bennett and Juliet Vigano) and make-up (Jean Coates). I'd only register a query at the lighting: main school plays have got darker and darker in recent years, and if there's every reason why global artistic taste should prevail over local photographer's requirement, there seemed no reason why sometimes crucial speakers were in partially ht patches. Shakespeare's Ephesus is a town ' full of cozenage', of 'nimble jugglers that deceive the eye' and 'liberties of sin' . A large troupe took this instruction with skilled and seductive literalness, and it would be invidious to single out names. The same cannot go for Matthew Kni~ht's Dr. Pinch: I would not have believed that the interpretation given in the recent RSC productiOn could be matched by a schoolboy, but here it was equalled in execution and surpassed in conception. Dan Katz's Egeon went for energy rather than subtlety: a tricky, unrefined role this, but one hoped for answers that included less forceful declamation. For the easier part if Egeon's longlost wife Emilia, Suzy Madigan needed only the energy not the subtlety, and of course dug deep in her considerable resources. Jane Wigan was a splendid (and excellently made-up) foil for Miranda Scott-Barrett's Adriana: Miranda's was a performance that showed range, p01se and technique, and made one wish the part presented more of a challenge. Eliot Shrimpton and Will Davies have come a long way together as a duo this year. Will, very much the new boy to main school plays, seemed here to give new resource to Eliot, whose practised professionalism ensured that not a change, not a trick, not a stunt, ever went less than perfectly . With Eliot, a new command and care of speech and voice were apparent; with Will, considerable thought had gone into the presentation of some of Shakespeare's least entertaining anecdotes and repartee. The production succeeded or failed on their energy and ingenuity: it was nice to see them allowed the unique curtain call they deserved. 253

This was, I thought, the best of the nine Andrew Dobbin summer productions I have s and the first to have Stephen Davies' assistance. It was a risky choice of play , but a comple~e~, correct one. There is no way in which any production of Comedy can match the kind of theat/ Y experience that middle or late Shakespeare gives (Twelfth Night, 1989; The Winter's Tale l9S~~l Quite simply , the resources of stagecraft, and, more particularly , language and poetry 'are · there: Shakespeare is at this stage just a dramatist, not the unique poet-dramatist that he beca: But this removed the difficulty of sophisticated Shakespearean verse speaking, and allowed em has·· on the traditio_n~l strengths o~pa~t productions: group.disciplined.ingenuity (Nicholas NicSeby)s 1986; The Swc1de, 1991 ); pnnc1pals capable of carrymg demandmg roles (The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1988; Romeo and Juliet, 1990); and presentational resource (Midsummer Night's Dream 1992; Dido, 1993). Residence in the Mint Yard ironically aids critical distance from the~ productions: scrutiny at close quarters suggests that, quite simply, this was a corker. T.R.H.

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THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT t's enough to put _you off weddings_ ~orever .- and straw hat~. It didn't however, seem. to d {er the bride w~o w1th remarka?le. res1hence salled through one d1saster after another, endunng " with stoic fortitude and a submiSSiveness that would have sent the pulse rate of any true-blooded f, rninist into orbit, seerrungly indifferent as to whather she ended up hitched to the harassed Fadinard er the slimy Boby. Altogether it seemed as if everyone was thoroughly enjoying themselves in 0 rue farcical ~ash ion. The~e ~ere exce~lent performances from many members of the cast, Chris ~ickering givmg a truly bnlhant and w1tty portrayal of the unfortunate ' Don Juan'. George Taylor tru led manfully with a heavy French accent and a wet shirt while Hannah Mackenzie's caricature ~ft~: cultured countess was nothing less than incredible. Zoe Arthur's appearance, while brief, seems worthy of mention as does that of Will Tallon and Matthew Gardiner. All the cast performed extremely well and it seems that the Fascist tyrant, despite a couple of nervous breakdowns and a serious addiction to polos , deserves credit for bringing off a very successful production. GEORGINA SALMON.

ORPHEE There is a much-quoted pronouncement by Dr. Johnson on the subject of women preachers _ something to the effect that the wonder is not that they should do it well, but that they should do it at all. Such are the criteria most usually applied to plays in French acted by English students. The King's Week production of Orphee was charmed in every way . Firstly there was the glory of two lovely summer afternoons in St. Augustine's. The walls of the Abbey ruins formed an excellent back-drop for the magical comings and goings, in and out of the mirror of Death, and the sunlight and gentle breeze formed a setting more enchanting than any theatre. Then there was the sheer look of the simple set. Two tables set far apart, the mirror to the left and the plinth on which Orphee's decapitated head miraculously appears. The costumes and make-up were just right. Orphee himself looking like a late nineteenth-century painter cunningly disguised as a peasant, Eurydice mysteriously medieval, Death a heavily made-up femme fata le and her helpers white-faced, black-lipped bikers with leather jackets and dark glasses; Heurtebise was in modern dress and the inspector in Clo useau outfits. The acting was all of a very high standard. Xavier Boureau as Orphee - the only native French speaker and making his theatrical debut - portrayed the character convincingly, now throwaway and egotistical, now raging with anger. Diana de Cabarrus' performance as Eurydice was perhaps the most impressive, always secure, sometimes chilling, sometimes tragic, sometimes quite humorous as she parodied the hurt wife role- just as Cocteau intended . Caroline Moir as Death and her two helpers Nick Bray and Tristan McConnell created just the right balance between mystery and wry humour as the dead Eurydice was spirited away through the mirror after all the hocus-pocus with mirrors, bizarre gadgets, rubber gloves- all to the accompaniment of the off-stage vacuum cleaner! Tom Burges Watson and Nick Jenkins acqu itted themselves well in the role of Commissaire and scribe respectively. Most credit must go to Ben Massingham. Not only was he a fine Heurtebise, standing in at t~e last minute after the Orphic disappearance of the original actor, but he also produced and d1~e~ted the play with the most incredible maturity, energy and sang-froid, and the absolute mmunum of help from teachers - all in the remarkably short space of time between demanding school examinations and King's Week. He really did manage to capture the spirit of that odd Cocteau theatrical cocktail - theatre never pretends to be anything but theatre but which remains mysterious for all that. In short it was a wonder that they did it at all - and an enchantment that they did it so well! T.J.A. 255

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LES CERCLES Les Cerc/es involved a whole host of talented people. This production took us on a jou through time. I wondered, as I watched, if After Hours showings of Kenneth Clarke's farnrney series Civilisation had been an inspiration to the show? Five excellent dance routines wous interspersed with enjoyable commentaries, musical and visual interludes. The production choreographed most ably by Miss Anna Price and imaginatively produced by Adam Fendius a~ Jon Shaw. They were well assisted on the technical side by Mr. Anthony Alderson, Mr. Dn Watkinson, Mr. Andrew McFall and by Owen Buckingham, John Vemede, Jo Houghton Mich:n Haswell, Tim Breen, Mel Cumber, Charlie Aitken and Richard Collins. On the mu~ical siJ 1 Mr. Andr~w Skeet ki~dly comp_osed. some interesting musi? for the asylum dance and 'wa~ accompamed by Ed Millard, Juha Tnebel, and Hugh Gledhill. Âˇ The show began with Darius Milhaud's evocative music La Creation du Monde and extracts from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Bible, and continued with a vigorous dance routine involving Rose Skelton, Jo McConnell, Alice Walker, Sarah Hubbard-Ford, Maddy Morgan and Helen Mounsey-Thear, dressed in shiny blue and green leotards. They performed a sequence of cartwheels, backflips and somersaults with apparent ease and enjoyment. The routine depicted order slowly emerging from chaos. This theme was further developed by slides showing famous buildings and art works from the western world and an interesting and witty commentary. Âˇ The Dark Ages , a low spot in our history, were well illustrated by pictures of Bedlam and a contemporary dance set in a lunatic asylum. The patients were arranged in a circle, a symbolic formation. The dance began with them sitting on chairs gently rocking. Two almost identical orderlies, Zoe and Estelle Davies, entered but soon became caught up in the miasma. Patient~ and orderlies ran around in an eery blue light, bumping into each other like frenzied molecule~ in a test tube. The mood of the dance was intensified by the use of a strobe light. A second pair of orderlies, Delia Williams and Charlie Hunt, also found the atmosphere contagious. Eventually the fever subsided and the patients returned to their chairs and their rocking. Things had come full c ircle. The passionate nature of human beings was well depicted in the next two dances. Prokofiev's famous Montacute and Capulet theme from his ballet Romeo and Juliet led on to a dynamic performance by Jessie Crouch, Jo McConnell and Jo Chesterman. The sequence began with Jessie, who also choreographed the piece, dressed in an elegant white dress. She was the embodiment of Love and Harmony. Her movements were graceful and confident. As the tempo changed Love was pushed aside by Hate, a lithe figure in red. Jo McConnell danced energetically like a machine going at full tilt. As the dance progressed a third figure, Jo Chesterman, entered the scene joining Love to defeat Hate. The sequence ended peacefully, in a circle. Bringing us up to the present day the last two dances had a bicycling theme. In the first, danced beautifully by Rachel White, Zoe and Estelle Davies, Helen Mounsey-Thear and Alice Walker, articles of clothing came to life. We were entertained by a dazzling range of dancing items; fluorescent shorts, tops, dark glasses which glowed, checkered flags, and a luminous orange bike. Clearly the dancers enjoyed moving to the catchy rythyms of Queen and Los Lobos. The last dance was equally vivacious. Alice Walker and Sarah Hubbard-Ford, gave us a gymnastic display using two bicycle wheels. It was inventive and le ft the performance on a high note. I went away having much enjoyed the performance and looking forward to the Tour de France, with the words of Queen ringing in my ears, 'Bicycle races are coming your way .. . races are coming your way ... look out for those beauties ... on your marks, get set, go!' D .M.F.

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GOON III . was the third King's Week Goon Show production to be presented under the direction ThiS Jonathan Allday (or, ~n the words of ~ ga~ from the first such sho~, ' . .. Dr. Jonathan of ~r. that well-known typmg error' !). Unlike Its predecessor last year, It was schedu~ed to Alh ~~{ one performance - which was, however, lon~er than previo~s Goon Sho~s (75 mm~tes play luaing the four pieces from Alex Neame's Tradsters - accordmg to a runnmg of the film 1 - n~ of this King's Week event, for the archives.) . .. . 1'rven after the benefit of a further running of the above-mentiOned film befor_e wntmg this . 1 still cannot attempt a sensible summary of the plot - save to say that It ~as loosely revle~~ed with a scheme to bring ice from arctic regions in order to create a Torville & De~n con~~f ice-rink on the Green Court! The script was in characteristi~ vein, _with m~ny favounte typ 1Sallies which devotees of previous shows have got to know, gettmg their ~ffectwnate knocks Au&DT th~ Recreation Centre (complete with 'sound bite' from the Hallelujah Chorus), Imps (Promise and the Premises Manager (who, I was glad to observe, was referred to by his much 0 re vener~ble and traditional title that he had until a few years ago - namely, ' Clerk of Works'!) 01 ~is was surely the King's Week production with the greatest proporti~n of O.K.S. i~volvement _ more than 60% of the technical team, and 50% of the performers! Olhe Nash a~d T1m Jackso_n turned to provide the incredibly sophisticated sound technology that a productiOn such as this ;{ mands and they were ably assisted by current pupil Gavin Clark. Among the performers were 0e K s.s 'Aaron Birks and Bruce Goldin, who, like the O.K.S. technical men just referr~d to, ~ ~eterans of the first two Goon Shows, as are (the presently unbearded) Dr. Allday himself :~d the fourth player in the cast, current pup~ I.Simo!l Johnso_n. ~he original Go~n Shows on 8 B c radio in the 1950s frequently had traditional Jazz musical mterludes (provided then by G~o~g~ Chisholm), and Dr. Allday's first two productions have mi~icked this by involving Je~'s All Stars the school's traditional jazz band of the last two years. Smce then, though, 'Jed' (Tim Marson) has departed and, as the script put it, ' ... by genetic manipulation of this trumpet mute, we have produced an Alex Neame ... ' Accordingly, the latter's Tradsters, fresh from their suc~ess the previous evening in the Jazz Concert, ' topped' and 'tailed ' the performance an~ provided the musical interludes (as well as an unintentionally humorous one when all the music blew off their stands!). Skillful as the script-writing must be, it seems to me that the most ingenious part of the production of what is essentially, by its nature, a ' radio programme', is the management of a vast number of short, accurately timed, high-fidelity sound effects and other pre-recorded segments - both 'home-made' and commercially produced. This is where the expertise of Ollie Nash (general manager of sound , and sound designer), Tim Jackson and Gavin Clark (assistants with programn~ng the computers and with the performance) came in. Most of these sound effects were not JUSt played 'manually', but were digitised and played from computers into the mixer ... Finally, here are some lines that I liked: Simon Johnson (referring to the monetary saving to the school on lawn-!llowing if th~ Gre~n Court were converted to an ice-rink): 'It will amount to 65 fly-mows m the next fmanc1al quarter-century.' Bruce Goldin (in a splendidly perceptive imitation of a low-budget te~evision commercial_for garden furniture, complete with archetypal, anodyne - and appropnately bla~d - musical accompaniment): 'Your gnome is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on It.' l felt that the team were at their best in their 'ad-Jibs' For example: Bruce Goldin: 'I'm the star here.' Dr. Allday (reverting from 'Goon' voice to normal voice): ' In that case, we' re in deep trouble!' And, in the middle of some friendly (and apparently 'ad-Jibbed') bante.r wit~ Simon John_son ?nthe subject of baldness, Dr. Allday looked up and observed t_o ~he audience m normal voice: There 's not everyone who'd put up with his, you know.' This 1~ true. - ,the OJ!IY one~ who would are those who are devotees of this brand of humour, of which Kmg s audiences, m the l~st three years, have had the benefit of either being reminded _or being made aware for the first t1rne, by Dr. Allday and his pupil and O.K.S. fellow-enthusiasts. R.B .MA. 257

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SERENADE IN THE CLOISTERS ~here can be few settings for a c<?n~ert on a lovely summer's evening more perfect than the clOt.sters of Ca~terbu ry Cathedral. S1ttmg on the grass under the maj esty of Bell Harry with the se.ttmg sun turn m~ the cathedral stonework to a delicate pink, music seems to harmonise perfectly w1th the surroundm~s . The S~renade always has this special quality, creating an empathy between performers and aud1ence .wh~ch a concert hall would not produce. Performing in the open can produce pro~lems o_f pr<?JeCtl?n and balance, but thanks to Stephen Pinnock's good choice of reso~rces t~1s wa.s ltttle ~~ ev1dence. ~he programme reflected too the true feeling of alfresco mus1c-makmg, th1s year w1th a predommantly French theme in the first half and a light American sec~md half. Here was excellent pro~ra.mm~ planning which held the large audience in the more sen ous moments and had them swmgmg m the lighter ones. . The .Serenade Choir started the con~ert with six French songs and one Italian song. This 1mmed1ately set the standard for the evenmg. C risp, clean, bright fo rward singing which projected the words and the mood of each song, enabling us to hear the movements of all the vocal lines, showed the choir's exce.llent training and d!sciplin~ as did t~e excellent pitch and intonatio~. Here too was a good cho1ce of programme w1th a van ed selectiOn of songs from the homophomc to the fully contrapuntal, ending with a spirited performance of Passereau's 'II est bel et bon!' To follow this with Debussy was another piece of good programme plarming and Clare Simmonds an~ Laur!'l Mar~hall pl~yed L 'Embarquem ent with just the right panache and lightness of touch wh1ch th1s mus1c reqUtres.

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These were delightful concerts in the intimate surrounding~ of the Synagogue, offer~ng a perfect opportunity to listen to lovely music, much of which I ~tscovered. for t~e first t1me. ~t was particularly good to see so many younger players performmg alongs1de the1r m.ore expenenced seniors, and the overall standard was remarkably high. The large.r groups played w1th ~r~t p~nac~e thanks to the verve and rhythm injected by their teachers, Sue Sptcer conductmg the ~g s Smfo?1a (made up almost entirely of Shell pupils) playing Bach and Warlock, and Jane Fnend l~ad!ng an ensemble of no fewer than twelve cellos in Klengel's sumptuous Hymnus and two swmgmg Beatles numbers. The Friday concert opened on an electrifying note as Miranda Scott-Barrett with superb cla~ity skip~ up anq down the fiendishly difficult runs of Besard's Si c'est pour mon pifcellage, produc~ng a bnlliant flourish at the end. Just as well it was all in French! She was senstttvely accompanted on the lute by Tom Robertson who also took the lead in Boccherini's Quin.tet for guitar and strings. This was played for the most part with sparkling precision , ~!though I ~1d feel that To~, m<;>dest chap that he is, could have been a little more assertive agamst the stnng quartet. Juha Tnebel 259

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Mr. Harding, when the stress .of life in the Barchester Close became too much, was given to the playing of his cello in the grounds of Hiram's Hospital. Although Troll ope claims that hi s cathedral is to be found in the West Country, his Hospital is surely St. John's : can there be such an inner-city setting for an outdoor concert, where little is heard save the singing of the birds, the wailing of the police sirens, the distant tolling of the Cathedral bell and the low rumble of traffic in Military Road? In such a pleasant setting, Michael Harris and the Crypt Choir led a most pleasant hour 's interlude from the stress of life in King's Week. Of course, those of us who hear the Crypt Choir fortnightly in the C rypt went expecting music of a high standard; nor were we disappointed. Of course, we already knew that the Recorder Consort (Michael Peat, Matthew Brown, Adam Brown , N icholas Tattersall and Mary Stevens) contained musicians of considerable talent; nor were we disappointed in their ensemble, their tone or their timing . Scott Joplin 's Ne w Rag showed this especially . The Madrigal Consort (Miranda Scott Barrett, Emily Elias, Laura Marshall , Christian Bottomley and Edward Millard) was equall y adept ; the balance, from my seat , was a little uneven but the spirit faltered not. The barbershop quartets (Helena Ancock, Claire Alder, Harriet Burgess and Anna Lewis; Edward Millard , Tom Jackson , Luke Singer and Matthew Brown) might have benefitted from more ' business', although this did not detract from very competent performance in this most exposing of singing forms. The C rypt Choir itself showed its customary musical discipline, its rapport with the conductor and its ability to respond positively to differing types of music. There were some lovely moments of contrast , of effecti ve use of dynamics and of proper musical understanding. We were indeed serenaded: this was music to listen to and to savour. Had the C rypt Choir, and the Consorts and Quartets, been making music in the time of Mr. Harding then he would have had a more varied experience. He might even have been better armed to respond to the challenges of the world. For this afternoon was indeed a retreat : we returned from it refreshed and cheered, the better armed to respond to the challenges of the frenetic programme of King's Week. J .A.T.

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T he recital began with what was billed as 'Three songs by living composers'. For thos in the know, the surprise was that all the composers were present in the audience. Welle not quite: only one was in the audience, the other two were performing! It was a singular occur~e not that all three pieces were for soprano, accompanied by piano, cello and recorder; clearly a degnce of collusion had taken place ! ' l"ee The first of the pieces was Sigh no more Ladies, by Thomas Tallon, and the soloist forthÂˇ and two following pieces was Georgeanna Williams. From the opening stanza, she sang wi 15 a confidence that set the audienc~ ~tease. She followed this with her own co~posit.ion, The nig~ has a thousand eyes. Not surpnsmgly, she seemed rather more at home With this piece but 1 felt that the sustained notes were a little breathy. However, she has two more years in the s~hooll and for a fifth-former the performance was really first-rate. The last piece was Stephen Matthews: Monday's child, a jaunty piece requiring a rather greater vocal range than the other two. Next, some music by Franz Schubert. Liebesbotschaft was sung by Edward Millard who displayed very clear diction and excellent musicianship. I have always felt that German is a ~utiful language for singing, and Edward made the most of the language in this piece. This was followed by The Lord is my Shepherd, for two sopranos and two altos. The quartet was very well balanced and displayed a high de~ree of coordination and musicianship. Although this was written in English - one of only three p1eces in English which Schubert set to music - I felt I, at least, would have preferred it in German - after all , we all know the English words! Mendelssohn next, and three duets for soprano and baritone, sung by Miranda Scott-Barrett and Michael Peat: Gruss, Abendlied and Wasserfahrt. In the first piece, the soprano, who had had the benefit of hav ing taken part in the Seubert quartet, rather overpowered the baritone but as Michael warmed up the balance between the voices improved in the second piece. Th~ third piece was very well performed, requiring the performers to get the words our rapidly. Next came three songs by Wolf, sung by Tania Still. Auch Kleine Dinge, Verborgenheit and Er ist's. It was very good to hear a pupil who has not been in the limel ight before singing these three songs. Tania was confident in the middle and upper register, but, as is so often the case, lacked power in the lower range. Nevertheless, she showed good musicianship and her control over the performance was good. The second riece enabled her to really develop some power in the forte passages, but she rather lost contro in the louder passages in the last piece. Overall, though, a very pleasing performance in which she displayed confidence and promise. The final item before the interval was three items from the Flanders and Swann era - The Bedstead Men, Tonga and Ill wind, sung by Luke Singer. His phrasing and diction were excellent throughout - and the second and third items require some vocal gymnastics to get all the syllables in. All three items are in the unmistakable Flanders and Swann genre, but the most amusing was the last item, based on the well-known theme from the Rondo of Mozart's 4th Horn Concerto, K.495. The recital resumed after the interval with what might be called 'The Best of C lassic FM'. F irstly , Iona Coltart sang Apres un Reve, by Faure. French is not an easy language to sing in, but Iona' s performance was quite excellent for a Shell ; some vowels were a little harsh, but there was a great deal of promise and we can look forward to her progressing each year. Next, Georgeanna Williams and Miranda Scott-Barrett treated us to a fine performance of the Flower Duet from Delibes' Lakme, after which Miranda joined forces with Edward Millard to sing the Duetto de 1'ane from Messager's Veronique. I almost felt moved to revise my opinion as to the 'singability' of the French language as, for the first time, I felt sure that I had actually heard the words to which the music was set. The recital concluded with some items from Bizet's operatic output, and to give Miranda ScottÂˇ Barrett a rest before the penultimate item, Mr. Lister gave us the second surprise: he and Edward Millard sang the well-known duet Au fond du Temple Saint from The Pearl Fishers. One might have expected a certain imbalance between them, but Millard was a good match for Mr. Lister. Perhaps one day we will have a tenor of suitable ability ... 262

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ving recovered, Miranda Scott-Barrett sang Je dis que rienne m 'epouvante from Carmen

~:r swan-sing, and! fi~ally? Edward 1\:iillard ga~e _us ~is swan~song but with yet another surprise

as rn Mr. Lister. Th1s t1me 1t was aud1ence part1c1patwn, wh1ch should ensure that those who fro sh think twice before making an appea rance next year! Carmen again, and the Song of the f, ~0r. Millard went out on a high note - metaphorically rather than literally, for this piece 0 uires a wide vocal range and careful control. re~o sadly, these were their farewells to their friends. All the soloists are to be congratulated a fine recital; some still have a number of years with us, to which we can look forward with on er anticipation, but to all those who are leaving, a special thank you for enriching the vocal fr~ of the school, and although it is invidious to name individuals, special thanks must go, apart f~orn anything else, for the quality of music they had prepared for this recital, to Miranda ScottBarrett and Edward Millard. Finally, Stephen Matthews who, we were assured, can play anything, deserves a mention in dispatches for accompanying everything. R.V.J.B.

ORGAN RECITAL For all those who flocked to the Cathedral Quire to listen to this year's King's Week Organ Recital, something of a novelty awaited them. This concert was put together by three players, and consisted of solo and duet repertoire covering a wide and very varied range of music. The starter on the menu , Simon Preston's Alleluias, played by Emily Elias, was ideal, with its variety of sound and a vital drive, interspersed with calmer sections, and in its style very much reminiscent of Olivier Messiaen. Then followed the first movement of Johann Sebastian Bach 's Trio Sonata in Eb Major (BWV 525), which was well mastered by Jeremy Bines. There is a gentle swing in this chamber music piece, that made this item particularly enjoyable to listen to. The first duet in the programme was Thomas Tomkins' A Fancy for two to play, very much in a vocal idiom and its polyphonic and antiphonal structure was followed carefully by Jeremy Bines and Clare Simmonds. Then the main course was served. The two major items of this recital, Bach's Toccata in F (BWV 540) and the first movement of Felix Alexandre Guilmant's Sonata No. 1 in D minor were separated by Beethoven's Adagio fiir eine Flotenuhr, in the manner of a classical decoration. Throughout the programme all three organists showed themselves very able to deal with extremely demanding repertoire. Whether it was the complex structure of Bach's Toccata in F, demanding great control in holding the many parts together, which Emily Elias dealt with very well, or the enormous energy and a clear sense of direction through the complex knitted patterns, which is required to perform, and indeed bring to life, a Guilmant sonata movement, all this came off brilliantly in Clare Simmonds' interpretation. Those two pieces were juxtaposed with Olivier Messiaen's Joie et Clarte des Corps Glorieux, which Jeremy Bines delivered immaculately. The dessert (with plenty of cream!) was another duet, John Rutter's Variations on an Easter Thef!!e , a set of variations, based on the Easter plainsong, 0 filii et filiae , that explored the more lusc1ous, somewhat sugary sounds in the various divisions of the Cathedral organ. C~ngratulations to all three organists, whose hard work (nothing was overcooked!) over most of th1s year was certa inly very well worth it and much appreciated by the audience. We look forward to hearing more from them during the coming year. B.J.H.H. 263 (T. R.H.)

JAZZ CONCERT At the end o~ each !<ing's Week Jazz concert I usually find myself in conversation with s who says that 1t can t happen next year because all the key people are leaving. Ye key people seem to come out of the woodwork and individuals whom one never drea~~ 0 ~ Y~ ~enerators come ~o the forefront. This year Ed Millard was the star of the evening. His or . be~ng 10 the weeks leadmg up to the event, and his rapport with all the musicians made him a gan'sallon captain of the jazz seen~. On !ll~ny occasions, I looked in on his rehe;rsals and fou~~~hellent had the respect of al.l h1s musiCians, was ready to accept criticism and was even in th at he wee~s. of the. ac~~em1c ~ear, ~ell on the way to producing excellence. I am sure th~t all th e~rly mus1c1ans w1ll J010 me 10 saymg a very sincere 'well done' to Ed and all the best for th ~e Jazz He has indeed been an outstanding leader. e uture.

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It is no coi~ciden.c~ that every King 's Week Jazz. conce~t has ~ capacity audience. On 1 very hot even10g, I JO.IOed the queues of people mak10g the1r way 10to the Shirley Hall a d ~at the att:no~phere. of ;xc1tement. It can't be easy for the young musicians, many of who are p~a i~lt at the1r firSt K10g s Week Jazz ~oncert, to face a crowd that has learnt to expect so mu yh , went back-stage beforehand to w1sh them all well I had expected to find a panic-stricken te c. · ~ut that was not the case. T hey were all very co~! and organised and clearly very well prension, mdeed. pared Th.e programme starte~ :-v!th Strike up The Band and Tuxedo Junction. Both made a splendid open10g. If I have .any cnttc1s~ at all , I would say that Tuxedo Junction could have had a little more on the bass .l u~e,. bu~ that IS perhaps a matter of opinion. The Tradsters then came in with ?v1oustache a~d MJSSJSSlppl !Vfud. Bo~h were played very.well indeed and reminded us that traditional Jazz, where 1t all started, IS a spec1al art form all on 1ts own. We were not to be disappointed. For me, the Ba~bershop items are always somet.hing to look for~ard to. I had thought that the D~wson-Bowlmg era would n~ver happen aga10, but once aga10 , I was not disappointed. Ed M 1llard , Tom Jackson~ Luke S10ger and Matthew Brown all provided us with very polished performances and I was delighted that we were treated to yet more of them following the Serenade. When ~he Saints is always a popul~r choice •. but not an easy ~me to perform, simply because the .tune IS .so we~! k~own that the slig htest slip can be recogmsed . The Tradsters thrilled the audience w1th th.e1r shck perfo.rmance. At the end we were treated to the theme from The Naked Gyn from the Flles of the .Police Squad. Matth~w Brown must be particularly congratulated on h1s excel.lent tr~mpet playm.g. He was outst~ndmg and althoug h it is possibly unfair to mention o ne part icular mstrumentallst, I feel that h1s expertise deserves special mention. The ovat io~ ll?at the players got spe~ks for itse~f. Many congratulations to all of them. I think that whoever ~~ 10 charge next year '"':Ill have the1r work cut out to match this year's standards, but my guess IS that we shall be delighted again. Well done to everyone. S.D.P.

BAND CONCERT T he fact that this ~o~cert took place in the Shirley Hall rather than outside was a definite advantage. Al~hough 1t IS ~!ways pleas~nt from a social point of view to enjoy strawberries on the lawn, mus1c gets los.t m t~e open a1r. The sound that the band produced was very special. They perf?rmed everythmg w1th great panache and professionalism and gave us an hour of first· class mus1c. Special tribute must go to Phil Hughes who took .over the conductorship in January. It was c~ear to everyone that. he has an excellent rapport w1th them. They clearly enjoyed playing for h1m ,. and ~e was obviously very much at home with all his team. It was a model the perfect relatwnsh1p. <?ne of the highli~hts :-vas Rebecca Arnold on the xylophone in her performance of Track Three. wh1ch was outstand10g 10 every way . She was joined later by Sarah Mullen in a duet called Two Imps that held together with great accuracy and confidence. 264

. Hughes' own arrangement of Sailing was splendid and he told us that it had been Ph•1·ssioned by the Duke of Edinburgh. Lighter items included a spirited rendering of the Muppet ~"'1nt01 ' heme. The last item was the most challenging but the band rose to the occasion in the 1 Sht"~ ·on from Les Miserables. .,eh:Cll . . was a var~ed a~d enJoyable concert and <?ne could tell from the first .Item (Th~ Great All1'·rican Dix1e Swmg March) that we were 10 for an excellent hour of hght mus1c. The only o\mcible disappointing thing was that the audience was somewhat thin. Perhaps an evening slot ~,~~d be found for t~e Band next year. Th~y certainly deserve a capacity turn-out and under ~~I Hughes' leadership, I am sure that they w11l go from strength to strength. Many congratulations. S.D.P.

MUSIC IN THE AFTERNOON This was a recital of compositions by pupils at the school. The opening piece was a setting of the Responses by Richard Peat, sung by the Madrigal Choir. Like many modern settings, was not quite in the. conventional style of alternating versicles and responses, and it is perhaps 11 fortunate that the rubncs of the Book of Common Prayer do not make it obligatory for the versicles be sung by a Clerk in Holy Orders . I particularly liked the progressions in the Gl01y be to 10 the Father and in The Lord's Name be Praised. The second item was the first of several to be played by Mr. Stephen Matthews - Susannah Tydeman's Reves, for piano. I felt this slow and rather dreamy piece to be somewhat reminiscent of the music of Debussy. It was followed by another piano piece, Innocence by Thomas Goodman, "'hich had a very catchy theme, eminently singable if set to words . Next, a duet fo~ v_iolin and clarinet, Rondo based on a Tiddish Folk-theme, by Sarah Petrie who played the v10l10 part together with Thomas Tallon on the clarinet. The lilting melody, allernating between the two instruments, was, not surprisingly , remin iscent of the Eastern Mediterranean. A set of Variations on a theme of Brahms by James Longstaffe followed , played by Mr. Stephen Matthews on the piano. The theme was followed by five variations, firstly in the minor key, then in arl?eggios in the major key, then in a dotted rhythm in the bass, and finally in octaves. Another p1ano piece, You, by Geogeanna Williams. One could not help mentally riffling through the Rotulus in an attempt to identify 'you' as the theme was firstly announced in the major key, developed in the minor before recap itulating in the major key aga in . It is surprising what you can do with a piano. At least, this was what I found as Tak Loon Khong played his composition Midnight Kelly Blue, which opened within a series of glissandi played with the thumbnail directly on the p iano strings, and which went on to include such previously unconsidered techniques as playing the strings pizzicato, and playing the instrument tn a more or less conventional manner, but with a chain strewn across the strings before ending with an ostentatious closing of the piano lid. The eig~th item w~s a setting of the Agnus Dei by Thomas Tallon, sung by Helena Ancock accompamed at the p1ano by the composer. It conveyed a rather 'folky' image, not least in that Cranmer's English was replaced by such modernisms as the replacing of ' upon' by 'on' (Have mercy on us) , and omitting 'Thy' in the last phrase (Grant us peace) . Th~ee more piano pieces followed , with Mr. Stephen Matthews again at the keyboard. Quasi Happmess by Kate Cuppage was a toccata-like, florid piece, and Prelude by Simon Bird was a contrasting, rather sedate and, by present-day standards, harmonically unadventurous, but n~vertheless pleasa~t-to-listen-to piece. Sam Digney's Voyager concluded the trilogy; a piece Wtt~ an ethereal feel10g and a jaunty middle section with a sustained crescendo leading to a finale whtch eventually floated away, rather like the spacecraft of the same name. in the avia:y,. .a composition .for solo oboe by Tim Palmer, was played by Annabel Whibley. I wondered, mttJally, whether 1t would take off, but eventually, after a rather cautious start it came to life, and we had lift-off before the end . ' 265

The next item was billed as Piano Piece, by Richard Peat, although the audience were appraÂˇ of the fact that this wasn't, in fact, the title, which remained a secret, known only to the compo~Sed The score seemed to be somewhat flexible, having been written in what was described as 'gra h~Âˇ notation ', the actual notes to be played being in the performer's mind. The piece seemed\i'nitkiic to be a little repetitive, but eventually developed in a robust way. ' Y The third and final vocal piece followed, Peter Baines' setting of The Soldier by Rupert Brook sun.g by Thomas Tallo':\, accompanied by Mr. Stephen Matthews. Much of the tenor part is hi wh1ch Tallon coped With well , and the accompamment gave a delightful picture in sound offh' word of the poem. e

The final ~ieee, Tak Lo<?n Khong's 12.30 p.m. Cockman Street was a tone r.icture, for piano of the lunch~t1me rush hour~~ Hong Kong,.played by the composer. The toccata-like piece portrayed the frustratiOn and congestion of traffic Jams, and was a welcome contrast to his earlier piece. All in all , this was a varied programme, well displaying the wide range of talent, both composin and performing, tha.t exists within t~~ school's musicians. Some may well have preferred to hea~ comp~sers play. their own compositiOns, rather than the ubiquitous Stephen Matthews playing on their respec~1ve behalfs, a~d thanks are ~ue to him for raising so admirably to the occasion, and to the pupils for composmg such a w1de range of music for him to play. R.V.J.B.

GALA CHARITY SYMPHONY CONCERT IN AID OF THE JAQUELINE DUPRE MEMORIAL FUND APPEAL ''To ask the hard question is simple , The simple act of the confused will. But the answer Is hard and hard to remember ... " (Auden) ..This year's Symphony c:oncert was awaited w~t~ an intense sense of expectation. Billed as It IS on t~e Wednesday evenmg- and thereby prov1dmg the climax of King's Week- the concert has. spec~al status anyw~,x; but to add ,to the burden on the players' shoulders was the widespread anticipatiOn of the rendition of Elga.r ~Cello Concerto. A piece such as this asks hard questions of a school orchestra, and the pupils answer was resounding and unforgettable. Colin _Mette!s' choice for the first half of the programme was wise indeed; he opted to open the evemng with the second set of Malcolm Arnold's English Dances music which we were told was intended "t? make. the listeners' ~sk easy.". Arnold's compositi~!l was made in response to a demand from h1s publishers to provide English companions to Dvorak's Slavonic Dances. The English to do not have as strong a tradition of folk music as the Slavs and so it is trickier to k~ow what A~nold ~as setting out to do. The first movement is paced at 'Allegro non troppo, th~ 1mp~rtant thmg bemg ~he non tropp~ ; 1~ by their rigorous conductor, the orchestra played w1th ummp~ac~ab~e ry~m1c control , wh1ch IS the key to Arnold's prescription for easy listening. Adam Fen~ms. c~1sp piccolo solo (to characterf\11 bass accompaniment) at the beginning set the tone for this diSCipline, and gave way to very nch and full tutti sections towards the end . The shimmering harp and violins (in the higher register) of the Con brio evoked the ethereal after the earthiness of the first movel?ent, a~d the mastery of the cross-rythms shared by strings and bass wa~ totally secure. Most Imp~essive for me was the atmosphere of the third movement: the longmg mel<?dY of the f!1Uted strmg~ sent a warm glow to the base of the spine, and the brass m~naged to achieve m th<?Ir a~compamf':lent that sonorous bell-quality that is so distinctive to th1s composer. Arnold's piece IS so pleasmg because of its sometimes surprising harmonizations to straight-down-the middle diatonic tunes; but he always returns us to the reassurance of the expected. A real treat. 266

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Next we heard a. home-grown number --:- ~tephen Ma~thews' A Daisy Chain , wh~ch is a theme es _Daisy, Da~sy, tell me . . . ) and vanatJons for strmgs. The humour of the p1ece was well (Y 1across by the players, and unfortunately the audience were either not ready to laugh (because puwas the second rather than the last item) or chose not to. The mock-lugubnous, mock-serious 1 ~ rne stated clearly the composer's intentions, and by the third movement the tremuloso suggested 1 : Daisy had had too much to drink. From time to time the articulation needed to be a little 1 1 ~earer, and the rests a little cleaner to give the.m the intended. ~ynamic quality. However! the c rnposer is to be congratulated on a superbly w1tty and entertammg score; to have such a g1fted ~~rnposer on the staff is a privilege and an asset. The only non-English piece of the evening was Bizet's Orchestral Suite: Carmen - the strut f the flamenco surging blood through the veins after the mellow reassurance of Arnold . A 0 0 nvincing attack on the opening phrase inculcated a deep sense of forboding, relieved by ~he cvistful strumming of the Aragonaise. Michael Davies' mellifluous oboe solos - interplaymg ~vith Michelle Traylor's quicksilver scales on flute - were mercurial in places. Indeed, all the ~ind soloists sustained long and difficult phrases to give shape to the orchestra' s playing. Most impressive for me was the ability of conductor and players to convey the mood changes - from the grandeur of the Les Toreadors to the come-hither seductiveness of the chromatic tune in La Habanera , and then back to the martial and stately deliberateness of La Garde Montante; they displayed great versatility. After the interval the audience reentered the Shirley Hall to hear what they had really come for: Alice Lascelles' performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto. It is arguably the most difficult of the great cello concertos after Dvorak's. For an English audience it may wei~ be the bestknown; and so it was essential that those famous opening chord~ convince.d us. Ahc~ took them startingly slowly - much more so than in the du Pre/Barenb01m recordmg. And It came o~f. The phrase was suspended in mid-air for what seemed an eternity. We knew that we were m for a thoroughly individual performance. Elgar wrote the concerto immediately after the Great War, in a state of privation (fuel and food shortages meant that he composed it while shivering in an ice-cold stu~io with no food) and most importantly, as his beloved wife was dying. The emotionalism certamly harkens back to the pre-war era, but, despite the rhetorical flourish at the beginning, the cello is elusive and withdrawn. Alice's performance was charming because she spoke to the ?rchestra rather than dominated it; rather than bashing us over the head with her own outpounngs of the heart she seduced us into listening to her story by the beauty of her playing. The Allegro molto was wonderfully executed, underlining her complete technical mastery of the piece. The movement is playful, but Alice evoked the sense of enforced brightness - "the heart dances, but not for joy". The staccato danced on hot coals, the rubato took the orchestra with the cello. And for me, the highli~ht of the concert was the Adagio. The intensity must be sustained by a variation in sound quality by the cello; we heard a red-rich vibrato and a brittle white sound 10 contrast at moments of piamssimo. There was a palpable intake of breath around the hal~ when the orchestra moved into the final movement, which was a testament to the fact that th1s was a real artistic experience. The dark melodies of the finale brought the concert to a brooding conclusion (reinforced by Colin Metters' choice of Nimrod as an encore), but one came away feeling elated by the achievements of these boys and girls. Indeed, it was Alice Lascelles ' s.h eer exuberance that brought her smilingly through those two passages of slight technical uncertamty, to deliver a memorable performance of a great concerto. J.C.M.W.

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After a very successful adventurous training camp in the Lake District at Easter we started the summer term With a suitably outdoor programme for the recruits. Mr. Booth ran an assault course competition; his son, Michael Who is no~ part ?f our adventurous t r~ ini ~g team, g~ve tuition on the c limbin~ wall at Blore's! while Mr. Frank~ took ca~O?mg part1es onto the water and mto 11. Mcanwh1le the rest of the Army Sect1on were undergomg methods of instruction tram mg. The Field Day should have been the high point of the term . It was to have been the last night and day exerci!>e organised by our N.C.O.s before they started A-levels. Unfortunately it began raining the day before, and although the older members of the Section went down to the area to set up base camp, it was dec ided by 2200 hours that it would not be sensible to transport the Shells out into the countryside in those conditions. This was the first time in my memory that a night exercise/field day has had to be cancelled; and was just one of the records broken by the appalling weather in the first half of the term. Fortunately the brilliant weather in the week before King's Week allowed us to re-run the night exercise on 30th June, with a rather more select group - which we were glad included a number of senior N.C.O.s now freed from exams. At time of writing we are approaching the parade, and inspection by the Headmaster of the Ceremonial Guard. The standards of precision of drill , and smartness of turnout which Mr. Booth achieves improve each year, and I am sure this will be a creditable advertisement for the C. C.F. I would like to record our warm thanks to our senior Ieaver<.: Ryan Mannering, who despite being a member of the R.A. F. has maintained close liaison with the Army Section as Head of Corps; and to Francis Kenney, and his team - John Firth, Charlie Crowe, Chris Kenwright, Henry Murch and Steve Adams. They have served us well , and we wish them very well in their future careers. In a few days time eighteen cadets will off to Summer camp, at Longmoor.

NAVAL SECTION This term we have been sailing on Westbere Lakes every Wednesday afternoon , and have enjoyed some good weather. On the Field Day, there was no wind at all , and we ghosted around Westberc in the morning, even getting the A.S.C. rigged for the first time. In the afternoon we went to Milner Court and built a j ack stay across the river, under the watchful eyes of C. P.O. Mitchell. At the end of term, Robert Corbally and Amy Shepherd went to the annual C.C.F. Regatta at Upnor on the Medway, and participated in some close racing in Bosuns. Since we only had one boat in the team, we were never likely to walk away with the winner's trophy. However they did return with some invaluable racing experience and a cup for good sailing. The following r.eople have gained R.Y.A. qualifications th is term: Level One Sailings: Camilla Barker, Lucy Butler. Simon Gomersal â&#x20AC;˘ Thomas Holliday, William Justice, Matthew Knight , Matthew Brooks, and Jo-Anna McConnell; Level Two Sailings: Dorelia Adcane; Level One Power Boating: David Bird, Stephen Gourmand and Jo-Anna McConnell; Level Two Power Boating; Robert Corbally, Tom Bucher and Amy Shepherd. Next year Robert Corbally takes over as Coxswain , and Amy Shepherd will be Head of Corps. We wish them luck in their new positions. As usual, thanks are due all round . Dave Bird has managed to turn up despite takin~ his A-levels, and we will mi~s him next year. C. P.O. Mitchell has been around, helping us a huge amount , transportmg the power-boat up and down to Westbere and supervising its use. Mr. Haswell also deserves a mention for his continuing support and for lending us his boats. Thanks also go to Mr. and Mrs. McConnell who, of course, keep the Navy anoat!

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION During the Easter holiday Cpl. Daniel Pullen went to Cyprus with a group of forty cadets from various sc hool~ and Cpl. Alexander Perkins and J/Cpl. Mark Belsey went to Germany for a week (see foll owing report). Sgt. Will iam Welbou rn went on a gliding course but was unable to complete the course owing to bad weather. Very soon he will be leaving the school to do h1s Flying Scholarship course. Also leaving before term ends will be F.Sgt. Douglas Morrison to attend a Navigation course for two weeks with 6 A.E. F. at R.A.F. Benson. He will progress through a series of ground and air exercises to learn the skills of navigating a light aircraft. From 9th to 16th July W .0. Ryan Mannering, Sgts . Charles Foinette and Alistai r Curzon, Cpl. Alexander Perkins, J/Cpls. Mark Belsey and Jan Sundt and Cadet William Scott wi ll be attending the Summer Camp at R.A. F. Swanton Morley. Immediately fo llowing the Summer Camp , W .0. Ryan Mannering will be going to Switzerland on the International Air Cadet Exchange Scheme. He is the first person from this school to have been selected for this scheme. He must also be congratulated for winning a Bursary from the R.A.F. for his University course, after which he will join the Royal Air Force as a pilot.

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Jessica Crouch was successful with her Pt. II examination and was promoted to J/Cpl. at the beginning of the term . successful in the Pt. II examination were Jenna Crouch, James Day, Gordon Yaines , Alastair Irvine and Edward 0

A1srck They have now moved on to become Leading Cadets. Several badges were awarded for shooting. J/Cpl. Jan

Ste dt ~chieved marksman, Cdts. Thomas Davidson, Timothy Rainbird and James Day achieved 1st class standard S~d Cdts. Christopher Elworthy, Jonathan Warren , Oliv ia Arthur and Richard Johnson achieved 2nd class standard. a We had a successful flying time this term. Twenty-seven flights were made in Chipmunks and twelve members of h section went gliding for a day at R.A.F. Manston . Owing to drastic cut-backs it is now very difficult to gain t:liding ~x~rience. Next term we haye thirty fli ghts booked with Chipmunks and are planning a trip to R.A.F. Wittermg for Field Day to see some Harners. Most of the term was spent on outdoor pursuits- canoeing, command tasks, an exercise around some of the unknown trects of Canterbury and the usual end-of-term barbecue. The hovercraft flew for a short while but did not take too ~indly to a member of staff putting it through its paces. Wg .Cdr. Wenley and Mr. Swain have been putt int: it together a ain and it should be ready to take off again next term. Our many thanks go to Wg.Cdr. Wenlcy for bemg on hand t~help with transport and the maintenance and repair of the hovercraft. This term Miss Karen Reidy has been an active member of the section and it is hoped that she will be awarded a commission in due course. D.J .B.

EASTER CAMP Easter camp this year was held at R.A.F. Rheindahlen, the old headquarters of 'R.A.F. Germany'. The camp differed from British camps in as much as it was more leisure-based, and although we visited R.A.F. Bruggen and R.A.F. Laarbruch on a few occasions (mainly to see the flight of Harrier GR7s), we also visited places such as Arnhem and the museum there. At Bruggen, we were shown the weapons used in the Gulf War by the R.A.F. Regiment , which 10ctuded the L85AI (commonly known as ' the Rifle'), the L. S.W., the G.P.M.G. , the Browning 9mm and the Walther PP. We were also introduced to the night sights used with the G.P .M.G., and also the SUSAT sights. Luckily the weather wasn't too bad, although the night exercise had to be called off owing to snow . The camp was good fu n, and both Alex Perkins and I enjoyed it a lot. MARK BELSEY.

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O.K.S. PRESIDENT'S NOTES I hope all O. K.S. of 'a certain age' who receive Southern and West Country lTV programmes saw the epi ~ May in the Road to D-Day series which dealt with the wartime recollections of boys and masters when Kin ~e 1" evacuated to Carlyon Bay in Cornwall. Thanks to Dav id Moreau , whom I met at the Gaudy lunch at Canterb~ry 1\a, weeks earlier and who appeared in the programme , I not only saw it but bought a copy on videotape. tl\o In many respects a clifftop fi ve-star hotel and nearby Cornish Riviera Club on the beach provided appropr' accommodation for the school , but was really unsuitable. Instead of the order of a cathedral close, the env 1 ron~atc was exotic and adventurous and there were no wall s or gates! Looking at the film, I was amazed at how well the schent adapted to the surroundings and thrived. And, large as life, there was Fred on camera! A fascinati ng half hour wool excellent commentaries by John Corner and Paul Pollak. For anyone interested , copies are obtainable from Meridinh Broadcasting of Southampton, telephone 0703-222555 . an On 30th April , fifty-one O.K.S. who e nt ~re~ the school between 1_940-45 and 1949-54, ~ogethe r wi_th their ladie\ attended the Gaudy luncheon 111 St. Augustme s. The weather was fm c and 1t was a very JOll y occas1on indeed and very good to meet contemporaries in Canterbury looking at its best. Warm congratulations to Tony Wi lliams for a most enjoyable evening in Bristol on 17th June. The Bristol Zoo wa, an inspired choice of location , as the gardens themselves are quite beautiful and a perfect setting on a fine summer evening ..Tony was an excellent host and surely this was the regional meeting equivalent of a hole in one. There were twenty-s1x acceptances. O.K.S. arc reminded that we are canvassing news, views and anecdotes for the next Annual Rev iew, date to pre,, November. Scholarly, historical , funny or outrageous- contributions or ideas to Arabella St. John Parker or to me pi ~ MICHAEL BROW\

O.K.S. LONDON SUPPERS There is a circulation list of 250 O.K.S. for the fou r London Suppers held each year in February, May, September and December. We have attendances of between thirty and forty O.K .S. at each Supper and upwards of ninety different O.K.S. attending per year. Contact Richard Wilson today to be added to the list and be among the privileged 5% of all O.K.S.! On 19th May in excess of thirty O.K.S. enjoyed a hot buffet for ÂŁ5.00 per head and draught beer brewed on the prem ises. A brewery tour is always available. The next Supper is on Thursday, 1st December, 1994 in the private bar at The Orange Brewery, 37-39 Pirnlico Road, London S.W. I . from 7 p.m. onwards. Please contact Richard Wilson on 08 1-446-6611 or fax 081 -446-3534. RICHARD WILSON

THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY MASONIC LODGE The Lodge continues to flourish with a steady intake of new members from O. K.S., fath ers and brothers of O.K.S. and masters from the school. So far as O.K .S. are concerned we arc now spanning school years from 191 6 to 1982. with a very healthy representation from recent years. The highlight of the year was the Triennial Meeting at Canterbury on Saturday 4th June at which there was a good representation from our sister Lodges of St. Lawrence Ramsgate and Dover College. The Prov incial Grand Master of East Kent attended as did the Assistant Provincial Grand Master who is an O.K .S. J. Michael Brown, the President of the O.K.S. Association, carne to the dinner afterwards and proposed the health of the school. Paul Romang replied at the Headmaster's request. Michael Brown expressed the hope that the various O.K.S. associations including the Lodge would in the future be able to work more closely together. Next year's Triennial meeting will take place at St. Lawrence, Ramsgate on lOth June 1995. The fou r regular meet ing~ of the Cantuarian Lodge take place in London. Th rough the benefaction of a fo rmer member, Anthony Fox-Male O. K.S. , the Lodge has been able to r.rovide a small bursary every year for an outstanding sixth-form pupil and the fourt h such award has now been of fered. The Secretary is John Stonehouse of 43, Upper Tilehousc Street, Hitchin, Hcrts SG5 2EE (0462 452269) who will be pleased to deal with any enquiries. JOHN STONE H OUS~

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o.f{.S. NEWS Rep<>rl on the Hong Kong Dinner: 'We had our quasi-annual dinner on 16th March and it took place in the Royal Kong Jockey Club so that we could combi ne the event with an attempt to win some money at the races. This Hong_ artncrs' were invited and I believe everybody had an enjoyable evening with a few winners emerging at the umc J~fortunately space w_as restrict~d and i~ter~st was high so we w~re unable to ~ccommo~ate a~ I the 0.-K.S. who end~ld probably have been mterested 111 part1c1patmg. In total twenty-e1ght people d1d attend mcludmg: Mtke Lovatt "s~ 4o.44), Richard Gocher (SH 60-65), Colin Bosher (SH 63-68), Peter Hodson (GL 65-69) , Malcolm Kemp I X 67-72), Trevor Seymour-Jones (LX 67-72), Michael Leven (GL 69-74), Paul Whitaker (LX 69-74), Mark ~ewntan (LX 74-78), Justin Weston (GR 79-84), Jeremy Lam (LN 79-84), Nigel Gregory (LX 79-84), Chris Brooke BR 81-85), Annabela Roberts (GL 83-85), Sophia Baker (GR 83-85) and Jeremy Gordon (GR 82-87). Guy Watkins ( X47-5 1) and Chris Howe (W 69-73) sent their apologies at the last minute. I'm not sure that there was any news ~~vcn except fo r Justi~ W~ston who was late for the dinner as he had been picked to play for Hong Kong in the rugby ~evens, and was trammg. Comments received after a recent visit of an O.K.S .: ' .. .I must say the old House (School House) was almost orccognizable. What luxury compared to my spartan days there! I was impressed with the ~ i ris and boys: they were ~ell-dressed and presentable ... Having observed The Kmg's School, Winchester and Uppm&ham all in a matter of ten days, my wi fe and I came to the conclusion that King's people were considerably more am mated, purposef~l and buning than those of the other two schools ... the other two always looked so glum and rag-bag en masse .. . Commodore J . H. A. J, Armstrong ( 1964) is in Greenwich as Commandant. J. L. Goddard (Staff 1973) is now a Senior Clerk in the House of Lords. J. Earl ( 1975) graduated in Fi ne Arts from Winchester School of Art and has exhibited world-wide. J. Cowderoy ( 1977) is now Commercial Director of Harrisons (Clyde) Ltd. based in Glasgow. He found a small farmhouse fo r the family, but the children took some time to understand the Glaswegian accent! Lisa Condy ( 1977) (nee Davies) now has three children but now can only work part-time at a special needs playgroup because of the poor health of one of the children. The Reverend James Steven ( 1979) has been appoi nted as full-time Chaplain to the Bournemouth and Poole College of Further Education. He is engaged in a part-time research degree looking at contemporary forms of worsh ip in the c. of E. A. D. Horn (1983) writes: ' In the six or so years si nce leaving Oxford after reading music, I have worked for Apollo Offset, a printing firm specialising in economic research for companies in the City of London, and am now Production Manager. Keepmg my musical interests as (at times) a full-time hobby I sing with the London Symphony Chorus mainly singing with the LSO at the Barbican.' Sharon Gordon (1 984) graduated in Mining Geology in 1988 and spent three years in gold and gemstone exploration. She obtained her Masters in Envoronmcntal Ma na~cme nt in 1992, worked for the U.N. in relief aid for Somalia and Sudan and is now working on environmental tmpact assessment in Kenya. A. M. Forrester ( 1984) left England in 1988, stayed in Australia before moving to Tokyo for two years - in foreign exchange . He has now moved back to Australia and married in 1993 . A. I. M. Murdoch ( 1985) will shortly move to Toronto for two years on a secondment with Coopers & Lybrand and would welcome contact with O. K.S. based in that area. Fiona Shoop ( 1989) writes:' .. .I am currently selling vintage designer costume jewellery in the basement of the Georgian Village, Camden Passage, Islington - discou nt offered fo r O. K.S.! I will also be taking an English degree with the Open University as well as thei r P.G.C.E. in History, so I will be fa irly busy. Tessa Spong (1988) and 1 arc gearing ourselves up for the Proms as two very loud soprano members of the BBC Symphony Chorus .. . ' T. Fadcyi (199 1) graduated from Yale University and is preparing to matriculate at medical school. He received scholarsh ips from three med ical schools and will spend the next four years at the University of Pennsylvania.

ENGAGEMENTS Booth-Ciibborn-Charles Booth-Clibborn ( 1981) to Baronesse Leonie von Oppenheim.

SILVER WEDDING Rands-George Alan Francis Rands ( 1943) and Barbara on 13th December 1994.

MARRIAGES Horn-Andrew Horn ( 1983) to Pamela Mathieson in September 1993 . James-Scan James ( 1983) to Victoria Byrom ( 1983) on 16th July 1994 . Kerry-Patrick Kerry (1984) to Pippa Ward on 18th June 1994 . Marson- Bruce Marson (1 988) to Susan Hoyle on 16th Ju ly 1994. North- Lord North (1989) to Michele Desvaux on 26th March 1994. 271

DEATHS Salzman- Peter Salzman ( 1928) died recently. Spearman-John Spearman ( 1928) on 3rd March 1994, aged 84. Deighton- John Edward Deighton ( 1934) in 1990. Evans-Dennis F. L. Evans ( 1938) on 7th May 1994. Pearson-Miss Elizabeth Pearson (Matron Meister Omers 1952- 1962) on 27th March 1994.

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