a Captain of the Yorkshire Cricket XI, a tennis International, together with 'blues' in cricket, hockey, rowing, boxing, athletics, and squash rackets, all bear ample testimony to the broad foundations on which the training of successive generations at S. Peter's has been based. Mr. Toyne, during his Headmastership, has often said in his Commemoration Day Speeches that the smaller Public School has .2 distinct advantage over those whose greater numbers render them more unwieldy. He meant that more intimate contacts were possible, not only between Masters and Boys, but between Head Master and his Assistant Staff. No one could have taken greater :advantage of these opportunities than Mr. Toyne has done. Even luring the War when the demands of the City and County were at least as great as those of the School, he never failed to maintain with Staff and Boys that close touch which has been a feature of his regime. There cannot be a school anywhere in the country where this family spirit is developed to a higher degree. This <close touch which Mr. Toyne promoted and fostered was many sided. No interest of the School has been too insignificant for his :support and encouragement. Peterites of his time will remember with pleasure those Saturday evenings in Big Hall, gymnasium or "Bay' when some form of activity was organised and shared by the Head ; or those pre-Belisha journeys in the car; the skating <expeditions and river picnics. And yet he never failed to maintain a close grip upon the discipline and more serious life of the School. -
His highly developed sense of humour made it possible for him always to take the long view. At the same time the advice which he gave was always sound, and if punishment was necessary the delinquent was assured of justice, and left him with the knowledge that 'bygones were bygones.' -
One has only to glance down the records of the School as they have appeared in this magazine to see how all embracing were Mr. Toyne's activities. Here was a Head Master who successfully taught history and gained University Scholarships for his pupils ; a Head Master who played and coached at all games, building excellent teams and shaping brilliant individuals ; a Head Master who acted and produced plays (of which a summary :appears elsewhere in this number), and whose directing hand helped in every School activity. -
Mr. Toyne will be missed in all phases of the School life with -which he had become identified so closely. The gratitude of all Peterites will be coupled with sincere good wishes for a complete recovery of good health which means so much to him.
