War Memorial and Building Appeal

VEN. ARCHDEACON A. C. ENGLAND.

expressed elsewhere—but so often the less spectacular, but not therefore uninteresting doings of those who were our contemporaries at School can be communicated only through the pages of "The Peterite." It is for Old Peterites to make the "Old Peterite News" as universal as possible in its appeal.

We were delighted to be visited at the end of the term by Commander E. S. Jeffs, the last of our Masters to return from war service. We were more delighted to learn that, despite a singularly successful career in the Navy (he was mentioned in despatches for distinguished service in the action off Cape Matapan and earned unusually rapid promotion by his valuable work in connection with radar), he had rejected the possibility of a career in the Royal Navy, and preferred to return to St. Peter's. As we write, at the beginning of the Easter Term, he has rejoined the staff and is busy picking up the threads. We are glad of his return. And it may be in place here to welcome a newcomer among us, Miss J. Munns, who comes as the Headmaster's Secretary. We hope that Miss Munns will settle happily and enjoy her life at St. Peter's.

ARTHUR CRAYKE ENGLAND

By the death, on the 30th September last, of the Venerable A. C. England, late Archdeacon of York, the School lost a most valued friend and counsellor. Archdeacon England was the senior member of the Governing Body in point of service, and for many years had been Vice-Chairman of the Board; He had retired from his offices as Archdeacon and Dean and Chapter Treasurer some months previously, but was planning to continue his interest in St. Peter's School. It came as a particularly severe shock to us and to his friends when he was taken away just at the time he was settling down to enjoy a less strenuous life in his country residence at Levisham.

Archdeacon England will be remembered with affection by many generations of Peterites for his frequent and helpful sermons in the School Chapel, for his regular attendance at School functions, but most of all for the personal relations he always cultivated and maintained with individual boys and masters alike.

The work of Archdeacon England on the Governing Body can only be fully appreciated . those who worked with him, but as Headmaster during the latter part of his Governorship I am glad to have this opportunity of testifying to the unfailing and helpful encouragement I always received from him, and of paying tribute to his remarkable grasp of our financial problems. It is not too much to say that during a critical period in the School history and fortunes we can point to Archdeacon England's faith and ability as being among the principal factors which ensured our recovery to continued prosperity. J.D.

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