OLD PETERITE NEWS COMMEMORATION Commemoration this year will take place on the 27th, 28th and 29th July. The programme, which will take the form customary since the revival of the festival after the war, is given in detail on an earlier page. We need hardly emphasise the important contribution which a large gathering of O.P.s can make to the success of the occasion, and it is hoped that as many as possible will make the effort to be present. At the time of going to press the venue of the Dinner has not yet been decided, but this information, as well as all other particulars, will be circulated to members of the Club in due course. It is very desirable that the attendance at the general meeting should be as large as possible. This is the one occasion in the year when the committee and officers of the Club (and, as well, the Headmaster and the School authorities) have an opportunity to ascertain the feelings of the rank and file of Peterites. COMMEMORATION CRICKET AND ROWING The arrangements for the O.P. v. School Cricket Match are in the hands of J. C. M. Rayson. Any O.P.s who would like to play should write to him at Brasenose College, Oxford. As usual, K. H. Rhodes, at the School, has undertaken to organise the crews for the Boat Races. Anyone interested should communicate with him.
ITEMS A. M. Kendell (1945-50) was complimented by the City Coroner at an inquest in Chester on his courage in attempting the rescue of a 16 year old clerk who was drowned on 6th May as the result of a boating accident on the River Dee. Kendell, who was a passenger in a motor launch at the time of the accident, dived in several times in'the hope of locating and rescuing the submerged boy, but his efforts were unfortunately in vain. The Coroner said of Kendell : "I am happy to be able to compliment the cadet officer. I think he acted in an admirable way. I have no doubt that his conduct will be brought to the notice of one of the bodies concerned with life-saving. One feels very encouraged to hear of a young man at the Cadet School acting so bravely". Kendell passed out of the Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School on the 18th May, with a Commission in the Green Howards. He has volunteered for parachute training.
* * * R. E. Dodd (The Rise, 1932-43) has been awarded a Post-doctorate Fellowship in the Division of Chemistry of the National Research Council of Canada. For the past four years he has been lecturing at King's College, Newcastle, in the University of Durham. The National Research Council laboratories are in Ottawa, and Dodd 7
