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Valete and Salvete
from June 1951
by StPetersYork
. G. Mountain (Wycliffe Hall) still leaves notes in still more "squiggly" handwriting in people's rooms. Suggested meeting times never seem to coincide and as a result not much news available. Rumour has it, however, that he is to be ordained this Trinity Term, and for that proud day we offer our congratulations.
G. C. Norris (Worcester). To those who remember (and perhaps curse) "G.C.'s" enthusiasm for the J.T.C., it will come as no surprise to learn that he is applying for a regular Commission. In the meantime his consumption of cigarettes grows as the day comes closer when he must account for his three years at Oxford.
D. P. Norwood (Hertford)—the "New Boy"—appears to have settled down quickly into the University realm of higher mathematics. The weather has reversed the priority of last term's activities, so that they now read : dispensing sherry and hockey.
For J. C. M. Rayson (B.N.C.) the working year has now ended. The plough-share and milking stool have been put away, the bat and pads are being taken out in preparation for the summer. Referring once more to last term's letter, it is true to say that he has again been seen at the end of a leash—which end?
W. S. Samuels (Wadham) is undoubtedly the Mystery Man of the O.P.s. Should one chance to glimpse him, one is rewarded by a sudden start, an elevation of those enormous eyebrows, a muttered platitude and a swift departure. We feel that Guy Fawkes might yet have a successor.
P. R. Sykes (St. Edmund Hall) has been playing still more squash, as is befitting the College Secretary, but still finds enough energy to grace various social functions with an immaculate performance of the "Samba". Believed to have made a study of licensees during the past term. Is this something to do with law?
May we end this letter with a renewed plea that an effort be made to communicate to the national newspapers the results of school matches. What is perhaps not realised is that Oxford (and Cambridge?) receive only the southern edition of the newspapers, and unless the results are given to the southern offices we become bereft of all news of the School's achievements.
Wishing the School every success, We remain, Sirs,
