Editorial

believe, is a wise innovation, and, since hitherto a large proportion of Junior School boys have been debarred by ineluctable numerical facts from participation in a daily service in the School Chapel, should rather promote than diminish a consciousness of membership of St. Peter's School. And in the Summer Term there will be an independent "Speech Day" for the Junior School, on Wednesday, the 23rd July, when Bishop Hubbard will distribute the prizes. Commemoration will follow later in the same week (from Friday, the 25th, to Sunday, the 27th), when Lord Halifax will be our guest at Speech Day and the Bishop of Newcastle will preach the Commemoration Sermon. Here again the division of the functions seems eminently desirable. The Commemoration programme is necessarily adapted to the climate of the Senior School, and much of it can have little significance to the more immature outlook of St. Olave's. This is especially true of the speeches at the Prize-giving in the Clifton Cinema. A separate and distinct ceremony which the Junior School can feel is all their own is, we believe, the right solution to an obvious difficulty.

The term ended, not as usually with a School Play, but with a Concert, which was of a very high quality and which, it was generally agreed, was the most satisfying presentation of School musical talent for many years. No less satisfying (in a different sense) was the most enjoyable boarders' supper on the last night of term. All of us heartily endorsed the delightful speech with which J. T. Ankers, the Head of the School, thanked the Head Master and Mrs. Dronfield, who were our kindly hosts on the occasion.

OBITUARY

MRS. CALDER

It is with great sorrow that we have to record the sudden and untimely death of Mrs. Calder early on Christmas morning at her home at Alcuin House, and we wish to assure Mr. Calder, John, and Joyce of our deepest sympathy in their great loss.

In September, 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Calder took charge of the new Junior School Boarding House (Alcuin), and it is from that time that we have come to know Mrs. Calder so well. Her kindliness, her motherly and sympathetic approach to the care and welfare of her boys, her unfailing cheerfulness—all these have been felt and appreciated by boys and parents alike. But I would also add the grateful remembrance of the Governors and myself for the efficient manner in which, over a difficult period, Mrs. Calder did the catering for the whole Junior School, and was largely responsible in her work behind the scenes for the happiness and co-operation which has permeated the work of her domestic staff. 2