Old 'Peterite News

HISTORY OF ST. PETER'S SCHOOL

BY ANGELO RAINE

Copies of the School History by Angelo Raine can be obtained on application to the Bursar. They are also on sale in the School Shop. Price 7s. 6d. (post free).

OLD PETERITE NEWS

THE OLD PETERITE CLUB ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General 'Meeting of the Club was held at the School on Friday, '24th July, 1953. The Headmaster took the Chair. In the discussion on the accounts it was decided that the £2,000 given to the School, by the resolution at the previous meeting, should be shown in future accounts as a note, and should not be included in the accounts themselves.

Canon H. N. Hodd and 'Mr. P. F. Ringrose were re-elected to the Committee. It was decided that the team management of Old Peterite teams in Rugger, Cricket and Hockey should be in the hands of one person for each game for a period of three years. The following were nominated : RUGGER : P. Penniston, Wyngarth, Woodhall Lane, Stanningley, Nr. Leeds. CRICKET : R. 'A. Stratton, Penarth, Warwick Drive, Hale, Cheshire. HOCKEY : P. M. Steele, 25 Westminster Road, Clifton, York.

The Dinner Committee, as such, was abolished and the arrangements for the Dinner were left to the 'Hon. Secretary and the Hon. Treasurer, with powers to co-opt.

To commemorate the Coronation of Her Majesty, the sum of 100 guineas was voted by the Club to provide a new Bible and Altar furnishings for the Chapel. A Sub-Committee consisting of Canon Hodd, Mr. J. N. Blenkin and Mr. H. R. Hardcastle was appointed to consider the details.

Mr. Leslie Burgess was elected an Honorary Member of the Club.

OLD PETERITE DINNER

The Old Peterite Dinner was held at the Chase Hotel on Friday, 24th July. The toast of "The School" was proposed by Mr. T. J. Lewis and the Head Master responded. The toast of "The Club" was proposed by Mr. C. S. Harden and was replied to by Mr. J. A. Hanson. The Master of 'Emmanuel and the Head of the School were guests of the Club.

The following were present :-

Andrew, J. K. (1933-43). Bach, P. F. (1916-19). Berg, I. S. (1946-50). Blenkin, J. N. (1901-06). Brown, H. (1940-44). Browne, F. D. (1942-50). Burgess, L. R. (1918-20). Camfield, A. A. (1942-48). Chatterton, H. (1945-49). Clegg, M. T. (1897-07). Crombie, G. N. P. (1917-26). Dodgson, G. M. (1941-47). Easten, Rev. J. A. (1881-90). Eastwood, C. R. (1945-52). Eccles, D. G. (1942-49). Everitt, M. J. (1944-52). Fairweather, C. C. (1919-22). Farrar, R. E. S. (1945-50). Frank, C. (1942-49). Gibson, R. J. (1948-50). Gillgrass, J. (1941-45). Gregory, V. B. (1939-46). Hamilton, J. M. (1945-52). Hannon, P. (1936-41). Hanson, J. A. (1918-21). Hillyard, E. J. (1931-40). Hodd, Canon H. N. (1918-24). Hourigan, D. L. (1941-50). Howard, K. A. (1945-51). Huntley, W. G. (1938-43). Jackson, J. F. N. (1945-49). James, P. D. F. (1942-52). Leigh, P. V. (1939-43). Lewis, T. J. (1923-26). McKinley, R. J. (1938-44). Macpherson, I. S. (1936-46). Mervyn, R. F. S. (1924-28). Newdick, F. N. (1940-48). Oliver, D. J. (1941-47). Pacey, F. W. B. (1921-27). Palframan, R. D. (1944-52). Pearson, G. E. (1918-20). Penniston, P. (1939-44). Penty, J. R. (1935-44). Rayson, J. C. M. (1942-47). Relton, R. A. (1944-48). Reynolds, G. H. F. (1943-45). Rhodes, K. H. (1914-20). Richards, W. J. (1922-26). Richardson, FI. (1909-14). Rumfitt, D. T. (1930-39). Simpson, D. T. (1947-51). Simpson, J. L. (1944-46). Smith, G. D. (1935-42). Smith, G. W. (1943-47). Sproulle, M. I. H. (1935-38). Stratton, R. A. (1935-43). Sykes, P. H. Sykes, P. R. (1942-47). Thompson, D. W. (1939-46). Tyne, D. T. N. (1943-49). Wall, J. D. C. (1942-50). Whitelock, P. R. (1945-49). The Head Master. The Master of Emmanuel. Mr. C. S. Harden. Mr. L. Burgess. Mr. A. W. Ping. Mr. D. K. Crews. Mr. R. F. Harding. Mr. E. S. Jeffs. The Head of the School (H. P.

Shaw).

LONDON DINNER

The London Dinner will be held on Wednesday, 11th November, at Brown's Hotel, Albermarle Street. All enquiries should be addressed to Dr. R. H. Metcalfe, St. James' Hospital, Ouseley Road, Balham, S.W .12.

BIRTHS

DODGSON.-On 10th May, 1953, at West Cottage, Eastfield Farm,

Moor Lane, Dringhouses, York, to Mary, the wife of G. M.

Dodgson-a daughter. [The Rise, 1942-47.] DIXON.-On 8th September, 1953, at Broxbourne Nursing Home,

Broxbourne, Herts., to Corrie, the wife of R. S. Dixon-a son. [School House, 1934-38.] PENTY.-On 12th October, 1953, at The Howe Hill Nursing Home,

Acomb, York, to Phyllis (nee Widdicombe), the wife of J. R.

Penty-a son. [The Rise, 1935-44.]

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HUDSON—KANE. On 1 1 th April, 1953, at the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, Dr. Charles Keith Hudson, elder son of Mr. and 'Mrs. J. N. Hudson, of 'Middlesbrough, to Elizabeth Anne Kane, daughter of Lt.-Col. C. J. Kane, late R.E., of Long Bredy,

Dorchester, Dorset, and the late Mrs. L. Kane, formerly of 17

Egerton Gardens, London, S.W.3. [School House, 1943-47.] McKINLAY—SAMES. On 16th May, 1953, at the Parish Church,

St. Anne's, R. J. McKinlay to Patricia Anne Sames. [School

House, 1938-43.] SHEPHERD—CHARLTON. On 6th June, 1953, at St. Wilfrid's

Church, York, Colin Stuart Shepherd, son of Ald. and Mrs. F. W.

Shepherd, of Dringhouses Manor, York, to Sylvia, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Charlton, of Dodsworth Avenue, York. [The Rise, 1936-46.] PAWLE—BERRY. On 11th September, 1953, at St. just-in-Roseland,

Cornwall, Shafto 'Gerald Strachan Pawle, elder son of Mr. and

Mrs. John Pawle, of Bishop's Stortford, to Lady Mary Berry, only daughter of Marquess Camden, of Bayham Abbey, Lamberhurst,

Kent, and the Countess of Brecknock, of Bramshott, Liphook,

Hampshire, and widow of the Hon. Oswald Berry. The Rev.

F. H. Barnby officiated. [School House, 19'27-31.] PAR'KE'R—SANDHAM. At St. Lawrence's Church, Barton, Nr.

Preston, Roger, only son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Parker, of Denhaag,

Catterall, near Garstang, to Barbara, only daughter of Mr. and 'Mrs. J. J. Sandham, of Rostock Villa, Barton . [School House and

Grove, 1944-49.]

ENGAGEMENT

RUDDOCK—WISE. The engagement is announced between Gerald

Frederick Ruddock, son of the late Mr. H. 'E. Ruddock and Mrs.

Ruddock, of Hellidon House, Hellidon, Daventry, and Frances

Mary, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wise, of Woodford Halse, near Rugby. [The Rise, 1938-42.]

DEATHS

BERTRAM McCALL

It was with great regret that we heard of the death of Mr. Bertram McCall, who was drowned while bathing, on 10th August, at Whitesands, Pembrokeshire.

Mr. McCall, who was at St. Peter's from 1920-22, was a solicitor in Harrogate, the senior partner in the firm of Atkinson, McCall and Kirby.

We offer our sincere sympathy to his widow and to his mother. 11

ARNOLD KELDAY SMITH

We have learned with great regret of the death, early in September, of Arnold Kelday Smith, as a result of a flying accident in Germany.

Arnold Smith, who was in the School House from 1941-45, at first, when he left school, went in for engineering and later joined the R.A.F. He gained his commission and was recently sent to Germany. He was killed while flying a Meteor.

We offer our sincere sympathy to his mother and to his brother, Clive Smith.

ITEMS

We congratulate R. B. Pringle (School House, 1945-49) on his appointment as an Under Officer at the R.A.F. College, Cranwell. Pringle passes out of the College in December this year. * * *

In the Coronation Honours List S. P. George (School House, 1910-17) was awarded the King's Police Medal for Distinguished Service. We offer him our congratulations.

Mr. rGeorge, who is the Commissioner of Police for the Eastern Region of Nigeria and the Cameroons, visited the School early this term to give a talk on the Colonial Service on behalf of the Colonial Office. He reports that in the coal town of Enugu, the H.Q. of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, there are, besides himself, two other Old Peterites : Wing Commander J. S. P. Philipps, D.F.C., who is the Senior Assistant Works Manager in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Nigerian Railway, and Leonard Atkinson, who is Town Clerk of the newly-formed Urban District Council. * * *

A. T. Booth (The Manor, 1948-53) represented the English Schoolboys in their international match against the Scottish Schoolboys. He went on in the Schoolboys' Championship to survive five rounds and to reach the final, in which he was beaten by last year's runner-up. We offer him our congratulations. * * *

Mr. H. A. Wrenn, a former Modern Languages master at St. Peter's and now Head (Master of Wellingborough Grammar School, has recently published his first crime fiction book, "Tangle", published by Hammond & Hammond. Mr. Wrenn's book was warmly recommended by Mr. Lionel Gamlin in his B.B.C. review. * * *

We should like to congratulate Mr. K. G. Coulthard on the birth of his daughter, Alison Jane.