Old Peterite News

Harnby, F. B. Oliver, D. J. Hodd, H. N. Parker, J. H. 0. Hollis, M. J. Pacey, F. W. B. Holt, J. M. Pegg, S. L. Hudson, G. B. Penty, J. R. Huntley, W. G. Ping, A. W. Jeffs, E. S. Powell, W. W. Kershaw, M. E. Ratcliff, K. M. Knowlson, P. G. Reynolds, G. H. F. Lewis, T. J. Rhodes, K. H. Lochore, M. C. M. Rumfitt, D. T. Lumby, P. S. Saville, J. McDermid, N. G. L. R. Smith G. D. Mortimer, J. B. Sproulle, M. I. H. Newdick, F. N. Stanley, R. M. Stratton, R. A. Taylor, P. G. Thompson, C. W. Tyne, D. T. N. Wall, J. D. C. Watson, A. Wilson, D. Whitelock, P. R. Wright, P. J.

The Head Master. Sir Thomas White. Rev. Canon C'. Patteson. Head of the School.

O.P. LONDON DINNER

The London Dinner will be held at Brown's Hotel, Albemarle St., on Wednesday, 10th November. Members of the Club who have not received detailed information by the beginning of November and who may wish to attend, should communicate with the London Secretary, Dr. R. H. Metcalfe, St. James's Hospital, Ousley Rd., Balham, London, S.W.12.

OLD PETERITE LODGE

The Old Peterite Lodge of Freemasons (No. 6412 on the Register of the United Grand Lodge of England) was founded on the 5th March, 1947, with the object of furthering the masonic association of Old Boys, Masters and Governors of the School, and meets at the Masonic Hall, Duncombe Place, York, on the third Wednesday in March, May, June, July, October and November.

At the Annual Installation Meeting held on 16th June, 1954, Worshipful Brother John Noel Blenkin, 0.B.E., M.C., T.D., was installed as Worshipful Master, and the following Officers appointed and invested :-

Immediate Past Master : W. Bro. J. Saville, J.P. Senior Warden : Bro. A. S. Rymer, O.B.E., J.P. Junior Warden : Bro. D. L. T. Creer. Chaplain : W. Bro. J. Dronfield, J.P., P.P.G.W. Treasurer : W. Bro. H. L. Creer, J.P., P.A.G.D.C. Secretary : Bro. W. S. Moore. Director of Ceremonies : W. Bro. R. A. Wilkinson, P.P.G.Reg. (Lincs.). Senior Deacon : Bro. E. R. Gossop. Junior Deacon : Bro. G. H. Briggs. Assistant Director of Ceremonies : W. Bro. F. W. B. Pacey. Organist : Bro. R. H. Buckton. Inner Guard : Bro. The Rev. Canon H. N. Hodd, T.D. Stewards : Bro. D. T. Rumfitt. Bro. W. D. Blackburn. Bro. J. A. Hanson. Bro. W. Anelay. Tyler : Bro. S. E. Howe, Prov.G. Tyler. Charity Representative : W. Bro. C. Oliver, P.P.G.D. 17

All correspondence for the Lodge should be addressed to the Secretary at 148 Manor Drive, North, Boroughbridge Road, York. (Tel. 71247).

S. K. KAZEROONI (1930 -1935)

Mr. S. M. Toyne has sent us some information about S. K. Kazerooni and his experiences in the troubled times of the Abadan crisis which will no doubt be of interest to his contemporaries.

Kazerooni, at the time the trouble broke out, was Manager of the Refineries personnel of the Anglo-Iranian Company. He had nearly 2,000 people directly under him and was responsible for the welfare, social services, and industrial relations of 40,000 more. He was working directly under K. B. Ross. To his work "Kazzy" brought the zest for games which had been engendered in him at St. Peter's. He formed cricket teams in Abadan and himself played regularly. He was President of the Hockey Association which had many affiliated clubs, including squash and tennis clubs for which he himself played. A Labour Sports Club which he founded had a membership of over 1,500. A Football Club, of which he was Chairman, won the AllIran Championship; and he was President of a society for those who had been educated at English Public Schools or Universities.

When the nationalisation disorders began Kazerooni's enthusiasm for the Oil Company and for things British proved his undoing. In particular the award to him, in 1946, of the George Medal for bravery in the service of the Allies made him an especial target of the troublemongers. In the night-mare years 1951-53 he was branded as a "British Medallist", constantly attacked, and eventually hounded out. He was denied ration cards and employment and ultimately, with his wife and two children, forced into exile. "We survived", he says in a letter to Mr. Toyne, "because I managed to work and translate for an Indian paper, 'The Statesman', and at last was taken into the American Embassy as interpreter and teacher of English." In the same letter Kazerooni says : "I had a grand time at St. Peter's and learned a great deal about honesty, loyalty, and patriotism. I have suffered much by being an ardent believer in these teachings, but nevertheless my wife and I are proud to follow them".

Happily, Mr. Toyne informs us that "Kazzy" is back in Abadan trying to restore cosmos in a city of 150,000 people and his hope is that he can help to make his people happier and better.

S. K. Kazerooni, who was in the Rise from 1930 to 1935, was a School Monitor, 1st XI Cricket, 1st XI Hockey (representing the Yorkshire Schoolboys), and 2nd String in the Squash Rackets team. At Squash he reached the semi-final in the Drysdale Cup.

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G. F. TENDALL

We have received the following letter from J. B. Gedge (1909-1919) :

The Editor, "The Peterite". Dear Sir, Pinners Hall,

Austin Friars, London, E.C:2. June, 1954.

G. F. TENDALL

Hundreds of us Old Peterites must be grateful to E. G. B. Atkinson for his tribute to G.F.T. which you printed in "The Peterite" for May, 1954.

My wife and I were fortunate in seeing Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Tendall in Cannes in 1950, and again more recently after they came home to live at Ringwood in Hampshire.

In Cannes he and Mrs. Tendall were pillars of the English church, where for many years he played the organ—while Mrs. Tendall sang in the choir.

He was avid for news of St. Peter's and his old friends, and several times mentioned how favourably impressed he was by the tremendous improvement in "The Peterite" itself.

At School I remember him best as a rugger coach—building up teams from a number of boys far fewer than the present School.

He was a master of good humour. Yours faithfully,

J. BERNARD GEDGE.

ITEMS

Sir Philip 'Morris, C.B.E. (1913-1920), who has been ViceChancellor of Bristol University since 1946, was, in June last, appointed Vice-Chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The appointment is for two years, the term expiring 30th June, 1956. Sir Philip has been a Governor of the B.B.C. since 1952. Among other important Posts he has held is that of Director General of Army Education from 1940 to 1946. * * *

J. Crawford (1922-1925), a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F., had the task, as an engineering officer, of devising a mechanism which would enable the Queen to unveil with a single slight movement the 20 panels of the R.A.F. Memorial in Malta. The ceremony passed off without a hitch, thanks to Crawford's ingenuity and hours of rehearsal.

D. J. Wilson (1943-1950), who is entering on his last year at Oxford, where he is reading French and Italian for a Modern Languages degree, has been appointed Editor of "Isis" for the Michaelmas Term. This is a high distinction in University journalism and a position which has been held in the past by many who have subsequently attained eminence in the literary world. Wilson is also Editor of "Signpost", a short-story magazine which he himself founded two terms ago and which is enjoying a considerable vogue. We wish him every success in his chosen career as a journalist. Incidentally he has just returned from Italy where he has spent much of the Long Vacation in the enjoyment of a Kemsley Travelling Scholarship. * * *

Colonel C. D. Trimmer, D.S.O. (1924-1929), West Yorkshire Regiment, has been appointed Brigade Colonel of the Yorkshire and Northumberland Group. In 1951 he took over the command of the 1st Battalion in Austria and moved with the Regiment to the Canal Zone and later to Malaya. His new appointment concerns the training of recruits as they arrive from civilian life.

CORRESPONDENCE

[We have received the following letter from an Old Peterite regarding the disappearance of the Oxford and Cambridge Letters from our pages. We would assure him that there are many O.P.s in residence at each university and that we share his regret that their doings are not now recorded in "The Peterite". Frequent but unavailing requests have been sent.

We would take this opportunity of appealing to all O.P.s to keep us informed of their activities and whereabouts from time to time. It should be remembered that Old Peterites are interested in news of their contemporaries at the School, however trivial or seemingly unimportant. It is not necessary to get in the Honours Lists or to become front-page news in the daily Press to justify an item in our O.P. News. One of the purposes of this section of the magazine is surely, as it were, to keep the family together, and we are conscious of shortcomings in this respect—through no fault of our own.]

17 Elm Farm Avenue, Marston Green, Birmingham. The Editors, 25th May, 1954. "The Peterite", St. Peter's School, York. Dear Sirs,

How many, I wonder, of your readers have mourned with me the passing from your pages of the Oxford and Cambridge Letters?

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I have now lost count of the number of issues I have read since the last Letter appeared, but it is so great that it has given rise to some disquieting speculations. The principal ones are these : 1. Old Peterite undergraduates are too busy reading for Finals (Ha!). or 2. They are all reading harsh scientific subjects which inhibit the art of self expression except by means of anagrammatic formulae. or 3. The School has now ceased to send its nurslings to the Universities altogether.

Continued absence of the University Letters will oblige me, Sirs, unwillingly to adopt one or other of the above theories. Unless I receive powerful evidence to the contrary, I shall probably plump for No. 3.

I shall also be obliged to set about the compilation of a substitute which I shall call "Old Oxonians' Letters". This will contain tedious details of the present lives of those who were my companions at The First University just after the Second World War. Perhaps someone from that more modern establishment at Cambridge will feel moved to follow suit.

If today's undergraduates are prepared to endure the excruciating boredom implied in this threat, they deserve, Sirs, everything that is coming to them.

Yours faithfully,

J. M. BANISTER, Temple House, 1941-43; Oxford, 1947-49.

OBITUARY

E. S. STEWARD

We have to record the death, on 10th January, 1954, of E. S. Steward (1880-1887). He had lived in retirement (he was a doctor and was F.R.C.S.) at Elleray Bank, Windermere. We regret the passing of another veteran O.P. who remained a member of the Club and staunch supporter of the School to the end. We offer our sincere sympathy to his widow.

BIRTH CLAYBOURN.—To Elizabeth, wife of Malcolm Claybourn, a son. [1937-1942.]

MARRIAGES

BRINDLEY—TERRY. On 3rd April, 1954, at St. James', North Cray, Kent, Ronald Anthony, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Brindley, of Petts Wood, Kent, to Patricia Eileen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Terry, of North Cray, Kent. [1940-1945.]

HAM—McLEOD. On 1 1 th September, 1954, at Norwood United

Church, Winnipeg, Canada, Ronald Ham, of Guildford, to Anne 'Marie McLeod, only daughter of Mr. and 'Mrs. S. N. McLeod, of

St. Vitas, Winnipeg. [1943-1948.] HUTCHINSON—FAULCONBRIDGE. On 8th May, 1954, at St.

Nicholas Church, Harpenden, Richard Lewis, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. L. Hutchinson, of Newark, to Norma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Faulconbridge, of Harpenden. [Manor, 1939-1947.] RUDDOCK—WISE. On Thursday, 5th August, 1954, at the

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Woodford Halse, Near Rugby,

Gerald Fredrick, younger son of the late 'Mr. H. E. Ruddock and of Mrs. Ruddock, of Hellidon House, Hellidon, Daventry, and

Frances Mary, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wise, of Woodford Halse. The Best Man was Mr. F. B. S. Hornby (Temple, 1937-1944), of York. [The Rise, 1935-1942.] WARD—S'PARKES.—On 1st September, at Clifton Parish Church, by Rev. E. A. Barton, John Derek, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Ward, to Judith, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Sparkes.

Both of York. [1939-1945.]

ENGAGEMENTS

HARPER—APTHORP. The engagement is announced between

Kenneth, only son of 'Mr. and Mrs. Harper, of Fulford, York, and

Shelagh, only daughter of the late Major S. E. Apthorp, D.S.O., and Mrs. Apthorp, of 19 Evelyn Court, Cheltenham. [1933-1944.] TAYLOR THOMPSON—LAURIE WALKER. The engagement is announced between John Derek, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Taylor Thompson, of 19 Burdon Lane, Cheam, Surrey, and Helen

Margaret, only daughter of the late Mr. George Laurie Walker and of Mrs. Laurie Walker, of Blairmore, Ellerton Road, Wimbledon. [1938-1945.] GARTH—PRIOR. The engagement is announced of Richard

Michael, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Garth, Hollybank House,

Holgate Hill, York, and 'Jeannie Elizabeth, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Prior, 12 The Esplanade, Scarborough. [1933-1943.] PORTEOUS—McQUADE. The engagement is announced between

Charles Clive Porteous, of Howdendyke, near Goole, and Helen

McQuade, of Paisley, Scotland. [1947-1952.]

EXAMINATION RESULTS, 1954

SCHOLARSHIPS J. R. Jenkinson, State Scholarship and North Riding Major Scholarship in

Classics. P. G. Taylor, State Scholarship and York City Major Scholarship in Classics. D. K. Timms, State Scholarship in Modern Languages. D. M. Walker, State Scholarship in Classics. J. B. Claydon, Essex County Major Scholarship in Mathematics and Physics. B. M. Nendick, East Riding Major Scholarship in Classics. 22