House Notes

TEMPLE S. H. Bradley, P. J. Brindle, A. Brining, J. D. Carr, R. Dawes, R. J. Dowson,

J. R. Eggleshaw, K. W. Headlam, M. L. Lees, A. L. McKay, C. P.

Midgeley, M. E. Raine, E. P. Raynes, E. G. Richman, J. S. Scott, R. P.

Wilson.

THE GROVE

The beginning of term found us looking back on an excellent year. It had not been, however, limited to the games field. P. A. Crossley had obtained a State Scholarship, and the rest of the House had worked hard enough to win us the Work Cup. Everyone is to be congratulated on this, and reminded that they can all contribute to our keeping it.

But then we looked to the future, and settled down to show that there is still as much spirit in the House as ever. Ten new juniors have joined us, including another Welshman : we are prepared. At the top of the House E. S. Bolton, P. A. Crossley, R. L. Evans and A. Gomersall are to be congratulated on their appointments as House Monitors, as is T. D. J. Layfield as Head of the School and of the House.

The highlight of the term was undoubtedly the Senior House Rugger. After beating Manor 17-11 in the semi-final, we met Rise in the final. In a good, hard game we were defeated 0-6. However, of our tackling and teamwork we feel justly proud. P. A. Crossley, L S. T. Dutton, W. J. Bottomley and A. Gomersall have since been awarded their House colours. In the School teams L. H. K. Mackay, I. S. T. Dutton and R. L. Evans have been awarded their 1st XV colours; T. D. J. Layfield captained the 2nd XV, and together with P. A. Crossley was awarded his colours. As usual we were well represented in the 3rd XV by W. J. Bottomley, A. Gomersall, J. C. G. Wheeler and R. W. Kirk. In the basketball world the name of E. S. Bolton was a name to be feared.

Debating has become a very popular activity in the House. In the School Society T. D. J. Layfield was President and R. A. Crossley, R. L. Evans and D. E. Rayner were on the Committee. However, the last two appear to have found their vocations in the Law Courts. It is very good to see that the Presidency has not left the Grove, and R. L. Evans is to be congratulated on his election for next term. Our House Debating Society continues to flourish. The term included three debates and an evening of light-hearted entertainment, all well attended. We are pleased to see so many Junior members of the House taking an interest, and hope they will all make the effort to speak some time.

House "Proms." have been organised successfully by R. L. Evans and A. Gomersall, and the House appears to appreciate classical music more than any other, thus showing its good taste. We thank Mr. and Mrs. Harding for their generous hospitality at our concerts.

To old Grovites let us say : we are neither "down" nor "out", but still flourishing.

M. R. Bramley is the only member of the House to leave us this term. We wish him the best of luck in the future.

Just before going to print, we can end our news of the term, just as we began, with another success story from P. A. Crossley. Our heartiest congratulations to him on the award of an Open Minor Scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

THE MANOR

This term, as every Christmas Term, began with new faces, new appointments and new arrangements. First, we welcome Mr. Shuttleworth as our new Assistant Housemaster. It is a new experience for all the present generation in the House to have a resident Assistant Housemaster, and we soon felt the impact of his interest and enthusiasm. We also welcome ten new Manorites, and the turbulent Junior Common Room soon became a feature of the House. Noel, who comes from U.S.A., was soon transferred to the Junior Middles. It is the first time, it appears, that we have had another national as a permanent member of the House, and we hope he will enjoy his time with us.

We discovered on returning that members of the Manor had done very well in last term's exams. This was reflected in our position of second in the Work Cup. Butland is to be congratulated on his State Scholarship, and Lennox and Purse on Local Authority Awards.

This term we have contributed our share to School sport. A. McCallum was vice-captain of the first XV and J. 0. Armstrong was awarded his first XV colours. M. McCallum had the interesting experience of playing at one time or another for 1st, 2nd and 3rd XVs. Our biggest contribution however was to the Senior Colts : R. G. Armstrong was captain, and Holdsworth and De Mulder were awarded their colours, while Hewitt, Hutchinson and R. A. Wood were also in the team. Brown, Bruce and Noel played for the Junior Colts, and Lightfoot has found a place in the 1st VIII.

In the House matches, after a victory in the preliminary round, our Seniors were defeated in the semi-finals : the absence of A. McCallum on this occasion was particularly unfortunate. As will be gathered from the information above, our Junior side was unusually strong, and duly won the Junior Cup : the first time it has "crossed the road". This being the one and only occasion during Mr. Le Tocq's period of office that we have won a rugger cup, the event was celebrated by awarding the whole team Junior House colours. 10

They were : Hutchinson; Watson, R. A. Wood, De Mulder, Tomlinson; Holdsworth, Bruce; R. G. Armstrong (Capt.), Hewitt, Brown, Bywater, Lightfoot, Ainley, Noel, P. H. Sykes.

This term has seen the successful formation of a House Debating Society. This innovation has proved very promising and is becoming a permanent feature of House activities. A number of speakers have come forward, and a surprising proportion of the House seems prepared to air its views, some of which are a little unexpected : one very competent and experienced collector of discipline cards having, for example, been known to support the monitorial system—but perhaps tact modified his opinion. Other spare time activities have ranged from record recitals to fox-skinning.

Finally, the farewells. Clark is leaving us and we shall miss his war-cry of "Cheers !" It is with much regret that we say good-bye to Mr. and Mrs. Le Tocq. They have been in the Manor for nearly ten years and have gained the respect of everyone who has passed through the House. As a memento of their time here, they were presented with an inscribed salver.

QUEEN'S

Refreshed by the holidays, bronzed by the blazing English sun, the House returned in September to School, to Rugby and to Work. Barton and Slade moved upstairs, where they settled in quickly, while at the other end of the social scale twelve new juniors settled in not quite so quickly—some fagging instructions drawn up for their "convenience" threatened to arrive at the length and complexity of the Rent Act.

On the results of the July examinations, Beresford, Burton and Crowther were awarded York City Major Scholarships and we offer them our congratulations. This term the junior part of the House, spurred to emulation, have given us a promising start in the Work Cup Competition, which we lead at the moment. Gow, Daniel and Abel are particularly to be congratulated on their domination of the Fourth Forms.

Naturally, rugby occupied much of our time, and the House had representatives in every School team : Bygate and Slade gained their colours in the 1st XV, and Slade captained the "A" XV; Burton and Crowther (intermittently) played for the 2nd XV, while Barton captained, and Mitchell played for the 3rd XV. Foster was our sole member of the Senior Colts, but in the Junior Colts Hackney, the Captain, was supported by Clegg, Raley and Jesper.

The Senior House team defeated School House in the first round of the House matches by the generous margin of one point, only to lose to Rise later. The Junior team, confronted by a robust Manor XV, soon lost interest in the proceedings. After the battle Foster, Hackney and Clegg were awarded their Junior House colours.

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graced the squash team, Barton and Beresford the fencing team under Burton's captaincy, and Hunt and Hardman the chess team.

In the C.C.F. we find ourselves, as yet, leading in the Dronfield Trophy—despite the attempts by some few member of the House to sabotage this position. The House on Tuesdays resembled a Sergeants' Mess, for there are five of them plus the only R.N. Instructor Cadet.

Turning to more voluntary activities, we find that the Secretary of every major School society is in Queen's. We have furthermore four members of the Debating Society Committee, of which Crowther was the Vice-President. Within the House, the Antiquities Society and Junior Debating Society are still flourishing, and our own magazine is preparing its fourth issue.

For Queen's, then, the Christmas Term was an active and a full one; one, we think, in which the foundations of a successful year were well and truly laid.

And finally we must congratulate Burton on his place at Oxford, wish him goodbye, and thank him for what he has done for the House in the past five years.

THE RISE

The beginning of the new School year brought the usual new appointments and new faces. Sabben-Clare was appointed Head of House, Dronfield and Mathews School Monitors, Howard, Ibberson, Brown and Ranson House Monitors. Mr. Galley joined us as Assistant Housemaster in place of Mr. Dodds, and we welcomed our six new boarders and five day boarders.

We congratulate Mathews on being appointed Captain of Rugger and of Boats, and Howard on being Captain of Squash. The highlight of the term's sporting activities was our victory in the Senior Rugger Competition. We beat Queen's by 22 points to 11 in the semi-final after a bye in the first round, and then beat Grove 6-0 in a hard-fought final. The promise shown by the younger players in these matches is encouraging for the future. The Junior team fought a courageous but losing battle against a far stronger Manor side. In School Rugger we were represented by Mathews, Ranson, Sim and Howard in the 1st XV, by Gale, Bagnall, Gough, SabbenClare and Ibberson in the 2nd XV, and by Dronfield in the unbeaten 3rd XV. Kirk won his Senior Colts colours, whilst Kettlewell, C. J. Parker and R. H. Parker played for the Junior Colts. In recognition of their efforts on the Rugger field, Sabben-Clare, Ibberson, Sim and Bagnall were awarded their House colours, and Kirk, Kettlewell, Hemsley, R. H. Parker and Poynor their Junior House colours.

In other out of school activities we were represented by Howard and Ranson in the Squash team, by Gale, Gough and Ranson in the Chess team, and by Pattinson in the Fencing team.

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For the Rise the end of term meant the end of Mr. Crews' Housemastership, and he would wish no more comment than our sincere thanks for all he has done for the School, the Rise, our predecessors and ourselves, and our best wishes for his success as Head Master of Scarborough College. On the last night of term we were joined by members of the Staff and Old Boys at a farewell party given by Mr. and Mrs. Crews. It was followed by entertainment of various kinds, and a delightful evening was enjoyed by all. At the end of the evening Mr. Crews was presented with the mechanism of a high-class radiogram.

We said goodbye also to Sabben-Clare at the end of term, and wish him every success in the future. Where Bert went is still a matter for discussion.

Finally we welcome Mr. Cummin as our new Housemaster and hope he will be very happy in the Rise.

SCHOOL HOUSE

We began the term with a completely new monitorial body : our School Monitors were F. C. Beaumont as Head of House and J. J. Rhodes as Chapel Monitor; R. F. Brooks, M. G. A. Garbutt, M. K. Oldham, J. B. Robinson and B. D. Shearsmith were House Monitors. We welcomed Mr. Field as an additional Assistant Housemaster. Much to the relief of Study 6 Mr. Field's sitting room is well away from that maddening crowd.

In the House Rugby Competitions we had a rather frustrating time; we were knocked out by Queen's once again in the Senior event and the Junior XV was beaten by a powerful Manor team after leading 6-0 at half-time. We congratulate G. P. Robinson on his excellent captaincy of the Junior side, A. W. Raylor for his invaluable services as coach and P. Collins and I. A. Naisby on the award of their Junior colours.

The House once again left its mark on School Rugger. J. B. Robinson, A. W. Raylor and J. J. Rhodes were awarded their 1st XV colours, but F. C. Beaumont was retired from the 1st XV on. the pretext of helping the 2nd XV to win a few matches. P. N. B. Smith was awarded his 2nd XV colours; M. J. Bond, who appeared once in the 1st XV colours, M. K. Oldham, who twice scored three tries in a match, R. A. Hodgson and P. M. Beachell all played for the 2nd XV. In the Senior Colts, G. P. Robinson was awarded his colours, R. Priestley and D. H. Fletcher played regularly, while P. Collins appeared once. Collins also captained the Junior Colts, playing alongside D. H. Rhodes, M. T. Bell, J. A. B. Carruthers and R. G. Le Pla. In the 3rd XV S. D. Baker and A. W. Martin helped the School to beat Ampleforth.

The House once again predominated in the Shooting team with M. G. A. Garbutt as Captain and R. A. Hodgson as Vice-Captain; with S. D. Baker and M. K. Oldham also in the team we feel that we might at last win the Inter-House Shooting Cup. F. C. Beaumont captained the School Chess team with support from J. N. Hanson. G. W. A. R. Alderson and F. C. Beaumont played for the School Squash team.

The House Film Society was splendidly organised by A. W. Raylor, who spent a great deal of time in obtaining and showing a large number of excellent films. Our thanks also go to D. A. Taylor for working the film projector so efficiently.

M. J. Bond is to be congratulated on running an extremely succesful House Table Tennis Competition. It ended with a dramatic final in the late hours of the last night of term between Alderson and Bell, the former eventually becoming the winner; both are to be congratulated on their fine play and also many who nearly reached the final. In the Junior Chess Competition R. G. Le Pla outwitted the Middles and the rest of the Juniors to win the prize.

R. P. V. Puttock just managed to complete a fine set of bookshelves for Study 5 before departing for the holidays. We hope it will not be long before he is able to enjoy the facilities they provide.

The House Proms. were as popular as ever under the guidance of J. G. Slater.

This term a new Society was started limited to Seniors and Monitors. The aim of the Society was to hold intellectual discussions, debates and talks. It proved to be extremely popular and worthwhile. The Committee of the Ecclesia wishes to thank Mr. Howat for the use of his room and Miss Banks for providing refreshments.

We were very sorry to lose B. D. Shearsmith halfway through the term with an obscure ocular infection. We wish him a speedy recovery and hope , to have him back next term.

Finally we must not forget the work of the House. For the first time for years we send a member of the House, J. G. Slater, to Cambridge to try for an Open Award in Mathematics. We also congratulate him on his State Scholarship. Nearly everyone in the House seems to be working really hard and as a result we should do better in the Work Cup.

Postscript. We are happy to announce that J. G. Slater has been awarded an Open Exhibition in Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. This success will, we hope and confidently expect, herald the start of a brilliant career for Slater and he has our congratulations and best wishes. This achievement will act as a great spur to the academic ambitions of the House.