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Under 15 Colts XV

Saturday 1st Oct. Ashville College ... Wednesday 5th Oct. Durham School ... Saturday 8th Oct. Barnard Castle School Wednesday 19th Oct. Archbishop Holgate's G.S. Saturday 5th Nov. Pocklington School ... Thursday 17th Nov. Ampleforth College ... Wednesday 23rd Nov. Worksop College ...

Senior House Matches

Wednesday 26th Oct. 1st Round Saturday 26th Nov. Semi-finals Saturday 3rd Dec. Final ...

Junior House Matches

Wednesday 9th Nov. 1st Round Wednesday 30th Nov. Semi-finals Wednesday 7th Dec. Final ...

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OLD PETERITE NEWS

A meeting of the General Committee of the O.P. Club was held at the School on the 5th March. The President reported that the amount subscribed to date for the Memorial Hall by way of donations and seven-year covenants was £5,910 but that another £6,000 was required to reach the sum which the Club had undertaken to find.

The President has decided to circularise again all O.Ps. who have not yet subscribed; this is now a matter of urgency, as the Memorial Hall will be dedicated by the Bishop of Durham, O.P., on Saturday morning, 23rd July, during Commemoration.

It was reported that the O.P. Club crested silk cravats were now available and could be obtained from the Hon. Secretary, price 34/each, post free.

C. W. Thompson has kindly undertaken to organise the O.P. Club rugger team in future, vice P. Penniston, resigned.

With the approval of the General Committee, Peter Atkinson has kindly undertaken to organise an East Riding regional dinner, the first of which has been arranged for Friday evening, 27th May, at Driffield. All O.Ps. living in the East Riding will be separately notified as to the arrangements by Peter Atkinson.

The reports of District Committees were received.

COMMEMORATION, 1960

O.Ps. are reminded that Commemoration weekend will be from Friday, 22nd July to Sunday, 24th July. The O.P. dinner will again be held on the Saturday evening at the School and to avoid disappointment members are urged to make early application for tickets.

R. A. Stratton of Belgrano, Winton Road, Bowdon, Cheshire, will again be responsible for the O.P. cricket team and K. H. Rhodes of the School will, as usual, be arranging the boat races. Philip Crowe of 95 Stockton Lane, York, is again kindly organising a golf competition to be held on York Golf Course, Strensall, on Sunday afternoon, 24th July.

The A.G.M. of the Club will be held at 6-30 p.m. immediately prior to the Dinner on the Saturday, and it is strongly urged that all O.Ps. who are present at Commemoration will make a special effort to attend and make the meeting truly representative.

D. KIRBY (Grove, 1952-58), now at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and

Secretary of the C.U.C.C., has been appointed Secretary of Leicestershire

County Cricket Club. He will take up his duties in 1961.

M. B. MARKUS ∎ (Rise, 1947-52) has been in Israel for three years after doing an Agriculture course at Leeds University. During his National Service in

Israel he worked as a Farm Manager of a new pioneer settlement deep in the Negev Desert and later as a lecturer in Animal Husbandry in the

Agricultural Academy of the Israeli Army. He now has a post in the

Milk Department of the Central Research Station of the Ministry of

Agriculture and is living in Tel Aviv. In the autumn he intends to commence an M.Sc. course in Animal Husbandry at the Hebrew University.

He recently married an Israeli girl, who is a physiotherapist.

E. I. MOORE (Rise, 1950-55), now at Selwyn College, Cambridge, has been awarded by the English Speaking Union a Wein International Research

Scholarship to Brandeis University, Boston, Massachusetts.

GERALD PAWLE (School House, 1927-31), writing from St. Mawes, Cornwall, where he is 'wrestling with the writing of a book on Churchill and the war years', comments on an extraordinary coincidence in a squash match between Falmouth and St. Ives, when the respective first strings were both O.Ps. He was, of course, one, and the other was Dr. Peter

Dennis (School House, 1944-49), who is at the West Cornwall Hospital,

Penzance. Pawle is Chairman of the Cornwall County Squash Rackets

Association and was in the team which beat Northants in February-26 years ago to the day since he had played his first match in the Championship, for Yorkshire against Northumberland.

ENGAGEMENTS

HARNBY—MACPHERSON. Frederick Bryan Simpson, only son of Mr. and

Mrs. F. Harnby of York, and Ellen Moira, only daughter of Mrs. Dorothy

Macpherson of Scarborough and Dr. I. G. Macpherson of York. [Temple, 1939-44d

HYDE—BAKER. John Lazenby Hyde, only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Hyde, of Hull, and Anne Marie, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Baker, of

York. [Temple, 1947-55.]

TOMLINSON—WATSON. John Neil Tomlinson, Primrose Hill Farm, High Catton, Stamford Bridge, Yorks., and Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Watson, 7 Park Street, Pickering, Yorks. [Manor, 1946-49.]

MARRIAGES

MEGGINSON—BROWNE. On 14th October, 1959, at St. John's Church,

Welburn, John Stewart, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. B. Megginson,

Kirkburn Grange, Driffield, to Janet Pauline, only daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. F. Browne, Primrose Hill, Welburn, York. [Grove, 1945-51.]

MIDDLEBROOK—HODGSON. On 1st March, 1960, at St. Stephen's Church, Acomb, York, Peter Wayne, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Middlebrook, Brayton, Selby, to Shirley Jane, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Hodgson, Manor Drive, Acomb, York. [School House, 1950-53.]

NORTH-EASTERN OLD PETERITE DINNER Held at the Three Tuns Hotel, Durham, on Friday, 16th October, 1959.

The Head Master. 1931-33 Johnston, H. 1947-56 Beckitt, R. D. 1953-59 Layfield, T. D. J. 1940-44 Border, A. P. 1923-26 Lewis, T. J. 1940-44 Brown, H. G. 1955-59 Mackay, L. H. K. 1947-58 Brown, K. 1949-54 McCallum, M. J. 1950-54 Crossley, J. 1952-55 Mackintosh, S. 1954-57 Dalkin, W. R. 1945-50 March, G. R. A. 1939-43 Davison, E. P. 1947-57 Morris, P. A. 1931-36 Deas, R. M. 1950-55 Nesham, D. J. 1932-43 Dodd, R. E. 1921-27 Pacey, F. W. B. 1919-22 Fairweather, C. C. 1951-57 Plester, G. V. 1949-54 Firth, M. J. 1948-59 Rayner, D. E. 1946-54 Gardner, G. D. 1940-46 Reavley, D. R. 1943-48 Graham, W. 1914-20 Rhodes, K. H. 1933-38 Harding, J. T. 1944-48 Ryder, J. M. 1945-54 Holmes, D. C. 1949-53 Simmons, D. N. 1949-57 Hopkinson, R. G. 1950-55 Varley, E. K. 1938-43 Huntley, W. G. 1945-49 Wye, M. 1946-54 Jackson, R. A. 1955-59 Young, D. G. M. 1954-58 Jobling, R. L.

Brig. C. C. Fairweather was in the Chair. The toast of "The School" was proposed by F. W. B. Pacey and replied to by the Head Master.

WEST RIDING OLD PETERITE DINNER

Held at the Three Nuns Hotel, Mirfield, on Thursday, 29th October, 1959.

The Head Master. 1918-23 Hunter, 0. 1922-28 Bamforth, J. N. 1944-54 Kent, M. J. 1922-31 Blackburn, W. D. 1946-53 Lochore, M. C. M. 1943-48 Brown, E. G. 1947-52 Lumby, P. S. 1946-53 Butterworth, M. A. 1923-32 Lyth, D. 1942-46 Crowther, R. G. 1935-43 Miller, R. L. 1918-23 Dykes, A. 1949-54 Oldroyd, J. C. 1941-45 Fenton, J. 1914-20 Rhodes, K. H. 1941-45 Gillgrass, J. 1935-38 Sproulle, M. I. H. 1943-47 Hallas, M. 1935-38 Stabler, D. A. 1934-36 Houghton, J. C. 1938-43 Thompson, D. C. 1946-52 Hunter, J. A. 1911-14 Wood, J. S.

M. I. H. Sproulle was in the Chair. M. C. M. Lochore proposed the toast of "The School" and the Head Master responded.

OLD PETERITE LONDON DINNER Held at Brown's Hotel on Wednesday, 11th November, 1959.

1923-26 Alderson, B. R.

1923-26 Lewis, T. J. 1922-26 Archer, L. H. J. 1915-16 Metcalfe, C. L. 1920-24 Atkinson, E. G. B. 1913-18 Metcalfe, R. H. 1915-19 Baddeley, W. D. 1936-43 Murray, R. L. 1945-50 Baker, P. T. 1924-29 Perry, P. M. 1935-41 Black, V. M. 1902-06 Pick, M. 1927-31 Camm, J. P. 1918-20 Powell, S. V. 1919-25 Chapman, K. H. 1947-51 Powell, W. B. 1942-46 Claybourne, G. R. 1918-23 Powell, W. W. 1901-07 Clegg, M. T. 1914-20 Reed, E. M. 1901-07 Colley, W. H. 1919-25 Rodgers, J. 1927-31 Cooper, A. B. 1923-31 Seaborne, W. L. Dronfield, J. (Head Master) 1913-14 Sergeant, C. W. H. 1940-46 Drummond, D. C. 1915-20 Scholefield, C. E. 1944-49 Griffiths, J. C. 1920-21 Scholefield, J. 1916-20 Gedge, J. B. 1935-42 Smith, G. D. 1913-21 Gray, B. A. C. 1947-55 Staines, A. G. D. 1918-21 Hanson, J. A. 1941-47 Tate, D. H. 1955-59 Hill, S. K. D. 1948-53 Thompson, C. W. 1942-47 Hilton, J. C. 1925-36 White, R. 1948-55 Hodd, D. K. 1916-32 Woodcock, A. J. A. (Master) 1918-24 Hodd, H. N. 1910-17 Yeoman, W. G. 1924-27 Hudson, M. F. Head of the School 1948-56 Lamb, D. A. A. (D. L. Slade) 1947-55 Lewis, C. H.

The toast of "The School" was proposed by D. H. Tate and replied to by the Head Master and the toast of "The O.P. Club" was proposed by the Head of the School (D. L. Slade) and replied to by the Secretary of the Club (T. J. Lewis).

THE OXFORD LETTER

OXFORD. April, 1960.

Dear Sir,

The Hilary Term at Oxford is the quietest of the three. First year men are busy with prelims., and the third year finals men wallow deeper in "anticipation blues". The peaceful scene is thus disturbed only by the voices of coaches and coxes drifting up from the river, and the clatter of traction engines as the "Oxford by-pass" goes into yet another year of construction. The highlight of the term was, of course, the new-style Torpids, which, despite a somewhat confused national Press, were well received at Oxford, and, apart from Division V, worked extremely well. This success was crowned at Mortlake by our second major sporting win of the year, but on this point we will not linger.

In spite of the term, and the surroundings, the O.P.s still refuse to be serene. B. W. H. Carter threw open his (somewhat dingy) 44