Old Peterite News

A meeting of the General Committee of the O.P. Club was held at the School on 16th December.

It was reported that the amount covenanted or subscribed in response to the Memorial Hall appeal was now £13,200 and that a further £600 was still required to clear the cost of the Hall.

In the hope of obtaining new members a list of Old Peterites attending the School since 1920, who had not joined the Club, was to be compiled but, as the present whereabouts of many of them would be unknown, it was decided that the list of such should be published in "The Peterite" when compiled, with a request for assistance in tracing. Members of the Committee were also requested to canvass any O.P. non-member known to them to join the Club.

Reports of District Committees were received.

Commemoration, 1962 : — (a) It was reported that Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery had kindly consented to present the prizes next Speech Day and would attend the C.C.F. Pageant to be performed the previous evening. (b) It was decided that the annual golf competition should revert to the Sunday afternoon of Commemoration. Perhaps the golfers will kindly note. The venue will be announced in the next issue of "The Peterite".

The N.W. Regional Dinner will be held at the New Millgate Hotel, Manchester, on Friday evening, 9th March. The organiser is the District Hon. Secretary, A. P. Buttrum, "Lyndale", Marple Bridge, Nr. Stockport.

The East Riding Dinner will be held on 25th May at the Highfield Country Club, Driffield.

The next meeting of the General Committee will be held at the School on Saturday, 3rd March, and if any member has any item for the agenda the Hon. Secretary, whose address is "Chebula", Clifton Road, Runcorn, will be pleased to receive it before the meeting.

THE LONDON DINNER

The London Dinner was held at Brown's Hotel on Wednesday, 8th November, 1961. The President of the Club, Mr. J. A. Hanson, took the Chair

The following were present :— The President. The Head Master. P. T. Baker. R. Baxter. J. P. Camm. M. T. Clegg. W. H. Colley. A. A. Collins. M. Collins. D. Donaldson. J. D. Eccles. P. Garbett. J. B. Gedge. B. A. C. Gray. D. St.G. W. Gray. C. B. M. Gregory. J. D. Horsley. M. F. Hudson. C. H. Lewis. T. J. Lewis. R. H. Metcalfe. C. A. Neale. M. Pick. E. M. Reed. K. H. Rhodes. J. Scholefield. C. W. H. Sergeant. J. H. Sergeant. G. C. Smith. W. A. Stratton. W. G. Yeoman. The Head of the School (P. Collins).

THE NORTH EASTERN DINNER

The North Eastern Dinner was held at The Three Tuns Hotel, Durham, On Friday, 20th October, 1961. The President of the Club, Mr. J. A. Hanson, took the Chair.

The following were present:— The President. The Head Master. W. Amos. J. T. Brockbank. H. Brown. R. T. Clark. R. M. Deas. C. S. Elston. J. Etherington. C. Frank. G. D. Gardner. W. Graham. J. T. Harding. W. G. Huntley. J. F. N. Jackson. H. Johnston. M. J. McCallum. G. R. March. F. W. B. Pacey. J. B. Pickersgill. R. Priestley. E. D. Ratter. D. R. Reavley. K. H. Rhodes. C. G. Robb. J. N. Roe. D. T. Rumfitt. J. I. Sleight. W. B. Strike. P. J. Taylor.

WEST RIDING DINNER

The West Riding Dinner was held at the Leeds Club on Thursday, 2nd November, 1961.

The following were present :— J. Ambler. J. E. B. Annequin. D. S. Atkinson. J. N. Bamforth. S. H. Beetham. W. J. Bottomley. J. Burdon. R. T. Burdon. T. H. Burdon. W. A. Dykes. J. L. Fenton. R. A. Field. W. T. J. Forsythe. J. Gillgrass. M. Hallas. A. M. Robson. J. A. Hanson. T. Smart. E. T. Hillyard. G. D. Smith. Rev. J. C. Houghton. P. Smith. J. A. Hunter. J. M. Smithson. 0. Hunter. M. I. H. Sproulle. P. S. Lumby. D. A. Stabler. Rev. N. G. L. R. M. G. Staveley. McDermid. C. W. Thompson. G. Mann. D. C. Thompson. G. D. Parkin. J. D. Ward. F. N. Parkin. D. S. Yeadon. K. H. Rhodes. J. Dronfield P. F. Ringrose. (The Head Master).

The toast of "The School" was proposed by the Rev. Norman McDermid. The Head Master, Mr. J. Dronfield, replied. The Chair was taken by Mr. T. H. Burdon, while the President of the Old Peterite Club, Mr. J. A. Hanson, honoured the Dinner with his presence.

ENGAGEMENTS CRAVEN—WEBB. Barrie Craven, 29 South Parade, Northallerton, and

Linda, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Webb, 19 Ridley House,

Regency Street, Westminster, London, S.W.1. (The Manor, 1953-57.)

HILL—BISHOP. S. K. D. Hill, 27 Broadhurst Gardens, Swiss Cottage,

N.W.6, and Valerie, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, 14 Tostig

Avenue, Carr Lane, Acomb, York. (The Manor, 1956-59.) 40

MARRIAGES BURN—FUNNELL. On 16th September, 1961, at St. Nicholas Parish

Church, King's Norton, Birmingham, Paul Henry Charles Burn,

Acomb, York, to Janet Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Funnel,

King's Norton, Birmingham. (1947-56.)

BIRTHS HARNBY.—On 15th September, 1961, at Barnet, Herts., to Moira, wife of

Bryan Harnby, a son (Guy Robert). (Temple, 1939-44.) KERSHAW.—On 7th September, 1961, to Judith, wife of M. E. Kershaw, a son (Timothy Anthony Charles). (Temple, 1944-51.) OLDROYD.—On 14th November, 1961, to Susan, wife of James Oldroyd, twin sons. (The Rise, 1948-53.)

NEWS OF OLD PETERITES G. W. A. R. ALDERSON (School House, 1955-61) is playing squash for

Northumberland and was also selected for a County Hockey Trial. J. D. BREWIN (The Manor, 1953-57) is working for Cable and Wireless,

Ltd., in Ceylon, where he moved from Aden just over a year ago.

He would welcome correspondence from his contemporaries. R. E. S. FARRAR (The Rise, 1945-50) worked until July, 1959, as a Civil

Engineer with Balfour Beatty and Co. Ltd. on their Nuclear Power

Station contract at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, after which he was sent to a contract in West Pakistan for two years. Here, on 5th May, 1961, he married Colleen Mary Ortiger, of Braganza Villa, Lytton Road,

Quetta. He and his wife arrived back in England in July and he is now working in Westminster for a firm of Consulting Civil Engineers. W. GIBSON (The Manor, 1949-57) is now a Lieutenant in the Royal

Engineers in Berlin. He rowed for the Engineers at Henley in 1960 and is skiing for the Corps team at St. Moritz this season. J. R. JENKINSON (The Manor, 1950-55), having finished at Oxford, is now at Bristol University doing a Diploma in Education. J. G. H. O'DONNELL (The Manor, 1946-50) is now a Lieutenant in the

Royal Navy, having served from 1951 to 1955 on the lower deck, including three years in H.M.S. Vanguard. After being commissioned, he served in the Pacific in H.M.S. Warrior during the first British

Megaton Trials, when he designed the First Day Cover Envelope for the first British Megaton Explosion. He did a grand tour of South

America in Warrior on the way home. He has just finished two and a half years on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, during which he lived in Malta, and is now Deputy Supply Officer in

H.M.S. Hartland Point in the Far East, where he expects to remain for at least 18 months and will be delighted to meet any O.P.s. He married in 1957 and has two children.