May 1963

OLD PETERITE NEWS A meeting of the General Committee of the Old Peterite Club was held at the School on the 2nd March. It was reported that the Head Master had agreed to offer accommodation for O.P.s (unaccompanied) in a junior school boarding house during Commemoration for a charge of 12/6 per night for bed and breakfast.

The Head Master reported that the School Development Fund Campaign, 1963, had been successfully launched and at the date of the meeting the sum of £46,000 had been raised and that the foundation stone of the first project to be financed by the campaign, viz., Dronfield House, would be laid by the Earl of Scarbrough on the 25th March.

The Hon. Secretary having ieported that C. C. Fairweather's term of office as a co-opted School Governor would expire in July the Committee decided to recommend to the A.G.M. that in future the Board of Governors should be asked to invite the Club's immediate past president as an ex-officio co-opted governor to represent the Club on the Board of Governors. In the event of the A.G.M. confirming the recommendation and the Board of Governors accepting it, Dr. Marcus Clegg, the immediate past president, was asked to represent the Club on the Board of Governors for one year accordingly.

A letter, dated 7th December, was submitted from Dickie Metcalfe stating that whilst he would be prepared to organise the next London dinner he would not be able to do so thereafter. The Committee received the news with regret, appreciative as it is of the devoted services rendered

by Dickie in organising the London dinner for so many years. As a tribute to him it is to be hoped that the attendance at the next London dinner will be a record high instead of a record low as unfortunately was the case last year. All London members please note!

Regional dinners for the remainder of the year will be held as follows: — N.E. Region-18th October, Three Tuns Hotel, Durham.

West Riding-31st October, Leeds Club, Leeds.

London—Friday, 15th November, Public Schools' Club, 100 Piccadilly.

We hope Old Peterites will note that the London dinner has been changed from a Wednesday to a Friday since this seems to be a more convenient day for a large number of Old Peterites.

Members living in the respective areas will be circularised with details of the various dinners from the appropriate Regional Hon. Secretary, and it is hoped that they will make a special effort to attend when they are assured of an enjoyable evening. If you do not receive a circular and are able to attend any of the regional dinners do please communicate with the Hon. Secretary concerned whose address appears below :— London—R. H. Metcalfe, St. James's Hospital, Balham, London, S.W.12.

West Riding—M. Hallas, Flat 2, Woodsome Hall, Fenay Bridge, Nr. Huddersfield.

North West—A. P. Buttrurn, Lyndale, Longhurst Lane, Mellor, Cheshire.

North East—Hugh Brown, 23 Highbury, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2.

York—P. Crowe, 95 Stockton Lane, York.

East Riding—P. S. Atkinson, Greystones, Garton, Driffield.

Birmingham—H. F. S. Gedge, 12 Lillington Avenue, Leamington Spa.