At a preliminary meeting we were delighted to find 72 volunteers, and we limited their visits to one per week, while insisting on their regularity. As expected, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and Sundays were found to be the most suitable times. During the ten days we set by for collecting addresses, visits were arranged to the Handicraft Centre for the Blind and Handicapped, where we saw how extraordinarily industrious and skilful these people can be. Other boys collected books and records for Oxfam and helped in the bookshop. Twenty-two boys have now been visiting old or blind people. A further 14 will start the first week of the new term, and probably some 20 more a week later. Tasks have included such things as gardening, painting, cleaning, shopping or in some cases simply chatting. Perhaps the most enterprising so far has been redecorating a room. These visits last an hour or an hour and a half, but they are regular and we hope people will come to rely on them for any awkward tasks that arise during the week. These are the lines on which we have started, but we should like to know of any other situations where we might be of some use. On the boys' part, such occupations are completely voluntary and must not interefere with any School activity.
C.C.F. NOTES Two important training acquisitions during the term have been the former Torpedo Recovery Launch "Sten" from the Admiralty, and an "Enterprise" dinghy which we have bought locally. The former offers all sorts of possibilities and the latter will enable serious sailing to enter the programme. Canoe construction will start during the coming term. A new system of pre-entry training is now starting for younger boys to have a look at the C.C.F. before committing themselves, and actual entry to the Contingent will in future be for second year boys only. 1964 is the fiftieth anniversary of this Contingent; the Officers' Training Corps, as it used to be called, started at St. Peter's in 1914. As in several schools, a Cadet Company had been formed here in 1860, but had come to an end after a few years. The O.T.C. was one of the innovations in the Army reforms of 1907.
Main Events of the Term 22nd October: Field Day. The Royal Navy Section went up river in "Sten" and canoes for training. The Army Section had a platoon exercise in Ripon Parks. The Royal Air Force Section went partly to Dishforth and partly to Middleton St. George.
26th November: March Past. The Salute was taken by Group Captain R. L. Fuller, A.F.C., R.A.F., Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force, Linton-on-Ouse.
Army Camp Annual Camp will be at Warcop from 27th July to 4th August. 23
