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Old Peterite News
from May 1965
by StPetersYork
Colts VI v. Clifton L.T.C. at home on 23rd February. N. G. A. Morris beat G. D. Craine Esq., 6-9, 9-7, 6-9, 9-7, 9-5. J. C. Richardson lost to D. M. Snowden Esq., 5-9, 6-9, 9-7, 9.-5, 3-9. W. J. Roebuck beat A. Woodburn Esq., 9-1, 5-9, 9-4, 9-0. D. R. Waller lost to K. Nicholson Esq., 10-9, 9-3, 5-9, 4-9, 9-10. J. G. Hoad beat R. Palmer Esq., 2-9, 10-8, 9-5, 8-10, 9-4. M. J. H. Fisher lost to J. C. Christie Esq., 9-10, 2-9, 9-7, 5-9. Result : —Drawn 3-3.
Colts V v. Worksop College away on 21st March. N. G. A. Morris lost to J. R. D. Harvey, 9-2, 6-9, 8-10, 5-9. J. C. Richardson beat C. A. R. Baldock, 9-0, 9-3, 10-8. W. J. Roebuck beat L. 0. Taylor, 9-3, 9-0, 9-7. D. R. Waller beat T. C. Taylor, 9-1, 9-3, 10-9. J. G. Hoad beat D. W. L. Anderson, 9-0, 9-0, 9-3. Result : —Won 4-1.
The Inter-House competition was easily won by the Grove; in the final they defeated the Rise 5-0.
FENCING
The Easter Term this year was somewhat quieter than at first expected. This was mainly due to the fact that several first-team members were called upon to represent the School in other spheres. This did not prevent us from completing an undefeated term in our School matches.
On the 23rd January, the first Saturday of term, R. W. Oliver and C. A. Wood represented the School in the British Under Twenties Fencing Competition in London. C. A. Wood was unfortunate to be knocked out of the First Round on a Count of hits. R. W. Oliver was knocked out in the Second Round.
On 30th January, we sent a team to Welbeck College and recorded an easy win. The second School Match of the term was against Scarborough College on 10th February. An 'A' team was sent to Scarborough and we recorded another victory in this, our first fixture with Scarborough. Our third match of the term was against Richmond School, on Sunday, 14th February at Richmond. This was again a first fixture and the School won confidently. The last match of the term was against our old rivals, Stonyhurst College, at home. Although proving our toughest resistance of the term and fighting bravely, Stonyhurst were beaten.
During the term, P. M. Darley was re-awarded his School Colours and J. A. S. Benn was awarded his.
The Inter-House Fencing Matches were fought this term, the final was between Temple and Queen's; Temple won by 6 bouts to 5.
During the Easter Holidays, a large team of seventeen boys went down to London for the Public School's Fencing Championships. In the Junior Foil C. A. Wood and J. A. S. Benn were placed 4th and 5th respectively out of 164 competitors. Other creditable efforts were J. Pawson's achieve- 38
ment in reaching the semi-finals of the Senior Foil in his first year as a Senior Fencer. R. W. Oliver reached the Quarter-Finals of the Epée and P. M. Darley the Quarter-Final of the Sabre. And the School team was runner-up to Brentwood in the Pearson Cup.
At Commemoration, it is proposed to have an Old Peterite Fencing Match. Would any Old Peterites wishing to Fence, please contact P. A. Morris Esq. (0.P.). c/o Atha & Co., King's Square, York. Tel. York 55724?
R.W.O.
OXFORD CUP, 1964-65
(Holders: THE GaovE)
The following table gives the points gained up to date:— Points School Awarded Dronfield Grove Manor Queens Rise House Temple Senior Rugger... ... zo 20 - - - - - — Junior Rugger ... I0 I0 - - - - - —
Senior Cricket
• •• 20 - - - - - - — Junior Cricket • • • to — — — — — — — Rowing (551 Div.) • • • zo — — — — — — —
Rowing (2nd Div.) ... to — — — — — — — Athletics, 1st ... • • • 20 20 - -- - — Athletics, 2nd ... ... to — — — to — — — Cross-Country, 1st •• • to — to — — — — — Cross-Country, 2nd 5 5 — — — — — — Swimming, 1st • • • to — — — — — — — Swimming, znd ... 5 — — — — — — — Squash ... • •• to — to — — — — — Tennis ... • • • to — — — — — — — Shooting (Team) ... 5 — — — — — — — Fencing ... ... 5 — — — — — — 5 Junior Long Run, 1st 5 — 5 — — — — — Junior Long Run, znd 2 - - - 2 - - -
55 25 0 12 0 0 5
TENNIS FIXTURES, 1965
Sat., 8 May 1st VI Bede College ... ... •• • Home Wed., 12 May 1st VI Archbishop Holgate's-4-45 P.m• • • • Home Sat., Is May 1st VI Worksop College . ... Away Wed., 26 May 1st VI Scarborough College... Home Sat., 29 May 1st VI Bootham School ... ... Away Wed., 9 June 2nd VI Bootham School ... Home Wed., 16 June 1st VI Easingwold School ... ... Away Sat., 26 June 1st VI Ampleforth College znd VI Away Wed., 3o June 1st VI Archbishop Holgate's 4-45 P.m- ... Away Sat., 3rd July 1st VI Ashville College ... ... ... ... Home Sat., t7 July to-o a.m. Boys Schools' L.T.A. Tournament at Roundhay School Leeds Mon., 19 July Under XVI Bootham School Away IV Under XV Bootham School Home IV
RUGBY FIXTURES, 1965
CHRISTMAS TERM 1st XV
Saturday 2nd Oct. Headingley R.U.F.C. Colts.... ... Home Wednesday 6th Oct. Headingley Wanderers XV ... • • • Home Saturday 9th Oct. Harrogate R.U.F.C. Colts ... ... Home Wednesday 13th Oct. Durham School ... ... Away Saturday 16th Oct. Bradford G.S. ... ... Away Wednesday loth Oct. Trent College... • • • Home Saturday 23rd Oct. Denstone College ... ... Away Saturday 6th Nov. Leeds G.S. ... ... ... Home Saturday 13th Nov. Giggleswick School ... ... Away Saturday 2oth Nov. Ampleforth College ... ... Home Wednesday 8th Dec. Worksop College ... ... Home Saturday 11th Dec. Old Peterites ... • • • Home
znd XV
Wednesday 13th Oct. Durham School Saturday 16th Oct. Bradford G.S. Saturday 23rd Oct. Giggleswick School Saturday 6th Nov. Leeds G.S. ... Saturday loth Nov. Ampleforth College Wednesday 8th Dec. Worksop College • • • Home • • • Away • • • Home • • • Home ... Away • • • Home
3rd XV Wednesday 13th Oct. Durham School ... • • • Home Saturday 23rd Oct. Archbishop Holgates' G.S. • • • Home Wednesday 3rd Nov. Worksop College ... • • • Home Saturday 13th Nov. Giggleswick School ... • • . Away Wednesday r7th Nov. Barnard Castle School • • • Away Saturday loth Nov. Ampleforth College ... • .• Away
Under 16 Colts XV
Saturday 9th Oct. Pocklington School Saturday 16th Oct. Barnard Castle School Wednesday loth Oct. Trent College... ... Saturday 23rd Oct. Giggleswick School ... Wednesday 3rd Nov. Durham School ... Saturday 13th Nov. Ashville College ... Wednesday 17th Nov. Ampleforth College ... Wednesday 24th Nov. Worksop College ... • • • Away • • • Home • • • Home • • • Home • • • Away ... Home Home Away
Under 15 Colts XV
Saturday 9th Oct. Pocklington School Saturday 16th Oct. Barnard Castle School Saturday 23rd Oct. Scarborough College
• • • Away • • • Home • • • Away Wednesday 3rd Nov. Durham School ... • • • Away Wednesday loth Nov. Archbishop Holgate's G.S. • • • Home Saturday 13th Nov. Ashville College ... • • • Home Wednesday 17th Nov. Ampleforth College ... • • • Home Wednesday 24th Nov. Worksop College ... • • • Away
Under 14 Colts XV
Saturday 23rd Oct. Scarborough College Wednesday 3rd Nov. Worksop College . Wednesday loth Nov. Archbishop Holgate's G.S. Wednesday r7th Nov. Barnard Castle School Saturday 4th Dec. Pocklington School
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Away Home Home Away Home
SENIOR
JUNIOR 1st Round Wednesday 27th October. Semi-finals Saturday 27th November. Final Saturday 4th December.
rst Round Monday 8th November. Semi-finals Friday 19th November. Final Wednesday 1st December.
O.P. Rugger Match
Anyone wishing to play in this match is asked to write to C. W. Thompson, The Flat, Meed House, North Road, Retford, Notts.
OLD PETERITE NEWS
A meeting of the General Committee of the Old Peterite Club was held at the School on the 27th February.
The Secretary informed the Committee that P. J. Middlebrook had agreed to take over the position of Golf Secretary.
Because of the expense, which the Club had had to meet after last year's Annual Dinner, it was resolved that the School should add one shilling to the cost of each ticket and that the Club should pay the rest of the expenses. It was also resolved that the menu cards should be printed at the School.
The Sports Committee made several recommendations to the meeting; the main object of the recommendations was to get more O.P.s, especially younger ones, interested in taking part in the various sports against the School. It was felt that the organisers of each sport should be elected at the Annual General Meeting for a period of three years and that he could only be re-elected once.
It was resolved that the next meeting of the General Committee should be held on Saturday, 11th December, 1965.
COMMEMORATION, 1965
Old Peterites are reminded that the 1965 School Commemoration will be held on the 23rd, 24th and 25th July, and Old Peterites are urged to support it.
The Head Master has again kindly agreed that a limited number of unaccompanied O.P.s (in order of application) can be accommodated in the Junior School, charge 12s. 6d. per night for bed and breakfast.
The official programme is circulated with this issue of The Peterite'. Please complete the pro forma and return it to the Head Master's secretary without delay.
Unfortunately the Dinner Dance, which has been run for some years by the Masonic Lodge on the Friday evening of Commemoration, has received such little support that it is not being held this year.
Organisers for the O.P. teams for the sporting events, with whom members wishing to take part are asked to communicate as soon as possible, are as follows:— Boat Races—K. H. Rhodes, St. Peter's School, York. Cricket—K. M. Ratcliff, The Thatch, South Willingham, Lincoln. Fencing—P. A. Morris, 9 Pulleyn Drive, Tadcaster Road, York. Golf—P. J. Middlebrook, "Highfield", Brayton, Selby. Tennis—C. H. Lewis, 15 Longfield Avenue, Mill Hill, London N.W.7.
Old Peterites are reminded that the President of the Club will, as is customary at Commemoration, lay a wreath on the Memorial Shrine in the Ante-Chapel at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, 24th July, and it hoped that O.P.s attending Commemoration will accompany him. 42
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NORTH WEST DINNER
The North West Regional Dinner of the Old Peterite Club was held at the Grand Hotel, Manchester, on Friday, 12th March, 1965. Mr. J. A. Hanson (Immediate Past President of the Club) was in the chair. The Rev. J. C. Houghton proposed the toast to the School to which the Head Master replied. The toast to the Old Peterite Club was proposed by J. H. Moss and the President of the Club, Mr. T. J. Lewis, replied.
Present : —The Head Master, The President of the Club (T. J. Lewis), J. H. Hanson (Immediate Past President), W. D. Blackburn, A. T. Booth, A. P. Buttrum, N. W. M. Carr, R. S. Coates, G. R. Cormack, I. S. T. Dutton, I. R. Fairweather, G. E. L. Graham, Rev. J. C. Houghton, A. B. Maclldowie, S. M. Maclldowie, J. H. Moss, D. Norwood, R. R. Rainford, T. C Rainford, K. H. Rhodes and R. A. Stratton.
The London Old Peterite Dinner will be held at the Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street, on the evening of Friday, 12th November, 1965 at 7 30 p.m. for 8 00 p.m.
NEWS OF OLD PETERITES
A. M. HEADLAM (Temple, 1957-62), selected for the principal Exchange
Assistantship between Edinburgh and Nice, is teaching at the `Lycee du
Parc Imperial' and studying at the 'College de Lettres et de Sciences
Humaines de Nice'. He returns to Edinburgh University in October to present a thesis before going on to complete a Senior Honours Year in French Language and Literature. J. M. HOLT, M.Sc., M.D., M.R.C.P. (School House, 1948-53), is a member of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He and his wife, Sheila, now have three children : Jane,
Sally and Timothy; and live in the small village of Hampton Doyle, just to the north of Oxford. Old friends would be most welcome. T. D. J. LAYFIELD (Grove, 1953-59), who came down from Emmanuel
College in 1963, was recently appointed Appointments Officer in the
Personnel Department of the Steel Company of Wales. After obtaining an honours degree in Classics, he is still pursuing a Personnel Management Course. He is responsible for assisting Management in the
Selection of Monthly and Supervisory Staff. He would be very glad to hear news and names of 0.P.s in the
South Wales Area.
SIR JOHN RODGERS, Bart, M.P. for Sevenoaks since 1950 and a former
Minister at the Board of Trade, has been appointed to the Council of the new University of Kent, at Canterbury. After Oxford, Sir John started his career as a Lecturer at Hull
University. He is a Founder Governor of the Administrative Staff
College, a Member of the Executive of the Foundation for Management
Education, on the Council of the British Institute of Management and a member of the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries. E. M. REED (Grove, 1913-20)), was unfortunately omitted from the list of those present at the 1964 Commemoration O.P. Dinner. CHRISTOPHER 'SANDERSON (Temple, 1947-55), who teaches at the
Leeds College of Art, has besn awarded a Peter Styvesant Foundation
Bursary and a return to New York for his work in a recent sculpture exhibition at the White Chapel Art Gallery.
The following is reprinted from the February `Olavite' for the interest of Old Peterites : — "At the beginning of the term we were all extremely sad to have to bow to Mr. Chilman's wish to sever his long-standing connection with the Scout Troop. This step had been in his mind 'for the last year or two, but gentle persuasion had prevailed on him more than once to hang on a bit longer. This time, however, he was quite adamant, and after 33 years' service with the Group as its Scout Master, we most regretfully accepted his resignation. "It was in 1931 that Mr. Chilman founded the St. Peter's School Group in the Junior School at the request of Mr. S. M. Toyne, Head Master of the School at that time. The Group continued to bear this title until 1958. In the meantime Scouting had spread to the Senior School in 1942, and after 16 years of continuous existence, was quite obviously well established there. So much so that it was decided to split the Group in two, the Scouts and Cub Pack in St. Olave's, adopting the name of their founder for their title—the Chilman Group. This in itself was a rare, if not unique, compliment to Mr. Chilman, for few, if any, Groups in the country have been permitted to adopt the name of a living person for their title. Such was our regard for "Chilly," then, even greater is it today. "In 1954 he was awarded the Scout Medal of Merit in recognition of his outstanding services to Scouting. Fellow 'Scouters and Scouts cannot fail to appreciate his constant willingness to turn his hand to any task that required doing, however unpleasant or arduous it might be. For his example in this respect, and for his earnest desire to further the interests of Scouting always and everywhere we are most grateful.
ADDRESSES
MAJOR A. A. CAMFIELD, R.A.O.C., 44 Gitlin Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. (Tel. Bushey Heath 2625). P. A. FENTON. Tout/ways', Southgate, Hutton Cranswick, Driffield.
East Yorkshire. T. D. J. LAYFIELD, `Roseberry Topping', Brynan Drive, Ridgewood
Park, Mayals, Swansea. E. M. REED, Toby Cottage, Westward Lane, West Chiltington, Sussex. 44
T. E. H. SMART, c/o The British Consul, P.O. Box 1253, Khartoum. N. W. M. CARR, 16 Ronald Drive, Fearnhead, Warrington, Lancs. REV. M. J. BADDELEY, 23 Drury Lane, Lincoln. P. L. BARDGETT, B.V.Sc., M.R.C.V.S., Garston Farm Cottage, Frome,
Somerset.
MAJOR R. G. EMMETT, H.Q., M.E.R., R.A.O.C., Feltham, Middlesex. D. B. H. FRENCH, 32 Gledhow Wood Grove, Leeds, 8. G. P. BURDEN, D.E.S., R.C.A., Apt.4, 1740 C. Street, Lincoln, Nebraska (68502), U.S.A. R. I. COLLINSON, 32 Nether Way, Nether Poppleton, York. (Tel.
Upper Poppleton 710). D. W. KNOWLSON, The Grange, Sutton-on-Forest, York. B. K. SMITH, 19 Ambrose Lane, Harpenden, Herts. (Tel. Harpenden 5285). G. D. LAMBERT, The Winnats, 16 Cornhill, Allestree, Derby. (Tel.
Derby 57749). R. F. COATES, 4 Ferndale Park, Pedmore, Stourbridge, Worcs. (Tel.
Hagley 2761).
C. M. BAINTON, 146 Hermitage Woods Crescent, St. John's, Woking,
Surrey. J. H. BAINES, 57 Ennismore Gardens, London, S.W.7.
W. W. B. MARSLAND, 10a High Street, Horncastle, Lincs. H. F. S. GEDGE, The United Steel Companies Ltd., Midland Office,
Union Chambers, Temple Row, Birmingham, 2.
After 30.6.65: 39 Daniell's Walk, Lymington, Hants.
P. G. BRINDLE, 15 Middlewood Close, Rufforth, York. (Tel. Rufforth 388). P. H. 0. RUDDOCK, 3 Sycamore Place, Bootham, York. R. A. FIELD, Norlands', Weydale Avenue, Scarborough, Yorkshire. (Tel.
Scarborough 1606). J. T. HARDING, 13 The Riding, Kenton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 3. REV. P. N. A. MORETON, St. Giles Vicarage, Shelley Drive, Lincoln. (Tel. 27655).
ENGAGEMENT
HODD—MARTIN. David K. Hodd, of 7 Warrington Crescent, London,
W.9, and Maureen Kaye Martin, of 79 Warwick Avenue, London, W.9. (The Grove 1951-55).
FENTON—HARTLEY (School House, 1950-58). Peter Anthony Fenton, of Hornsea, East Yorks., was married to Ruth Evelyn Hartley, of
Doncaster, at St. Wilfred's Church, Old Cantley, on 10th October, 1964. PHILLIPS—CRABTREE (School House, 1903-08). At Langholm Old
Parish Church, on 16th February, 1965, by the Rev. Tom Calvert, Col.
Alan Andrew Phillips, C.I.E., V.D., of Kilncleuch, Langholm, to Peggie, only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bell, of Hexham.
DEATHS
M. C. M. LOCHORE (Rise 1947-52) was killed in a motor-car accident in
Sussex on the 22nd January, 1965. Dr. A. H. TURNER (1897-01). MARTIN PICK (1902-08), brother of Frank Pick, died in January, leaving the School £100.
The Editor, "The Peterite."
CORRESPONDENCE
The White Nile Secondary School, El Dueim, 7th March, 1965.
Dear Sir,
My purpose in writing is, I admit from the start, propagandist. I would like to draw the attention of Peterites to the organisation known as Voluntary Service Overseas, to explain a little of what it tries to do, and to describe, from my own experience, what it is like to be a volunteer in an underdeveloped country.
Voluntary Service Overseas (or V.S.O. for short) is an independent organisation which recruits young people who are willing to spend one or two years in an underdeveloped country teaching, administering, or doing social work of some kind. At present there are nearly seven hundred volunteers serving in fifty-six different countries, but there are plans to increase this number to well over a thousand next year. Volunteers fall into two groups : the graduate and qualified volunteers, and the nongraduates, or cadets. The greatest demand is, of course, for graduate or trained volunteers, but there are plenty of opportunities for school leavers as well. The school leaver who does a year overseas prior to going up to University profits enormously in terms of knowledge and experience, and enters University as a much more mature person than he would otherwise have done. The graduate, on the other hand, is frankly more useful to an overseas government, as he brings with him the fruits of three or four years specialised training. He, too, greatly benefits from the experience of working and living in often very trying conditions, and in his case the year abroad is a useful bridge between University and his first job. 46
The volunteers can be seen, I suppose, as items of British overseas aid, and to make this aid more useful they are not paid—they work for nothing and enjoy doing so. In all cases the governments of underdeveloped countries cannot really afford the costly business of employing hosts of highly paid expatriates and are naturally very pleased to receive V.S.Os. Unlike American Peace Corps volunteers we work singly and not in pairs, a system which certainly tests the self-sufficiency of the individual to the
full.
Before describing some of my own experiences as a serving volunteer it
may be useful to explain why I volunteered at all. There is no simple explanation for this, but basically I think it was a question of wanting to put some of that fabled University idealism into practice. The sight of University friends, one time campaigners for universal peace and plenty, happily marshalling themselves at the University Appointments Board for the start of the rat-race, encouraged me to look round for a cause or a scheme involving service rather than self-interest, adventure rather than routine, and which would enable me to see something of the world beyond the narrow confines of Europe. V.S.O. provided me with what I was looking for, and within a month of graduation I was on my way to the Sudan to teach English in a government boarding school.
My posting to the Sudan came as rather a shock (I had vaguely im-
agined myself teaching garlanded children in some South Sea island para-
dise), and I was appalled by the climatic data which I found in the front
of my atlas. Nevertheless, on August twenty-third last year I touched down at Khartoum Airport. The "Rains" were then at their peak and the atmosphere in Khartoum was rather like that produced in a confined changing room after two rugger teams have washed off a ninety-minute encrustation of mud and sweat—humid to say the least. I found Khartoum to be rather confusing as it is not one town but three. First there is Khartoum itself, the Europeanised political capital, then Omdurman, the old native capital founded by the Mandi, and lastly Khartoum North, the
commercial centre. These are collectively known as "The Three Towns"
and are linked by girded bridges, as Khartoum stands at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles.
To join the White Nile the smaller stream swings north in a huge bend, and from the Nile Avenue in Khartoum you can look across an enormous sheet of sparkling water and see Omdurman in the distance, with its mosques, and the palm trees on the river bank, standing out sharply against a brilliantly blue sky. Even on the hottest days, and the summer temper-
atures in Khartoum frequently exceed a hundred degrees, the sky preserves
this appearance of swept, cool blueness, whilst at night, due to the clearness of the air and the flatness of the landscape, you can look up and see an enormous, dark-velevty sky, powdered with twinkling points of light and often softly illuminated by a brilliant moon.
After a few days in Khartoum I embarked on my journey south to find my school. The journey was transformed into a minor epic by the fact that because of the Rains the roads south had long since been washed out
or become incorporated in rivers. I started the journey by train, but by the
end of it had travelled by lorry, paddle-steamer, army truck and native boat, and had made many close friends, been shown round a telephone exchange and attended a football match.
On arrival at my school, which stood a few miles from the little riverside town of El Dueim, I was immediately warned to beware of snakes and scorpions, and advised to buy a net as protection against the mosquitos— for which the area was famous. I needed little encouragement to do the latter as all the mosquitos in the area seemed to have been advised by telegram of the arrival of fresh meat from Khartoum. My house, which resembled a five-roomed garage (with kitchen, but without electricity!), was already occupied by scorpions, which lurked in dark corners and under pieces of old newspaper. I was sufficiently inhospitable to slaughter these guests with daemonic fury.
I soon discovered that I was the only European on the staff, that I
would be teaching twenty-two periods a week to classes of forty, and that all the boys in my own class were called either Ahmed or Mohamed, and of course all looked identical. Two months then passed during which time I got properly acclimatized and developed a great partiality for Egyptian beans, mangoes and sweet potatoes. In October there was a revolution and
as a result the school was closed. During this unexpected holiday I managed to visit Northern Ethiopia and travelled down through the beautiful,
green, and terraced Ethiopian Highlands to the port of Massawa on the Red Sea, where the Emperor has a shimmering, white-domed summer palace.
The Sudanese winter was a thoroughly disappointing affair which, had it been an English summer, would have sent us all gleefully flocking to the beaches. In January the Muslim fast of Ramadan started, and I was then faced with the problem of keeping the boys awake and interested in the niceties of the Passive Voice—a hard job at the best of times! During Ramadan no food or drink is taken between sunrise and sunset, all the misplaced meals being eaten at night, a time-table which makes inevitable inroads on human efficiency.
No sooner was Ramadan over than we started working hard for the end
of term exams, which are on now. March may seem rather early to break up for the summer vacation, but the climate here makes effective academic work in the summer months almost impossible, and the school does not re-open until July, four months hence from the time of writing. During this long holiday I shall be teaching in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, where the schools keep different terms.
The local conditions under which V.S.O.'s work vary enormously, and
every V.S.O. meets special problems and has different experiences, so that
it is impossible to generalise over what to expect. Nevertheless, one thing is certain, namely that the satisfaction gained from serving abroad is enor-
mous, and as a job of work it is self-justifying. I should therefore like to draw the attention of Peterites to V.S.O. and to suggest that the idea of serving for a year abroad, either before or after University, is worthy of
serious consideration.
Yours sincerely,
Timothy E. H. Smart.
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