In the School swimming sports our second place was very pleasing. Queen's, for so many years fighting to keep out of the last couple of places, owe much to the captain A. G. Sheriff both as inspirator and individual winner and to D. C. Spencer whose swimming was a delight to watch and whom we look forward to following to higher levels. In the School Hockey 1st XI, M. G. B. Hepworth was capped and S. P. Coverdale, M. J. Jones and R. T. S. Young gained their colours. The production in the Memorial Hall of Alan Bennett's play, "Forty Years On", saw the House working together smoothly to provide splendid entertainment to a full house. For the second year running the talents of D. S. Oxley, Esq. and G. Hodgson combined to produce a memorable performance. Mid-way through the Summer Term, G. Hodgson left the House. His place as Head of the School was taken by M. G. B. Hepworth and as Head of House by E. R. Walker: S. P. Coverdale and R. T. S. Young were appointed House Monitors. On the sporting scene cricket was our most successful game. Under the captaincy of S. P. Coverdale and the watchful eye of Mr. Kirby and Mark Hepworth, the School Captain, we won the senior competition. The batting of these two was outstanding as was the bowling of Michael Jones throughout the term; all three were capped in the 1st XI and R. T. S. Young gained his 1st XI colours—Keith Cable captained the 2nd XI and was awarded colours with R. I. Shaftoe. In addition the house team won the Yeomans Cup for the fastest scoring rate and Mark Hepworth was awarded the fielding cup. The tennis team, captained by A. J. Maycock, gained a limited amount 1 of success as did the rowing, shooting and squash teams where we have a number of young and promising players. A summary of these events and many other articles is to be found in the House magazine, "Royal Purple", edited this year by S. P. Coverdale. Our individual endeavours were wide ranging : speech day prizewinners included, N. Barnes, M. G. B. Hepworth, E. R. Walker, S. P. 1 Coverdale, J. J. Beadle, R. D. Long and P. Green. Several members of the lower school acted with distinction in the drama, "Bartholomew Fair" by Jonson, and took part in the end of term concert—C. J. Smith and R. M. Spencer respectively may be mentioned in this connection. D. C. Spencer continued a fine swimming season and E. R. Walker won the Yorkshire Schoolboys 800 metres. We have many leavers, from the Monitorial Body, from "Room N" and from the fifth formers. I may only reiterate Mr. Kirby's words when he emphasised that our successful year could not have been achieved without their work: they leave Queen's with our thanks and our best wishes for the near and the distant future. Our achievements, such as they are, would not have been possible without the guidance and constant encouragement of our housemaster to whom we all owe a great deal. E.R.W. THE RISE EASTER TERM
This term the House welcomed two new additions, one to swell the
ranks of the juniors in the person of R. Hudson, and the other to the
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