Commemoration

On May 13th there was a joint performance with Queen Anne Grammar School of lepthe' by Carissimi and 'Der Jasager' by Weill; it took place at Queen Anne School. * * *

The Choir sang Evensong in York Minster on May 19th, and took part in the R.S.C.M. Festival in Ripon Cathedral on May 25th. * * *

June 5th, 6th and 7th became a Field Week-end, and on the last of these dates the General Inspection of the CCF was made by RearAdmiral J. E. Dyer-Smith, the Director General, Aircraft (Naval). * * *

Scenes from Ben Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair' were performed in Hall on June 15th and 16th. Extracts were repeated on June 28th before Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh when they made their visit to York on June 28th. Some of the School's fencers were also present at this splendid occasion on the Knavesmire. * * *

On July 4th there was a party for parents of Lower V1 th boys to meet the masters. * * *

Commemoration started on July 9th when there was a Concert in Hall. Speech Day was on the 10th, and the Commemoration Service on the 11th.

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Term ended on July 1 1 th. * * *

In the N.R.A. Meeting at Bisley from July 12th to 15th, the CCF Shooting Team did remarkably well, and we congratulate them on winning the Country Life Competition and coming third in the Ashburton. * * *

A. B. Stow, the Contingent Warrant Officer of the CCF was selected for the International Air Cadet Exchange scheme which is to foster international understanding, good will and fellowship among young men with an interest in aviation. He spent three weeks as the guest of the Israeli Government during the Summer holidays, and we congratulate him on being selected. * * *

The Work Cup was won for 1970-71 by Temple. * * *

Until further notice the second issue of The Peterite will be in May instead of February. * * *

COMMEMORATION, 1971

The Cricket Match against the Old Peterites started on Friday, July 9th, and the following day the Speeches and Presentation of Prizes were presided over by the Chairman of the Governors, the Very Revd. the Dean of York. The Prizes were presented by the Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Sir Gordon Sutherland, Sc.D., F.R.S. On Sunday, July 1 1 th, at the Commemoration Service in Chapel, the new Choir Stalls were dedicated in memory of K. H. Rhodes by The Rt. Revd. M. H. Harland, D.D., (O.P.).

SPEECHES AND PRESENTATION OF PRIZES

The ceremony began with the following Welcome to the Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by S. P. Coverdale. Salvete omnes, et Eboracum bene venite, primam Britanniae inferioris urbem, qua abhinc mine nongentos annos Quintus Petilius Cerealis Caesius Rufus, legatus Augusti pro praetore, vir praeclarissimus, castra sua munivit, auxilio Legionis Nonae Hispanae, eis saluti omnibus qui inter Parisios Brigantesque agros colebant. Quibus ex castris per regiones finitimas vi et armis irruperunt Romani eo duce; nam, ut Tacitus narravit, terrorem statim intulit, Brigantum civitatem, quae numerosissima provinciae totius perhibetur, adgressus; multa proelia, et aliquando non incruenta; magnamque Brigantum partem aut victoria amplexus est aut bello. Ita pax est instituta Romana, priusquam in Caledoniam progrederentur legionarii tam ferociter agentes ut totiens in futurum tantas Britanniae clades, incendia, artrocitates ultro retulerint Picti. Unum autem ipsis ex Pictis hodie hospitem salutamus, non vi Martiali praeditum, sed arte et scientia, non rudem ac barbatum, at humanissimum et doctissimum, Gordon Sutherland, equitem illustrissimum, Collegii Emmanuelis apud Universitatem Cantabrigiensem Magistrum, et Socium Regalis Societatis. Nec doctrinae tantum est peritus hospes noster, verum etiam pilae minimae pellendae, id quod in Caledonia adoratur ac nominatur golf, scapha navigandi, artis non ei ignotae qui rem publicam gubernat, de montibus supervolitandi glaciatis; quae studia superantur omnia testarum amore ac dilectu, quas ex Oriente mercatores transportaverint. His autem non totum se dedit; praeses quaestionis de numero discipulorum augendo, syndicus complures annos Typographei Cantabrigiensis, iure trium liberorum dignus, uxore dignissima beatus, quam quoque hodie salutamus et adesse maxime gaudemus, trans oceanum iter saepe facit ut colonias priores visitet. Quam laboriosa est vita eius!

Gratias tibi summas agimus, quod contionem nostram tua praesentia illustrare vis. 4

The Headmaster then gave his report as follows:—

For most of us in York, 1971 is a busy and varied year, as we celebrate the past 1900 years, attempt to meet the demands of the present day, and plan for the future. Before reporting on the present, I would like to mention the names of two men who served the School in the immediate past. First, may I say how overjoyed we were to read in the Queen's Birthday Honours of Mr. Dronfield's award of an O.B.E.

The second name is that of Mr. Hawkins, who retired from the School in February as Clerk of Works. If any one man has left his physical mark on the School; if any one man has kept the School standing over the last 26 years, that man is Mr. Hawkins. We thank him for his practical wisdom and his long devotion to the School, and wish him and his wife happiness in their retirement at Northallerton.

In reviewing the past year, I start with the academic scene.

This has not been a vintage year, with rather moderate "A" le results last year, but with excellent results a year ago at "0" level o VIth form is lively and talented.

Prospective parents often ask me what proportion of our VIth formers gain University places, but this is a misleading question. More to the point is what proportion of those who seek University entry actually

get places? For, to many, a University course, even though within their grasp, is irrelevant, with its theoretical bias, and a vocationally based course at a Polytechnic is far more to the point. The plight of jobless graduates, recently aired in the newspapers, suggests the wisdom of knowing precisely what one wants to get out of higher education. A vague yearning for a Utopian togetherness—the University life—may lead to catastrophic disappointment. It is sometimes difficult to align one's career hopes with the academic subjects one is good at and enjoys, but that's our aim in putting all our Vth formers, as we did for the first time this year, through the battery of aptitude tests and interests question-

naires devised by the Public Schools Appointments Bureau and Birkbeck

College, London. The exercise is designed to help with career choice and also, therefore, with "A" level and higher education choice. In many cases the results confirm decisions already made, in itself a com-

forting state of affairs, but from time to time they help to highlight an

unsuitable decision and to suggest alternative lines of approach.

This year the P.S.A.B. is expanding its services and, in the future, all parents will be able to pay an inclusive fee which will enable their

sons to use the full services of the Bureau until the age of 22 without further charge. These services will include the battery of tests and

questionnaires which will continue to be offered in the Vth form year. The information gained will form the basis of many discussions at the Vth form parents' meeting in March and on subsequent occasions.

We have a wide range of academic ability; some will waltz through

eight or nine "0" levels, others may end up with three or four "0" levels and a couple of C.S.E.'s. The important thing is that each boy should rise to the best of which he is capable—that's often more than he thinks—and it is amazing how, with encouragement from home and School, and with persistence, the moderately endowed emerge with academic qualifications and a foot through the door of their choice.

The Headmaster then passed to a review of the School's sporting activities, and continued:

We hope that there is variety in the sports for which boys can opt,

and that this recreation will make for a lifetime's pleasure.

For those not skilled at the traditional sports there still ought to be opportunities for recreation in the widest sense. I have not kept it

secret that the next building project that I should like to see is a new Sports Hall, bigger than our present gym, that Victorian edifice which we all affectionately malign. In a Sports Hall, many more resources

for training and recreation would be available, ranging from basketball

to mountaineering on a climbing wall. Such a building would be invalu-

able, especially in wet weather, and it would benefit St. Olave's as well

as St. Peter's.

In reviewing other sides of the School's life, the Headmaster said that some planning is desirable in our traditional Tuesday programme in relation to the C.C.F., the Scouts and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.

Of the Science Exhibition he said:

At the end of last term, virtually the whole School, and boys from St. Olave's took part in a mammoth Science Exhibition on the theme of the practical application of the Sciences. The enthusiasm and ingenuity of the exhibitors were overwhelming. Shouting their wares, explaining their gadgets or experiments, answering questions, they allowed the many visitors no peace. A historical dimension was added by a wittily scripted series of scenes on Science through the years in York. Particular exhibits which struck me were the Linear Motor which took four years to build and was completed in time for the exhibition—a remarkable device which moves without having any moving parts, a consummation that required the solution of a number of technical and electrical problems; and a superbly presented exhibit of camouflaged butterflies.

Moreover, it was heartwarming to see one of the German boys who spent the spring term with us explaining some experiments with crystals to one of the country's leading crystallographers, who happened to have opened the exhibition.

This was a great achievement by the Science staff and the 320 exhibitors.

Having mentioned concerts and plays in co-operation with Queen Anne Grammar School and the School's involvement in the Royal Visi! of June 28th, the Headmaster continued:

What I'm sure is obvious from all these activities is the School's involvement with other Schools and with the City. It is my hope that St. Peter's is not an aloof or insular community: I would like it to be a co-operative and hospitable community—not cut off from other communities but involved in worthwhile activities with others. Yet here I must make a distinction. We may tend, especially at the end of a School year, to feel shut in and self-absorbed and even slightly unreal, as though life outside were somehow realer. It is common for some members of the School to seek recreation anywhere as long as it's outside the School: all of us feel this centrifugal tendency. Yet we are, or should be, a well-defined community, with an inner life or culture of our own.

If pressed to define this inner life, I should base it on three big ideals —a common concern for all members of the School as individuals; the great • traditions of Christian thought and European literature, art and music, to which we all, willy-nilly, belong, and dedication to the search for truth. These ideals imply self-discipline and a readiness to go for unfashionable and untrendy things—indeed a certain withdrawal from the world of the street corner so as to define and study the best traditions. And that means not an everlasting desire to escape from the School into triviality outside, but an interest in our internal life plus a readiness to do worthwhile things with those outside the community. I'm trying to describe a School community that is well-defined with its own inner life, and yet positively involved with co-operative ventures outside.

That includes the parents. We wish to involve the parents, for Schools work best when parents and School are at one. St. Peter's is very much a neighbourhood School—most members of the School live within 100 miles of it, and many parents come to the School for plays and concerts and exhibitions and matches, to our Family Communion Services in Chapel, to parents' gatherings for discussion with the teaching staff, and 6

to our end-of-term festivities today. I hope that you will visit our new Studio, which we have now been using for a year, and see the exhibition of art, and go into Chapel to see the new Rhodes Memorial Choir Pews, the gift of Old Peterites, which Bishop Harland will dedicate tomorrow, and will feel that you too are members of the School. And that is the note on which I wish to end my report.

The prizes were then presented by Sir Gordon Sutherland, Sc.D., F.R.S., The Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. There follows a summary of his address.

Sir Gordon, who is Chairman of the University Committee for Student Numbers, at Cambridge, considered the two major questions of university expansion, and the nature of university courses.

Noting that the university population in Britain, at the present rate of expansion, is likely to double in the next ten years, The Master declared that although a big expansion will produce problems, it is nevertheless justifiable when the student population is considered in proportion to the national population. He gave the warning, however, that graduates must not necessarily expect to get to the top in their professions, nor even to find straight away a job within their chosen profession.

University courses, The Master considered, tended to be too academic and too specialised; Arts students should do some science and Scientists should do some Arts. He felt that university education was at present aimed too much at the top level academic with encouragement towards specialist research; it should be aimed at the middle, broader in concept and with less specialisation.

Congratulating those who had achieved distinction during the year, and particularly commending the evidence of team efforts, Sir Gordon said that he hoped that the well established connection between St. Peter's School and Emmanuel College would continue. D.G.C.

Appropriately Sir Gordon Sutherland was then thanked by G. Hodgson, who was Head of School during most of the year, and is about to enter Emmanuel College. Hodgson drew attention to the value of Sir Gordon's remarks to those starting or contemplating university courses.

OPEN AWARDS J. C. W. Williams Hastings Exhibition in Classics at The Queen's College, Oxford.

The following won places at Oxford and Cambridge :— A. P. R. Dean S. Foster J. D. Harrison G. Hodgson

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Of the 60 members of last year's Upper VI and Middle VI, 22 gained University places (Arts 5, Maths & Science 17). 17 went into further education as follows:—

Colleges of Technology/Polytechnics

Colleges of Agriculture

Colleges of Art ...

Colleges of Education 1 went to Sandhurst.

14 went into commerce, business or business training. 6 took "A" levels again.

PRIZE LIST

NORMAN CROMBIE MEMORIAL PRIZE

K. H. RHODES PRIZE

STEPHENSON PRIZE FOR GREEK ...

P. E. LORD PRIZE FOR CLASSICS ...

WHYTEHEAD MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR DIVINITY ... THE DRONFIELD PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS THE HEAD MASTER'S PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS DEAN OF YORK'S PRIZES FOR LATIN :

Senior Junior

THE B.M.A. PRIZE FOR SCIENCE ...

TOYNE EUROPEAN HISTORY PRIZE

SIR LUMLEY DODSWORTH ESSAY PRIZE ... THE OLD PETERITE CLUB READING PRIZES:

Vlth Form ... Below VIth

YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S PRIZE THE JACK BRITTAIN MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR

MIDDLE SCHOOL ESSAY:

IVth Forms ... Thirds •••

THE ARTHUR CRAVEN MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR

SPOKEN FRENCH:

Senior Middle School

ATKINSON PRIZE FOR RUSSIAN MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZES:

French German

PHYSICS ESSAY PRIZE CHEMISTRY PRIZE BIOLOGY PRIZE MUSIC PRIZES :

Keyboard Instrumental G. Hodgson M. G. B. Hepwo S. A. Atkinson J. C. W. Willi C. M. S. Walker B. J. T. Asfour S. Foster

J. J. Les S. P. Coverdale R. A. Copeman A. D. A. Smith J. R. Drummond R. F. Hornby

R. J. Carson R. D. Long C. J. Clark

... J. J. Beadle ... M. P. Black

G. Hodgson C. E. S. Monro C. J. Atkinson

P. L. Hall J. A. Mitchell N. Barnes D. W. Grice D. M. Schofield

... E. R. Walker (P. H. Rivers ••• /J. A. G. Craven