Since Mr. Ping's retirement in 1955 Mr. Nix has held the post of
Second Master in St. Olave's and has shown therein his marked capacity
for organisation. His meticulous attention to detail has been of the
greatest usefulness in the ever-changing post-war demands on the School
curriculum and timetable, and he was always at his best in foreseeing and thus avoiding minor snags and pitfalls. He has ever given freely and unstintingly of his time for the good of the School of which he has long been so much a part. He will be greatly missed, and leaves with the united thanks and good wishes of everyone concerned with the welfare of St. Olave's and St. Peter's. Our sorrow and regret at his departure are tempered by the satisfaction that he is remaining geographically among us; perhaps we may say as a senior and symbolic guardian of our riverside fields! *
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AN APPRECIATION MAJOR-GENERAL J. C. LATTER, C.B.E., M.C., From the Revd. Geofirey Mountain, M.A., (O.P.).
John Cecil Latter, who first represented Leeds University on the Board of School Governors and was later a co-opted Governor, died at his home, Riverside Cottage, Naburn, on July 7th, aged 76. Active almost to the end, his splendid physique enabled him to live a full life in many spheres. Born at Folkestone and educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford, he served in the First World War in the 2/5 Lancashire Fusiliers, and was awarded the Military Cross. He was intensely proud of his regiment and later wrote an important work, the History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914-18. After the war he was in the Diplomatic Service for two years and then took up a permanent commission in the Regular Army, becoming Deputy Military Secretary at the War Office in 1940 and then was transferred to a similar post in the Middle East in 1943. For this he was awarded the C.B.E. In 1945-7 he was Deputy Director of the Territorial Army and Cadet Force and retired from the Army as an honorary major-general in 1947. John Latter then immersed himself in a variety of public interests. He was a Founder of the Leeds Music Festival; he did much to promote the work of the Northern Gardeners' Association; he was a director of the Red Cross and in 1952 was Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding. Although a bachelor, he was always concerned for the welfare of young people. Students at school and university, army cadets—these were his "family". In his army days he had edited and largely written a Cadet Training Manual and until 1955 was Chairman of the Combined Force Association. From 1948-52 he was secretary of Leeds 10 Cadet University Appointments Board and for many years was President of Leeds University Boat Club. It is significant that one of his last appearances as a Governor of St. Peter's was to attend the launching of a new school boat. But despite his high rank John Latter never lost the common touch. He was respected, indeed loved, by the men who served under him. His efforts were tireless to help widows and families of soldiers killed on active service. "Outward trappings", unless meaningful, meant nothing 5
