Editorial

The House Music Competition was on May 18th. * * *

The Choir took part in the Choir Festival at Ripon on May 23rd. * * *

The School Scholarship Examination was from May 22nd to 24th. * * *

The half term holiday was from May 27th to 30th. * * *

The Music Prize Competition was on June 9th. * * *

The Common Entrance Examination was from June 12th to 14th. * * *

On June 28th all Lower Vlth attended a Vlth Form Conference at the University of York. * * *

There was a party for parents of Lower Vlth boys to meet the masters on July 2nd; the same evening the special St. Peter's Day Service was held in York Minster, attended by the whole School. 11111 * * * Commemoration was from July 14th to 16th, and term ended after the Service on the 16th.

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Half term holiday will be from October 21st to 29th, and term will end on Sunday, December 17th. * * *

A recent book, "Munby, Man of two worlds", by Derek Hudson, tells the story of Arthur J. Munby who was at St. Peter's from 1842-1846. Another former Peterite, Guy Fawkes, has his name given to one of the recipes in the York Cook Book, which offers many delicious and interesting Yorkshire recipes, including Dick Turpin's Mulled Wine, Robinson Crusoe's Baking, and Emperor Severus's Ham. * * *

The prize possession of the C.C.F., the Bell of the famous battleship `Duke of York', was removed in June from its tabernacle beside the naval mast, and must now be assumed lost. - * * *

MR. JOHN NIX

From Mr. J. Dronfield, O.B.E., J.P., M.A.

At the end of term we bade farewell to Mr. Nix, who has served as a member of the teaching staff of St. Olave's since April 1942, having thus spanned a period of a term over 30 years. Although Mr. Nix was appointed on a temporary wartime basis to replace staff on military service, and to teach mathematics in St. Olave's, his out-of-School duties and interests covered the senior school, too. For a time he was in fact assistant housemaster in the Rise.

Mr. Nix arrived in York on 29th April 1942, his coming coinciding with the German air raid on the City, and he lost his luggage in one of the resulting fires. He had tried very hard, but unsuccessfully, to get 3