C.C.F. Notes

TRIAL BY JURY

Following the success of last year's Victorian Evening when some excerpts from Pirates of Penzance were sung, we decided to have a go at Trial by Jury in our Monday lunch hour practices and see how far we could get. In the end we managed a semi-staged, semi-memorised performance which we had intended to give on the Music School Lawn, but at the last moment we were rained off, and we played it more or less off the cuff in Hall, never having tried it there before! Refreshments were provided, and the first half of the programme consisted of a concert by the Wind Band.

CONCERT 7-0 p.m., Wednesday, 1 1 th July Overture—Light Cavalry

Waves of the Danube—Waltz Ode to Music (Etude) El Relicario (Paso Doble) Guard of Honour (March) Gypsy Baron (March Paraphrase) Ain't we got fun

Suppe Ivanovici Chopin Padilla Holmes Strauss Whiting

Coffee and Biscuits

The Judge The Plaintiff The Defendant Counsel for the Plaintiff Usher

TRIAL BY JURY

...Accompanist: David Cooper

Edmund Field Ray Nixon Jeremy Beadle Keith Pemberton James Harrison

K.R.P.

C.C.F.

The main work of the term was directed towards the Annual Inspection on 5th June. We had not been officially inspected since 1971, as each Contingent is free from inspection one year in four. We made a radical change in the form of inspection, and it is likely to be our pattern for some time to come. There was no formal parade by the whole Contingent as in the past; no March-past; no rifles except those carried by the Guard of Honour who welcomed the Inspecting party to the accompaniment of a Guard of Honour tune played by the Wind Band, and for this we are grateful to Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Cooper.

The Inspecting Officer was Group Captain J. L. W. Towler, R.A.F., the Officer Commanding Royal Air Force, Linton-on-Ouse, and he was accompanied by Staff Officers of all three Services. After the inspection of the Guard, the party visited static displays by Service Sections, and

attended the briefing of the Contingent by C.S.M. Dimelow for the afternoon exercise.

After lunch the party went to Strensall to watch an exercise by the three Service Sections combined; the exercise included Assault Course, Shooting, Patrolling, Bivouacing and Cooking. Meanwhile, part of the Royal Navy Section were at work on the river by the Boathouse, and the party returned to watch this before the Inspecting Officer addressed the Contingent and presented the Fernie Cup to C.S.M. Dimelow for his work during the year.

At the end of the first year of close alliance with the Duke of Edinburgh Award, described in the last issue of "The Peterite", we can say that it has been a successful experiment, although next year we aim to give more definite C.C.F. training to first year boys by taking each group for a longer period of continuous Service activity.

D.G.C.

ROYAL NAVY SECTION

Twelve recruits from the Preliminary C.C.F. group have joined the Section this term. We welcome them to our ranks and hope that their time with us will be enjoyable and stimulating. It is encouraging that most of them attended during the summer the sailing course at H.M.S. Raleigh, near Torpoint in Cornwall, an excellent instructional area for both novice and more experienced hand.

The Navy continues to offer many varied and exciting summer activities, all supervised and administered with kindness and experience, and it is an indication of the enthusiastic spirit of the R.N. Section at St. Peter's that so many cadets have this summer taken advantage of the opportunities offered to them. A.B. Barker and A.B. Coates-Walker are perhaps the most fortunate this year. They joined the frigate H.M.S. Undaunted for a ten-day cruise which included partaking in the Royal Dutch Navy Day celebrations at Den Helder and excursions ashore at Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Other cadets attended specialist navigation courses at H.M.S. Dryad, adventure training at Loch Ewe, and a week's sea training around the south coast in Fleet Tender H.M.S. Bembridge. "Callie" has been temperamental this summer and in spite of much hard work by A.B. Hind and A.B. Snowdon, amongst many others, a leak in her prop shaft bearing has been persistent and eventually she had to be hoisted out of the water at Naburn to await expert Navy assistance. Nevertheless, many river expeditions have been enjoyed during the term and in spite of her coyness "Callie" remains a most useful asset.

We should like to thank our small but successful group of efficient N.C.O.s for keeping the various administrative cogs turning, and especially Q.M. L.S. Feeney for his precise storekeeping, and our senior statesman, P.O. Harrison, for his kindly and academic approach. Perhaps we should all emulate their enthusiasm and fine example.

J.B.L.