Variety is particularly important in the week-day services. The Head Master, Mr. Cummin, Mr. Duncan, Mark Driffield and Barry Creasy have each been responsible for a week's worship during the last two terms. Mark Driffield (with the Young Farmers' Club) also organised the Harvest Thanksgiving. How grateful we are to all of them! The wind players, too, are taking an increasing share in the services. The Brass Quartet is splendid for the special occasion such as Remembrance Sunday and the Queen's Accession, and the wood-wind ensemble blends with the voices in a most satisfactory way. Let us hear more! Four of our five visiting preachers were from the academic world. In the Christmas Term the Public Schools were represented by the Rev. Gordon Scott, Chaplain of Pocklington School, the Universities by Professor Kathleen Jones of York, the Choir Schools by the Headmaster of the Minster Song School, the Rev. Bevan Wardrobe. This term the Rev. John Freeth, the Anglican Chaplain of York University, led us in a service of his devising which included two short sketches and a reading given by members of the Sixth Form. Our other visiting preacher was the Rev. M. K. Rumalshah, a Pakistani priest who has come to this country as one of the area secretaries of the Church Missionary Society. We are most grateful to all of them for the time and trouble they took for us. On March 9th the Bishop of Selby confirmed 22 Peterites and 22 Olavites. We were able to welcome them at a wonderful Family Communion the next morning, at which the Bishop presided. During the service he dedicated the glorious altar frontal which Mr. Gaastra has woven for us and Miss Alexander has so skilfully set up. This beautiful work should be an inspiration to generations of future Peterites. We cannot thank these two gifted artists enough for this labour of love, and we are very grateful to the number of Old Peterites and parents who have so kindly contributed towards the cost of it. There is so much for which to be thankful! I cannot end these notes without a mention of the Rev. Ronald Darroch, who has spent a term with us as a student teacher. Have we ever before had a student teacher who was also a clergyman? He has involved himself to the full in the life of the Chapel (to say nothing of the School) and gave us two Lent services on Wednesday evenings which will not be quickly forgotten. We wish him all happiness in his work for our Lord, wherever he may find himself. N.H.K.-W.
ANDREW WENTWORTH PING A Biographical Note and a Personal Appreciation
Andrew Wentworth Ping, universally known as "Went", was born in 1890 in Leeds, where his father held a curacy, but most of his boyhood and youth were spent in the small village of Thorpe, near Newark, where his father became Rector. From there he attended Nottingham High School before going on to Oxford, to what is now St. Catharine's College. At Oxford he rowed for his College, but also devoted much of his time to the O.T.C., from which he went directly into the Army on a regular commission in the 2nd, Bn., The York and Lancaster Regiment. Thus he was in France soon after the outbreak of war, in that most dangerous of situations, a subaltern in an infantry battalion. He was wounded in 1914, and again on 7th February, 1915, when he was for many hours in 5
