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Photo: Yorkshire Evening Press

LIGHTNING STRIKES QUEEN'S Chris Bullen examines the damage caused by a lightning strike on 9th May. As well as sending masonry crashing down, the lightning knocked out the School's internal and external telephone system and stopped the bells from ringing. Fortunately no-one was hurt.

THE PETERITE No. 407

1989-1990

Contents PAGE

PAGE Review of the Year

Hockey

Prize List

Cross-Country

Results

Squash

Peterswalk '89

Oxford Cup

School Notes

Cricket

House Reports

Tennis

Bishop Trevor Huddleston

Boat Club

Interview

Swimming

Chapel

GIRLS' GAMES

Combined Cadet Force

Hockey

Drama

Squash

Music

Cross-Country

Clubs and Activities

Swimming

Colour Section

Tennis

Poems and Pictures

Rounders

Archives

Travel

Old Peterite News

Crossword

SPORT - BOYS' GAMES Rugby

Editor: D. S. Newman Assistant Editors: Anthony Curtis, Simon Gildener, Matthew Williams Photographs: Matthew Sumpton, Matthew Gyles, Matthew Williams, Peter Midgley, Simon Gildener, R. H. Hubbard, J. C. Brown, I. H. Lancaster, Mr. F. Spencer, Mr. E. Thompson, Shepherd Construction Ltd., Yorkshire Evening Press. Cover Illustration by Adam Dean. Prints are available from the Headmaster's Secretary, price £2.50. Proceeds from the sale of this limited edition will be donated to the School's Amnesty International Group.

REVIEW OF THE YEAR Below we print extracts from the Headmaster's Commemoration Speech: Those of you who have attended several or more of these prizegiving occasions know of my reluctance to report in great detail every match played, examination passed or concert performed. Nevertheless this is an important opportunity each year for me to give you at least a sketch of the School's achievements and successes, a taking of the temperature, an annual check-up of our health and fitness. Appeal '89

Foundation

You will be expecting me to refer, as I did last year, to Appeal '89. Our total now stands at over £525,000, with some as yet untapped possibilities which we hope will allow us to pass our new target of £600,000. Old Peterites have been generous in their support, and I want to pay a special tribute to our current parents for their marvellous response which has been a huge encouragement to us as we have continued to plan and determine the development of the School's facilities. This year we have near at hand tangible proof of this generosity: the Chilman Building greatly enhancing our resources both educationally and aesthetically and opened by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent two days ago; and the Alcuin Library, a superb addition to our academic purposes, associated particularly and rightly with Old Peterites who gave magnificently to the Appeal and to be opened immediately after Prizegiving by Sir Peter Shepherd. There can be no one more fitted to carry out this task: as a Governor for nineteen years, as Chairman of the Board's Properties and Amenities Committee and as President of Appeal '89 the School owes him a great debt of thanks. Further work is planned for the months and years ahead: the development of the Grove Block as a Modern Languages Centre will start in the autumn, to be followed, hopefully soon after, by similar improvements to the Scott Block which is destined to become the centre for our Mathematics. The upgrading of the Methodist halls for music and drama lies ahead, and I hope that the continued success of Appeal '89 and careful management and control of our finances may allow this work to proceed in due course. To those of you who have given to the Appeal my wannest thanks; to those who have yet to give, a piece of relevant information — a new and updated donors' list will be published in the New Year.

C.C.F. It is good to record that our Combined Cadet Force contingent continues to flourish in these voluntary, coeducational and less militaristic times. Suffice it for me to quote the concluding words of the Inspecting Officer's report following our biennial parade and review last February:

Academic Results Whatever else happens at St. Peter's and whatever else we achieve, our first task is an academic one: each pupil taught stimulatingly and thoroughly with full intellectual potential being realised. To our current educational concerns I shall return later in my report, but a few statistics deserve emphasis at this stage: a 90% A level pass rate last summer (which was a 12% improvement on the previous year); thirteen places, some conditional on A level results, gained in last autumn's selection procedures at Oxford and Cambridge and sixty-seven out of last summer's upper sixth leavers proceeding to degree courses. This I think speaks well of our academic achievements.

An effective and enthusiastic C.C.F. Commander Bulcock and his team of officers are to be congratulated on running a very good contingent, one of the best in the north-east of England. Music We have had further fine music-making this year with the Yorkshire Evening Press describing St. Peter's as 'a hotbed of musical talent'. There have been some thrilling events, not least the concert for the Duchess of Kent on Thursday. The Choral Society has among other pieces performed the Vivaldi Gloria and the Faur6 Requiem, and its pupil membership steadily and gratifyingly grows. We have also had some excellent professional visitors including the Demon Barbers, Yorkshire Classic Brass, the 'cellist loan Davies and the baritone Stephen Varcoe. But invidious though it sometimes is to mention individual names, I feel bound to list a few of our own exceptional instrumentalists, and Claire Altman, Antony Dunn, Martin Kershaw, Andrew Moxon and Tifanny Richards particularly come to mind.

Sport

Turning to sport, I am glad that we are able to offer a rich variety of games and exercise, promoting physical well-being, healthy and enjoyable competition and individual self-confidence. If our cricket and rugby have not been as successful as in previous years there has been some compensation in excellence and enthusiasm achieved in other sports. Netball, girls' and boys' hockey, squash, tennis, cross-country all flourish, and I want to make special mention of our rowing under Ann Hodgson's overall guidance: both girls' and boys' fours have performed splendidly in many regattas, medals and trophies have been presented with the greatest regularity by myself in Saturday assemblies and only last Saturday we were successful in six events at the Leeds Regatta and won the Victor Ludorum Trophy for the best school, club or university taking part. I would also like to mention how we are particularly indebted to Joshua Rowe, with us from Australia in the upper sixth for just two terms, and his parents for their outstanding gift of a new and muchneeded four. Finally, concerning sport, I should like to make mention of the Shuttleworth Cup (and what an imaginative leaving present Guy Shuttleworth requested) presented annually to the pupil whose contribution to School sport has been outstanding. Anshuman Mondal is a very worthy first recipient. 3

Highlights

I could mention much else: the Christmas Term production of My Fair Lady, the pupils who have secured R.A.F. flying scholarships, the Saturday evening debates, the holiday expeditions to Europe and further afield, the community service regularly and quietly undertaken week by week, the art exhibition at the King's Manor put on by some of our sixth formers, and so on. These are all indicators of the liveliness, initiative, imagination and worthwhile activity of very many of our pupils. Pursuing this theme I should like to refer to three particular occasions this year which showed the School at its most resourceful, fulfilled and happy. The first of my trio is the Great Egg Race with its nice blend of high technological skill and healthy inter-house spirit. Secondly, I remember the three-day visit from Brisbane of the St. Peter's Lutheran College Chorale on tour in the United Kingdom. Peterites responded splendidly both in the hospitality shown to our guests and in the musical challenge presented by our visitors: our own choir scaled new heights at the joint concert, and the School's singing when our friends were with us in Chapel was equally memorable. My third highpoint has to be Peterswalk '89 — the twenty miles covered by everybody from Boroughbridge to York, the £16,000 raised in that one day and the multiple sclerosis ambulance on display in the School today which was the outcome of all that superb organisation and effort. Just two footnotes: as I passed the other way offering my Rowntrees minties to all the walkers, I tired only slightly of hearing for the umpteenth time the comment, T was told not to take sweets from strange men', and I liked the suggestion made at a Housemasters' meeting by David Hughes when the question of pupils not volunteering for the walk came up. David's suggestion was that any in that category should follow along behind and pick up the litter. Incidentally there were no non-participants!

Distinguished Visitors A last comment to add to this review section of my report: one of the indications of a lively, interested and interesting School is the quality of its visitors. In this respect we have had a vintage year. Not only do we note the presence of our eminent guests today, but die list since last September includes Peter Gibson, surely England's most accomplished expert on stained glass, Dr. Oliver Taplin, giving us a preview of his fascinating Radio Four series on Odysseus, Colonel Blashford-Snell with his unique accounts of his life of adventure, Christopher Hill, eminent Old Peterite and our foremost historian of the seventeenth century, Richard Whiteley who gave a most comprehensive talk on the future of television, and not less than three Archbishops, Lord Coggan here for the 25th anniversary of Feed the Minds, the Archbishop of York who confirmed thirty of our Junior School and Senior School pupils, and Bishop Trevor Huddleston, two weeks before the Nelson Mandela Wembley event, giving an exceptional and inspirational sermon at one of our Sunday evensongs.

The Staff I hope that I have said sufficient to show you that this has been another very busy and successful year. Our achievements are only made possible by the dedication, skill and sheer hard work of the staff. This terminology embraces more than those who teach, and I include the bursarial, administrative and secretarial staffs, our caterers, our cleaners and those who maintain our buildings and grounds. Many of them have worked for the School over a large number of years, and their loyalty

Denis Hirst Special good wishes go to Denis Hirst both for his continuing recovery from illness and for the happiest of retirements for him and Joyce. Denis came to St. Peter's in 1964 and became Head of Modern Languages in 1969. In 1985 he and Joyce took on the big responsibilities of The Rise at a time when others would have considered themselves past the demands of Housemastering: this says much for Denis's energy, orderliness, efficiency and consideration. I thank him for his many years' service to the School and repeat our warmest good wishes for health and happiness in the new life ahead for him and Joyce.

and care for the well-being of the School community is enormously appreciated. To the teachers an additional word of thanks from me for all that they contribute in these challenging and demanding educational times. Parents too acknowledge this, and it is heartening when I receive letters which say so. The following extract from one such is not untypical of many that come across my desk: I felt that I should take this opportunity of writing to you to express our sincere thanks for the guidance and support given to Jonathan (I substitute a different name) during his time at St. Peter's. We have both been overwhelmed by the dedication and professionalism of all the members of your staff who have had dealings with him during his School career. There's every reason to be confident he can succeed in the future — in good part because of the education and grounding in citizenship he has received at St. Peter's.

John Rayson I have one final tribute to pay, and that is to someone who is not a member of the Senior School staff. John Rayson's association with St. Peter's began when he joined the School as a boy in 1942. He leaves, almost halfa-century later, having been Master of St. Olave's for the last twenty-one years. A mark of his achievements there — his quiet, unpompous, sympathetic, efficient leadership — is the £3,500 subscribed by past and present St. Olave's parents towards his leaving present. My thanks to him are those from a colleague of only five years' acquaintance, but I want to record my gratitude to him not only for his many contributions to the School but also for his highly valued friendship to me personally and for all his abundant support in these fast-changing times. I would cite two recent developments in which his high qualities have been ably demonstrated: co-education, with girls now constituting one-third of St. Olave's, introduced with no fuss, no traumas, no crises, and with a Junior School as happy and as cohesive as ever; and the Chilman Building, carefully planned by John and his staff, ready for use this September and a symbol of the flourishing School which he has led so successfully since 1969. I thank him, we thank him, and we wish all happiness in retirement to both him and Sally.

I add my own personal thanks to those of many grateful parents.

Keith Coulthard Commemoration is the occasion of farewells and good wishes. First there is a member of staff who deserves a mention though fortunately with us for a further year: I refer to Keith Coulthard, this term giving up responsibility for careers after a rather short stint of thirty-seven years. Keith must have become Careers Master at St. Peter's at the time when such a post was only being thought of at most other Schools, and yet he has kept marvellously up-to-date, mastering careers computer programmes, the intricacies of UCCA and PCAS and the introduction in recent years of work experience, schools-industry links and much else. Good wishes to Dick Hubbard as he takes over this important role, and special thanks to Keith Coulthard on his third-of-a-century-plus as Head of our Careers Department.

Looking Ahead I want to end by coming back nearer home and referring to a letter which I received in October from a Peterite who left us just a year ago and who wrote to me from his recently-joined university. Part of what he said was as follows:

Farewell Four members of staff leave us this term. We wish Julia Stanley well on completion of her one-year appointment with its almost impossible load of G.C.S.E. teaching in History, English and Religious Studies. Farewells also to Margaret Holt, a pillar for the last two years of our Mathematics Department, a superb tutor to both boys and girls and an inspiring organiser of our expanding community service group. We alsd say goodbye to David Crook, excellent teacher of French, dedicated coach of both rugby and cricket, and sympathetic and sensible day Housemaster. He was unable to contemplate the double stress of both marriage and the St. Peter's workload, and so Durham's gain is our loss. He and Debbie have the good wishes of all of us for the future.

I joined St. Peter's in September 1982, at a time when, to coin a phrase, the School was in the doldrums. Seven years later I left with all the places taken and the School now extremely popular with pupils and parents both prospective and present.... I have always found the staff most willing to help and dedicated.... The facilities are first-class and development plans both sensible and imaginative.... I hope that the School continues to improve as a whole and also in the education, both academic and sporting, which it provides. Yours in gratitude. It was a heartening letter to receive. I hope that we shall not sit back and smugly bask in the warmth of his congratulations. Rather we must heed his hopes for the future and strive to achieve them. 5

PRIZE LIST THE DEAN OF YORK'S PRIZES FOR LATIN:

Junior

Omar Din, Ashoke Kundu James Angel Gareth Kay

WHYTEHEAD MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR DIVINITY TOYNE PRIZE FOR EUROPEAN HISTORY GEOGRAPHY PRIZES:

Senior Junior L. C. LE. TOCQ

PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS SKRENTNY PRIZE FOR CREATIVE WRITING BRIAN HOLBECHE MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR A CRITICAL ESSAY JACK BRITTAIN MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL ESSAY:

IVth Form Illrd Form

Alice Holmes Omar Din Ben Taylor James Mee Kirsten Luckins Stephen Dowding Zoe Clark Antony Dunn

JOHN CROOK PRIZE FOR POETRY THE OLD PETERITE CLUB READING PRIZES:

Senior Junior

Victoria Inness Christopher Braganza Matthew Abbey James Butler, Sally Hamilton Kirsten Luckins

ROBIN SHANNON MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR SPOKEN ENGLISH RICHARD ATKINSON MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR DRAMA ARTHUR CRAVEN MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR SPOKEN FRENCH:

Senior Junior

Sulieman Al-Bassam Richard Ambrose

FRENCH ESSAY PRIZE

Judith Hopton

GERMAN PRIZE MATHEMATICS PRIZE B.M.A. PRIZE FOR SCIENCE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE PRIZES

Tarik Tutill Peter Midgley Andrew Heslop Nicholas Barham-Hall Eleanor McCowen, Ben Taylor Louise Blackburn Edward Carling

WALTER SMITH PRIZE FOR BIOLOGY DAVIDSON PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY

WILCOX PRIZE FOR PHYSICS

Matthew McCowen

WALTER SMITH PRIZE FOR GCSE PRACTICAL WORK FRANK PICK PRIZE FOR DESIGN ART PRIZES:

Solomon Burt Adam Dean

Senior Junior

Paul Simpson Thomas Beaufoy, John Sutcliffe Reza Ahmad Thomas Brassington

CRAFT, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY PRIZES

PADDY POWER PRIZE HOWAT PRIZE FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION

Harry Burrell Martin Kershaw

ORANGE-BROMEHEAD PRIZE FOR STRING INSTRUMENT ACCOMPLISHMENT Music PRIZES:

Tifanny Richards

Senior

Martin Kershaw Tifanny Richards Lucinda Francis, Jane Mindenhall

Junior FORM PRIZES:

Vth Form

Richard Ambrose Benjamin Fraser Ian Gordon, Ashoke Kundu Christopher Braganza John Crisp, Stephen Dowding Andrew Pickard Selwyn Mcllhinney Sally Marshall Alexander Martin Jenifer Swallow

IVth Form Illrd Form

BARRY DANIEL AWARD K.H. RHODES PRIZE

Stephen Harryman Victoria Inness

NORMAN CROMBIE MEMORIAL PRIZE

David Tunstall 6

RESULTS G.C.E. A' LEVEL RESULTS 1990

ASSOCIATED BOARD MUSIC EXAMS

The following pupils gained three or more ' A ' Levels at Grade C or above (excluding General Studies):

GRADE 5 AND ABOVE PASSED

Al-Bassam, S. Y. M. (A1,A,A); Armitage, P. J. (B,B,B) Barham-Hall, N. (A1,A,A,A); Batty, R. L. (A1,A2,A) Black, C. M. A. (B,B,B); Blackburn, L. M. (A,A,A,A) Brown, S. R. (A2,A,B); Carling, E. E. (A1,A,A,C) Chadwick, S. E. (A,B,B); Copley, L. J. (B1,C,C) Dawkins, N. J. (A,B,B); Fowler, A. L. (A,B,C) Fowler, L. H. (B,B,C); Gage, A. R. (A,B,C) Heslop, A. J. (A,A,B); Hewines, J. R. (A,A,A) Holley, A. ( A , A , B ) ; H o l m e s , A. J. (B,B,B) Hopton, J. I. A. (A1,A,A); Lancaster, R. A. (C,C,C) Lewis, J. (B,C,C,); Luckins, K. V. (A1,A,B) McCowen, E. M. (A,A,A,A); McCowen, M. T. (Al A,A,B); Masefield, A. L. (A,B,B); Mee, J. A. R (A1,A2,B); Meehan, J. F. (A,B,C); Midgley, P. J (A,A,A,B); Mondal, A. A. (A,A,C); Morrison, B. R (B,B,C); Nowell, P. B. (A,B2,B); Panitzke, L. C (A2,A,B); Parry, E. I. W. (B,B,C); Proudley, G. J (B,B,B); Pyne, R. M. J. (B,B,C); Reah, P. J. (A,B,B) Rodwell, C. J. (B,C,C); Roy, A. (B,B,C); Sriharan, S (A,A,B,C); Stephenson, A. V. (B,C,C); Taylor, B (A,A,A,A); Waggott, M. (A,A,B); Wallis, P. J. R (A,A,A); Wilson, T. S. (B,B,C); Wright, R. J. (C,C,C)

G.C.S.E. RESULTS 1990 The following pupils gained ten or more passes at Grade C or above: Ahmad, R. (10); Ambrose, R. J. M. (10); Angel, J. C. (10); Aspden, M. J. (10); Baldry, D. H. (10) Barlow, C. M. (10); Birch, A. (10); Brassington, T. W (10); Brisby, J. R. (11); Brooker, C. P. (10) Brown, M. D. (11); Burt, S. I. (10); Coggrave, C. J (10); Cordier, T. J. (10); Davies, R. M. (10) Shujja-ud-Din, O. S. (10); Ferrow, P. T. (10) Fraser, B. P. (10); Gardner, O. (10); Gordon, I. A. (10) Gregory, R. G. C. (10); Hails, N. C. (11); Hatfield, B. J (10); Hudson, J. F. (10); Iveson, A. E. (10) Kerr, R. W. (10); Kershaw, M. (10); Kundu, A. K. (10) Ludiman, A. M. W. (10); Mcllhinney, T. J. (10) Malster, C. L. (10); Martin, C. M. R. (10); Meaden P. R. J. (10); Moxon, A. C. (10); Neary, B. R. (10) Panitzke, S-G. (10); Pitt, S. N. (10); Reavley, P. D. A (10); Richardson, C. J. (10); Richardson, J. M. (10) Rosindale, A. J. (10); Senior, N. J. (10); Sharper, I. D (11); Shaw, R. G. (10); Sutcliffe, J. D. (11) Webster-Lam, C. (10); Wildblood, A. J. (10); Wood, G. (10).

November 1989 Grade 7 Shanmugan Sriharan Christopher Braganza Judith Hopton Cherry Alton

violin 'cello oboe flute

merit merit

Grade 6 Shanmugan Sriharan Andrew Collier Emily Strong Andrew Mawby

piano trumpet flute 'cello

merit merit

Grade 5 Steven Clegg Jane Mindenhall

piano theory

March 1990 Grade 8 Andrew Moxon Charles Metcalfe Charles Barlow

flute treble recorder piano

merit

Grade 6 Martin Kershaw Cherry Alton Alexander Martin

alto saxophone piano violin

distinction

Grade 5 Dominic Greeves Miles Layram Matthew Smith Zoe Clark Carole Tong Richard Hammill Miles Layram Nicholas Strong Eleanor White

piano trumpet piano flute clarinet piano theory theory theory

distinction

Grade 7 Stephanie Sanderson

piano

merit

Grade 5 Rebecca Gilbert Rachel Gill James Fieldsend Matthew Pittman Thomas Kitchingman Lucinda Francis

flute oboe trombone trombone theory theory

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SCHOOL NOTES During his twenty-seven years in the School Denis was involved in a wide range of other activities. In addition to his teaching duties in St. Peter's, he also taught in St. Olave's School for a number of years. Some of his activities included: taking charge of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Expeditions, sailing instruction on the River Ouse, giving climbing instruction to members of the C.C.F. in the Lake District, accompanying mountaineering expeditions in Britain and running skiing holidays in France, Austria and Switzerland. Finally, throughout most of his career, Denis was a rugby coach. During his career Denis saw language teaching develop through C.S.E. to 16+ and G.C.S.E. He resisted moves to minimise and even eliminate literature from Vlth form syllabuses. He approved the increased weighting given to oral and comprehension work at all levels, but is proud to have adhered to the principles of rigour and accuracy in the face of what he refers to as 'first' and 'approximation' tendencies. In connection with his teaching, Denis produced (and acted in) a number of French plays — classical and Theatre of the Absurd. He instigated the re-modelling of Rooms G, SI and S2 for language teaching — Room G was irreverently labelled 'Hirst's Padded Cell' by a colleague! Denis was secretary of the Senior Common Room for some five years and, as his successor in that onerous post, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to wish Denis and Joyce many happy years of retirement on behalf of their colleagues and friends in St. Peter's School. K. G. Coulthard

DENIS HIRST

Denis joined the School in September, 1964, having taught for seven years in the state system, sandwiching two years in administration (Assistant Education Officer) between the two spells of teaching. He is a Leeds University languages graduate and also holds a P.G.C.E. from the same university, with a specialisation in Advanced Physical Education. This latter piece of information will surprise no one who knows Denis, who describes himself as 'a fitness fanatic'. Whilst at Leeds he represented the university at rugby and was also chosen to play rugby for the Universities Athletics Union. It was Denis' intention to retire at the end of the Summer Term; unfortunately a heart attack supervened during the Easter holidays and he was unable to be with us during his final term. However, it was good to see him at a number of functions towards the end of the Summer Term and we hope that his recovery continues steadily over the next few months. Denis was first appointed to teach French and Latin. Five years later, in September, 1969 he took over as Head of Modern Languages, having served for a year as the School's first Assistant Careers Master and during his three-year attachment to the Grove as Assistant Housemaster. In April, 1985 he was appointed Housemaster of The Rise. In his wry way Denis says that he greatly valued taking over the House in April, as it gave him and Joyce a term's run-in before being fully launched into the routine of a full year; as he says his enforced early retirement gives the same advantage to their successors!

DAVID CROOK David joined the staff of St. Peter's in September 1985 and in his five years here he played a full and active role. In the formroom he was a first-class French teacher both with the sixth form and with the younger age group, with the bright and the less bright pupils. He organised trips to the Loire Valley and accompanied ski trips. He ran the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and co-ordinated the School's Clubs and Societies. As a games coach he ran Under 15 and Under 14 rugger teams and helped with the squash and Under 15 cricket. After being an assistant in The Rise he took over as Housemaster of Clifton, a House which he ran with a mixture of firmness, understanding and good humour. David was a much-liked, respected and fully involved member of the Common Room. He will be greatly missed; our loss is very much Durham's gain. Our thanks and very best wishes to him and also to Debbie, whom he married in August. D. Kirby 10

MARGARET HOLT

SENIOR COMMON ROOM

When Miggy Biller left in the Summer Term of 1988, the School was extremely lucky, so late in the year, to obtain the expert advice of Margaret Hudson, who was moving north from Palmers sixth form in Grays, Essex. Margaret quickly made her mark in the School. She proved to be a first-class teacher, who was conscientious and always willing to help anybody who was having difficulty in understanding a particular topic in mathematics. As a colleague in the Maths Department, nothing was too much trouble and she was ever ready to make valuable contributions at department meetings. She added greatly to the quality of life in the School, with her cheerful smile and willingness to take on any job which would directly help the students. As assistant in Grove she had a ready ear for anyone who had a problem, and, not surprisingly, she quickly became involved in the School Community Service group. In the short time she has been in the School, the number involved has doubled and the service has been extended; the visits to concerts, plays, church services and the termly party in the School have been particularly enjoyed. Just to fill in her time, she has run an 'aerobics in water' class, and helped with the fifth form expeditions for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme! We thank Margaret for all she has done for the School, and we wish her and Pete, whom she married in the summer of 1989, every happiness in the future. G. M. Shuttleworth

This term we said goodbye to four members of the Common Room. Denis Hirst retires after twenty-six years in the School; David Crook leaves after five years to join the staff at Durham School; Margaret Holt and Julia Stanley leave after too short a stay with us. We were very pleased to know that David is to be married between leaving us and joining Durham and we wish him and Debbie all happiness in their new home as we thank all four leavers for their contribution to the life of the S.C.R. Ten new members of the teaching staff joined us in September. David Watkinson took over as Head of Mathematics, David Morris as Head of Physics and Elizabeth Wymer came to teach Politics. Jeremy Boardman joined the Physics Department, Arthur EllisDavies and David Spencer the Mathematics Department, Matthew Grant the Languages Department, Chris Hall the Art Department, Richard Wallace the C.D.T. Department, while Julia Stanley joined us to teach a frightening combination of English, History and Religious Studies. During the year Jeremy Boardman was married and we wish him and his wife well as they endeavour to reconcile the demands of teaching and police work — perhaps they are often very similar! The S.C.R. sports correspondent reports another busy year, with activities of varying success! In September the staff produced teams in basketball, squash, football and rugby (seven-a-side) and provided members of the hockey and tennis teams, all taking part in the Old Peterite weekend. Late in the Christmas Term the staff entered the St. Peter's seven's tournament which included teams from Liverpool, Newcastle, York and Lancaster. As usual, in the Easter Term, there was a fine staff turnout in the President's team which played hockey against the 1st XI and the staff was also involved in an interesting game of basketball against the School. The summer weather prevented all the 'Scoundrels' cricket matches being played. However, we did manage to play the Old Boys, the leavers, Ashville staff, Ampleforth staff and an entirely St. Peter's team — results: 1 win, 3 defeats and 1 draw. Staff rowing has taken off again with many Thursday outings. This led to a challenge row against a York ladies' crew — I am told that the result will not be recorded! Much five-a-side football has been played throughout the year, with the fitter members of the staff playing the pupils once a week, and the less competitive simply 'kicking each other' on other occasions. K. G Coulthard

SCHOOL APPOINTMENTS Heads of School: Rebecca Ingledew, Christopher Rowland Heads of House: Edward Savage Clifton: Rebecca Ingledew Dronfield: James Butler Grove: Simon Powell Manor: Lawrence Patton Queen's: Simon Davies The Rise: Christopher Rowland School: Simon Gildener Temple: Additional Monitors: Paul Carvosso, Charlotte Cranston, Adam Dean, Sally Hamilton, James Harding, Gareth Kay, Tifanny Richards, James Rigby. Captain of Rugby: Captain of Cricket: Captain of Tennis:

Jason Morris James Rigby Simon Powell

NEW STAFF

INTERNAL STAFF APPOINTMENTS Mr. R. H. Hubbard: Mr. D. M. Paterson: Mr. B. Allen: Mr. D. J. Watkinson: Rev. S. C. Harvey:

In September 1990 we welcomed the following new members of staff:

Head of Careers Department Head of Geography Department Head of Science Housemaster of The Rise Housemaster of Clifton

Mr. Clive Hodsdon: Miss Jacqueline Finney: Mr. Robert Jeffs: Mr. John Shaw: Mrs. Susan Watkinson: 11

Head of Modern Languages Mathematics History and English Modern Languages Religious Studies

GUY FAWKES HANGS AGAIN

SWITCHED ON JIM James Butler has gained a place on a prestigious sixweek course at Manchester Youth Theatre, studying stage construction and lighting. This is a considerable achievement and a just reward for all the hard work he has put in behind the scenes for St. Peter's productions. He looks set for a bright future.

BARRY DANIEL AWARDS This year awards for adventurous travel have been made to five pupils. Charles Barlow is visiting Indian schools this autumn. Stephen Harry man was selected by the British School Exploring Society for its expedition to Spitzbergen this summer. Alexandra Holley is travelling to Mexico where she plans to teach English in an orphanage. Alice Holmes is hoping to teach in a school in India before going on to University. And Roger Sangwin received an award for his World Challenge expedition to the Himalayas. Congratulations to all of the above. The Peterite editorial team would be delighted to receive accounts of their experiences.

ENTERPRISING ARTISTS Congratulations to six Peterites who organised their own exhibition in the Senior Common Room at King's Manor. The pupils involved were Nick Birch, Marcus Mellor, Peter No well, Mark Pyrah, Joshua Rowe and Paul Simpson. St. Peter's was also strongly represented at the "York Schools Art" exhibition, held at the City Art Gallery.

It has long been thought that the School in the past has not made full use of its history and traditions. As may already have been noticed we have begun a collection of portraits and photographs of distinguished Old Peterites. This posed problems with the one who is, rightly or wrongly, our best known old pupil. Some years ago what is thought to be the only portrait of Guy Fawkes painted from life was sold at Sotheby's. The purchaser kindly sent us a photograph of the painting, and an enlargement of this has been displayed near the old library. A project was undertaken to provide a more suitable portrait, and in this we were lucky to have the skills of a local artist, Sue Ker, who lives in St. Mary's. Photographs, old prints and contemporary descriptions were studied, and the artist took great interest, reading several lives of Guy Fawkes in order to understand his character. The final result was a splendid portrait of Guy with the old House of Lords in the background. There is great quality and skill in the picture — the eyes in particular showing that somewhat sad and slightly puzzled look — a questioning expression. We are indeed grateful to Sue Ker for her great interest, help and artistry. We are also most grateful to the Committee of the Old Peterite Club who not only welcomed the idea but agreed to pay the cost. The final result can be seen above and postcards in full colour will also be available from the new library. J. V. Mitchell

Artists at Work.

THE ALCUIN LIBRARY So we now have a superb library, worthy of the School, and already proving to be a great asset. As visitors will have noticed, however, some of the books transferred from the old library are past their best, and mere are many empty shelves. Sir Peter Shepherd, with typical generosity, arranged for a most generous donation from a family trust to buy books which the library might otherwise not be able to afford. We are most grateful to him, and also to Dick and Buff Reid's kindness in providing the oak dedication plaque in the entrance. Most of our readers will already have heard of the renewing of the custom of leavers and individuals presenting books to the library, and we look forward to receiving other gifts. If bookcases and shelves are being cleared, do please let us know. If the books are not suitable for library use they can be sold and the money used for other purchases. The generosity of Old Peterites, parents, craftsmen and so many others has given the School a worthy building for future generations. Our gratitude goes to them and, to misquote famous words "If they seek a monument, look around."

Sir Peter Shepherd opening the new library on July 7th rightly paid tribute to all who had played any part in the reconstruction of one of the School's finest buildings into its new role as a dignified, tasteful and comfortable library. The architect, Martin Stancliffe and his deputy, Geoffrey Holland, carried out the planning stage to excellent effect, and the main contractors, William Birch & Sons, used the craftsmanship of many individuals to produce a most effective blend of ancient and modern. The woodwork of Messrs. Taylors of Harrogate gives a most pleasing overall effect. Fittings, chairs and tables from the old library have been repaired and restored, once again Frank Maddison being called out of retirement to display his skills. The oak chairs presented by individuals in the thirties were restored by Old Peterite Adam Jackson, who also showed great interest and skill in crafting the six new oak chairs presented by the Friends of St. Peter's. Two other chairs have already been promised by individuals, but more are needed. If anyone would like to commemorate a firm or family connection with the School then their names could be carved on similar chairs at an overall cost of about £200. The librarian will give further details of this scheme to anyone interested.

J. V. Mitchell

The Alcuin Library during the conversion. 13

CAREERS

WEATHER

At the end of the School year I shall be handing over the Careers Department into the capable hands of Dick Hubbard, who has been assisting for the past few years. During this year we were joined in the department by David Newman, while Gary Lawrence will also be assisting from next year. Already new ideas are being explored and there will obviously be developments in the fields of work shadowing and career experience. I hope that as many pupils as possible will take advantage of the opportunities on offer — over the last few years it has been disappointing that more members of the Lower Vlth Forms have not used the very fine opportunities available through the I.S.CO. Career Experience Course Scheme. Once again, some thirty members of the Lower Vlth took part in an eight-week course run by Understanding Industry as part of the General Studies programme. We again held a successful Careers Forum on April 28th. As before this was mainly manned by Old Peterites and we are very grateful to them and to those other friends of the School who gave up their time willingly on a Saturday to talk to members of our fifth and lower sixth years. A list of those who attended, together with their specialisations, is given below. As always, the pupils found it a very helpful opportunity and our guests were peppered with questions, the best sort of compliment which can be paid in the circumstances.

Basic weather data for the three School terms:

September (part) October November December (part) January (part) February March (part) April (part) May June July (part)

RAIN mms. Total Ave. (daily) 9.2 0.34 54.1 1.74 31.1 1.04 26.1 1.86 60.85 1.96 72.45 2.58 0.4 8.8 0.25 0.03 14.9 0.49 102.8 3.43 16.5 0.68

The rainfall figures should be seen in relation to an average annual rainfall of about 650mms in York. This gives a daily average figure of 1.8mms; June's figure was clearly well beyond this, a fact which would not go unnoticed by the sports men and women in the School!

Names J. E. H. Quickfall (O.P.) D. Reid R. Gardner Emma Davies ) Lisa Bennett ) C. T. Anelay Building Construction (O.P.) P. W. Shepherd Building Management (O.P.) Building Surveying (and Quantity, Land A. E. Lightly Hydrographic and Minerals Surveying) Civil Aviation I. T. Parkin (O.P.) Computer Software (O.P.) J. Stone Dentistry (O.P.) S. R. Dench Engineering in Industry E. Young Estate Agency (and General Practice J. C. Rounthwaite (O.P.) Surveying) E. P. Alton (O.P.) Farming M. J. Kershaw (O.P.) Finance M.J. Poynor (O.P.) Hotel and Catering Industry Catherine Owens Huddersfield Polytechnic/P . C A S . A. Powell (O.P.) Industrial Management/Brewing J. P. Terry (O.P.) Industrial Management/Own Business S. Maxwell-Scott I.S.C.O. D. W. Grice Law (O.P.) W. R. Ibberson Mechanical Engineering/Engineering (O.P.) Manufacture Medicine M. W. Dronfield (O.P.) C. T. Brockbank (O.P.) Merchant Banking A. Garbutt (O.P.) Pharmaceutical Industry Sales and Marketing/Pharmaceuticals Phillipa Hutcheson — Theatre (Acting, Management, Opera) M. R. Wroe (O.P.) Town and Country Planning (and C. Clarke (O.P.) Local Government/Civil Service) University Entry/U.CCA. H. Dean — Career Fields Accountancy Applied Arts and Crafts Architecture Banking

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TEMP'. "C Min. Max. (air) 7 25.5 18 5 14 -2.45 -1.5 9.5 1.25 15.25 -2.25 15 -2.25 20 2.25 23.5 26.5 3.25 23 8 19 6.75

Christinas Term: The School year began with a prolonged period of high pressure, with accompanying high daytime temperatures and mild nights. As the above figures show it was a dry month and this combination of factors carried the summer well into the term. October continued in the same vein, though night temperatures began to fall and we experienced a slight ground frost during the night of the 14th. The daily rainfall rose as compared with September, though nearly half the month's total fell during the halfterm break! November continued to be dry, though there were signs that we might be in for the hard winter that some experts have been predicting for some years. There was a cold spell lasting from the 4th to the 6th, with sharp ground frosts at night and a sub-zero air temperature during the middle night. The air temperature was still 0 C at 8.30 a.m. on the 6th. A second cold spell was experienced towards the end of the month when there were six successive nights with a ground frost, the lowest -5°C, being recorded during the night of the 26th. The low temperatures were related to high pressures and clear skies and the days were sunny and dry. Most of the month's rain fell during the first half of the month, 15.6mms, half the month's total being recorded on the 8th. December had a number of cold nights and westerly winds brought showery conditions and overcast skies, though none of the snowfalls that were being predicted.

Coulthard

Easter Term: May continued in the same vein, the most memorably meteorological event being the electrical storm during the afternoon of May 9th. It was during this storm that the 1927 tower was struck by lightning, an event recorded elsewhere in this issue of The Peterite. By contrast with May, June was predominantly a cool, cloudy, windy, wet month, apart from one brief return to summer in the middle of the month. This was very much a reversal of our experience last year. The last few days of term at the beginning of July saw threatening clouds and strong winds which did not promise well for the last week of term. Miraculously the rain stopped just before the visit of the Duchess of Kent, though it did try to drizzle once or twice during the early part of the visit. Later the clouds parted and the sun shone, bringing very pleasant conditions; these continued into Friday. Commemoration Saturday started wet and gloomy, and though it looked as though it might dry up, the cricket match turned into a frustrating experience.

The pressures were again high when we returned in January, but began to fall as the term got under way. They fell below 1,000 millibars on the 23rd, reaching a minimum of 952 millibars at 14.30 hours on January 25th. This exceptionally low pressure was associated with a very deep depression, the centre of which passed very close to York. Gale damage was reported widely and we experienced a rainfall of 23.3mms during January 27th, associated with the Cold Front of the depression. A few ground frosts were recorded in January, but generally temperatures remained above the average for the time of year. February was quite an unsettled month, though the winter never really set in. Mainly westerly winds brought many showers; consequently there were few really dry days and skies were mainly cloudy. By contrast March was much drier and temperatures began to rise noticeably, particularly towards the end of term. Summer Term: We returned towards the end of April to high pressures, clear skies, hot days and cool nights, with a number of sharp ground frosts.

K. G. Coulthard

February floods. 15

HOUSE REPORTS her colours along with Sophie Jackson, Alex Masefield, Nic Westwood and Emma Ward. Netball colours were awarded to Ronnie Wareham, Isla Pollard, Charlotte Cranston and Shelagh Pitt. The Inter-House cross-country brought a strong performance from the juniors, with Claire Taylor as individual winner. The final event was the swimming sports: the House team, organised by Ronnie Wareham for the second year, did not do outstandingly well but did record some good individual performances, notably from Caroline Lawson.

DRONFIELD Christmas At the start of the year, Dronfield welcomed fourteen new lower-sixth and eight third year girls, bringing the number in the House very close to sixty. Mr. Watkinson joined the staff and very quickly settled in to his role as Tutor: we shall be sorry to lose him, while congratulating him on his appointment to the Housemastership of Rise. Members of the House were involved in a wide range of activities. The Christmas Term featured the highly acclaimed production of My Fair Lady: we congratulate Sally Hamilton on her excellent performance, ably supported by Rachel Batty and Ali Holley, and, of course, Kirsten Luckins as assistant producer. Membership of the choir was again healthy, and contributions to music continue to flourish, with Emmy McCowen and Claire Altman deserving special mention. The House was well represented in the successful First XI: our congratulations go to Emmy McCowen, the captain, Ronnie Wareham, vice-captain, Angela Rosindale, Louise Copley and Alex Masefield on being awarded their colours; Sophie Jackson received the additional award of the Jackson-Pacey trophy. Rachel Batty captained the Second XI. Congratulations also to all who represented York and District at cross-country — Emma Ward, Caroline Cooper, Anne Suttill, Nic Westwood and Julia Thompson — the eventual winners of the York Area Senior Competition. As the end of term approached, the round of Oxford Entrance and Cambridge interviews began. Our warmest congratulations go to Rachel Batty on winning a place at Oxford and to Judith Hopton, Ali Holley and Sophia Chadwick on receiving conditional offers from their Cambridge colleges. A return to the more formal occasion of a dinner to celebrate the end of term proved a success; this was followed by an equally successful and widely audible disco. The traditional final night's fare of Christmas cake, mince pies and video brought the term to a close.

Summer The Summer Term saw Dronfield competing in four Inter-House events. The first of these was indoor hockey, where the House played well, beating Temple and putting up a good fight, finally drawing one and losing three of the remaining games. The team was Ronnie Wareham (captain), Sophie Jackson, Nic Westwood, Anne Suttill, Julia Thompson and Isla Pollard. In tennis we had a strong team, which also constituted the School's First XI: Alex Masefield (captain), Rachel Robertson, Nick Westwood, Julia Thompson, Sophie Jackson and Emma Ward, all of whom were awarded colours. Unfortunately we were drawn against the winning team and were eliminated in the first round. The House also made up a large proportion of the Second VI and Under 15 VI, the latter of which did very well, captained by Eleanor Bowling. Despite the weather problems, some girls' athletic events did take place. Connelee Morris looked set to win the Sharrock Cup after winning the long jump and javelin, but the bad weather intervened. There was success also in the Shooting Competition, in which we finished in second place. In music, the House continued to do well. Claire Altman deserves special mention for her solo performances; Lucinda Francis and Jane Mindenhall won music prizes. Our congratulations go to several members of the House on their appointments to various captaincies next year: Sophie Jackson for hockey, Emma Ward for squash, Isla Pollard for netball and Rachel Robertson for tennis. Congratulations to all in Dronfield on winning the Work Cup for the third successive year. At the end of the year, House Colours were awarded to Emmy McCowen, Rachel Batty and Judith Hopton who played such an important part in the House, and to Ronnie Wareham for her organisation of several House events. To all our leavers, our very best wishes for the future. We wish Mrs. Shepherd well as she moves to Temple as a tutor; our loss is their gain. Eleanor McCowen

Easter The Easter Term brought success for members of Dronfield in a number of areas. It was very pleasing that the House was victorious in the Great Egg Race after two second places: congratulations to the team — Emmy McCowen, Becki Ingledew, Angela Rosindale, Connelee Morris and Sarah Richards. In cross-country, Esther Williams achieved considerable success, being selected for North Yorkshire. The rowers too enjoyed a number of wins: congratulations to Judith Hopton and Jo King. Ronnie Wareham captained the squash team and received 16

also ever present in the 1st XV this year with Jim Martindale making his contributions to the 3rd XV. Angus Gowthorpe made excellent contributions to the U. 16 XV and showed his potential in his final game for the 1st XV. If he returns next year he should give real power to the School front row. Chris Brooker played his part in the House rugby and U.16 XV but left us for The Rise at Christmas. In the squash James Stephenson established himself in the 1st V and led the House well in the Senior House Competition in the Lent Term. Junior members of the House acquitted themselves well in the U. 15 XV with Chris Braganza providing an essential base in the back row. In the U. 14 XV Nick Walker proved to be a fine scrum-half with Paul Taylor dependable in defence at fullback. However, the term was not just about sport and Nick Barham-Hall and Leon Panitzke took leading roles in the excellent production of "My Fair Lady". Jim Butler did this as well as the major junior school production this year. He has real ability which was richly rewarded with a place with the National Youth Theatre in Manchester during the summer holidays (1990). The Lent Term saw some splendid contributions to the hockey with eight members of the Grove being regularly selected for the U. 16 Colts, John Sutcliffe and Sam Forsyth both gaining 1st XI places at the end of the season. Tom Brassington, Ian Gordon, Angus Gowthorpe, Jeremy Richardson, James Angel and James Lister all made significant appearances. It was especially good to see James Angel playing after his serious skiing accident last year. Leon Panitzke provided his normal stalwart games in the 2nd XI. The Junior House rugby provided the boys with a real challenge against a much larger Clifton side. In a splendid game, captained by Chris Braganza, the midgets of the third year did well but in the end we went down. (Sadly Toby Cockcroft of Clifton broke his arm in this game and we hope it will not affect his cricket.)

CLIFTON The academic year 1989-90 proved to be as challenging and as busy as the last for the sixty-six pupils in Clifton House. We welcomed new boys to the third form and the lower-sixth, all of whom were to inject a positive impetus to all areas of House and School life. Although the trophy cabinet was not over-burdened with trophies, we nevertheless managed to achieve a victory in the senior five-a-side football competition and did well in the junior football. It must be said that the goalkeeper, Howard Oates, dubbed Felix the Cat for his springing prowess, guarded the net with complete dedication and skill — his shots across the full length of the pitch were, however, somewhat eccentric! In rugby and cricket House matches there were many good performances yet the teams succumbed to their opponents on most occasions. The junior sevens rugby tournament was a different story with the team being unbeaten but taking second place in a league system. Certain individuals must be mentioned — Jonathan Suckling for his contribution to tennis and to House organisation of several events, Marianne Waggot for her rowing, Toby Cockcroft, Michael Hunter and Ben Councell for House and School sporting prowess and Craig Smith for his duties as Head of House. Many thanks to these pupils who participated so fully and positively in School life. It would be difficult to mention all members of the House who gave their energy in various ways as the House has many talented musicians and others who achieved excellent reports throughout the year. Not all reached the dizzy heights of success but in their own way they gave an invaluable contribution. My special thanks go to Steven Harrison whose politeness and helpfulness around House was greatly appreciated. It remains only to thank the House tutors for their considerable help and efficiency during the year and to wish them well under next year's new Housemaster, Rev. S. Harvey. I will be moving on to take up a French and German post at Durham School and I sincerely hope that Rev. Harvey will enjoy his new position and that Cliftonites in their new mixed House status will continue to give of their best at all times. I am certain that Edward Savage (Head of House) and James Harding (School Monitor) will provide invaluable support. D. M. Crook

Easter The Lent Term sees the Great Egg Race and again we provided a fine challenge under the guidance of Nick Barham-Hall. Nick also had a most successful year as captain of School chess. This term also sees the Senior Five-a-side Tournament. Although we failed to emulate last year's success we aquitted ourselves well with Andrew Smith captaining the side in his fourth year in the competition. Andrew has made a huge impact on the House especially in his three years in the sixth and he must be congratulated on his House Colours. The House swimming provided the "Butler Brothers" backed up by Nick Birch, Leon Panitzke, Ian Gordon and Anthony Curtis. At junior level Anthony Baines, Andrew Pickard, Richard Inns and Paul Taylor provided us with something to cheer. However, the highlight of this term was the quite splendid win in the senior House cross-country. Anthony Curtis captained the following: Alistair Marks, Bruce Neary, Jeremy Doncaster, Stephen Brown, Matthew Bean, Iain Mclntyre and Andrew Newell. This was a fine performance showing excellent spirit. The Junior House Hockey Tournament happened for the second year and again we did well without quite winning it this time! The junior House squash shows promise with Anthony Baines

GROVE Christmas Christmas Term began with Stephen Brown as Head of House and Clive Blacker as his deputy. With no changes in House staff we began to feel a real degree of continuity in the House. The Senior Rugby Competition provided an early challenge with Leon Panitzke leading the side well. For this, as well as his other tremendous contributions to the Grove, he was awarded his House Colours. As usual this type of fixture brings out the best in the boys and the game was tightly fought with Grove coming second! (How much we missed our previous year's transfers to The Rise and School House!) Leon was 17

and James Calvert both representing the School. Again there were many other activities with Chris Braganza and James Angel being regular attenders at the Debating Society. James spoke excellently in his first debate. Concerts, Choral Society and the other cultural activities saw major roles played by Anthony Curtis, Iain Mclntyre, Chris Braganza and Jack-Patrick Weatherall. One final event this term deserves special mention and that was the Art Exhibition organised by Nick Birch and other members of the sixth form, at the King's Manor. Not only was the art excellent but this showed real initiative. Well done.

MANOR Christmas At the beginning of the year the House welcomed nine new third years to the House and one new lower sixth, all of whom settled down quickly and integrated happily into the life of the House. The House's success with Inter-House sport was limited with many teams playing very well but losing in the late stages of the competitions. The year was summed up well by a fifth former's comment — "We're Jack of all trades but master of none". The rugby played by the House was of a good standard in both the senior and junior competitions. The Senior Competition was captained well by Richard Griggs who was also captain of the School 1st XV. The first match was a tough game against Temple in which we won 8-0 despite Richard Griggs and Mike Forrester (two of the best players) both being unable to play due to injuries from School matches. The second match was another victory over a day House when we beat the Grove. Fate, or perhaps skill, by The Rise meant that we had, yet again, to face them in the final. This, as expected, was a tough match in which our backs tackled well, but unfortunately after a changeable score throughout the match The Rise came off the better and once again we had just missed the cup by a very narrow margin in a final. The team held up a good spirit and were enthusiastic throughout the competition. Colours were awarded to Antony Bryan, Richard Griggs, Simon Powell and Guy Walker.

Summer Summer brought more sport with David Quickfall and Andrew Smith playing for the 1st XI. Andrew finally left the School after great service deservedly gaining his First Team Colours. Leon captained the 2nd XI several times and at one stage had an average of well over 100!! Bruce Neary and Richard Hudson also made fine contributions during the season. The House cricket team, well captained by Andrew and David, succeeded in beating Clifton with a fine "bash" from Jeremy Doncaster playing a significant part in the victory after things got a little "sticky". Sadly we went out in a fine game in the semi-finals against The Rise. The junior boys also did themselves real credit. Chris Braganza led a team with much spirit against Temple. Charles Roberts scored a century in their 152 for 2. Having bowled tremendously (2 for 44 — 15 overs), Paul Taylor went early and it looked like certain defeat; however, Nick Hales 19 and Alex Martin 14 ably supported Nick Walker 50 until we ran out of overs at 132 for 6. The tennis players did well but were outgunned in the first round. Stephen Brown and Bruce Morrison again provided a sound backbone with Nick Birch making a star appearance! The junior House football, well captained by Shalin Khanna, were unlucky to just miss the cut for the play-offs. Paul Taylor, Chris Braganza and Alex Martin did well in front of Duncan Marks who proved a fine goalkeeper. Academically I was delighted to see Nick Barham-Hall, James Angel, John Sutcliffe, Tom Brassington, Stephen Dowding, Andrew Pickard, Chris Braganza, Selwyn Mcllhinney and Alex Martin win prizes.

The junior rugby first of all saw us in a close match against Temple, with a final score of 22-20. We convincingly beat Clifton in the next round 38-4 which left the team in the position of a final against The Rise. This was an excellent game, arguably the best of either competition, that was very closely contested and tense. The final score was 8-4 to The Rise. John Holgate captained the hard fighting team who all played very well making it difficult to name the outstanding players. Colours were awarded to John Belton, Tom Duncan, John Holgate, Barney Mundell, Tom Oakley and Matt Smith. Five-a-side indoor soccer was also very popular with the House and many evenings were spent over the year in friendly matches against each other in the sports centre. This practice paid off for the senior team who made the final of the difficult competition. The match against Clifton was equal at full-time but Clifton pulled ahead in extra time, leaving an unjustified score against us which did not represent how close the competition had been. Those who represented the House were Antony Bryan, Mike Forrester, Richard Griggs, John Higginson, Matt McCowen and Barney Mundell. The senior hockey team was captained by Julian Newhill. The team played four matches, won two and drew two, which left the House in third position at the end of the tournament — a disappointing result, as on paper our team appeared to be the elite of all the Houses. Goalkeepers Rob Hiles and Neil Ghosh made up very well for the lack of goal scoring ability by saving many excellent shots at our net. The junior hockey team did not

Finally, I would like to thank the U.6 for all their support and record that all the U.6's gained their House Colours for their co-operative attitude and positive contributions to the House. This goes for Heather and Sarah who weathered the normal storm of coming to a "boys" House and proved themselves to be splendid members of the House. I hope their commitment will be mirrored in years to come as the current fifth form have a rather disappointing negative view of things at the moment. I do not want to finish on this note but the ethos of a House depends on all in it and is therefore a reflection of us all. Most of the time things have been good but there have been distressing incidents which all those involved should learn from if we are to become a stronger and happier unit. Finally, I would again like to thank Stephen Brown and Clive Blacker for their endless support this year. P. J. Stephen 18

have outstanding success, making the second round to discover their goalkeeper was at home and was bravely substituted by Andrew Wallis without pads! The yearly Inter-House Cross-Country was a mixture of success and failure, with Matt McCowen running in with first position in the senior event. Unfortunately Paul Reah was unable to run and the team was not able to qualify due to the lack of runners and Barney Mundell being disqualified. Those who ran were Matt McCowen, Adam Dean and Roger Sangwin. As is now tradition in the Manor the House enjoyed a superb dinner at the Christmas Party which was followed by videos. The night was enjoyed by all and will be memorable for some many years.

The group hopes to make some live recordings and videos next year while concentrating on an album and concert in the near future. Shan Sriharan had continued success with The Fetish and has passed on his abilities to a number of others in the School who are now forming their own bands. Despite a few hiccups and the loss of a very popular member of the House, the year has been most enjoyable and a friendly and close atmosphere was maintained throughout'the House. I wish all the upper sixth and fifth forms who are leaving the best wishes for the future and hope those who are remaining at the School continue to enjoy House life and being part of the Manor. Paul Reah

Easter The House also has many young members in the Boat Club who are coxing for older crews, namely Marcus Buckle, James Dunn, John Holgate and Matthew Scholefield. Roger Sangwin and Angus Lancaster spent much of their spare time restoring a double skull, producing a boat as good as new which was very much appreciated by the Club. The House did much better this year in the Great Egg Race, the only non-sporting Inter-House team event of the year, than has been achieved previously. The team of Dominic Bundy, Simon Powell, Shan Sriharan, Pete Wade and Andrew Wallis came a very close second just being beaten by Dronfield.

QUEEN'S I would like to begin by congratulating Victoria Inness, in her second year in Queen's, on being chosen as the first ever Head Girl of St. Peter's, for which she received the K. H. Rhodes Prize at Commemoration. Hers was a hard job to 'invent' and she has made a great success of it. The position of girls in the School in general has been much enhanced by her work; and I am particularly grateful for the role model she has provided for Middle School girls in the first year of the House going fully coeducational. She has combined hard work (and we wish her every success in her future academic career) with membership of the most successful girls' crew in the history of St. Peter's rowing. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that the first girl ever to be Head of Queen's, Helen Benton, has recently rowed for the Cambridge Lightweight Women's crew in the Boat Race and many other regattas. I also wish to thank Alex Gage for undertaking the difficult job of Head of House for this academic year. This is never an easy job, and he has performed it with tact. The present friendly atmosphere in Queen's owes much to his example. The girls who took on the task of converting the House to the virtues of true co-education must be mentioned. At the top, with Vicki Inness, Louise Blackburn has set a fine example of academic endeavour, generous work for others, and steady friendliness to junior members of the House. Congratulations to Vicki on winning the Senior Reading Prize, and to Louise on her Walter Smith Prize for Biology. We shall miss them both. A group of day girls were bold (or foolish?) enough to join our fourth form at the start of the year. They have at times proved a distraction to some of their peers, but coped very well with the change and have become a very positive influence. In the third form, those girls who came to us from St. Olave's have worked very hard indeed: their tally of 'A' effort grades at each order puts to shame the total gained by some common rooms of boys over entire years in the past. Congratulations to Zoe Clark on winning the third form Essay Prize; and to both Sally Marshall and Jenifer Swallow on their Third Form Prizes. The House's sporting involvement has been very wide. While I apologise for not mentioning everyone I should,

Summer On the cricket square the senior team met The Rise in the first round and were knocked out of the competition. A batting collapse left the team with few runs, but Rob Hiles, who caught out the first team captain, and Dominic Bundy with some accurate bowling both played well for the House. Very little of Sports Day was run due to rain causing a postponement and then cancellation of the event. However, the few events that were completed were a success for the Manor. Tom Duncan won the junior shot putt with some very powerful throwing which left him within one metre of the School record. Paul Reah lapped the rest of the field and won the 3,000 metres and Richard Griggs did very well with second place in the discus. At the time the meet was called off the Manor was in a strong position and stood a good chance of retaining it throughout the remaining events. Away from the games field some members of the House were also very active. The House has a number of very promising musicians of both traditional and modern ilk. Antony and Tim Dunn, Matt McCowen and Shan Sriharan all played in many concerts at School of traditional nature. Antony Dunn wrote and produced the musical 'Deep Water' which was a success outside the School. A number of bands were formed or led by members of the House including Q. T. Jones and the Swankers, which comprises Simon Coulbeck, John Holgate, John Bel ton and Paul Gorman from the Manor. 19

I am pleased to have seen Queen's representation in School teams in rugby at all levels. Alex Deighton and Lawrence Patton were a powerful presence in the First Fifteen, while Chris Richardson, Stuart Clarke, Oliver Gardner, Angus Iveson, Gary Keenan, Jason Bailey, Anthony Killip and Richard Musgrave all turned out for other School sides. Chris Richardson, Stuart Clarke, Tim Cordier rowed regularly, while Stephen Harryman, James Hague and Vicki Inness were awarded their colours. James Thompson, David Baldry and Richard Pipes played tennis. Oliver Gardner played squash. Victoria Robinson and Emily Strong played netball and hockey. Alex Deighton played hockey also, as did Alex Gage. We have had very strong cricket this season, winning the Senior Competition and only losing the junior after a tremendous fight-back in the final by Mark Ludiman and James Fieldsend for Temple. At School level, James Rigby has been appointed Captain of the Eleven for next season. Both he and Nicholas Twigg led the side for some matches this season. Alex Deighton, Oliver Gardner, Angus Iveson and Richard Musgrave have all been in the Firsts. In the juniors, Hugh Shedden, Richard Musgrave and Fraser Black have all attained area representative status outside the School. The House swimming was terrific: Queen's were second in the Standards Competition; and at the Gala the fight went on to the very last race: we simply had to hope that The Rise would come last in the final relay — but they showed their usual spirit, did better than that, and won the Cup. Again Queen's were second. The team of Oliver Gardner, Richard Pipes, David Baldry, Dan Britton and Gary Keenan won the House squash final in a good match against the Manor. We were second in the senior long jump, where Andrew Berrington himself gained second place and Richard Shaw came third.

results this summer, and to those people who are leaving Queen's. The thirty-third Queen's Club Dinner will take place on Friday 27th December: any past member of Queen's interested in attending is invited to contact David Hughes at Queen's House. I know I have omitted many good things in this account of the year in Queen's: I hope those I have neglected will forgive me. The House seems to be a happy and successful place: I hope we can find ways of continuing to build on this. D. J. Hughes

THE RISE Christmas

Music continues to be strong indeed: our representation in the choir is good; we have many players in various bands and orchestras; it is a recurrent pleasure for me in my musical ignorance to read termly reports on how well many are learning to play different instruments. Nicholas Strong, Cherry Alton, Zoe Clark and Rebecca Gilbert have all succeeded in Associated Board examinations this year. Sarah Glover, James Hague, Emily Strong, Richard and Christopher Payne, Alastair and Cherry Alton, James and Alistair Rigby, Lawrence Patton — with all these musicians, the House could (or should?) soon produce a home-grown concert.

The beginning of a new academic year saw twelve new juniors enter the House, nine of them being former Olavites. There was also the entry of one new Lower Sixth member and Christopher Caldwell joined the House from the Grove. The Christmas Term saw many Risites eagerly taking to the rugby field, as usual. Particularly impressive was the number of Risites who played for the 1st XV. For the majority of the matches, at least five Risites represented the top team and altogether eight Risites played at some point in the season. Philip Brown, James Mee, Karl Schoeman, Jason Morris and Anshuman Mondal are to be congratulated on the award of their 1st XV colours. The Rise was strongly represented in all other levels of School rugby, with no fewer than 60% of the House turning out regularly every Saturday. The undoubted highlight of the term was the Senior House Rugby Competition, in which the Rise was strongly fancied and (not surprisingly!) the number one seed. Having achieved a bye in the first round, the House went on to face a young School House side, and comfortably won 23-0 in the semi-final. The final saw the House pitted against a stronger, heavily determined Manor side. The match was a fine contest but the House pulled through to win 14-7, enabling Philip Brown to collect the trophy for yet another year.

Barry Daniel Awards were gained by Stephen Harryman, for his B.S.E.S. expedition -to Svalbard/Spitsbergen, and by Charles Barlow for an autumn journey to Northern India. Pastorally, the House has developed a scheme whereby tutors, pupils and parents meet at crucial stages in a School career to talk about times and decisions lying ahead — how to tackle G.C.S.E. or A-level revision; how to choose a course in higher education. This has helped to bring people together; and examination results have been very good indeed. I owe thanks to Derek Paterson, Ian Lowe, Andrew Wright, Ian Lancaster and Liz Wymer for all the help they have given me and the House in the last twelve months; and I give my good wishes to those awaiting

The final week of the Christmas Term was celebrated by the House party, drawing out the imagination of the House in some excellent fancy dress costume design. The eventual winners were Simon Penny with his "Baby" and Matthew Abbey for his "Convict" look. The year group "drama" prizes were again keenly contested and many thanks go to Jason Morris and James Mee for hosting such a superbly enjoyable show. As tradition demands, the House are again joined together to sing "Carmen Surgentum" with the lead parts again taken by the mellifluous trio of D. H., A. J. I. and S. C. H. A highly successful term ended on a high note with the award of the much coveted Senior House Colours to James Mee, Philip Brown and Karl Schoeman. 20

against an evenly matched Manor side, and due to very enthusiastic bowling and fielding the House overcame their opponents convincingly. The next encounter against the Grove was far from convincing but was well won nevertheless. The final saw the House confronting the outright favourites, Queen's. The team bowled and fielded extremely well to bowl Queen's out for just 59, however the batting let us down and we fell two runs short. The junior side opened their competition with an even more emphatic victory than the seniors to overcome the Manor. Special mention must be made of Michael Davies who scored a century. In the next round the juniors came across the favourites, Queen's, who proved to be too strong and the batting House side was overcome — but not without a fight. Apart from cricket, there were many members of the Boat Club who achieved notable successes throughout the summer. James Mee and Joshua Rowe were both part of regatta winning crews and both should be congratulated for attaining their School Colours. The Athletics Competition was sadly cancelled this year due to bad weather. A confident House Athletics team were denied the opportunity to defend the shield. Academically, many members of the House gained merits throughout the year and James Mee is to be congratulated on winning the Skrentny Prize for creative writing. To conclude the year, The Rise was again awarded the Oxford Cup for the sporting successes over the year. The Summer Term also sadly saw Mr. Hirst having to be away from the House due to ill-health. However, all was not lost as Mr. David Watkinson ably stepped in a term early to take over the House. We wish him every success in the ensuing years as Housemaster. Finally, all that must be said is a fond farewell to Mr and Mrs. Hirst who retire at the end of the year. They will be missed in and around the House and we all wish them well for their retirement and thank them for their efforts towards the House over the years. SURGAMUS! Anshuman Mondal

Easter The Easter Term, far from being a step-down after such a highly successful Christmas Term, proved to be even more successful. The House saw the appointment of two School captains, Anshuman Mondal for Hockey and James Mee as captain of Boats. Joshua Rowe joined us from Australia to lend his weighty presence to The Rise for two terms. The House was again well represented in all levels of School activity, sporting and intellectual — hockey, rowing, squash, junior rugby, chess and debating. There were three regular Risites in the Hockey 1st XI, with the captain, Anshuman Mondal, and the goal-keeper, Gareth Silverwood, both receiving their Hockey School colours. The former is to be congratulated on the award of his hockey cap. The Inter-House competitions began with the Senior and Junior Cross-Country. Morale was high in both camps and this showed in the confident running by both teams. David Thompson's outstanding run, which earned twelfth place was particularly notable. In the overall result, the Seniors came a very creditable third. The Juniors, however, were not to be overawed. Fine runs by everybody and especially Richard Ambrose, Timothy Davies and Rhys Silverwood meant that once again the Juniors carried off the Cross-Country trophy. However, the two greatest highlights of the Easter Term were still to come. First came the Junior House rugby. An unseeded and unfancied side led by Joel Ward produced a quite outstanding performance to beat the favourites, Queen's, in the first round 18-0. From here on the side never looked back, and the excellent commitment shown in training paid off when, in the semifinal against School House and with only fourteen men, they came through to win 28-13. This pattern was followed in the final against Manor when, with no spare players, the side scored two very late tries to win 8-4, and so enable The Rise to achieve "the double". The success continued in what was perhaps the greatest House effort for many, many years — the Swimming Gala. The Juniors again won the Inter-House Swimming Standards, and in the Gala, fine swims from the entire House team brought victory to The Rise. In an excellent competition, The Rise won the trophy on the last relay and special mention must be made of Karl Schoeman, the captain, who won all but one of his three individual races and led very much by example. This trophy was won for the first time in many years, and a jubilant House team allowed Mr. Hirst to share in their delight by a wonderfully staged "push/throw" into the pool!

SCHOOL Christmas The year began with ten new third formers being welcomed into the House. Two sixth formers, John Davidson and Paul Carvosso, rejected by their day Houses, were also allowed to join up. The top floor shoe box was found to be a lot smaller than the Davidson residence but at least it could be visited legally. Ben Taylor was Head of House, Rene Freling and John Davidson were School monitors and Mr. Richard Wallace was also welcomed as an Assistant Housemaster (much to the delight of B. T.) The 1st XV was graced with the enormous presence of Peter Midgley, House rugby captain, and Paul Carvosso propping up the front row and with Gavin Proudley flying down the wing (and the stairs at 8.19'/2 a.m. each morning for breakfast). However,

An excellent term was rounded off by the award of Junior House colours to Richard Ambrose, John Langford, Rhys Silverwood and Andrew Fotherby who also won the "Jackpot" for this term, taking over from Tim Davies, who received this at Christmas.

Summer The final — and busiest — term of the year started almost immediately with the Senior Cricket Competition. A fairly unfancied team took to the field in the first round 21

Backhouse, Gordon Gibb, Alistair Hall, Nicholas Middleton, a Lincolnshire junior county cricketer, and Daniel Sumpton saw us through to the semi-finals, repeating their rugby success in the previous term with much the same names representing School teams, then. The Inter-House athletics was washed out twice though we had high hopes as Gavin Proudley (team captain) had already represented the district and the county at schoolboy level. Our prize winners on Speech Day were Ashoke Kundu, Peter Midgley, Edward Carling and Ben Taylor, yet apart from personal or team successes that stand out, it is impossible to record the many everyday occurrences which happen and bring a smile to people's faces or remain a talking point for a day or so. The success of the House is not just measured by the silver on the sideboard, but also by the way House spirit and the camaraderie within the House are generated — so ably led by Ben Taylor and all the upper sixth who along with Chung Webster-Lam leave this year with all our best wishes for success in the future.

the senior team fell to The Rise in the semi-finals but were filled with some twelve School rugby players who went down fighting. Higher education choices loomed large on the horizon for the upper sixth and special congratulations must go to Ben Taylor and Peter Midgley who gained places at Oxford and Edward Carling who gained a place at Cambridge — a mention ought to go also to Atanu Roy for what was a sterling effort on his part. Peter Nowell also deserves a mention for his excellent portrayal as Professor Higgins in the School's production of "My Fair Lady". As the term crawled into its fifteenth week, one fourth year could no longer take the strain and so needed to take a few days off and so reminiscences of parties, airing cupboards and the upper sixth Video Club all merged into the maelstrom of a Christmas disco to round off the first term. Easter The Easter Term saw Adam Waters, Marc Mitchell and Charles Pugh representing the School Hockey 1 st XI with Gavin Proudley and Rene Freling and others representing senior sides. Mark Pyrah was School captain of boats with Christopher Rowland, Joby and Ben Taylor, John Davidson and Simon Bowen also representing the School's Boat Club. A junior hockey side, led by Matthew Todd, won the Indoor Six-a-side Competition, the Senior Five-a-side soccer reached the semi-finals and the swimming team amply led by Peter Midgley came a creditable third, partly due to the success of James Meaden and his unusual starting technique. Cross-country insanity occurred under Peter No well's long stride with the seniors coming fourth overall with Gavin Proudley in fourth place and Adam Waters in seventh, and the juniors came a close second overall with Gordon Gibb the junior winner and Michael Lang coming in seventh — Gordon in fact went on to run in the English Schools Cross-Country Championships representing Yorkshire later on that term. The senior squash ably led by Michael Lang went out to the eventual winners, the Manor, and mention of School choristers and musicians ought to be included: Charles Metcalfe, Justin Brayshaw, Christopher Rowland, Michael Simmons, Matthew Todd and Dominic Greeves instrumental prize winners along with Andrew Moxon. The dreaded trial exams took their toll and a well deserved Easter break could not come too early — particularly for some already rejected by Salford University!

J. A. Owen-Barnett

TEMPLE Christmas Term began by Temple becoming one of two day Houses which has become completely co-educational. Happily, the transformation had occurred extremely smoothly with the girls quickly becoming integrated members of the House. We also welcomed Mrs. Julia Stanley into the House as a Tutor and Assistant. Three weeks into the term, the School undertook the monumental sponsored walk from Boroughbridge to the School along the River Ouse and the House managed to raise a large sum of money. Temple's tradition of raising money for charity was continued by Gareth Kay, Tom Beaufoy and Adam Hardisty who are all members of 'The Fetish' band who held a concert in aid of the School's Amnesty International Group. Musical talent in Temple continues to flourish with Martin Kershaw, Alex Weir, Simon Gildener and Tifanny Richards contributing greatly to the School band and orchestra. Congratulations are in order for Tifanny Richards in that she is now a member of the National Youth Orchestra. Tarik Tutill has also achieved a singular success this year by gaining a Flying Scholarship from the R.A.F. Temple's sporting achievements have also been of great note recently and in the Senior House rugby matches we lost in a very hard fought match 8-0 to Manor who were the eventual finalists. Then in a friendly match against Clifton we won 10-8 in an outstandingly highspirited match. As a result of the two matches Mark Ludiman received his House junior colours. The School production of "My Fair Lady" was a great success and we congratulate Ellis Parry for his leading role in the play. But it has not been smiles all the way for Temple, for one or two tears of sorrow were shed upon John Davidson's departure to become a boarder in School House. He was a great asset to the House and we thank

Summer The Summer Term was a great success. The senior indoor hockey team followed in the footsteps of its junior partners to win their Inter-House competition. The junior soccer also triumphed, through skill, to win their competition. Tennis saw us beaten finalists with all our players representing School teams — Adam Waters, Marc Mitchell, Richard Tucker, Rene Feling, James Swallow and Andrew Farrow. The great game cricket saw Paul Carvosso and Charles Metcalfe open the batting for the School 1st XI though the latter did not complete the season, finishing the year off a little earlier than the rest of his year group. Junior School cricketers such as Michael Lang, Matthew Todd, Jonathan Brooks, Edward 22

him for all his contributions to Temple and for his afterdinner speech at the House Sixth Form Christmas Dinner.

Templites played leading roles in the organisation and production, namely Steven Clegg, Matthew Pittman, Simon Frost, James Fieldsend and Tom Beaufoy. Andrew Collier is to be congratulated for a quite outstanding musical production.

Easter The Easter Term gave an overall impression of being dominated by outstanding individual efforts, primarily because the House swimming and cross-country competitions did not fulfil all our expectations. Nonetheless, the House five-a-side team fought valiantly under the guidance of Nigel Dawkins but the undoubted sporting highlight for Temple was achieved on the rugby field. The House junior rugby performances were inspirational throughout the term and culminated in the winning of the junior seven-a-side cup. James Fieldsend's captaincy and the spirit of the team were quite exceptional. As a result, Ewan Graves-Tamvakis and James Fieldsend both received their junior House colours. Spirits were boosted time after time by some excellent performances from a truly talented band by the name of 'The Funky Chicken' whose members include Gareth Kay, Adam Hardisty and Jon Firth who have all worked very hard to give such enjoyment to the whole School and the York music scene. Gareth was elected Vice-President of the Debating Society and President of the Amnesty International Group. Furthermore, Temple continued to contribute greatly to the School orchestra and band and Andrew Collier's musical talents were done full justice in the play which he co-directed, 'Deep Water', which was performed in St. Michael-le-Belfrey church. Several

Summer Temple greeted the Summer Term with three Templites earning places in the First Eleven, namely David Tunstall, Tom Reid and Charles Roberts. Congratulations are also due to Sulieman Al-Bassam for captaining the tennis team to the prestigious National Finals in July. This term was definitely the most successful in terms of sport, for although we lost narrowly to Queen's in the semi-final of the Senior House cricket, James Fieldsend and Mark Ludiman stormed the crease in the junior event and enabled us to defeat Queen's juniors with two balls to spare. The House Tennis Cup was also retained for the third year in succession by defeating School House in a match full of intrigue and suspense. As a result of our outstanding results and the effort exerted, Nigel Dawkins and Charles Roberts received senior and junior House colours respectively. We congratulate Tifanny Richards and Gareth Kay on their School monitorships and Simon Gildener on his appointment as Head of House. We bid farewell to the U.VI and the academic year comes to an end with Temple brimming with community spirit and pride of achievement. Sulieman Al-Bassam

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BISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON That's what those young Chinese protesters were saying and doing, and for which many of them of course lost their lives. And this is the challenge which confronts the Christian Church throughout the world. And how in fact is the Church responding to this challenge? That's the question. To me it is an almost incredible thing that here, confronted with this challenge to what we profess to believe, we do not rise up with one voice, because we are so preoccupied with sustaining the institution to which we belong, the institutional Church itself, that we haven't the time. We're so concerned about the ordination of women and other things, each in its own way no doubt very important within the Christian institution but basically of no significance compared with the challenge of today. For me there is one country that is at the heart of that struggle — South Africa. There are very few advantages in being as old as I am, but there are some. For me the greatest advantage and the greatest blessing has been to have been involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa for forty-six years. For me Nelson Mandela is not a distant symbol: we worked together; we protested together against the evil of apartheid, in my case as a direct response to that which was destroying a whole community. There is talk of reforming apartheid today. You cannot reform apartheid. Apartheid, like slavery, like cancer, is irreformable, because it is basically and fundamentally evil, and all the evils which have beset the people of South Africa for most of this century have sprung from a conception which is diametrically opposed to the fundamental belief that as Christians we profess to hold. We say in our creed, and we repeat in our hymns and our prayers, that we believe that God is not someone out beyond the shining of the farthest star, but that he has given to every single human being, across every barrier of race and colour and creed and culture and language, an infinite and unassailable dignity. Apartheid denies this. Apartheid from its very conception asserts that this is not true, that those of one colour and one race are in fact inferior to those of another; and not just that they are inferior, but that they must understand this inferiority, accept it, live by it, and to that end all law and all custom and the entire constitutional frame of the whole country must be put forth as unassailable itself. That is apartheid.

BISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON In March of this year, shortly after the release of Nelson Mandela, we were privileged to receive a visit from the Rt. Reverend Bishop Trevor Huddleston, CR. A former Bishop of Stepney and Archbishop of the Indian Ocean, Bishop Huddleston is best known for his work in the struggle against apartheid, both in Africa and in this country. Bishop Huddleston gave an address to the School at Evensong on Sunday, March 9th, and at Chapel the next day. Below we print the abridged text of his Evensong address: I would like to begin with something that is familiar to many of you, when we were looking night after night at the events in Tiananmen Square in Peking, until that moment when the whole square was empty except for a column of tanks bearing down across the square to clear it. There in their path stood one of the young students who had been taking part in that great demonstration for freedom. And he stood alone, and the first tank came within about six feet of him and stopped, and he stood. The tank swerved away to the right and he moved with it, and he stood. The tank swerved back again, and again he moved with it, and he stood, a tremendous symbol of that inexpressible power which sometimes takes hold of frailty and weakness and makes it so strong that it is irresistible. And the text which I have chosen tonight, which I hope you will take out with you into the world, has a bearing on that symbol, on that moment. It's a very simple text, one which you can't easily forget, and it says this: "We are not in search of death; we are in search of real life". You won't find it in holy scripture. You'll find it if you look for it in a declaration made by those young students, some of whom went on a hunger strike in order to draw the attention of the world community to what they were trying to express. Those young students clearly were not Christians. They were brought up in an ideological framework of Maoism and Marxism or a combination of both, and yet that first paragraph of their declaration is the most profound Christian and religious statement that I have heard for many years. "We are not in search of death; we are in search of real life". That lies at the heart of the struggle for freedom at this particular moment in our history. What a privilege it is to be alive at this particular moment, when in an unpredictable and unaccountable way not only across Eastern Europe but across the world is the single determination to be free. To be free for what? To be free to be human.

I am not speaking as someone who has studied the subject, I am speaking as someone who has lived with it, who has seen in thousands and thousands of cases people who have been destroyed by it, their gifts and talents denied fruition by it. Repression of the most vile and persistent kind for over forty years has been enshrined in the laws of South Africa and imposed by military and paramilitary and police force on the entire black population. That is apartheid. 24

Where he lies with a bullet through his brain. The child is the dark shadow over soldiers On guard with their rifles, Saracens and batons. The child is present at all assemblies and law-giving. The child peers through the windows of houses And into the hearts of mothers. This child, who wanted only to play in the sun at Nyanga, Is everywhere. The child is grown to a man And treks on through all Africa. The child, grown into a giant, Journeys over the whole world Without a pass.

The basic law of apartheid was the law passed by the British Parliament in 1912 known as the Native Land Act, which defined 87 per cent of the total land area of South Africa as white — all the great cities, all the ports and harbours, all the best agricultural land and the gold mines, 87 per cent of that vast and rich country proclaimed as white, and 13 per cent set aside for native occupation. That act is still on the statute book. It has never been repealed. Over the years since the present government came to power, that act has been followed by act after act implementing it in different ways: for instance, the Population Registration Act, defining race by the colour of your skin and the kind of hair you have, that act which has brought untold misery to families, particularly to the coloured people of mixed race. They can find one child defined as black, another as coloured, and another as white. I am not exaggerating. I am saying this because today — thank God — we have cause for hope, we have cause for celebration. The sign and symbol of that hope and celebration is Nelson Mandela himself. He is the representative of hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been destroyed by apartheid, and are still being destroyed by apartheid as I speak to you. Of course, thank God for the signs of movement towards freedom and liberation in South Africa. But don't forget that apartheid is still there: not one single act in the whole apartheid structure has been repealed. Nelson Mandela steps out into a country in which apartheid is still as strong — and in many respects stronger — as when he went to prison. And so we are at the beginning of the end. "We are not in search of death; we are in search of real life." That's the inspiration. That's the challenge of this present moment. And isn't it something to thank God for that we can play our part, each single one of us, in making certain that that evil is destroyed, not in five years, not in five months, not in five days, but now? We must keep up the pressure. So, the challenge remains. Are we prepared to respond to it? I believe that as Christians we have no option. I challenge you to think in what direct way, within the democratic structures of this country, you can realise that challenge. I shall be meeting Mandela in a few days, after thirtyfive years, thirty-five years in which he has not been allowed out and I have not been allowed in. I want to quote, to end my address, the words of a very remarkable white Afrikaner South African poet, Ingrid Jonker, who was consumed by a dark foreboding and overwhelming despair, and committed suicide at the young age of thirtytwo. Before she died she wrote this about her country:

Where, then, is the hope? Everywhere. I am not an optimist, I am not euphoric about the marvellous things that have been happening in the last few weeks. I am not so, because as a Christian I base everything on hope, on a future that accords with God's will and purpose in creating us in His image and likeness, taking flesh and identifying with us across all barriers, and from time to time in the long measure of history forcing us to answer the question: "We are not in search of death; we are in search of real life." Well, are we?

The child is not dead. The child lifts his fists against his mother, Who shouts "Africa!" Shouts the breath of freedom and the veldt In the locations of the cordoned heart. The child is not dead, Not at Langa, nor at Nyanga, Nor at Orlando, nor at Sharpeville, Nor at the police post at Philippi, 25

INTERVIEW During his visit Bishop Huddleston kindly agreed to be interviewed by the Peterite editorial team:

minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, and within that context he was a reasonable person, but not in terms of his political views. And so the whole thing moved into a different gear altogether. Up till then, in the five years before the Nationalist Party came to power, there was a whole battery of laws which separated black from white, particularly the pass laws — which were the most vicious part and continued so until about three years ago — but when the present government came to power, they embarked on massive enforcement. In the first place, they expanded the security forces tremendously, so that they had control. Then they passed various laws, like the mixed marriages and immorality act, which made it a crime to marry or cohabit. But the worst of all, apart from the group areas act, which was already really in force because of the background to apartheid which defined eighty-seven per cent of the land in South Africa as white, was the Bantu Education Act. This prescribed a totally separate education for black children. They had of course never been able to go to white schools anyway, but this embodied in law an inferior form of education. It was quite openly admitted. In the debate in parliament, Verwoerd, who imposed this law said, "We've got to show the native people that they are being educated for certain forms of labour". The phrase he used was that "there are green pastures in which they have no right to graze". That was the Bantu Education Act, which has been ever since the cause of rebellion amongst the young and increasingly amongst their parents. It has led to the fiercest battles, and I can honestly say that I knew it would. When that law was passed, the then Bishop of Johannesburg and I, who had control of the church schools, closed all the schools, sooner than accept the education act. We were the only diocese that did this, and it caused a lot of rumpus, because we were accused of throwing thousands of kids on the street. It was true, but nevertheless we preferred to do it that way, and I think we've been proved to be right, because the Bantu education act has led over the last six years to the student body being at the very centre of the rebellion. Mandela said this in his first speech, in Cape Town. He paid great tribute to the young, because in effect they were saying to their parents, "You told us that if we were obedient and went to school, we would have the opportunities you didn't have. You've deceived us. It hasn't happened". And they had this great walk-out from the classrooms in 1976, when thousands of kids all over the country just walked out of their classes, refusing to accept this education. For weeks they were met with massive force: six hundred were killed, even young kids of twelve. And when the new constitution was passed by President Botha, de Klerk's predecessor, and it prescribed a tri-cameral parliament — one house for the whites, one for the coloureds, one for the Asians — with a complete right of veto in the white house and totally excluding the black majority, then the schools erupted

How did you first get involved with the struggle against apartheid? I was sent out to Africa. I belonged to a religious community, the Community of the Resurrection. When I was a novice, it was war-time, and I was professed in 1943. At that time we had five houses in South Africa, and I was sent out to look after the whole area which is today Soweto. We had several churches and a large number of schools, and so it was a very big assignment. But I lived with the community and I had their support, and many of them had been out there for quite a while and knew a lot about it. So I was in a sense thrown in at the deep end, because I had never been to South Africa, but I knew quite a bit about it because of the work of the community there. I was placed in a very interesting area, because what is now Soweto is the most politically active part of the whole country, so I had to come to terms with it very quickly. And apartheid was the dominant issue. You couldn't avoid it, because the apartheid laws were so restrictive and destructive that people were really suffering. And these were my parishioners, so naturally I had to decide how to take action. That was how it all began. What was the situation in South Africa before the present Nationalist Party came to power? That's a very important question, because the present government in South Africa has been in power now for forty-two years unbroken. When it came to power I had already been in the country for five years. The war was over, the government of South Africa under General Smuts was on the winning side, and there was a tremendous feeling that there would be a move in a liberal direction. After all, the war had a lot to do with racism — Nazism was racism — and there were large numbers of refugees from Hitler's Germany in the white community, many of them Jews. They were distinguished people, doctors and so on, who had come to settle in South Africa, but they then found racism mere. Smuts, who was really the architect of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights, had been outside his own country for a long time during the war as a member of the war cabinet in Europe and then at the United Nations framing the charter. But the expected move in a liberal direction never came, and meanwhile the Nationalist Party had been preparing very carefully for the election. You've got to remember that those people who came to power in 1948 were all pro-Nazi. They had been interned during the war as actively supporting Hitler, so their racism wasn't just local. They came to power, actually, with a leader, Malan, who, looking back, was, pretty moderate. He was a 26

again. And so the young have played the most vital part in the struggle, because of the Bantu Education Act.

Many of the young blacks in South Africa have never known Nelson Mandela outside of prison. How much is he just a symbol to them, and how much is he a reality who can actually affect South Africa today? He's both, of course. All the time he was in prison he was a reality, albeit a distant reality. His name increasingly over the years stood for everything that they were determined to achieve in terms of ultimate freedom. I think this is where the international community and the anti-apartheid movement generally had a great effect, because the world was waking up all the time to the realities of apartheid and therefore even if you were a black African in an imprisoned society — which is really what it is under apartheid — you couldn't be prevented from having world news, although under the state of emergency the government has controlled the flow of news. It's only since de Klerk's speech last month that periodicals which have been banned for years have been able to speak freely again — it's rather like Gorbachov's Soviet Union in that respect. Nevertheless, Mandela was a symbol of what they all stood for, simply by being what he is. But the African National Congress operated from outside the country under Oliver Tambo, who was Nelson Mandela's partner in law. They were the first black lawyers to practise in South Africa. Tambo happened to be a schoolmaster in a school for which I was responsible, so I have known him intimately for over thirty years. And he's been the closest to Mandela of anybody, even though he hasn't been able to correspond or meet with him. He's the person that Mandela relies on now more than any other to brief him on the way things have gone. The African National Congress had to go underground, of course, and so thousands of young blacks became refugees — otherwise they were being picked up, imprisoned and tortured, continually. It's very difficult to understand how somebody locked up in prison could be such a powerful figure, and everyone was waiting to see even what he looked like. I could remember him as a young man, but I couldn't imagine what he would look like after thirtyfive years. It was an extraordinary experience, I must say, to see him. Those years, particularly the really tough years on Robin Island, had an enormous impact on him.

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The release of Nelson Mandela is a symbol of reform by the Nationalist government. How much of the reform is real, and how much is superficial? That's the key question. At the moment not a single apartheid law has been repealed. Apartheid is still absolutely in place, in exactly the same way as it was when Mandela went to prison. So there's a long way to go, but on the other hand it's dangerous to talk of a long way to go, because that gives the government the opportunity to procrastinate over vital reforms. My fear is that the same thing will happen in South Africa as happened in Namibia. After all, it's twelve years since the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 435, which declared that the South Africans must withdraw their troops forthwith from Namibia, and the United Nations must appoint a council to supervise free elections. And South Africa agreed to that, and then delayed at every point. So it has taken twelve years, and they want the same thing in South Africa, no doubt. Finally, do you think apartheid can be removed purely by negotiation? Yes, I think so. That's the one hope. I believe absolutely that there are only two alternatives. Either you end apartheid by negotiation, or apartheid is ended by bloody revolution, which would be an appalling scenario. If it came to that, I don't think the international community would allow the white minority to just smash the majority by force. They could do it, because they have got sophisticated arms, but in another sense they couldn't do it, because I'm sure that the movement is as irreversible — rather more so — in South Africa as it is in Europe. It's people's power, really. I think negotiation is not only possible, but essential, and I'm sure that de Klerk and those members of his cabinet who are supportive of him will win through. I say I'm sure, and of course nobody's sure of anything in this situation, but I think there's every chance. And certainly Mandela has already shown an enormous grasp of statesmanship. It's quite incredible really, when you think he has been locked away for so long. Thank you very much for talking to us.

Interview by Simon Gildener and Matthew Williams.

CHAPEL Today I would like to mention three artists in particular. The first is Duccio, a very early Florentine painter. His paintings had tremendous dignity, and one of his Crucifixions has this dignity, because it is so simple, like so much of early Italian Renaissance art. In contrast, Grunewald, working in Germany many years later, produced a crucifixion showing a macabre image of some carcass pegged out to rot. It is horrific in the extreme. Rubens, later again, painted a crucifixion, and I must say it doesn't turn me on in the least bit, in any direction. It looks like an overfed lump of a man with seriously high cholesterol level, more likely to die of cardiac arrest than of being crucified. I would love to hear these artists defend themselves from my bits of criticism. Duccio, being Italian, might well say, "Absolutely right; my paintings are simple". Grunewald, being German, would say, "Ja, mine is without doubt a carcass hanging to rot". But Rubens, being the suave, urbane man that he was, would probably pat me on the head and say "Run along, young man; you're out of your depth". Now I want to turn to my cross. Mine is meant to be thought-provoking. Mine speaks of swirling energy that begins in the centre and explodes outwards towards the extremities. Only then, when you approach the extremities, do I permit myself to hint at identifiable reality, with suggestions of hands and feet. I think that realism puts limitations on expression. One should be able to express an idea through the language of form, in the same way as music can through the language of sound. Mine says very little about death. Mine is concerned with the explosive spread of energetic Christian ideals, sparked off by this man of immense charisma. In the eyes of the establishment of his day he was a nobody, but they must have recognised his threat to their cosy world. Now, a brief word about the actual making of this cross. It is made of small fragments of blue glass, cut from fairly large sheets which came from Jarrow. I stuck these onto perspex, using an adhesive which doesn't actually set perfectly hard: I felt that if the breeze here in Chapel moved it, I didn't want the bits of glass to go pinging off. It wasn't easy to find an adhesive which was compatible with both glass and perspex. There are four threads holding it up, each with a breaking strain of thirty pounds. They are mono-filament, and they are photo-degradable, so I don't know how long it will stay up there without due inspection and possible renewal of the threads. The cross was made and hung up to correspond with the time of a confirmation service. I was not able to attend myself, but I did come in very early the next morning to see if it was still hanging there, because I did have this awful dread that it would come cascading down and possibly decapitate the Archbishop. I wondered whether it would have been put down as an act of God, or merely the fault of J. C. B.

CRUCIFIXION Our colour section shows a picture of the Chapel crucifix, made by John Brown. On March 7th he gave an address at morning Chapel on the subject of the crucifixion: Easter is approaching, and Christians' thoughts turn to the events that happened on Good Friday. Since I made this cross which is hanging up here, it seems perfectly reasonable that I should speak about it, but first I want you to ask yourselves why so many churches do have crosses hanging up in them or fastened to the wall or on rood screens. Why do they have these things? Is it to produce a sense of guilt in people, to make them feel contrite for the murder of an all-forgiving man so long ago? Some people, emotional people in particular, are moved to tears when they see these crosses with a figure of Christ on them. I know, because I have seen them. In the past there have been many sculptures and paintings of this crucifixion, all over the western world. Historically, the Church was the principal patron of the arts, and artists were asked to make these things in order to illustrate the Bible stories, so that people who were illiterate could understand them — a kind of visual aid, if you like.

Crucifixion by Grunewald.

cross which he created (photograph elsewhere) and on die theme of crucifixion and resurrection in art. The Leavers' Service on the penultimate morning of die academic year is die last occasion when the School, as it is dien constituted, meets togedier in Chapel. It is, I hope, a significant occasion for those who are leaving, for it is in Chapel, more dian in any odier place, mat die whole community meets togedier as a School. This year the address was given by Peter Taylor — unique among the staff for having been Housemaster for two groups of this year's leavers (those from School House and those from Dronfield). The Choir have sung more frequently in Chapel this year, and an increasing number of instrumentalists provide die introductory music for our weekday Chapel Services. I am grateful to them, and particularly to Andrew Wright, for all that the musicians contribute to our Chapel Services, and especially to the Carol Services at Advent and Christmas, the Commemoration Service and the School Eucharists. They also made a most significant contribution to our share in the revised Epiphany Procession at the Minster in January. In our charitable giving diis year we have supported three organisations: Open Door (a York-based counselling service for young people); the Yorkshire Kidney Research Fund; and the Church of England Children's Society. I began these notes by mentioning the importance of the material appearance of die Chapel. But die material aspect of such a building, what it looks like, is only half of my concern. Equally important is what the building feelj like: does it help to evoke the spiritual within us? During the summer term, from 9.30 p.m. to 9.50 p.m. on one evening each week, a group of staff and pupils have met togedier in Chapel to share a period of silence. The Chapel is not an easy building in which to be quiet. But the silence we have experienced has been deep, and has been an opportunity for peace, quiet and stillness in our very busy and often noisy lives. The silence has, for many of us, shown the truth of that ancient Egyptian proverb: "It is good sometimes to sit in holy silence. It gives a holiday to our senses and it helps our souls to hear''. What is Chapel for it it is not to help our souls to hear the voice of God?

Not so long ago, I was invited to make a real livelooking, or real dead-looking, figure of Christ on the cross, for a high church in York. I tell you this because of the impact it had on me. I was busy making this thing and modelling it, and since it was supposed to be representational and not just symbolic, I remember working very hard on the anatomy of the Christ figure. All of a sudden, and without any warning, I had this awful feeling of how macabre and utterly cruel is that method of killing people. Of course, this cruel method of killing people isn't used nowadays, but are we in our own way as cruel? I am thinking of those people who are captured and put into some place of keeping, and their loved ones never find out where they are.-In that respect, our cruelty is just as bad as the physical pain imposed on somebody being crucified.

CHAPEL NOTES - 1990 One of my constant aims as Chaplain is to try and create a sense that the Chapel is a unique building within the School. It is not a classroom or a rehearsal room or a concert hall or a theatre. Rather is it a building which should seek to convey, both materially and spiritually, something of die life and love of God. I will begin this year's notes with a reference to the material, and end them with a reference to the spiritual. The appearance of the Chapel has been greatly enhanced this year by the gift of an altar frontal from the Friends of St. Peter's School. It is a very fine and beautiful all-seasons frontal which has been made by a group of parents working under the leadership of Buff Reid. The gift" from the Friends included a matching set of eucharistic vestments which are worn at our three School Eucharists each term. (A photograph of die frontal and vestments appears in this edition of The Peterite.) I wish to record here my gratitude to die F.S.P.S. for a gift which will serve many generations of Peterites. We have been very fortunate this year with our visitors. In March, the preacher at Choral Evensong was Bishop Trevor Huddleston. His address is printed elsewhere in diis edition of The Peterite. It was a rare privilege for us to have him as our preacher. He inspired many on die Sunday evening and was able to stay to speak to the whole school in Chapel on the Monday morning. The Archbishop of York, Dr. John Habgood, presided and preached at our Confirmation Service in February. Other visitors have included the Archdeacon of York, the Venerable George Austin, who preached at Choral Evensong during the Christmas Term; Canon Robin Fletcher, the Rural Dean of York, who gave die address at our Remembrance Day Service in November; and the Reverend Stuart Taylor, the Director of the Bloxham Project. We again had a stimulating and challenging week's visit from Friar Barry Orford of die Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield. Good, internally-produced Chapel weeks have been led by the School's Amnesty International group and by John Brown, our Director of Art. J. C. B. gave a series of addresses which focussed our attention on the Chapel 29

COMBINED CADET FORCE

The C.C.F. continues to parade each Tuesday of term and its training is assisted by the professional expertise of the regular Army and R.A.F. The aim is to make each Tuesday afternoon both varied and interesting. -22 shooting, First Aid, skill-at-arms, patrol and ambush drills, fieldcraft, aircraft recognition and navigation are all core subjects, and some of the instruction is given skilfully by Senior Cadets. Complementary to this there have again been several excellent camps and courses which have been well attended by the boys and girls: Army and Air Cadet Leadership Courses, Air Experience, Flying, Gliding, and longer camps at Proteus, Warcop, R.A.F. Stafford, R.A.F. Newton and R.A.F. Laarbruch. The Green Howards have again given full support, particularly on arranging some active and very professional Field Days and we are grateful also for the help always on offer from the Prince of Wales own regiment.

compliment to all the cadets on parade and my warmest thanks go both to them and to all my officers, without whose dedication the contingent could not succeed. R. J. Bulcock

R.A.F. SECTION Section Commander: Fit. Lt. P. B. Jelbert, R.A.F. V.R. (T) Section N.C.O.: F.S. S. C. Bowen As usual the year began with the induction of new cadets under the leadership of Flight Sergeant Simon Bowen with the help of Gavin Proudley, Nigel Dawkins and Tarik Tutill, as Senior N.C.O.'s. The Christmas Term witnessed the first ever R.A.F. Section only team entering the Colts Canter March and Shoot. This not only ended in a pleasing result from the team but also, and perhaps more importantly, a defeat for the Army Section. The term also saw Section involvement in a field day with the Green Howards at Catterick where

The Biennial Inspection, by Group Captain P. A. Ryan, R.A.F., took place on February 27th and was one of our very best. After that inspection the District Commander's report concludes that we have "one of the strongest C.C.F.'s in the North East". This is a great 30

from Julian Bond's 'plane' (I use the word loosely), which unfortunately was followed by a loss of control ending in a steep nose dive from a biology lab window. I suspect that he did not have the trim quite right! At Easter Julian Bond and Anne Suttill visited R.A.F. Larbruch, a tornado station in R.A.F. Germany, for an overseas camp. This was Julian's second visit so he obviously feels that it is a very worthwhile experience. Throughout the year the cadets underwent instruction in drill, weapons training, and map reading, all of which was invaluable when they went to camp at R.A.F. Wattisham this year. Next year's Peterite will include a report of the camp. All that remains for me to say is congratulations to the two members of the section, Corporal Paul Carvosso and Corporal Michael Simmons who have gained R.A.F. Sixth Form Scholarships this year and also to those who have been awarded flying scholarships and gliding wings. I would also like to thank Fit. Lt. Jelbert and P.O. Ison for their help and encouragement throughout the year, witfiout which nothing would have been possible. It would not have been nearly as enjoyable.

the R.A.F. intermingled with the Army in various activities from unarmed combat to an assault course. The day finished with a full scale section attack on the training area. Meanwhile, at R.A.F. Leeming the new cadets experienced their first taste of flying in the Chipmunk aircraft. In February the biennial inspection was held at School. The inspecting officer was Group Captain P. A. Ryan, R.A.F., who commands the R.A.F. Regiment Training Centre at Catterick. The inspection was held in the Memorial Hall due to bad weather (typical), and immediately after members of the section left for Strensall with the Army Section to take part in field training and air rifle shooting. This year we have had much more air experience flying with eleven A.E.F. at R.A.F. Leeming than in previous years. A visit from a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter which provided a short flight around York for members of the Section and a day's gliding at R.A.F. Linton-on-Ouse have provided enriched opportunities for air experience during the year. With flying in mind the Junior N.C.O.'s sought to construct flying machines themselves this year. The visible result of their efforts was a stunning display of aerobatics

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It is impossible to watch a production of My Fair Lady without conjuring up a mental picture of Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway and the rest. Comparisons are inevitable. Ian Lowe's cast of actors and musicians can hold their heads up high when set against the stars of that classic film, and that is a measure of the success of this production. The difficulties in staging a show of this scale at a School are enormous. It requires exceptional talent to be able to act and sing and dance equally well. Very few of the great stars of stage and screen have been able to do it. (One is reminded of the famous comment made by a talent scout who had just auditioned a young man called Fred Astaire: "Can't act. Can't sing. Can dance a bit".) It is, therefore, asking an awful lot of School pupils to expect them to act, sing and move equally well, especially in an auditorium where the atmosphere and acoustics are unhelpful. To have staged a successful show within these constraints is a remarkable achievement indeed. The leading roles were taken by Sally Hamilton and Peter Nowell, both of whom performed admirably. Peter's diction was superb: he captured Higgins' dryly academic pedantry just right. He would probably have been happier in Pygmalion, because there was a touch of selfconsciousness about his singing and movement. Sally gave a magnificent all-round performance as Eliza: she was totally uninhibited in her movements and her singing, and was equally credible both before and after her metamorphosis by Higgins. You would have to go a long way to see a better individual performance in a School production. Ellis Parry gave capable support to the principals as the kindly old cove, Colonel Pickering, and Rachel Batty was suitably matronly as Mrs. Pearce. Nicholas Barham-Hall sang beautifully as the pusillanimous Freddy.

Eliza Doolittle Henry Higgins Alfred P. Doolittle Colonel Pickering Mrs. Higgins Freddy Eynsford-Hill Mrs. Eynsford-Hill Mrs. Pearce

Sally Hamilton Peter Nowell Leon Panitzke Ellis Parry Vicki Inness Nicholas Barham-Hall AH Holley Rachel Batty

• • • • • • • • • other parts played by members of

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CHORUS

Claire Altman, Simon Banks, Charlie Barlow, Louise Blackburn, James Bowling, Louise Copley, Charlotte Cranston, Lindsay Daniel, Jeremy Doncaster, Sarah Durham, Clare Farrow, Paul Ferrow, Sophie Greeves, Richard Griggs, Charles Metcalfe, Jane Mindenhall, Jason Morris, Rachel Robertson, Adrian Robinson, Paul Simpson, Richard Tucker, Emma Ward, Eleanor White, Kathryn Wood.

MUSICIANS Eleanor McCowen Jane Wright Martin Kershaw Timothy Dunn Bill Riley Sarah Glover Richard Pyne Matthew Williams Jose Honing Roger Carrington Shan Sriharan Alastair Alton Tiffany Richards Malcolm Brown Christopher Braganza Keith Pemberton Rehearsal pianist

The other parts gave the director plenty of scope for typecasting. That engaging, charismatic rogue, Alfred P. Doolittle, was played by that engaging, charismatic rogue Leon Panitzke. Mrs. Higgins, a lady who stands no nonsense, was played by the Head of School, a lady who stands no nonsense. Everybody else was played by everybody else. The musical accompaniment, under Andrew Wright's direction, was impeccable, and John Brown deserves credit for his set: the racecourse scene was particularly effective. Behind the scenes, James Butler flicked switches with well-oiled efficiency, while Kirsten Luckins and Dick Hubbard made sure that everything ran with the slick smoothness of a finely-tuned machine — or at least appeared to. It was a thoroughly enjoyable show, the noholds-barred rendering of "Get me to the Church" being especially memorable. Congratulations to all involved. D. S. Newman

flute oboe clarinet clarinet trumpet trumpet trombone .percussion violin violin violin violin viola cello bass .piano David Spencer

BACKSTAGE John Brown Jean Dench James Butler Chris Hall

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with the assistance of many other members of the School

ASSISTANT PRODUCER PRODUCER MUSICAL DIRECTOR DIRECTOR

Kirsten Luckins Dick Hubbard Andrew Wright Ian Lowe

David Newman for staging "The Gold of Lies" and "Package Holiday" and hence giving the opportunity for over thirty perspiring (O.K., perhaps I do mean aspiring, but it was summer and the "Package Holiday" cast did a lot of running) actors, actresses and stage staff to learn important skills. Neither play would win a prize for depth or subtlety, but each gives the chance for lively performances that was fully seized by what is clearly a talented year. Chris Braganza's natural confidence, Jack Weatherall's rapport with the audience and Vicki Gill's assurance and stage presence particularly caught the eye — three names to watch out for in the future. /. M. K. Lowe

DRAMA 1988-89 RETROSPECTIVE The academic year 1988-89 was a particularly impressive one for drama in the School with a major School production, two self produced lower sixth plays and two short third year plays. All five were performed in what is now the Alcuin Library and they made a fitting climax to that building's time as a Drama Centre. "Antony and Cleopatra" is a huge play both in its scope and in the demands it makes on its cast — so much so that it is rarely performed outside the professional theatre. For a School to attempt it (even in this scaled down "chamber" version) is a folly worthy of the lovers themselves, to make an audience believe the folly a glorious success is for art indeed to triumph over reality. The production's strength lay in its staging (Rome at one end of the Drama Centre, Egypt at the other and the conflict between the two worlds played out on a small stage in the middle) and in the strength in depth of the cast. Four actors inevitably dominated: Tim Cooper's cold, precise, computerised Caesar; James Berrington's cynical but emotional Enobarbus (whose memorable death was skilfully enhanced by James Butler's subtle lighting); Alan Chiswick's finely controlled Antony (a remarkable first stage appearance) and Lisa Myers' Cleopatra. While the part's "infinite variety" makes it impossible for any one interpretation to satisfy all the people all of the time, the intensity of her performance was achingly moving — to hear her "dream" speech on the Friday night was quite worth the loss of the material world. The whole production — modern dress, minimalist, fast moving from all directions — was very much in the Ian Lowe house style: it will be interesting to see whether the style changes if and when he has a new house to produce in. Certainly the style of "Absurd Person Singular" could not have been more different with the Drama Centre being used in a conventional, quasi proscenium arch way and to brilliant effect. This was one of the best pupil directed plays the School has ever seen: funny, moving and beautifully detailed with all six of the cast turning in assured performances. So good was the ensemble playing that picking out individuals seems invidious, but I will long remember Ellis Parry's hands and of the three very strong female roles, Kirsten Luckins' heartbreakingly funny failure to commit suicide. Judith Hopton and Andrew Heslop produced — and how! Peter Nowell and John Davidson took the responsibility for a version of "Rosancrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" using the wayward, but very considerable, talents of Chris Rod well and Leon Panitzke (or possibly the other way round) in the title roles. Their cutting had left the play itself almost incomprehensible but who cared (except for the odd pedantic English specialist) when each individual scene achieved a slickness and spontaneity that brought the house down. It wasn't Shakespeare, it wasn't even Stoppard but it was great entertainment. It was particularly pleasing to see two third form plays in the summer term. The shortage of staff able to find time to put on productions (do the junior games teams have similar problems?) means that middle School drama is far too often neglected. Special thanks therefore to

DEEP WATER Congratulations to all those Peterites who were involved in this production, which was staged in St. Michael-le-Belfrey Church at the end of the Easter holidays. Performed by the Teenact Theatre Company, this musical about Noah was written by Antony Dunn (script and lyrics) and Andrew Collier (music). Antony also directed the show, while Andrew organised all aspects of the production — a remarkable achievement for a thirdformer (or anyone else, for that matter). The show was a great success. The youngsters threw themselves into it with great gusto, enthusiasm and confidence, creating a superb atmosphere. What really struck me was how relaxed they all seemed to be, and I am sure that the fact that the show was all their own work played a key role here: in the absence of adults to point out all the things that could go wrong, they assumed nothing would and consequently nothing did. It was a joyous expression of the talent and exuberance of youth. The central figure of Noah was played by Antony himself, in laidback style. The script afforded him plenty of scope to deliver throwaway one-liners and nobody in the audience minded that the links with the biblical character were tenuous to say the least. He received excellent support from the rest of the cast, especially his three rock 'n' rolling sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, alias Matthew Pittman, Paul Sandle and James Fieldsend. James Fieldsend was particularly impressive, showing admirable stage presence. But it was Steven Clegg who stole the show as the camp, limp-wristed King of the Pirates (I don't remember them featuring in Genesis!). The musical accompaniment explored various different genres, in the style of a Rice/Lloyd Webber production. Some of the songs stood comparison with anything from Joseph, especially the irresistibly catchy 'Forty Days and Forty Nights' which concluded the first act and made a rousing encore. Many of the audience were still humming to themselves long after the show had ended. The show's impact was enhanced by radio throatmicrophones and special effects which added a professional touch to the production. Apparently another show is planned for 1991 with Andrew and Antony already hard at work preparing it. We look forward to it eagerly: if it's anything like this one it will be very entertaining as well as being great fun. D. S. Newman 33

Nicholas Barham-Hall played most poignantly the part of the boy genuinely and wholeheartedly in love with Eliza: one longed for Higgins to find the same unconditional capacity in time to avoid all the loneliness of being too late. Victoria Inness was superb as Mrs. Higgins, Higgins' mother: she dominated the scene in which Eliza's transformation was proved at the races. Her capacity to instill wisdom in her son was unquestionable — and interestingly a function of her own sense of the right order of things. This sense seems so much stronger in Higgins himself, yet in him is actually distorted by containing no acknowledgment of humanity — at least, until (almost?) too late. Colonel Pickering was a splendid foil to Higgins. Ellis Parry gave a gentle counterpoint to Higgins' interest in the experiment being conducted on Eliza. At first he portrayed Pickering as a gentle bachelor, slightly out of his depth in the intensity of Higgins' intellectual curiosity. But gradually it unfolded that Pickering's curiosity is much more securely founded than Higgins': its purpose is to learn the more and better about people (and it does lead to such understanding); while Higgins' intellectual curiosity is a means of occupying himself in the avoidance of having to confront knowledge about people — first of all, the knowledge that creatures like Eliza (whether we mean 'the lower classes' or 'women') are people; secondly (and perhaps even more problematically) knowledge about his own self and humanity.

MY FAIR LADY - a second opinion

I was struck first of all by the sheer energy of this production and then by the sense of space it conjured up from the cramped memorial hall stage. These impressions were in no small part due to the tremendous sets created by the Art Department: the bustle of the street, the detailed fussiness of Higgins' rooms, and the colourful tiers of the racecourse grandstand. They were confirmed throughout the action. As so often, Ian Lowe (type?)-cast brilliantly for the major parts and found nice touches for the others — even down to the opening in which the chorus moved through the audience — a way of making everything more intimate across the proscenium which can so often cut the stage off from the hall in here. Leon Panitzke, for instance, as Eliza's father, was a convincing blend of a man who wanted to deny all responsibility for his own failures and take as much as possible of the credit for someone else's successes — at any rate, until it all became too much for the old chap. Rachel Batty played Mrs. Pearce effectively. In a play which is so much about transcending barriers, she was a symbol of stability. By her very steadiness, one understood the magnitude of the task Higgins saw himself undertaking in the transformation of Eliza. Equally, her humanity gave early clues as to what Higgins might find in Eliza after close enough contact. Rachel acted the part of a convincing mediator between the two worlds, at the same time as making us aware that Higgins probably saw her as little more than a robot capable of serving him without fuss or error. 34

I entirely believed in Peter Nowell as Professor Higgins, the philologist and misogynist — perhaps to the point of seeing him as a misanthropist even more strongly. His performance made it clear that Higgins' dislike of women is powerful, at the same time as suggesting that even his relations with men are a matter of habit rather than choice: he gets on with them because he has got used to them through School and University as sources of knowledge or company rather than as people in their own right. The whole tenor of Higgins' investigation into language and dialect is to reduce the potential, the diversity, the variety of human life to predictable, analysable automatism. His treatment of Eliza is appalling; but Peter Nowell made us confront the realisation that Higgins' treatment of himself is just as harsh, just as dehumanising. Higgins' realisation about Eliza came over very poignantly: the scene in which Eliza confronts his conceit and self-absorbtion to make him realise that he is not — and does not want to be — entirely self-sufficient came across with enough force to make us wish the best for both of them. Intriguingly, it also came across enigmatically enough to leave us wondering what 'bests' these would be, and whether it could be the same for each. What is the 'happy ending' for the central people in "My Fair Lady"?

Eliza Doolittle was triumphantly portrayed by Sally Hamilton: if ever the impression of energy in the production might have faded, she prevented it. In the early stages of this part, a difficult double act is called for. Eliza needs to be convincingly a Cockney flower-girl, so much of the sound of Bow Bells that people like Mrs. Pearce and Colonel Pickering — and, for that matter, Professor Higgins — must see her as a member of a tribe so different that to pass her off as one of their own seems impossible. At the same time, the audience should be made aware of what Mrs. Pearce and Colonel Pickering would not think, and Higgins could not think, that she is 'gentle' in the most widely human sense of the word: she is already 'a lady'. Sally succeeded in this, partly through the longings conveyed in her songs, partly through the force of indignation she displayed when ill-treated by Higgins (notably strong when he slighted her as a lady), and partly through the dignity and determination with which she submitted herself to Higgins' regimen. She was entirely convincing in her transformation; and the strength of character with which she challenged Higgins' identity at the end was most moving. The musicians gave tremendous support to the drama: the rhythm of the whole production depended greatly on them, and they sustained it with vigour. They never overwhelmed the singers - which is difficult in the memorial hall — and they never lost the mood emanating from the stage: nostalgic, misogynistic, questioning, longing, triumphant, poignant. D. J. Hughes 35

MUSIC Two stage productions have also had major musical contributions mis year. 'My Fair Lady' reviewed elsewhere was a major undertaking and the ability of our instrumentalists to cope wim difficult music and the type of disciplines required from a pit orchestra was impressive. Similarly me orchestra provided for the Junior School production of 'Tom Sawyer' deserves congratulations. Our annual music competition proved as valuable and enjoyable as ever wim lively adjudication by Karen Evans.

MUSIC COMPETITION Senior Woodwind Senior Brass Senior Keyboard Senior Strings Tudor Howat prize for composition Junior Woodwind Junior Brass Junior Keyboard Junior Strings

Martin Kershaw Nicholas Barham-Hall Tifanny Richards Tifanny Richards

(clarinet) (euphonium) (piano) (viola)

Martin Kershaw Richard Hugill Dominic Greeves Lucinda Francis Jane Mindenhall

(saxophone) (trumpet) (piano) (violin)

Finale The last two weeks saw a period of frantic musical activity in preparation for Commemoration, Leavers' Service, Concert for the Duchess of Kent, visit by the band to Rowntrees and a joint concert with a choir from Norway. In my experience we have never rehearsed so much in a concentrated period and the results were plain to hear: greater stamina from the wind and brass players, tighter ensemble from all instrumentalists and singers, more attention to exact intonation and importantly a greater sociability and group identity witiiin each unit. On Monday 2nd July the choir of Osteroy Church near Bergen in Norway provided us wim an evening of church music including Allegri's 'Miserere', Bach's 'We Hasten' and two large scale English andiems:- Stainer's 'I saw the Lord' and Balfour Gardiner's 'Evening Hymn'. All were sung with enthusiasm. During the evening some of our School instrumentalists performed including Jane Mindenhall's (violin) well-controlled playing of 'Meditation' from 'Thais' by Massenet and Richard Hugill's lively and humorous performance of Paul Harris' Foxtrot on the saxophone. Katy Wood (violin), Claire Altman (flute) and Tifanny Richards also gave a breezy account of movements from Beethoven's Serenade.

GENERAL NOTES The Senior Band has had a busy year always producing enjoyable, stylish performances and providing important contrasts in our concert programmes. Their performances in the joint concert with Bromley School's Orchestra was especially notable; they provided die bulk of the programme in the Musikfest and then again featured in the Summer Concert. The Summer Term's final week saw them performing at Rowntrees factory for the centenary celebrations and on Thursday 5th July providing music to welcome the Duchess of Kent to the School. Many of the members also contribute so much to major musical occasions. The Brass group continues to be an essential element in our major Minster services and also has contributed to Chapel services, for instance the Choral Evensong when Bishop Trevor Huddleston visited us. A group from the band played at the Advent Carols by Candlelight — accompanying the St. Olave's Chapel Choir. Many members of die band will be leaving this year but we will have a large intake of brass and woodwind players in September.

The Royal Concert on Thursday 5th July was the musical highlight of the year. All the performers gave tiieir very best. The brass at the beginning was sonorous and majestic. The choir, all attentive, sang widi vigour, a sense of line and real contrast. The String Orchestra accompanied Claire Altman's beautifully measured flute playing wim great sensitivity. Mozart's 'Andante' from 36

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Trio in E flat was a performance demonstrating the developing chamber music skills of three of our finest musicians — Martin Kershaw (clarinet), Tifanny Richards (viola) and Andrew Moxon (piano). The St. Olave's Chapel Choir's account of two songs by Richard Rodney Bennett accompanied by St. Peter's Chamber Orchestra were vibrantly sung and the performances beautifully shaped by Jeffrey Gray. The concluding piece, 'Imperial March' by Elgar had all the necessary qualities to stir the hearts of the audience at the end of an excellent concert. The Commemoration service in the Minster was once again a very special occasion beginning with 'Rejoice in the Lord' sung at the West End and also including Charles Wood's magnificent anthem 'O thou the Central Orb' and Rutter's tuneful 'The Lord bless you and keep you'. These were all well sung and there were traces of tiredness after such a busy term. The brass provided the arresting opening piece ' Almande' by James Harding and also lively accompaniments in the hymns.

My thanks go to all singers and instrumentalists in the School for all the hard work necessary to maintain such a number of events and activities. Music, I hope, is touching the lives of more and more pupils in the School. As ever I greatly value the support of my colleagues in the department; Keith Pemberton whose administration of Associated Board exams, lunchtime concerts and tying up the loose ends I leave around is a tremendous help; Bill Riley whose sense of purpose, clear sense of direction with brass and woodwind, care for pupils and speaking up on their behalf helps us all try to keep a balanced approach. Jeffrey Gray's help with the choir has been invaluable this year and his sound advice on many matters a tremendous help. Roger Carrington's assistance and involvement in the orchestra is also a great asset. This year we welcomed five new members to the department. Kathryn Coombes (piano); Colin Honour (clarinet); David Riley and Ruth McCartney-Moore (singing); Raymond Cooper (saxophone and clarinet). All have already made significant contributions to the department. Our music staff day towards the end of the Summer Term was again a valuable occasion when, for once, most of us are together and can share experiences and try to plot the future. The concert in the evening was well varied and featured more singing than last year and the brass quartet's playing of Mozart's 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' was impressive. At the end of the Summer Term we bade farewell to three of our instrumental teachers: Edwina Smith (flute); John Burden (horn) and Alison Goffin (clarinet and saxophone). All have given good service especially Alison who completed seven years at St. Peter's but who now feels the need to have one day off a week! John Burden is leaving for Northern Ireland and Edwina Smith going tp study baroque and eighteenth century flute in London. We wish them all well and thank them for all their work for the department. To all those pupils leaving we also wish well and say thank you for all their efforts over the year. We hope that their interest in music will continue and grow further.

Concert in the presence of

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent on Thursday 5th July 1990 Almande

James Harding St. Peter's Brass Group Conductor Bill Riley

As Torrents in Summer Edward Elgar There was an Old Man in a Tree Matyas Seiber Hush Little Baby Trad. arr. John Blackwood St. Peter's School Choir Conductor Andrew Wright Rondeau and Badinerie J. S. Bach from Suite No. 2 in B minor Claire Altman (Flute) St. Peter's String Orchestra (Leader Shan Sriharan) Conductor Andrew Wright Andante W. A. Mozart from Trio in E flat Martin Kershaw (Clarinet) Tifanny Richards (Viola) Andrew Moxon (Piano) The Bird's Lament Richard Rodney Bennett The Lady Bird St. Olave's Chapel Choir St. Peter's Chamber Orchestra Conductor Jeffrey Gray Imperial March Edward Elgar St. Peter's Symphony Orchestra Conductor Andrew Wright 37

VISITING MUSICAL GROUPS One of the notable musical influences this year has been the visits by other young musicians. In November Bromley School's Chamber Orchestra gave a concert with our band and choir. The Orchestra, drawn from a wide catchment area in Kent, demonstrated clearly the highest standards that can be achieved by a youth orchestra. Our players and singers responded by raising their levels of performance. The orchestra's playing in chapel in the morning was also a revelation to the School. In the Lent Term a choir from Queensland — St. Peter's Lutheran Chorale — spent two and a half days with us. Rehearsing together, sharing experiences and on one afternoon participating in a workshop run by the young contemporary Australian composer, Stephen Leek. This was quite novel for our choir who took a while to 'shake down' but half an hour or so with some of our own pupils conducting we were producing some unconventional but satisfying sounds. The joint concert was one of the main landmarks of the year. The main work in the evening was a work by Stephen Leek 'Once on a Mountain'. The complexity of the vocal techniques required had the audience spellbound. The newspaper article spoke of the work's 'spine-tingling vividness' in evoking 'the richness of the country's natural heritage and native traditions'. Our choir responded with fine accounts of some tricky arrangements including 'Joshua fit the battle of Jericho' by Michael Brewer. It was, however, the discipline, presentation and dedication with which the Australians most impressed us.

CELEBRITY CONCERTS Each of the celebrity concerts has seen a good steady number of pupils and we hope that more will discover the enjoyment of these evenings. The Demon Barbers in September were a most versatile group singing intricate arrangements one minute, making animal noises the next, impersonating Donald Duck, singing through a teapot full of water and much else. Yorkshire Classic Brass in March brought some of the finest brass players in the North of England to the School. In the afternoon they provided a concert for some Junior School forms and then a workshop session for players throughout the School where they gave many useful tips and advice to our players. Marching through tea before the evening concert helped swell the audience. The costumed finale with Sousa marches, stylish cornet solos and sheer virtuosity was a delight. loan Davies ('cello) and Paul Mann (piano) provided an evening of 'cello sonatas in April. loan, whose wife taught at the School a few years ago, is a familiar figure in York and played with richness of sound which we expected. The Beethoven sonatas, particular favourites of his, were played with real intensity and feeling. At a special charity concert we were priviledged to have Stephen Varcoe (baritone) in May to give a concert with Peter Seymour (piano), Alan George (viola) and Yvonne Seymour (soprano). Stephen Varcoe's interpretations of English songs by George Butterworth and Gerald Finzi were as fine as one could want, excellently supported by crisp playing by Peter Seymour. With extra donations especially from the Yorkshire Bach Choir the charity Breath researching cot deaths was richer by over £400. 38

received. All those participating in the concert are justified in feeling proud of themselves.

MAIN SCHOOL CONCERTS The Autumn Concert was notable for evidence of the greater pupil numbers in the Choral Society. Their performance of Vivaldi's 'Gloria' was lively and effective and the solos by Judith Cunnold (soprano) and Gillian Parker (contralto) were sung with real style. Some of the instrumental items in the concert including contributions by the fourth form jazz group, Martin Kershaw (clarinet), Tifanny Richards (viola) and James Hague (trombone) earned the newspaper headline 'Hot-bed of musical talent'. The Choral and Orchestral Concert in February included Mozart's first horn concert with Antony Dunn as soloist. He produced a performance with poise, a sense of line and style. Faure's Requiem was given a good account with some well-controlled climaxes and some careful and effective ensemble in this introspective work. David Riley was the authoritative bass soloist and has now joined the department as one of our singing teachers. Guy Lewis was the junior School treble soloist in the moving 'Pie Jesu'. At the beginning of the concert the performance of Bach's third orchestral suite demonstrated the steady development of the orchestra. In March we held our Musikfest where most of the large School ensembles performed, the Senior Band starting proceedings with a stirring march — 'On the Quarter Deck' - and also including Hoist's difficult 'Suite in F' together with 'Basin Street Blues' and 'Birth of the Blues' all played with zest and style. The School choir's 'Seventy-six Trombones' and 'The heavens are telling' were lively and their performance of 'Country Dances' was a major achievement. Simon Frost and Antony Dunn, together with string backing provided excellent contrast with two songs 'Unaffected' and 'Catcher'. Andrew Moxon played two excellent solos — Poulenc's 'Cantilena for flute' and Grieg's 'To the Spring'. Both played with understanding and a highly developed sense of musical line. The evening concluded with a new venture, orchestra and band together playing arrangements of 'Girl from Ipanema' and 'So Nice' and concluding a lively evening. The Summer Concert began with Bach's second orchestral suite with Claire Altman (flute) who played with sureness of touch and bright full sound. Tifanny Richards (viola) with Glasunow's Elegie and Martin Kershaw (clarinet) with a movement from Poulenc's sonata both gave notable performances. The St. Olave's Chapel Choir joined the Chamber Orchestra under Jeffrey Gray for a performance of Richard Rodney Bennett's 'Little Suite' — a collection of songs about birds and insects. The consummate skill of the composer's delicate orchestration was well interpreted by all and the choir sang with a good full sound. Elgar's 'Serenade for Strings' — one of his own favourite works •— in the second half of the concert demonstrated how the School string players can now tackle major repertoire pieces. The Choral Society provided contrast during the evening with 'Folk Songs' arrangements by Vaughan Williams and 'Some Songs of Springtime' by Moeran. The Senior Band's concluding three items 'Souvenir de Tschaikovsky', Chopin's 'Etude Oplo No. 3' and 'Gypsy Baron March' were well

SCHOOL CHOIR The development of the School Choir this year has been one of the most pleasing aspects of the music in the School. After a rather poor start I asked Andrew Carter to give the choir a 'clinic' and suggest ways of improvement. Following his advice closely, and then fortunately seeing another choir (from Australia) do exactly what was required, the choir has developed in reading ability, attention to timing, strength of the top line and overall blend. More music has been covered this year because of this improvement including a most complicated eight-part setting of 'Country Dances', an amalgam of American folk tunes for voices by Ward Swingle. At the Christmas Carol Service the orchestra was used for the first time to accompany some of the carols including the 'Star Carol' which also utilised a unison choir. One of the moving moments of this service was the carol 'Iona', a carol contemplating the whole of Christ's life and death inspired by that spiritual island off the coast of Scotland. Nicholas Barham-Hall's tenor solo was beautifully sung. The Epiphany Procession at the beginning of the second term was given a new look with some different music and, more controversially, the processions shortened and simplified. The choir excelled themselves in what is always a special service. In the Choral evensong in the Easter Term two 'Warhorses' gave pleasure both to choir and congregation: Haydn's 'The heavens are telling' and Herbert Brewer's sturdy setting of the 'Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis' contributed to a special service at which Bishop Trevor Huddleston preached. The Summer Term saw further progress and the regular group coaching by our two singing teachers has had a notable effect in greater confidence and a purer tone. The last two weeks of the term were some of the busiest ever with the Duchess of Kent's visit and concert where three contrasted pieces were sung with style, and the Commemoration service in the Minster where one of the anthems, Charles Wood's 'O thou the central orb' proved a real favourite with the choir who gave a robust performance. Most pleasing to me was the choir's ability to tackle Stanford's 'Bead quorum' for the Leavers' Service. The very fact that the choir could even attempt such a tricky but masterful piece demonstrated the development that has been made this year.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

CHESS CLUB

The Amnesty Group started the academic year well by managing to attract a large number of members from all sections of the School, but mainly the Sixth Form. The Group took Chapel Services for a week to publicise the plight of prisoners of conscience and received a favourable response from the School. Funds were raised by cake stalls and a concert put on by "The Fetish" — for which we thank Gareth Kay who organised it. A letter-writing campaign on behalf of prisoners of conscience, as well as petition signing, attracted considerable support and interest from the School. Before Christmas the group arranged for Christmas Cards to be sent to prisoners of conscience signed by members of the School. Support for the group dropped in the Easter Term but a loyal nucleus worked hard under Paul Simpson's leadership. Paul's publicity posters for the group were outstanding. Gareth Kay, one of the original founders of the group two years ago, has been elected President for 1990-1991.

The Chess Club has not been as active this year as in previous years, but this may be due to its change of venue from room M to G2. However, the standard of play amongst the School team players has been consistently high. The senior team had a difficult start to the season narrowly losing many of their early matches, but recovered sufficiently in the second half of the year to finish just less than half-way up the York and District League. The Inter-Schools team has, on the other hand, had a very encouraging season being completely undefeated in the league and winning the K.O. cup for the third year running. This is an excellent result and will be a hard act to follow next year. This season has not been an easy one, but I should like to thank Mr. Ellis-Davies for taking over from Mr. Hardwick and seeing that so far as possible everything has run smoothly. I would also like to thank all those who have played for the School during the course of the past year and wish the team and future captain the best of luck for the season to come. Nicholas Barham-Hall, (Captain of School Chess)

R. C. G. Drysdale

DEBATING SOCIETY The last School year has been a difficult one for most societies, and the Debating Society was no exception. However, with much help from Paul Simpson's publicity and some interesting titles the society has continued to prosper. The Debating Society is now in a position where good speeches are almost always guaranteed and a warm welcoming atmosphere is provided. The speeches from the main speakers have been well researched and well delivered. Chris Braganza and James Mee have continued to give thrilling and eloquent speeches from the floor of the house and Simon Bowen's James Bond is second only to Sean Connery. Special thanks must go to Mr. Stephen who is giving up his role as Honorary President to take over control of the 1st XV. The society is lucky to gain Mr. Lawrence who will be a great asset as the new Honorary President. My best wishes also go to Adam Dean in his position as President over the forthcoming year. John Davidson

COMMUNITY SERVICE A very good year for Community Service with fiftynine boys and girls taking part. Most of the pupils visit old people in the area and several are helping at The Glen, a residential home for handicapped children. We have had our usual end of term tea parties with excellent teas provided by the kitchen staff. Various pupils and the band have kindly provided enjoyable entertainment. We have brought the old folk to concerts, Evensong and to the St. Olave's Play. We now have a ramp, kindly made by the maintenance staff. This enables us to get wheelchairs up the chapel steps. It is a two way operation for the pupils and older folk with both having a great deal to offer each other. M. E. Holt

SCIENCE SOCIETY DUKE OF EDINBURGH EXPEDITION

The Science Society heard lectures from the following people: Mr. Ian Lancaster spoke on 'The Chemistry of Oxygen'; Dr. Helen Atkinson on 'New Materials'; Mr. Peter Gibson on 'The Minster Glass'; Dr. Michael Tooley on 'The Greenhouse Effect'; Dr. Michael Green on 'Forensic Science' and Mr. Don Hamilton on 'The Physics of Music'. R. H Hubbard

On Saturday 17th March, after having waited nearly two years, we finally set off on our bronze award expedition. After four months in the planning we left School at 2.00 p.m. and arrived in Pickering to drop the other group off at 2.45 p.m. We then went on over the Moors to Grosmont, which was an experience in itself with Mr. Ison driving! We left Grosmont at around 40

3.30 p.m. and arrived in Goathland at the campsite at 6.00 p.m. After our dinner, which consisted of mince, potatoes and beans, we decided to light a fire which didn't actually get going until Mr. Hamilton had left us! The next day, after the coldest night of our lives, we made our way towards Pickering and despite getting lost and having to climb a one-in-one hill, we made it on time. All in all the expedition was enjoyed by all and we would like to thank Mrs. Holt for organising it. Ian Sharper

THE LEGACY - FOURTH FORM VIDEO Towards the end of the Summer Term some members of the fourth form made a ten-minute video which they entered for the Focus and Multibroadcast National Schools Video Competition. Written by Tim Dunn and Miles Layram, The Legacy featured Chris Braganza in a starring role with a strong supporting cast including Jon Lacy-Colson, Vicky Gill, Jack-Patrick Weatherall, Lucy Sampson, Miles Layram, Eleanor White, Stephanie Tilston, Eleanor Bowling and Jim Fieldsend. Mr. Andrew Ison also made a guest appearance in the cameo role of a taxi-driver, a part he played with his usual sensitivity — he should go far. The production team consisted of the two scriptwriters, Charlotte Graves-Tamvakis (graphics), Matthew Pittman (cameraman) and D. S. Newman (producer). The results of the competition will be announced in the autumn of this year.

The Funky Chicken.'

THE FETISH BIDS FAREWELL TO THE DRAMA CENTRE (11th October, 1989) After building a small following thanks to two gigs by the Outcast in the previous Summer Term, the Fetish decided to play their first headlining gig a matter of days before the closure of the Drama Centre for conversion into the new library. At about 8.30, the band came onstage to a packed Drama Centre. After a quiet start, the audience soon got into the swing of things and the Drama Centre was transformed into a floor of mad dancing. The band played a one hour set consisting mosdy of original material together with a few popular covers — particularly the encore of " 1969" and the crowd-storming "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" The band then left, leaving the audience begging for more. Gareth Kay

THE FUNKY CHICKEN Having accepted a slot at the 60 's night the Funky Chicken had two weeks to transform from an idea into reality. After four rehearsals a repertoire had been squeezed together of various 60's style songs including classics by Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles. On the night the band were accepted with vigour and all went well. From then on the Funky Chicken went from strength to strengm being offered various 'gigs' including a support slot for local band 'Double Vision' and also an 18th birthday party at the Arts Centre. After headlining at many public venues in York, gaining praise on the way, we decided to give the pupils a chance to see us again at a concert in the Memorial Hall at the end of a very busy Easter Term. The future of the Funky Chicken seemed bleak due to the forthcoming exams of certain members of me band. However, after a short rest an unexpected event appeared in the Queen Margaret's summer term calendar and July holds a booking for the sixth form leavers ball. Finally the Funky Chicken would like to thank all those who have helped and supported us both behind the scenes and within the audience. Special thanks must go to James Butler for his superb lighting, also Messrs. Hamilton, Drysdale and Hughes for their individual encouragement and support. So far so good.! Adam van Huet

Two Fetish fans beg for more. 41

FRIENDS OF ST. PETER'S SCHOOL

GREAT EGG RACE 1990

The 'Friends' have had a very busy year — it started with a reception for the parents of new pupils. For the second year in succession we have combined this with Evensong, thus giving all the new parents a chance to meet so many more people connected with the School. At the end of October we held a Wine Tasting to lighten up the A.G.M. A good variety of Wines was supplied for us to sample. Once again we held a 'Sixties Music Night' and invited other Schools in the area to join us. This was very well attended (over 400 people!) — two School bands played in the interval and they were very well received. Champagne and gift tokens were the prizes for the best jivers. This year we held it a month earlier so that it came before all the exams and mocks. In March we held a Jumble Sale — our first — that surely is an experience! The weather wasn't so kind to us for our Strawberries and Wine in June, but the strawberries still tasted terrific. Our final effort this year was to run the Bar for the School Leavers Ball — they certainly enjoy themselves there. I am pleased to report that the Friends have now endowed a prize for Business Studies. Unfortunately, however, this prize was not awarded this year. The money we have raised at this year's dance has bought a set of Follow on Spotlights for the Drama Centre. (Not knowing anything about such lights I hope my description is correct!) Finally, we commissioned six very handsome carved chairs (with an inscription) for the new Library — very fine workmanship from Adam Jackson. He made great efforts to have them finished in time for the visit by the Duchess of Kent at the beginning of July and we were grateful to him.

The occasion of the third annual "St. Peter's School Great Egg Race" was, as is the custom, a gleeful affair involving great mirth for some — if not all — of the competitors. This year's daunting task of creating a device capable of achieving most astounding levels of accuracy in the projection of a table-tennis ball over great distances, produced some of the greatest technological advances seen at the School since M. D.'s third C.D.T. lesson the previous Friday. The holders of the trophy, The Grove, went out early when their spring loaded "cannon" mechanism simulated the effect of a 2.2 megaton nuclear device upon a pile of wood joined together by tacks and sellotape. Despite the technical excellence of the Clifton design, which was a catapult of magnanimous proportions, and a rousing attempt on the part of Manor to secure the trophy with their secret propulsion mechanism, it was not to be their night, as, in the end, the runners-up from the previous two years' competitions, Dronfield, managed finally to clinch what has become, in recent years, undoubtedly the most coveted Inter-House Trophy. The whole event was, as ever, a resounding success, and thanks must finally go not only to the rabble who took part (including a lightweight staff effort) but also to the many staff, especially Mike Dawson who made the event possible, and without whom an exceptionally good evening would never have occurred. Anthony Curtis

BOARDERS ACTIVITIES This year a committee was formed under the aegis of Mr. Taylor to organise activities for boarders, especially at weekends. There have been two trips to ice-skating rinks, and a day at Alton Towers. On the last Thursday of the Summer Term Mr. Bulcock organised a highly educational visit to the Megabowl bowling alley in Hull. It is hoped there will be further excursions of this type in 1990-91.

CHORAL SOCIETY 1989-90 The Choral Society this year performed in two concerts, in the Christmas and Summer Terms. The first of these included many parents and pupils in a very successful concert performance. Thanks go to all who took part in the project, helping to make it the resounding success which it undoubtedly was. The Summer concert saw the Choral Society perform in a joint concert with both St. Peter's instrumentalists and also the St. Olave's chapel choir under the skilful direction of Jeffrey Gray. The concert was enjoyed by a large audience in the chapel and congratulations must go to all of the performers as well as to Andrew Wright upon the production of yet another splendid concert. Although numbers suffered somewhat in the Summer Term due to the very hot weather, the society continues to flourish with a good level of parental support and increasing numbers of pupils have led to a higher all-round level of participation which augurs well for future productions. Anthony Curtis 42

COLOUR SECTION

The John Brown

Crucifix.

mmH^Jm School

Eucharist.

VISIT OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS, THE DUCHESS OF KENT THURSDAY 5th JULY

HIP * i n * * '

Paul Simpson at work.

Picture: Alan Hodgin. 46

POEMS AND PICTURES

Picture: Alexandra tiolley. SJ*

UNTIL TODAY... Today the sunrise fell pitiful against the curtains And failed to dispel the all-enshrouding gloom. My arms empty, my mind numb, uncertain: Silence takes your place and suddenly this room Is no longer ours but mine, and mine alone. Nothing remains but the ghosts, the shadows of you In corners, trapped, until today unknown, Lying pregnant and poised until you flew; Only dim reminders these outside me, but inside Vicious memory so clear, the cause of all my fears. Even now the pillow's cold beneath my phantom bride. You, who tapped the spring, the source of these sharp tears. Only lace-fingered traces of perfume here linger on. Upwind of you now, I cry. For you are gone. Antony Dunn Antony Dunn was awarded the John Crook poetry prize for this poem.

Picture: Adam Dean.

A POEM Falling is painful. Falling in love is fatal. He hadn't a clue how attention was won, never mind affection. He thought she was nice. She was young and beautiful. He could have had her had he really wanted. But, you know, having is risky and he was scared to risk a rejection for love he couldn't help and, knowing that, needed a shove to prick her interest. So what did happen to this little boy who hadn't the guts to risk all, for joy? Nothing. It's a disgrace. Poor human race.

James Mee Picture: Paul Simpson.

FAITH He sat happily with her laughing comma drinking comma dancing comma and he sat happily comma with a girl comma he didn't know then stop. ...look— if you don't believe me there is a photograph, and it's still very real — how I was growing up leaving my friend behind — hoping she was glad. James Mee James Mee was the winner of the Skrentny Prize for Creative Writing. Picture: Sarah Durham.

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Picture: Paul Simpson.

NAMELESS POEMS — A COLLECTION I cried the day I saw a poem once, written on a wall — 'Nothing can exist without friendship and help' I cried that day. I cried so much until the sky went black. I cried so much that day because I know.

Alone. I can love you, feel you and need you. Together we are no one.

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Because I know it hurts, I know it hurts so much. No one can take away the pain that feels like fire to touch.

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He was nothing. Only a coward, that was what hurt. Unable to face the blackness of her soul. He ran away and left her there to sit and rot alone.

Now it's gone — fleetingly so. No words or explanations. Deprived of help, deprived of love. Happiness gone, never to return.

Angela Rosindale

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Picture: Charlotte Graves-Tamvakis.

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ARCHIVES Gifts of uniform items enabled us to show blazers, caps and a boater, whilst rugger shirts, a rowing vest and a fencing foil mark the period of the thirties in School history. Group, School and individual photographs continue to come in, and are much appreciated, especially when they are named. We are grateful to Nicholas Brown, O.P. of Brown's of York and W. Anderson's of Blake Street, for their help with the loan of display stands and the display model. We are also extremely grateful to Mr. Peter Addyman and the staff of the York Archaeological Trust for lending us some of the items excavated from two previous sites of the School — the Horsefair and Bedern. One intriguing find was a buried hoard of clay marbles found on the Horsefair site. The School moved from there during the Siege of York in 1644. Did some pupil of the period bury these for safety, or was it just another case of a Peterite losing his marbles? It is hoped that more and more items connected with the School will now be returned. We are grateful indeed for old magazines, toys, games, books, prizes, trophies, photographs, reports, letters, diaries, bills etc. However trivial the items may seem they are the valuable archives of the future. In addition to items already acknowledged in the previous Peterite we acknowledge with thanks the following:

FORGOTTEN FAME No. 2 John Aislabie, O.P. (1670-1742) Chancellor of the Exchequer Most people know of Guy Fawkes' association with the Tower of London; not many realise that John Aislabie, at that time probably the most hated man of all England, ended his public life as Chancellor of the Exchequer by ignominious expulsion from the House of Commons and imprisonment in the Tower. He came from a family of Baltic merchants who were well known in York. He was at St. Peter's during the Headmastership of Rev. William Tomlinson and left in 1687. He succeeded his father as Registrar of the Episcopal Court of York. His mother, Mary, was the daughter of Sir John Mallory of Studley Royal, over whom a famous duel was fought which led to one of the many ghost stories connected with the Treasurer's House (See "Ghosts of an Ancient City".) His political career began in 1695 when he became a Member of Parliament for Ripon. Patronage secured him a position as a Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1712, and in 1714 he became Treasurer of the Navy. By dint of changing sides politically after the death of Queen Anne he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1718. On his advice the Treasury became involved with the South Sea Bubble in an attempt to pay off the National debt. Get-rich-quick mania swept the country, and when the inevitable crash came, thousands of families were ruined. In January 1721 he resigned. Meeting on the 8th of March, a Parliamentary committee met to consider the conduct of the exChancellor. Despite a "long, submissive and pathetique speech" he was found guilty of "the most notorious, dangerous and infamous corruption" and was sent to the Tower. He was, however, allowed to keep his estate in Yorkshire and on his release he devoted himself to rebuilding the house at Studley Royal and laying out magnificent pleasure gardens. The house now belongs to the National Trust and can be visited. The library has a full account of his life and further details can also be found in the Dictionary of National Biography. J. V. Mitchell

J. B. Dixon (1932-36): More photographs and documents and his rowing shirts to add to the prisoner-of-war scarf. R. S. Dixon (1934-38): Corps photographs, rugger blazer, rugger cap, play programmes, news cuttings etc. J. D. Madldowie (1923-28): Written memories, photographs and assorted ephemera. Dr. M. L. Smith (1918-20): Written memories and ephemera. Rodger Frost (1938-42): Straw boater, silk cricket square, photographs, old prospectus. Dr. C. C. Houghton (1925- ) : Written reminiscences, photos of Toyne wedding with other photographs and ephemera. The Old Peterite Club: Generous help with re-binding some of the dilapidated copies of the Peterite Magazines of the past. J. T. Harding (1933-38): Two swagger sticks O.T.C. 1938, Prize Book, School prospectus, commercial material, magazines, items r.e. John Dronfield Memorial Service, luggage labels etc. G. E. King-Reynolds (1932-42): Cox's Rowing Cap 1940, silk scarf of H. E. King Reynolds, Head of School 1913, and handkerchief of G. B. E. Reynolds returned from the trenches after his heroic death in 1916.

THE SCHOOL ARCHIVES One of the great advantages of the new Alcuin Library is the fact that the School at last has a special room where archives and momentoes of the past can be safely stored and displayed. The special exhibition for Commemoration weekend showed clearly the aims and purposes of our collection. The ancient desk holds exercise books, school rules, writing equipment, text books, conkers, tuck — and even the odd packet of Player's Weights!

The display on Commemoration Day was extremely well attended, and our visitors, including earlier the Duchess of Kent, showed great interest in the exhibits. Several Old Boys mentioned that they had items at home which they would send to us, and for these, and any forthcoming items, we are extremely grateful. J. V. Mitchell 51

Picture: Joshua Rowe.

RUGBY 1st XV defending courageously and despite two tries by the opposition — kept well to me sidelines by our own backs' and back-row's excellent tackling — a 9-8 win was our just reward. Two more defeats took us up to half term. The first day back after half term produced our second win of the season against a young touring side from Hampton School. The 27-7 scoreline included a brace of excellent tries for the fly-half Robert Crossley: he caught his own chip to score his first try, and then a thirty metre side-stepping weave to the line untouched through half the opposition gave him his second. There were other splendid individual tries from Jason Morris off a set-piece penalty move and from the scrum-half Alex Deighton, who ran some twenty metres from the base of the scrum to score with two people hanging round his legs, as well as a splendid back-passing movement for the winger Gavin Proudley to score in the corner, just on half-time.

The 1989 season had only two old colours returning — Richard Griggs as captain and Philip Brown as vicecaptain. Their leadership and determination ensured that a difficult season went as well as it could: all the players gave one hundred per cent on the field, and approached training, both for fitness and unit skills, in as thorough and committed a way as any group in recent years. As die statistics suggest, wins were hard to come by, but pride and determination were never in doubt, and all the games were played out to the full even though we were often outgunned. The opening non-school matches were narrow defeats, despite a brace of ingenious individual tries by John Suckling against the Retiring Captain's XV. In the next two games the leadership and skill of the captain, Richard Griggs, were sorely missed as we went down rather heavily against much more mobile yet much bigger sets of forwards. The next game, against Barnard Castle, gained us our first win of the term. An even first half saw us turn around 3-0 leaders, thanks to a penalty near the start by Philip Brown. Almost straight from the kick-off a drive by Richard Griggs and a surging run by his back-row companion Jason Morris saw a score converted by Brown to put us 9-0 up. The last quarter of the game found us

A series of four losses ensued against some traditionally difficult old enemies. Almough the scorelines seemed most one-sided, territorially we often had the lion's share but were simply outpushed in the pack or drawn into an overlap in the back division, which cost us dearly. Proof of the unstinting determination shown by all the players was a win against Ashville by the narrowest of scores. However, I am unable to comment 52

on any part of the game as it was played in the most awful fog I have ever experienced: visibility went down to fifteen yards at times, and the game remains a mystery to this day even to many of those that played in it! Next came a most heartening performance, perhaps our best of the season, against Woodhouse Grove, when despite being 10-0 down after about quarter of an hour we staged a remarkable comeback: an excellent, planned short lineout on the edge of the 22 saw the ball whipped down the back and returned for Paul Carvosso to score, followed by an excellent and most difficult conversion by Brown. This sent us into the second half with our tails up, which resulted in an immediate interception try by Proudley, followed some ten minutes later by a repeat of the first half's short line for Morris to storm through and score, thus putting us in the lead, 16-10. However, thrilling endto-end rugby saw an injury-time equalising score and conversion by Woodhouse Grove, which left us a little down-hearted as we perhaps were unlucky not to have stayed in front. The last game of the season returned us back to earth against a very strong Bradford Grammar side, but we acquitted ourselves well, with another gutsy, determined effort, rather against the odds.

2nd XV By looking at the strength of the 2nd XV squad, containing many inexperienced players, we knew that it was going to be a long hard season ahead. In terms of the results this indeed proved to be the case, but the players refused to lose heart and worked hard at their technique and unit skills. Towards the end of the campaign a successful pattern of play did emerge and the side started to believe in its ability to compete with and beat opponents. The players will have learnt many important lessons and it is to be hoped they will not be forgotten before next season. D. K. Morris

3rd XV After years of excellent service with the 3rd XV, Mr. R. Hubbard moved on to other areas. He will be remembered for the cavalier and gentlemanly spirit he brought to his "Club". The 3rd XV fielded a fairly settled squad throughout the season, consisting mainly of senior boys. The squad developed a fine attitude, and worked hard throughout matches and in training. Although the team met with no success, they stuck at it with exemplary effort, and on balance enjoyed their rugby. The 3rd XV is indebted to the efforts of B. Taylor, M. Simmons and the captain T. Wilson, although the entire squad can take some pride in adversity. G. Lawrence

Players R. Griggs*, P. Brown*, G. Proudley*, C. Caldwell, L. Panitzke*, J. Morris*, D. Williams, L. Patton*, D. Tunstall*, E. Savage*, J. Mee*, P. Midgley*, P. Carvosso*, A. Mondal*, A. Deighton*, A. Bryan, R. Crossley*, K. Schoeman*. * Colours

Results York Vlth Form College Retiring Captain's XV Leeds Grammar School Silcoates School Barnard Castle School Hymers College Denstone College Hampton School Ampleforth College Worksop College Pocklington School Durham School Ashville College Woodhouse Grove School Bradford Grammar School

Under 16 XV The term was less rewarding than it might have been both in terms of success on the field and progress made throughout the season. The side was not lacking in physical presence. It possessed two strong props in Angus Gowthorpe and Charles Barlow, the captain, although the latter missed a substantial part of the season because of injury. It had a good line-out jumper in Andrew Ludiman and an outstanding tackier at flanker in Christian Martin. Some players made notable progress as the season developed, none more so than Clifford Coggrave and Paul Reavley; others gave of their best whenever they played particularly Tom Reid, Graham Wood, Christopher Richardson and Oliver Gardner. However, the team had possibly the lowest level of tackling ability seen at U.16 level for several years. What was even more critical was the poor attitude of some of the squad towards training and their inability to drive themselves both physically and mentally to achieve higher standards. The opening match against Millthorpe proved too easy and was inadequate preparation for much sterner opposition at Barnard Castle. Playing with the wind, St. Peter's conceded three tries in the first ten minutes all due to woefully weak tackling. Thereafter the side showed great resolve and only conceded one further try but never

J. A. Owen-Barnett

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6- -10 Lost 8- -16 Lost 4- -34 Lost 0- -40 Lost 9- - 8 Won 6- -28 Lost 12--33 Lost 27- - 7 Won 4- -30 Lost 0- -30 Lost Lost 0- -27 4- -22 Lost 4- - 0 Won Drawn 16--16 0- -22 Lost 53

looked capable of reducing the deficit. In the following game against Hymers, the School's pack played with considerable determination; however, the visitors possessed highly talented backs who were capable of making incisive breaks to produce five converted tries. Whilst the School were deservedly beaten, there were periods when the game was evenly balanced due to the high commitment of the forwards. This encouraging performance was followed by a victory at Denstone in which the home side's backs were even more inept in defence than St. Peter's allowing David Thompson to score a fine individual try. The first match after half-term saw the School take an unexpected lead against Ampleforth with a fine spirited first half performance and it was only late on in the half that the opposition overhauled the School due to strong running forward play. After the interval the School were generally on the defensive and despite the heroic efforts of some, five further tries were conceded. Whilst the School were well beaten, they sustained their effort until the end of the game. Such an observation could not be made at Worksop when St. Peter's conceded thirty-six points in the second half against an unexceptional side. This was perhaps the worst performance of the season in which skill, courage and commitment were generally lacking. Unfortunately the match against Pocklington the following week was a performance in a similar vein and as the match progressed, Pocklington as other teams had done previously, grew in confidence to score at regular intervals.

Under 15A XV Not a string of victories — but some — yet everything comes to he who waits. Many good things were born of the efforts of these young men who played with heart, ran with spirit and won or lost in good grace. Throughout the season progress was made — close matches, the try that almost was, the foggy pitch that snatched away the light of victory. Dramatic; perhaps so, but the team enjoyed many a tense moment at Ashville and Worksop and gave hope for the future in many other games. The side which had a lot to learn was indeed learning; had learnt, but was still only half way to the try line. It will be crossed with the same effort in years to come. Well done to the team, the squad and our valiant supporters. Team selected from J. R. Bailey, C. M. A. Braganza, J. R. Brooks, G. W. Chiswick, M. J. Davies, T. G. Davies, C. F. Farley, J. W. Fieldsend, E. F. Graves-Tamvakis, J. M. Holgate, G. C. Keenan, A. J. Killip, T. J. Oakley, M. E. P. Pittman, M. J. Porter, C. D. H. Roberts, N. A. Silversides, M. G. Todd, J. Ward, P. J. Watson. D. M. Crook

Under 15B XV The season overall was a disappointing one in terms of results, with the team winning two matches out of nine. However, the character of the team and play of most individuals improved as the season progressed. The matches against Bradford G.S. and Woodhouse Grove showed that on their day the B team could play enterprising and exciting rugby. In the forwards, the team showed good spirit against much larger opponents and special mention should be made of Jonathan Brooks, Ben Butler and Richard Pipes who "took the game" to the opposition. The half-backs were Richard Ambrose and Matthew Todd. Richard played a Captain's role at scrum-half and showed great determination and leadership. Dominic Millen had some splendid runs in attack and also demonstrated sound defensive tackling in the centre. However, our strongest defender must have been Charles Roberts who produced some "breath-taking" tackles in our match at Pocklington. The wings were Jamie Ballantyne, Shalin Khanna — who have outstanding pace — and Nicholas Silversides who was an extremely strong and determined runner. I would like to thank the boys for working so hard at their game over the last two seasons and for the parents who gave such positive support.

The final match of the season produced a victory against Durham in a closely contested game in which Dylan Perlman at scrum half had an impressive game scoring two tries from short range with strong running. With no more U.16 fixtures available, some players graduated to the Second XV and showed good potential for next season.

The following players represented the School C. Barlow* (capt.), T. Reid*, C. Martin*, C. Coggrave*, A. Gowthorpe, A. Dean, D. Thompson, B. Mundell, P. Reavley, O. Gardner, C. Brooker, L. Midhage, C. Richardson, A. Birch, P. Gummery, G. Walker, J. Thompson, D. Perlman, A. Ludiman, G. Wood, P. Tse, B. Dickson, J. Holliday, P. Ferrow, S. Clarke. * awarded colours

Results Millthorpe School Barnard Castle School Hymers College Denstone College Ampleforth College Worksop College Pocklington School Durham School

J. W. R. Hutt

Home Away Home Away Home Away Home Home

Won Lost Lost Won Lost Lost Lost Won

50-- 0 0- -20 8- -30 15-- 4 9- -39 0- -40 3- -40 19--14

Team R. Ambrose (Captain), J. Ballantyne, J. Brooks, B. Butler, G. Chiswick, C. Farley, P. Gorman, S. Khanna, J. Langford, D. Millen, T. Oakley, R. Pipes, M. Porter, C. Rayne-Davis, C. Roberts, H. Shedden, N. Silversides, J. Swallow, M. Todd, A. Wallis, P. Watson. R. G. Shread 54

In summary the boys listened and learned, especially from their mistakes. The first Pocklington game was the lowest point of the season with heads going down and a lack of pride showing through. However, this occurred but once and was eclipsed by a quite splendid defensive performance at Bradford and a marvellous win at Pocklington in the return fixture (will T. Cockcroft ever get another one!). Finally, T. Duncan proved a fine captain with a positive and supportive attitude on the field and a polite well-mannered approach off it. My thanks go to him and the boys for another enjoyable season and especially to Mr. Bruce Allen and Mr. Matthew Grant for all their invaluable help, and to the most knowledgeable and supportive group of parents who followed our successes and failures.

Under 14 This was a most encouraging season for the U.14 Colts. They attacked well using both the backs and the back row. Defence was always more of a problem but improved a great deal in the tail end of the Christmas Term. A real lack of bulk in the front row caused problems all season. R. Pugh and A. Rigby were ever present and contributed a tremendous amount of commitment despite their physique. C. Pyne began the year injured and eventually accepted this and became a stalwart in the B XV. As he grows his time will definitely come. M. Inness moved from full-back to 'prop'(H) and achieved a considerable measure of success as his experience grew. The second row gave us some much-needed height in the line-out with M. Hunter excelling. Providing he maintains his commitment and listens he should become a very fine forward indeed. S. Parry grew in stature all year and became a most effective member of the boiler house. His courageous performances in the junior House matches showed that the determination for success is there. R. Clark provided a fine replacement when injury caused his inclusion. The back row of B. Councell, R. Silverwood and T. Duncan proved both mobile and effective in support. It was most pleasing to see their commitment not only to attack but also defence. All three gave a great deal to the squad and I hope learned much from this year. T. Duncan may well find lock more to his liking next year with M. Hunter taking over the No.8 slot; time will tell. At scrum-half we had a midget in terms of physique but a giant in terms of attitude, talent and commitment. N. Walker must eat well in the coming months and maintain his infectious enthusiasm. His defence aligned to a sharp eye for the gap will make him a formidable opponent in a few years time. T. Cockcroft played well at fly-half learning all the time. He must become more instinctive to develop all the way into a fine outside half but he is getting there. Positioning in attack and defence were problems but he listened and learned. His tactical kicking in attack was good but in defence he often took too long to kick or stood too close enabling the cover to catch him. The most marked improvement was in his tackling. He showed this to the full in a magnificent game at Bradford. N. McBride proved a good attacking centre able both to judge a break and when to ship the ball on. Again his tackling improved as both he and N. Middleton gained a greater understanding of each other. N. Middleton showed pace and determination in defence, a valuable asset for any boy of his age. J. Beaufoy occupied the winger's slot with G. Gibb. Both proved powerful runners with the ball. J. Beaufoy's tackling was better than G. Gibb's but the latter did make considerable improvements to this aspect of his game. He also cut out the constant urge to cut back into defence rather than pin his ears back and go for the corner. Finally, his good kicking proved a significant factor as the season progressed. P. Taylor proved a steady fullback capable of sound defence and positive attacking play. His positional sense did let him down on occasions but added experience will improve this. Paul's greatest attribute was his courage in the tackle, a most necessary asset for a full-back.

The following represented the 'A' XV during the season 1989-1990: M. Inness, A. Rigby, R. Pugh, M. Hunter, S. Parry, J. McNeill, T. Duncan, B. Councell, R. Silverwood, C. Pyne, R. Clark, N. Walker, T. Cockcroft, N. McBride, N. Middleton, G. Gibb, J. Beaufoy, P. Taylor, S. Clegg. P. J. Stephen Results Silcoates Barnard Castle Hymers College Ampleforth Worksop College Pocklington Durham School Ashville College Woodhouse Grove Bradford Grammar Pocklington Yarm

Away Home Away Away Away Home Home Away Home Away Away Away

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34- - 0 16-- 0 6- -28 6- -32 15-- 6 0- -22 26- - 8 29- - 0 6- -28 0- -18 13--12 24- - 8

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In spite of the disappointment of the overall results, there were many moments of highly promising and skilful play. Indeed, the level of skill grew and developed enormously during the season. Regrettably, however, at this level no amount of skill and co-ordination is sufficient to overcome lack of size and strength. Yet the squad gained further enthusiasm, fostered a team-spirit and showed pride in their selection to wear a brown shirt. It was pleasing, too, that several members gained further experience and skill through A team selection. Congratulations to Black, Clark, Clegg, Mcllhinney and Pyne for winning A team places. As the season progressed it was gratifying to watch the boys gradually (!) realise that the key to competitive rugby is threefold: possession, going forward and support. On several occasions the ball won from solid forward set 55

The Second Eleven had some memorable matches and contained many players who showed skill and determination. There too the feeling of support for each other was most pleasing. Some notable wins were achieved against good opposition. The Colts Eleven contained many players of talent, a couple of whom were selected for the First Eleven towards the end of the season. As the season progressed their team skills improved markedly. Together with players from this year's First and Second Eleven who return next year many Colts will make a very strong game one.

pieces was used effectively by a confident back-line which relished the support from both backs and forwards. At the other extreme the whole team stoutly defended its own try-line and demonstrated the boys' gutsy resilience to often persistent onslaughts. Thanks to Fraser Black as this season's captain and indeed to the whole squad (in addition to the above): Abbey, Brookes, Fotherby, Hammill, Hall, Inness, Lyons, A. Martin, D. Martin, Palta, Roy, Sleight, Smart, Strong, Sumpton and Wade. Final thanks go to P. J. S. and J. A. O-B. for their assistance, and to all the parents who came along to offer their support. M. J. Grant

The following represented the First Eleven: A. A. Mondal (captain)*, C. M. Caldwell, M. P. Forrester, S. R. Forsyth, R. S. Griggs*, J. D. G. Higginson*, M. J. Mitchell*, J. D. Newhill*, J. S. Powell*, G. J. Proudley, C. D. Pugh*, G. Silverwood*, J. M. Suckling, J. D. Sutcliffe, A. L. Waters*.

Inter-House Rugby Competition Senior Competition 1st Round

Queen's 8 pts Temple 0 pts School House 10 pts

Semi-Finals Queen's School House Final

Rise

Grove Manor Clifton

0 pts 8 pts 6 pts

6 pts 0 pts

Manor Rise

12 pts 26 pts

14 pts

Manor

7 pts

18 pts 26 pts 32 pts

Queen's Temple Grove

0 pts 24 pts 4 pts

28 pts 36 pts

School House Clifton

11 pts 4 pts

8 pts

Manor

4 pts

* Colours A. A. Mondal was awarded a cap. The following represented the Second Eleven: S. Y. M. Al-Bassam, R. A. Bell, A. J. Bryan, C. M. Caldwell, A. C. Deighton, R. D. Freling, A. R. Gage, I. Ghosh, S. J. Gildener, M. T. McCowen, L. C. Panitzke, G. J. Proudley, J. M. Suckling, D. H. Williams, M. J. G. Williams.

Junior Competition 1st Round

Rise Manor Clifton

Semi-Finals Rise Manor Final

Rise

The following represented the Colts Eleven: J. C. Angel, T. W. Brassington, S. R. Forsyth, I. A. Gordon, C. A. W. Gowthorpe, R. J. Hiles, R. W. Hudson, T. J. Mcllhinney, B. R. Neary, D. J. Smithson, J. D. Sutcliffe, D. C. Thompson, E. J. Thompson. Results

HOCKEY Hockey Club 1990 Hockey is a game in which skill, team work, application and luck must come together for success. The School sides showed the first three in abundance but the luck did not always come. My memories of this season will be of the commitment and positive attitude of all players, both those who represented the School and those who did not. The First Eleven, captained by Anshuman Mondal, was a skilful side whose results did not do them justice. Each player who represented the First Eleven played with skill and energy but it was the whole team that was our strength. The confidence of each player in the other members and the care shown to each other when all did not go well, meant that the total was much greater than the sum of the parts. The credit for this must be given to Anshuman Mondal who by his own example in every aspect of captaincy led from the front. 56

First Eleven Barnard Castle School Pocklington School Worksop College Ashville College York H. C. Scarborough College Shepton Mallet A Shepton Select XI York Sixth Form College Pandas H.C. Styx H.C. Retiring Captains XI Wellensyans President's XI

Home Away Away Home Home Home Away Away Home Home Home Home Home Home

Drawn Drawn Lost Drawn Won Won Won Lost Lost Lost Lost Won Lost Lost

3- -3 1--1 0--1 3- -3 2--1 1--0 3- -2 3- -1 1--4 0--1 0--8 4--2 1--2 2--5

Second Eleven Pocklington School Worksop College Ashville College Ampleforth College Scarborough College Pandas H.C.

Home Away Home Home Home Home

Won Lost Won Drawn Lost Won

3- -0 0--5 8--0 3- -3 1--2 3- -2

Colts Eleven Bootham School Worksop College Pocklington School Barnard Castle School Scarborough College Pocklington School Bootham School

Home Away Away Away Home Home Away

Won Lost Drawn Drawn Lost Lost Won

M. T. McCowen, D. Tunstall, R. P. Sangwin, A. P. Berrington.

4- -1 0--2 0--0 1--1 2--3 1--6 1--5

G. S. Gibb,

The following represented the Under 15 team: J. H. Lacy-Colson, B. R. Neary, C. Tse, R. Nadian, A. Mosby, J. Ward, T. J. J. Bowman, R. J. M. Ambrose, S. Khanna, D. J. E. Marks, N. W. W. Strong, S. J. Clegg, C. Taylor, S. E. Richards, D. J. Bean.

The stick was awarded to Anshuman Mondal. The Burn Trophy was awarded to Simon Powell. R. H Hubbard

Results 27th January v Durham (Home) 1st VIII: Durham St. Peter's U.15: Durham St. Peter's

CROSS-COUNTRY The First VIE had a small number of dedicated runners who remained enthusiastic and motivated throughout a difficult season. Sadly, this proved to be insufficient and for most of the season victory eluded the team, the only win being an extremely narrow margin of 18-19 in the penultimate match of the season against Woodhouse Grove at home. The difficulty of selecting a full team of eight runners was the main problem — with all other team games taking priority, and injury to some of the faster runners adding to the problems. Away from the inter-schools circuit more success was achieved with Simon Davies, Anthony Curtis, Jeremy Doncaster, Alistair Marks, Paul Reah, Roger Sangwin and David Tunstall all qualifying in the Over 17 age group for York and District in the trials at Tadcaster. Richard Shaw and Bruce Neary qualified for the Under 17 team. Gordon Gibb (who later ran for the First VIII) did extremely well in qualifying for York and District and then representing North Yorkshire in the England Trials at junior level. The Under 15 scene was much the same as the First VIII's and ended disappointingly with no wins to their name. Jon Lacy-Colson captained the age group and spent much time scratching together teams for the matches — creditably not becoming uninterested or less determined. In contrast to the gloomy picture so far, the teams did have two successes. Firstly, we were finally bought some long-promised and much-needed new School kit, to share with the rowers (with the prospect of having our own set looking good for next year). Secondly, for the first time a successful and enjoyable dinner was arranged for those who ran for the First VIII and the Under 15 captain. This brought an interesting and cheerful season to a pleasant close and hopefully started a new tradition of crosscountry dinners in the future. Colours were awarded to the following for their effort and dedication: Anthony Curtis, Alistair Marks, Matthew McCdwen, Paul Reah (captain), Richard Shaw and David Tunstall.

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The following represented the First XIII team: P. J. Reah, J. C. Doncaster, S. G. Davies, R. G. Shaw, A. R. T. Marks, A. G. Curtis, T. J. Cordier, D. H. Baldry, C. Brooker,

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M. T. McCowen A. P. Berrington R. G. Shaw G. J. Proudley B. R. Neary A. R. T. Marks A. L. Waters A. G. Curtis R. P. Sangwin D. H. Baldy

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A frustrating season resultwise. It produced many fine individual performances, though the young team played too inconsistently and many matches were lost 3-2 when perhaps we should have won fairly easily. This was partly because of injuries in the Christmas Term, and a lack of regular 1st V players in the Easter Term, due to rugby and hockey commitments. Having said that, the team competed with an atmosphere of enjoyment, which is of course the reason for playing in the first place! James Harding played throughout the season at No. 1, achieved some good wins, improved a lot and benefited from the experience of playing against some county players of a high standard. After jumping around the middle order, Oliver Gardner settled at No.2. Although Oliver was under pressure all die time, he never lost through lack of effort, and improved greatly this year in court attitude. James Stephenson played at third string, where he felt more comfortable, and by the second half of the Easter Term, he produced some impressive squash. His slow game irritated many opponents and his wins against Worksop and Woodhouse Grove were particularly satisfying. (James' loss at Harrogate against a girl did, however, cause him much embarrassment!) John Higginson finally occupied the No.4 slot. After a year without playing and half of the Christmas Term lost through injury, he provided some much needed stability. John's success at Woodhouse Grove was excellent, steady squash, recovering from 2-0 down to win. When available, Simon Powell played at fifth string. Heliit the ball hard and rushed opponents into mistakes. His main problem was lack of speed around the court. If he can raise this aspect of his game, he will surely improve. Perhaps the most disciplined player was Richard Pipes. This is a commendable quality in one so young and he was unlucky not to play more often for the team. Richard still has three years to impress his undoubted ability on St. Peter's 1st team.

Senior Team Results: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Junior Girls Results 1. C. Taylor 2. K. J. Charman 3. S. E. Richards 4. S. Y. Sanderson 5. S. E. Gibson 6. A. J. Dunn 7. Z. M. Clark 8. L. V. Jackson 9. L. G. Clark 10. E.C. Bowling

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Overall, it was an enjoyable season; with the necessary practice, the team will be strong next year, since no players are leaving. My thanks go to all the staff who have helped with the squash this year: Mr. Crook, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Newman and Mrs. Shepherd, but especially to Mr. Boardman who was always jovial and prepared to help. There was no tour this year, though a squash tour is planned for next season. A group of boys, girls and staff travelled to Wembley Conference Centre in the Easter holidays to see some of the British Open — hopefully a trip to be repeated.

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Results:

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Christmas Term Ampleforth Pocklington Leeds G.S. Silcoates Harrogate G.S. Ashville Woodhouse Grove Worksop Easter Term Durham Leeds G.S. Ashville Pocklington Oakham Ampleforth Silcoates Worksop Woodhouse Grove

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The U.15 squash team has produced some excellent results this season and they owe it all to good team spirit and hard work in the training sessions. During the Autumn Term the squad won all matches; nearly all were won by five games to nil, most individual matches being 3-0 in our favour. The Easter Term saw a continuation of this success which bodes well for the future of squash at St. Peter's. The squad consisted of R. Pipes (captain), M. Lang, A. Ash worth, A. Fotherby, G. Keenan and J. Ward. All should be congratulated on their all-round improvement. Richard Pipes inspired the team from the number one spot and fought hard to win against many difficult opponents. A. Fotherby deserves a special mention as he played well in the year group team above his own. It was a pleasure to watch these young players competing hard and observing all aspects of sportsmanlike behaviour. We look forward with optimism to even greater things over the coming years. D. M. Crook

2-3 2-3 5-0 1—4 2-3

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Lost 9

The Under 14 season started a little shaky after a lot of competing for places. The squad eventually consisted of Andrew Fotherby, Toby Cockcroft, Fraser Black, Magnus Inness, Jamie Beaufoy and Michael Hunter. Michael Hunter improved most throughout the season and eventually contested for the No.2 slot with Toby Cockcroft, who played well there for most of the season. Toby also won at No.l against Ashville College. The rest of the team, maybe lacking a little in selfconfidence, played some very good squash and the prospects look good for the future. All the squash was played with good team spirit and plenty of enjoyment, and there were some very funny moments. My thanks to Mr. Harvey for taking us for practice and aiding us with our play, and also to my fellow team-mates for a most pleasing season of squash. Well done! Andrew Fotherby

Personal Performances James Harding Oliver Gardner James Stephenson John Higginson Simon Powell Richard Hudson Richard Pipes Michael Lang Andrew Buisson Tom Kitchingman

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Individual Competition - for the Burdass Trophy Final: James Harding beat James Stephenson 9-2, 9-6, 9-5 Losing Semi-finalists: John Higginson and Oliver Gardner

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Retrospect M.C.C., but his early departure from School was something which his team mates did not need. Paul Carvosso had an encouraging first season in the XI. He practised hard during the winter and showed patience and determination in the middle. Jamie Rigby scored more runs than anyone else, including a fine century, but he was out too often when he seemed to be settled. Michael Forrester also played very well on occasions without finding consistent form. Michael Davies had to work hard for his runs, but he played some valuable innings and should have gained a lot of experience. James Harding started the season poorly, having practised little in the Easter Term, but when he got his chance he took it well and settled down as a regular opener. Anshuman Mondal tried hard, but was not able to build a big innings. Nick Twigg rarely applied himself and it was only at the Festival that we saw evidence of his ability. Several other batsmen were given their chance, but although they had scored runs in the 2nd XI, they found the gap between 1st and 2nd XI hard to bridge.

The 1990 season was very mixed with rather more lows than highs, but it was never dull. An inexperienced team had some good days, but in general the results were disappointing. The number of defeats could have been reduced had we taken more often the defensive step of putting the opposition in to bat when we won the toss. The most unsatisfactory part of the season was the poor attitude of a small number of Game 1. The selfishness and the lack of loyalty of several, and the absence of selfdiscipline of a few, both during the term and at the festival tested the patience of those of us who do not expect such standards at St. Peter's. One thing should be made clear, there is no place for such disruptive and self-centred characters, however talented they may be. However, the season was not all doom and gloom. Anshuman Mondal was a composed and reassuring captain who coped very well with the difficult problems that he met and after his unfortunate accident prevented him from playing in the last ten matches, Jamie Rigby proved an admirable deputy. The experience gained this year should stand him in good stead next season when he will be captain in his own right. Several players made pleasing progress and there is no lack of promise for the future.

The bowling was disappointing. There had seemed plenty of pace bowlers to choose from, but most of them failed to live up to tiieir potential. On the credit side, Michael Forrester improved a lot later in the season and now that he has learned to swing the ball he should become a more consistent wicket taker. It was good to see Andrew

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Smith gain some reward for all his efforts. He had never been able to keep a regular place in the 1st XI but he did not give up and in the last few matches he bowled very well. Particularly promising was the form of Richard Musgrave, still an Under 15 Colt. His bowling under pressure at the Festival was first-class. The main strike bowler should have been Nick Twigg, but although he bowled well twice early in the term, his tally of eighteen wickets in fourteen matches was very disappointing. All too often he was unable to bowl properly because of injury. Of the spin bowlers, Dominic Bundy bowled steadily but without luck. A big effort in the winter to develop a googly or topspinner would give him more attacking options next year. David Quickfall's keenness earned him his place in the team, but his off-spinners were not accurate enough to be a real threat. With limited opportunities Angus Iveson, Andrew Ludiman and Tom Reid all showed promise.

No. of Innings 9 16 17 16 12 12 R. N. Twigg 16 M. J. Davies R. F. T. Musgrave 6 7 A. C. Deighton 7 D. Bundy D. M. S. Quickfall 9 5 T. Reid 7 O. Gardner 6 A. A. Mondal 7 A. G. G. Smith

C. H. Metcalfe M. P. Forrester J. D. Rigby P. F. Carvosso G. J. Harding

The fielding was unimpressive. The Sedbergh team showed us the pressure that good fielding can impose, but we never approached that standard, despite Anshuman Mondal's enthusiastic example. The wicket-keeping of Jamie Rigby continued to improve and he was awarded the Fielding Cup. The 2nd XI had quite a good season, marred by a dismal performance at Pocklington. Exciting wins against Sedburgh and Bootham 1st XI were the highlights of the season, in which several younger players showed good form. Hopefully they will progress into the 1st XI in the future. In the Inter-House competitions both finals produced close exciting finishes. In the Senior Competition Queen's won a low-scoring match against The Rise by three runs and in the junior final Temple did very well to beat Queen's in the last over of the match. In the last week of term we played at the Loretto Festival. Our thanks to Richard Selley, Bill Parkhouse and the Loretto captain Jamie Grant, who were excellent hosts. D. Kirby

Not Out Runs 0 262 1 365 1 389 2 316 1 195 174 2 3 199 1 49 1 56 5 17 3 37 0 27 1 30 1 23 2 20

Highest Score Average 83 78* 102* 65 38 89 41 16 17 10 9 14 12 7 6*

29.11 24.33 24.31 22.57 17.73 17.40 15.31 9.80 9.33 8.50 6.16 5.40 5.00 4.60 4.00

Also batted: A. E. Iveson 0, 7*, 0; A. M. W. Ludiman 0; L. C. Panitzke4; C. D. H. Roberts 5, 0; D. Tunstall 1, 0*, 4*; D. H. Williams 1. * — not out. Bowling Overs A. E. Iveson 18 127.2 M. P. Forrester 77.4 A. G. G. Smith D. M. S. Quickfall. 55 R. N. Twigg 143 30 T. Reid 100.2 D. Bundy R. F. T. Musgrave: 76 22 A. A. Mondal D. Tunstall 29 32.3 M. J. Davies

Maidens 3 22 11 8 29 4 14 18 3 7 1

Runs Wickets Average 3 19.00 57 19.52 23 449 13 22.00 286 25.66 9 231 28.83 18 519 29.40 5 147 15 31.33 470 8 31.50 252 2 49.50 99 2 51.50 103 2 99.00 198

Also bowled: O. Gardner 3-1-11-0; G. J. Harding 3-1-15-0; A. M. W. Ludiman 12-3-40-1; C. H. Metcalfe 2-0-28-0; C. D. H. Roberts 7-2-19-1; D. H. Williams 10-0-57-1.

1st XI selected from: A. A. Mondal (captain) 1990*, J. D. Rigby (vice-captain) 1989-90t*, D. Bundy 1990*, P. F. Carvosso 1990*, M. J. Davies 1990*, M. P. Forrester 1989-90*, G. J. Harding 1989-90*, C. H. Metcalfe 1989-90*, A. G. G. Smith 1989-90*, R. N. Twigg 1989-90*, O. Gardner 1990, R. F. T. Musgrave 1990, D. M. S. Quickfall 1990, T. Reid 1990.

Results: ST. PETER'S v BRADFORD G.S. Played at home on Saturday, 28th April. Result: Won. Bradford G.S. 163 (D. Whitfield 73, R. N. Twigg 3-40, M. P. Forrester 3-42) St. Peter's 165-6 (M. P. Forrester 78 not out, J. D. Rigby 40, C. Mcintosh 3-54) ST. PETER'S v M.C.C. Played at home on Wednesday, 2nd May. Result: Drawn. M.C.C. 206-2 dec. (R. Hutchinson 79, J. C. Henderson 59 ret., T. R. McCreath 38) St. Peter's 181-4 (C. H. Metcalfe 83, M. P. Forrester 39, J. D. Rigby 31, D. Jay 3-36)

2nd XI selected from: D. Tunstall (captain)*, J. T. B. Bowling*, A. C. Deighton*, O. Gardner*, R. W. Hudson*, A. M. W. Ludiman*, B. R. Neary*, L. C. Panitzke*, T. Reid*, R. J. Crossley, S. J. Gildener, R. J. Hiles, A. E. Iveson, L. J. Patton, A. J. Wildblood. 61

ST. PETER'S v SEDBERGH SCHOOL Played away on Saturday, 5th May. Result: Lost. St. Peter's 156 (C. H. Metcalfe 48, M. J. Davies 35, D. Player 4-29) Sedburgh 157-4 (A. Metcalfe 75 not out, D. Player 54)

ST. PETER'S v SAINTS C.C. Played at home on Tuesday, 26th June. Result: Lost. Saints C.C. 178-3 dec. (R. Hutchinson 54, R. Botterill 43 not out) St. Peter's 80 (S. Medley 4-13, S. McMahon 3-14)

ST. PETER'S v YORK C.C. Played at home on Wednesday, 9th May. Result: Lost. York C.C. 186-5 dec. (S. Robinson 46 not out, P. Jackson 36, I. Dews 31) St. Peter's 79 (G. Taylor 4-26)

ST. PETER'S v LEEDS G.S. Played at home on Friday, 29th June. Result: Drawn. Leeds G.S. 227-5 dec. (R. Atkinson 66 not out, T. Walton 63, I. Sutcliffe 55) St. Peter's 121-5 (P. F. Carvosso 41)

ST. PETER'S v THE FORTY CLUB Played at home on Wednesday, 16th May. Result: Drawn. Forty Club 195-7 dec. (P. Jackson 120 not out, R. N. Twigg 5-35) St. Peter's 164-5 (P. F. Carvosso 65, C. H. Metcalfe 54, I. Edwards 3-59)

ST. PETER'S v WORKSOP COLLEGE Played away on Saturday, 30th June. Result: Drawn. St. Peter's 127-4 dec. (P. F. Carvosso 60 not out, J. D. Rigby 30) Worksop 43-3 ST. PETER'S v LORETTO SCHOOL Played away on Sunday, 1st July. Result: Lost. St. Peter's 132-5 dec. (J. D. Rigby 50, A. Mason 4-35) Loretto 136-3 (J. Grant 44 not out, A. Gibb 44, S. Fraser 33)

ST. PETER'S v BARNARD CASTLE SCHOOL Played at home on Saturday, 19th May. Result: Lost. St. Peter's 160 (M. P. Forrester 45, J. D. Rigby 30, R. Brewis 5-60) Barnard Castle 161-7 (R. Wearmouth 45, J. Simon 41, M. P. Forrester 4-52)

ST. PETER'S v CRANLEIGH SCHOOL Played at Loretto School on Monday, 2nd July. Result: Drawn. Cranleigh 185-6 dec. (S. Copleston 83 not out, H. Watkinson 64, A. E. Iveson 3-20) St. Peter's 84-8 (G. Atkinson 3-17, A. Kyle 3-35)

ST. PETER'S v YORKSHIRE GENTLEMEN C.C. Played at home on Saturday, 26th May. Result: Drawn. Yorkshire Gents 222-7 dec. (J. Burdass 68, W. Robinson 50, M. Neary 40, C. Gilman 36, D. Bundy 5-70) St. Peter's 166-4 (J. D. Rigby 102 not out, G. J. Harding 38, J. Blenkin 3-53)

ST. PETER'S v MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL, NORTHWOOD Played at Loretto School on Tuesday, 3rd July. Result: Drawn. St. Peter's 206-9 dec. (R. N. Twigg 89, J. D. Rigby 32, A. Brand 5-75) Merchant Taylors 166-6 (C. Jaggard 61, A. Brand 36, A. G. G. Smith 4-56)

ST. PETER'S v PRESIDENT'S XI Played at home on Wednesday, 30th May. Result: Drawn. President's XI 172-8 dec. (S. Prest 54, D. M. S. Quickfall 5-60) St. Peter's 103-7 (C. H. Metcalfe 34)

ST. PETER'S v BRYANSTON SCHOOL Played at Loretto School on Thursday, 5th July. Result: Lost. Bryanston 207-7 dec. (J. Freisenbruch 65, R. Sadler 45, M. Davies 52 not out, R. F. T. Musgrave 3-52) St. Peter's 103 (M. P. Forrester 40, M. Brewin 6-35)

ST. PETER'S v DURHAM SCHOOL Played at home on Saturday, 16th June. Result: Lost. St. Peter's 122 (M. P. Forrester 51, P. Weston 4-31, N. Darling 3-40) Durham 124-1 (R. Weston 57, M. Taylor 52 not out)

ST. PETER'S v OLD PETERITES Played at home on Friday and Saturday, 6th and 7th July. Result: Abandoned. Old Peterites 171-9 dec. (J. E. B. Burdass 69, M. P. Forrester 3-19, D. Bundy 3-34, A. G. G. Smith 3-46 and 20-1) St. Peter's 131-9 dec. (M. J. Davies 41, P. F. Carvosso 38, R. M. Pallister 3-21)

ST. PETER'S v POCKLINGTON SCHOOL Played at home on Saturday, 23rd June. Result: Won. St. Peter's 170 (G. J. Harding 35, M. P. Forrester 36, M. Robinson 4-26) Pocklington 148 (D. Edwards 41, J. Billington 37, M. P. Forrester 4-30) 62

It was a pity he did not reach his century although he did experience such an achievement for his House in the junior competition. It was therefore an anti-climax when rain ruined what promised to be a fine game of cricket on the 1st XI field against Worksop with Richard Musgrave and Anthony Killip in full flight. What was anticipated to be an ordinary season blossomed into a good, satisfying term in which much progress was made. The spirit of the squad had much to do with that as did the quiet but effective leadership of Charles Roberts who was awarded his cap along with Richard Musgrave. Finally, my thanks go to Dominic Millen, our scorer and Mr. David Crook who has been an invaluable coach during his five years at the School. We wish him success in his new post at Durham School except when Durham play St. Peter's!

Summary of Results Opponents Bradford G.S. M.C.C. Sedbergh School York C.C. The Forty Club Barnard Castle School Yorkshire Gentlemen C.C. President's XI Durham School Pocklington School Saints C.C. Leeds G.S. Worksop College Loretto School Cranleigh School Merchant Taylors, Northwood Bryanston School Old Peterites

Opponents 163 206-2 dec. 157-4 186-5 dec. 195-7 dec. 161-7

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Result Won Drawn Lost Lost Drawn Lost

School 165-6 181-4 156 79 164-5 160

Home Home Home Home Home Home Away Away Loretto

Drawn Drawn Lost Won Lost Drawn Drawn Lost Drawn

222-7 dec. 166-4 172-8 dec. 103-7 124-1 122 148 170 178-3 dec. 80 227-5 dec. 121-5 127-4 dec. 43-3 132-5 dec. 136-3 183-6 dec. 84-8

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206-9 dec. 166-6 Drawn 207-7 dec. 103 Lost Abandoned 131-9 dec. 171-9 dec. 20-1

The squad consisted of: C. Roberts*, R. Musgrave*, H. Shedden, M. Lang, T. Davies, A. Ashworth, A. Killip, M. Pittman, J. Brooks, J. Bailey, J. Belton, N. Silversides, M. Ludiman, J. Ward, M. Todd.

Senior Colts After a poor start, the U. 15 Colts gradually improved to remain unbeaten for the second half of the term which included two fine wins against Leeds and Pocklington. In the first match at Bradford, the School recorded six 'ducks' in reaching a meagre ninety runs, a total which Bradford easily passed with the loss of only two wickets, whilst the following week at home to Sedbergh, only resolute batting by Richard Musgrave, Anthony Killip and Hugh Shedden avoided another heavy defeat. An easy victory against a weak Bootham side was a pleasing interlude before the School lost again in a much closer encounter against Barnard Castle so that by half-term the season's results were looking far from rosy. Despite the lack of success on the field the squad were showing a keen determination in their net sessions and the general standard of defensive play and concentration at the crease was markedly better. Bowling became tighter and both spin bowlers, Hugh Shedden and Michael Lang, developed greater consistency with the former along with Richard Musgrave being the main architects in Leeds' dismissal for 91 runs with sound batting by Alastair Ashworth ensuring a good win for the School by five wickets. The main weakness of the team was undoubtedly their fielding and this was clearly in evidence against a Durham side who were at one time two wickets down for five runs. Extremely poor outfielding took the pressure off the later batsmen who grew in confidence. Durham eventually declared at 181 for 5 of which at least a quarter of those runs were given away in the field. After some early faltering by the School's opening batsman, Jason Bailey and Jonathan Brooks batted resolutely for the last fifty minutes to ensure a draw which was barely deserved. In the last completed game of the season, Charles Roberts hit ninety-five runs in even time to enable the School to pass Pocklington's declared total of 193 for 7.

St. Peter's 90 (C. Roberts 23, R. Musgrave 38 not out) Bradford G.S. 93 for 2 Sedbergh 150 for 7 dec. (H. Shedden 4-37) St. Peter's 60 for 8 Bootham 51 (M. Lang 5-32) St. Peter's 53 for 1 (J. Belton 21 not out, N. McBride 26 not out) Barnard Castle 116 (M. Lang 4-26, R. Musgrave 3-54) St. Peter's 84 (C. Roberts 21) Manchester Schools' C.A. 166 for 3 St. Peter's 116 for 4 (T. Cockcroft 23, N. McBride 43 not out) Leeds G.S. 91 (R. Musgrave 6-25, H. Shedden 3-28) St. Peter's 94 for 5 (A. Ashworth 32 not out, C. Roberts 29) Durham 181 for 5 St. Peter's 108 for 7 (C. Roberts 32, R. Musgrave, 25, J. Bailey 20 not out) Pocklington 193 for 7 dec. (R. Musgrave 3-62) St. Peter's 199 for 5 (C. Roberts 95, R. Musgrave 32, N. Silversides 31 not out) St. Peter's 105 for 2 (C. Roberts 23, A. Killip 26 not out, R. Musgrave 32 not out) v Worksop Match abandoned because of rain Other Matches: St. Peter's 4th XI 114 for 8. Bootham 69 (25 overs match) Yarm 68 (T. Davies 4-9, J. Bailey 4-5) St. Peter's 70 for 3 J. W. R. Hutt 63

whirlwind 33 from Paul Taylor. With thunder clouds appearing the game was excellently poised at 47 for 3 with Worksop needing 104 runs off the remaining twenty-one overs. Sadly, lightning came and removed the last chance for both sides of recording a well deserved win. Next year Tom Duncan, Paul Taylor, Fraser Black, Toby Cockcroft and Nathan McBride must maintain their progress as seamers. Gordon Gibb must not allow himself to try and bowl too fast and concentrate on his "legcutter". Both Alistair Rigby and Nick Middleton must remember that they are not slow bowlers but are spinners and should "attack" the batsman. Magnus Inness has much potential as an all-rounder providing he learns "what is" a bad ball and bowls up to the bat. Nick Strong has done well this year with his nagging length and line bowling. The extra pace will come as he grows. Nick Walker has been a very fine wicket keeper and must strive to improve on these high standards in the future. The captains, Toby Cockcroft and Nathan McBride, did well and I hope learned a great deal.

Under 14 Colts Despite the lack of a win this was a good season in which the boys learned much about "time" cricket. There can be no question that the captains knew how to prevent the opposition getting a target. However, they still needed to adopt a more attacking approach in order to bowl sides out. This was certainly in evidence at the end of the season and it is a great pity that the final match was ruined by rain. I was delighted that both captains batted when they won the toss and were then prepared to declare and set a realistic target for the opposition. This is the only way to play this sort of cricket because in order to win you must also be prepared to give the opposition a chance. I very much hope and expect this positive approach to be maintained. In our first match after an unfortunate start Nathan McBride and Toby Cockcroft set about attacking a total of 156. At the end we were only fifteen runs short. We learned early the need to take all our "catches" and to keep the runs coming even if only in singles. We then played away at Sedbergh with Paul Taylor giving invaluable assistance to Nathan McBride in taking us to 157 for 9. The Sedbergh boys are always willing to chase and it soon became apparent that a win was there for them. However, excellent bowling from Paul Taylor, six overs for nine runs in the last overs snatched a well earned draw. On an artificial pitch at Barnard Castle we never got to grips with the match. Despite fine catches from Paul Taylor and Tom Duncan, we dropped too many and ended up chasing an impossible target. Having gone for the runs and lost four early wickets we did well to achieve a draw. But for Nathan McBride's "stone wall" innings lasting 1 Vi hours and 75 balls we would have been thrashed. Stuart Parry deserves mention for facing out the final over for the draw. Against Leeds Grammar School we batted first in a rain-interrupted afternoon and gave a fine declaration. However, having gained early success we were too defensive in the field and gave Leeds no chance of getting the target and quite rightly Leeds batted out for the draw. Spinners are in the side for just these moments and both Alistair Rigby and Nick Middleton have developed their skill this year. In order to maintain this improvement they must be bowled more next year. At Durham we declared at tea for 158 and this turned out to be a little early (my fault!!), with a very fine innings from Ritzema winning the match for Durham. Despite the win and his figures Fraser Black bowled very well in this game and gave real optimism for the future especially if he can learn to disguise his "off cutter". On the following Wednesday we played an 'A' XI against Yarm and had a fine game with all our batsmen getting into their twenties. We bowled and fielded well with Yarm batting positively and eventually hanging on for a draw with Paul Taylor hitting the leg stump without removing the bail off the "last ball"! The Pocklington game was played on a really cold, wet afternoon and having declared at 116, after quite a bit of outside pressure, the Pocklington boys batted out for a draw. The final match against Worksop, although rain affected, produced an outstanding innings of 91 from Fraser Black and a

Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Watkinson and Mr. Northfield for all their help. This year is fortunate to have parents who support in the right way and the School will have the privilege of seeing more of both this year and its supporters. P. J. Stephen

Results Bradford Grammar School 156 for 6 St. Peter's 141 for 6 (Cockcroft 49 not out, McBride 50) St. Peter's 157 for 9 (McBride 63, Taylor 30) Sedbergh 138 for 2 Barnard Castle 179 for 6 (Black 3 for 23) S*. Peter's 31 for 9 St. Peter's 129 for 7 (Cockcroft 30, Taylor 35 not out) Leeds Grammar School 70 for 4 St. Peter's 158 for 9 (Cockcroft 53) Durham School 160 for 3 St. Peter's 'A' XI 134 for 3 Yarm 107 for 9 (Middleton 3 for 41) St. Peter's 116 for 9 (McBride 36) Pocklington 71 for 5 (McBride 3 for 18) St. Peter's 151 for 4 (Black 91, Taylor 33 not out) Worksop 47 for 3

8 MATCHES PLAYED 6 Drawn 1 Lost 1 Abandoned

The following represented the U.14 Colts: F. Black, N. McBride, T. Cockcroft, T. Duncan, G. Gibb, M. Inness, N. Middleton, A. Rigby, N. Strong, P. Taylor, N. Walker, S. Parry, N. Hales, M. Hunter, E. Backhouse. 64

improved backhand and volleying to his overall play. Without doubt the most competent doubles player was Sulieman Al-Bassam who was seldom beaten in this phase of the game. His overall competence and encouragement smoothed the way for Adam Waters to make great strides this season. Adam was the most improved player in the first team and after a difficult start made such good progress to be ranked at number four in the School. Adam's main attributes were sound overhead shots and a great speed about the court which has made him such a difficult player to beat. Our newest player to join the Tennis Club was Simon Powell who, in less than a season, has established himself at number three in the team. He was at his best when unleashing first serves with great power or hitting crunching drives from the baseline. Both David Baldry and David Jones suffered the same fate of external examinations in their fifth year but still managed to produce consistent tennis on the occasions that they were able to represent the School.

TENNIS 1st IV The first four is a special team which participates in the National competitions run by the L.T.A. and sponsored by the Midland Bank. They have remained undefeated in both the Glanvill Cup and the Senior Students Competitions, which is even better than last season! The two key matches in this sequence of victories were the regional finals. Firstly, in the Glanvill Cup where we had the advantage of playing at home with great support, the team defeated Hymers College, who had already beaten our First VI earlier in the season in a very close encounter. This result means that the First IV are through to the last sixteen in the country at Queenswood School, near Hatfield, during the holidays. In the Senior Students Competition the matches were even closer with victories over the Scottish champions, Merchiston Castle and Bradford G.S. after a tie three sets all; this represents the last eight in the country and will be played at the same venue also during the first week of the holidays. Congratulations to the team: Sulieman Al-Bassam (captain), Jonathan Suckling, Simon Powell and Adam Waters.

Results: 1990 Schools Tennis Team Competition Students (Boys - Area 1) 1st Round St. Peter's v Scarborough Tech. St. Peter's v King James School 2nd Round St. Peter's v Yarm School St. Peter's v Harrogate G.S. St. Peter's v Merchiston Castle Regional School Final St. Peter's v Bradford G.S.

R. G. Shread Opponents Scarborough College Hymers College Pocklington School Worksop College Ampleforth College Ashville College Bootham Woodhouse Grove Durham School Barnard Castle School

for Senior 6—0 4—2 6—0 5—1

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4-2 3-3

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For 8 2.5 7 9 3 5.5 8 8 7 8

AGS 1 6.5 2 0 6 3.5 1 1 2 1

W/D/L W L W W L W W W W W

Caps: In recognition of their exceptional play over the last two seasons in reaching the L.T.A. National Finals, Caps have been awarded for the first time ever in tennis at St. Peter's to Sulieman Al-Bassam and Jonathan Suckling.

St. Peter's qualified for the National Finals by winning the most number of sets in this regional final.

Colours: These were reawarded to Sulieman Al-Bassam and Jonathan Suckling and awarded to Simon Powell and Adam Waters.

Midland Bank/National Schools Championships 1990 for the Glanvill Cup 1st Round St. Peter's awarded a bye 2nd Round St. Peter's v Bootham School 5—1 W St. Peter's v Fulford School 5—1 W Regional St. Peter's v Yarm School 5—1 W Final St. Peter's v Hymers College 4—2 W

The First VI Team: S. Y. M. Al-Bassam (captain), J. M. Suckling, J. S. Powell, A. L. Waters, D. H. Baldry and D. R. Jones.

St. Peter's qualified for the National Finals by winning the two matches.

2nd VI The second team has been mainly comprised of members of the Upper Sixth and as such has h< many changes. They have played with much enthusiasm throughout the season.

1st VI The season as a whole was most successful with eight wins and only two defeats. Sulieman Al-Bassam captained the team with great skill and commitment, showing maturity way beyond his years. I feel that his considerable influence contributed in no small amount to such a string of fine results. Probably the best individual player, by the end of the season, was Jonathan Suckling who developed his strong baseline game still further and added an

Opponents Pocklington School Worksop College Ampleforth College Durham School 65

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On the next day they raced in the Watney Fours, a shorter Head race run from Hammersmith to Chiswick, and the girls (Jo King, Vicki Inness, Marianne Waggott, Judith Hopton and cox, Lindsay Daniel) managed to win their event. In the York Small Boats Head we raced four crews, two of which did the course twice in different events. The Junior four did well to come 38th out of the 279 crews overall and the girls (crew as before) were the fastest of the twenty Women's Novice fours. The Yorkshire Junior League ran a Head Race and the girls' crew (as above) was again successful, as were the first boys four (Andy Newell, Chris Rowland, Mark Pyrah, John Davidson and cox, Steve Harryman). Towards the end of the Christmas Term two crews went and raced on the Tyne in the Rutherford Head. Conditions were beautiful and the senior boys crew (as above) raced well to come second in the Senior III class. In the Spring Term we were badly hit (as was almost every other racing club in the country) by floods. Joshua Rowe, an Australian student who has just joined us for two terms, was used to rowing in the sun and could not believe our weather. The rain went on for weeks and drove us to any available patch of dry ground for landtraining. Gary "mud-bath" Lawrence did a wonderful job and drove the rowers to new depths of suffering from which they emerged fitter. At half-term we had a St. Peter's crew in the Longship racing which is part of the Viking Festival. The event was rowed in replica Viking boats in fancy dress and really was quite spectacular. We met with no great success but we will practice back-stops paddling with pencil blades before next year's attempt! More serious racing was resumed with a trip to Nottingham to row in the Head of the Trent. Conditions on the river were difficult but two of the St. Peter's crews coped very well. The Women's Novice four (crew as before) won their event, beating the other eleven crews and the Men's Novice four (Roger Sangwin, John Davidson, Andy Newell and James Mee) did the same in their event, thirty-four seconds faster than any of the other fourteen Novice crews. It was wet and cold and Steve Harryman fully deserved two "pots" for coxing in both divisions. At the time these wins counted as Novice wins and these two crews were, therefore, now Senior III. (The A.R.A. later revoked this ruling and the boys were able to return to Novice status.)

Under 15 VI The Under 15 team did not come into their best form until the first home match — two weeks before the end of term! Prior to that a punishing schedule of away fixtures had enabled our players to develop their all-round game by playing on a variety of surfaces, with mixed results. Some interesting bounces on grass courts at Scarborough (in a sea-fret) and Pocklington were especially challenging. This was all good experience, but the lads played with much more confidence and competitiveness when they had home advantage. In the match against Barnard Castle they put it all together for a powerful win, with everybody playing well. This showed how much progress had been made over the term. Team: J. Swallow, R. Pipes, D. Ellis, A. Pickard, S. Berry, P. Watson. Also played: J. Fieldsend, S. Khanna, T. Dunn, A. Martin. Results: Opponents Scarborough College Pocklington School Ampleforth College Ashville College Durham School Barnard Castle School

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BOAT CLUB The Head Season We enjoyed a successful season this winter with continual improvement and some fine racing. St. Peter's Boat Club has been represented at eight Head races (including two on the Tideway) and has had nine wins in Junior, Novice and Senior III events. A lot of the basic training and technique work was done in the Christmas Term when we had four crews on the river. Peterswalk '89 fitted nicely into our distance training and two fours and a sculling boat completed the distance from Boroughbridge to York. Our first race of the season was the Ancholme Head in October which was run over three miles of the straightest river possible. With a stiff tail wind, times were fast. The Boys' Senior III crew came second whilst the girls' Novice four were the fastest girls' crew in a recordbreaking time. Our next event was a slight contrast. For the first time in several years St. Peter's Boat Club raced on the Tideway in the Head of the River Fours Race. This is a 4W mile race over the Boat Race course (but in the other direction) with 500 crews taking part. (Our girls, starting number 499, had to be patient!) The boys came 304th overall and the girls 402nd, which made them a very respectable 4th in the Women's Novice Division.

We were then back to home water for the Yorkshire Head and entered six crews. The girls (crew as before) were not daunted by their new status and won at Senior III level. The Junior four (Mark Pyrah, Chris Rowland, Joshua Rowe, Simon Bowen and cox, Alex Bailes) raced well and won their event whilst the newly promoted Senior III boys' crew only lost by a few seconds. We had three Novice crews entered with a healthy amount of inter-crew rivalry. The fastest crew on the day was the fifth year crew (Jeremy Doncaster, Chris Lloyd, Ben Miller, Tim Cordier and cox, John Muir) who showed a lot of fight and determination and put up a very good performance in some of our older equipment.

Durham Invitation Regatta It was St. Peter's turn to travel up to Durham for this annual regatta. It gave our novice rowers a good chance to race on a different bit of river. Although one boys' crew and one girls' crew reached the finals, Durham School won overall.

The Regatta Season There are times when even teachers and coaches are absolutely dumbstruck. It was one of the last rowing sessions of the Easter Term, I was feeling hassled (nothing new) and about to counter some comments about our boats with the usual, "take it or leave it, it's all we have..." argument when Joshua's words, ".... so I've had a word with my father and we thought we'd buy you a new one'' filtered through to my not very receptive brain. He was talking about buying a new four, on the condition that it was delivered for the beginning of the Summer Term. I still do not know how to thank someone for such a tremendously generous offer. It really does not happen very often! The challenge was then to find a boat-builder that could produce the goods to this time-scale. The boat that arrived in the first week of the Summer Term is a beautiful wooden Empacher shell, imported from Germany and fitted out by Andrew Sims. It's called "Bungarra" which is something fast and Australian! She will be a great asset to the Club for many years.

Northwich Regatta Two crews were keen enough to pursue their "Novice Pots" even through half-term and, this time, we went west. The fifth year crew (Alistair Birch, Stuart Clark, Charlie Barlow and Tim Cordier) illustrated that with good technique you can beat crews that are bigger and probably stronger. They raced very well and we were all sorry to see them lose in the final. Peterborough Regatta Peterborough gave us another chance for multi-lane rowing. Our two Novice fours each had two races but neither of them made the final.

The Summer Term has been hectic. We have raced most weekends, travelling further than we have in recent years and entering some regattas for the first time. The rowers that we have travelled away with have worked hard, raced well and been, generally, very goodhumoured and helpful. This summer's regatta crews have set standards (not only on the water) that those coming up through the Boat Club will have to work hard to maintain. Let me summarise our regatta season.

Berwick Regatta Our Sixth Form Novice crew had been racing weekend after weekend. They had trained hard and were looking good together but "Novice Pots" were proving to be a very illusive commodity. Berwick was going to be their day. However, in the semi-finals they were drawn against a crew whose equipment failed and our boys were left sitting on the start for a long time. They were cold and stiff when they eventually raced against a crew whose adrenalin was pumping and they lost by a canvas. Their opposition went on to win the final convincingly.

York Spring Regatta York Spring fell on a beautiful sunny day. (One of those days when finding volunteers for stake-boat duty is no problem!) We entered eight crews including, for the first time in many years, an eight (for which we borrowed from Leeds University). Of the six events we entered we reached the final in every one of them. However, there were some good finalists around, from City of Cambridge in particular, and it was only the Girls' Senior III crew (Jo King, Vicki Inness, Marianne Waggott, Judith Hopton and cox, Lindsay Daniel) who managed to win their final.

Agecroft Regatta Both our Senior II four and our Novice four made the finals of their respective events. The Novice crew lost to some very large men from Liverpool whilst our Senior II crew succeeded in being disqualified whilst they were up, off the start.

Nottingham City Regatta We then travelled south for a taste of multi-lane racing and some stiffer opposition. There was a breeze and Holme Pierrepont was its lively self. We faced four fours and an eight. The Novice four, one of the Senior III fours and the Women's Senior III four all made their finals, he girls' crew winning their semi-final very convincingly. At the end of the day the best result was a third place in the final by our Novice four.

York Summer Regatta Two eights, six fours and a sculler raced. Three of the crews (the boys' Senior III four, girls' Senior III four and girls' Junior eight) lost in the final. The York City Rowing Club and St. Peter's composite Senior II eight won their final against Manchester University and the Novice four that had been plagued by bad luck eventually got everything right and won their "Novice Pots". The Senior II eight was John Ward (Y.C.R.C.), Jamie Macleod (Y.C.R.C), David Coverdale (Y.C.R.C), Joshua Rowe (S.P.S.B.C.), Paul Richardson (Y.C.R.C.), Paul Baron (Y.C.R.C.), Mark Pyrah (S.P.S.B.C), Chris Rowland (S.P.S.B.C.) and Celia Paris (Y.C.R.C.) and the Novice four was Joby Taylor, James Butler, Jeremy Doncaster (substitute for Ben Taylor), James Hague and Damien Lipman.

Bradford Spring Regatta Eight crews were entered in all. Three crews made it through to the semi-final and then went out. The Women's Novice four and the Junior 16 four lost in their finals. Our only triumph of the day was our Mixed four. (There were comments passed that the boys had finally discovered how to win.... row with the girls!). 67

Leeds Sprint Regatta

INTER-HOUSE SWIMMING

Leeds Sprint Regatta was held at Bradford again because Roundhay Lake was still dry. It was a day of sunshine and heavy showers but St. Peter's could do no wrong. We won four events in fours and two events in eights. The girls' Novice four (Becki Ingledew, Alex Simpson, Anne Suttill, Sally Hamilton and cox, Lindsay Daniel) were very tolerant as their race times got changed and changed again and managed to win their event convincingly. The Senior III girls' crew (Jo King, Vicki Inness, Ann Hodgson, Judith Hopton and cox, Lindsay Daniel) rounded off their successful year by beating York City Rowing Club in the final. Ben Taylor managed to get the Novice Pot he had missed at York by rowing with Roger Sangwin, John Davidson and James Mee (who found themselves Novice again after the A.R. A. 's change of heart). They were coxed by James Dunn. Joby Taylor, James Hague, Roger Sangwin and Tim Cordier were in the winning Senior III eight. Last, but by no means least, John Ward, Mark Pyrah, Chris Rowland and Joshua Rowe were in three of the winning combinations: the Senior II four (Y.C.R.C./S.P.S.B.C. composite, coxed by Damien Lipman), the Senior III eight and the Senior II eight (another Y.C.R.C./S.P.S.B.C. composite). This fine tally of six wins meant that we came away with the Victor Ludorum for the most successful club, university or school in senior events. (One Peterite was heard walking away saying, "Who was this Victor Ludorum anyway?").

U.14 Individual Medley 50 yds Backstroke 50 yds Breaststroke 50 yds Butterfly 50 yds Freestyle Medley Relay Freestyle Relay

B. T. Councell Jenifer Swallow B. T. Councell R. Silverwood R. Silverwood Queen's Rise

75.1s 35.1s 33.9s 33.9s 26.1s 66.7s 55.0s

J. H. Lacy-Colson M. N. Ludiman J. W. Fieldsend M. N. Ludiman S. W. Shepherd Temple Temple

78.7s 32.8s 37.7s 30.4s 26.5s 57.2s 51.4s

Individual Medley 50 yds Backstroke 50 yds Breaststroke: 50 yds Butterfly 50 yds Freestyle Medley Relay Freestyle Relay

P. R. J. Meaden L A . Gordon D. H Baldry P. R. J. Meaden J. Ward Queen's Rise

(S) (G) (Q) (S) (R)

72.5s 34.3s 34.8s 29.3s 27.0s 57.7s 52.0s

Seniors Individual Medley 50 yds Backstroke 100 yds Backstroke; 50 yds Breaststroke: 100 yds Breaststroke 50 yds Butterfly 50 yds Freestyle 100 yds Freestyle Medley Relay Freestyle Relay

K. Q. Schoeman A. L. Waters P. A. Winrow L. C. Panitzke J. M. Hague K. Q. Schoeman J. P. Butler K. Q. Schoeman School School

(R) (S) (S) (G) (Q) (R) (G) (R)

71.1s 32.9s 73.4s 33.4s 78.2s 30.2s 27.5s 62.3s 56.1s 49.2s

U.15 Individual Medley 50 yds Backstroke 50 yds Breaststroke: 50 yds Butterfly 50 yds Freestyle Medley Relay Freestyle Relay U.16

Besides the racing we have had a couple of fundraising attempts in the Summer Term. The Boat Club managed to complete 100 km on the ergometer one Saturday which raised some money and lost some pounds. We also ran a scratch regatta and barbeque which was great fun (if a little damp). It provided us with an opportunity to name "Bungarra" and "Sudorific". The latter is our double scull which has been beautifully restored by Angus Lancaster and Roger Sangwin. More of the staff have taken to the water and the increasingly more serious staff crew presents us with new challenges! There are a great many people who have contributed to make this a good year. We have had financial backing from the School in a year when we have travelled further and raced more. Colleagues have shown infinite patience and understanding when we have had to miss lessons. On the coaching side, Gary Lawrence and David Hughes, with help from Chris Hall, have done a very good job bringing on this summer's novices, whilst John Ward has used his experience and talent to great effect with our more serious crews. Parents and friends have tolerated early starts and late finishes, helped with barbeques, driven to regattas and, generally, been very supportive. In many ways this is going to be a very hard year to beat (but we might try....). A. J. Hodgson

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Rise Queen's School Clifton Temple Grove Manor

93 90 73 58'/2 46 36 25

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The following represented the 1st XI E. McCowen*, A. Masefield*, A. Stephenson*, R. Wareham*, L. Copley*, A. Fowler*, L. Fowler*, A. Rosindale*, S. Jackson*, N. Westwood, J. Thompson, E. Ward, A. Suttill, C. Cooper, I. Pollard, J. Webster.

GIRLS' HOCKEY "Winning isn't important... it's everything!" Or is it? The 1st XI this season ably led by Emmy McCowen improved dramatically as a direct result of losing. Perhaps losing (some games) is good for a team? Reflecting on a season invariably brings back the superb goals, such as Ronnie Wareham who scored against Durham and Scarborough, and the hard fought, high quality games such as those the team played and won against Ackworth and The Mount. But the key to this success probably hinged upon one particular loss. In the Under 18 Tournament the team reached the semi-final and played Tadcaster. High quality hockey and one hundred per cent effort produced only a draw. Even extra time failed to provide a winner and so the match was decided on penalty flicks. Two rounds of flicks proved inconclusive and finally a "sudden death" round was needed. Tension was high and when the team lost, there was initially disappointment. Such events have a positive result for the shared experience of such a loss created the team! Until then eleven players had turned out. Afterwards the 1st XI was a team, and when they met strong opposition later on in the team this quality often gave them the edge over teams who had played together for much longer.

* Colours The following represented the 2nd XI R. Batty, C. Berry, C. Cooper, S. Durham, M. Gibb, C. Farrow, S. Hamilton, S. Musgrave, I. Pollard, R. Robertson, A. Suttill, E. Ward, J. Webster, E. Copley, S. Panitzke, S. Pitt. The following represented the Indoor Team S. Wareham, S. Jackson, J. Thompson, E. Bowling, A. Suttill, N. Westwood. Results — 1st XI Opponents The Mount Old Peterites Queen Margaret's York College U.18 Rally at The Mount v Joseph Rowntree v The Mount v Queen Margaret's B v York Sixth Form Semi-Final v Tadcaster * Lost on penalty flicks Giggleswick St. Aidan's York Sixth Form College Edinburgh Tour v St. Margaret's v Fettes College 2nd XI v Royal Dick Veterinary College The Mount Ackworth Old Peterites Durham School Worksop College Scarborough College

On the tour to Edinburgh this experience stood them in good stead and after an initial defeat on Saturday by our hosts the 1st XI played some excellent hockey on Sunday (despite a late night on Saturday after the visit to see South Pacific at the theatre!). Our hosts in Scotland, St. Margaret's School, were very gracious and generous with their hospitality. A new addition to this year's fixture list were the games against Old Peterites. These proved most enjoyable and it is a pleasure to see that many of our former players have maintained an interest in hockey at University level. Of note, for those who collect records, was the appearance in the second Old Peterite game of three players with the same surname, two of whom played in goal, plus a set of twins (non-identical), all of whom played well! (A prize will be awarded to the first person to send in the correct answer.) The Second XI, captained by Rachel Batty, struggled early in the season to find their form and it was a great pleasure to see their marked improvement in the second half of the term. Determination, enthusiasm, inspired captaincy and increasing efforts from the forwards finally produced some good results. In their own way, like the First Eleven, the Seconds learned that winning isn't everything (but occasionally it helps!). Apart from outdoor games the Indoor Team, captained by Ronnie Wareham, played in the North Yorkshire Indoor Tournament and in the St. Peter's Tournament. In both cases their lack of experience told against them but their efforts should pay dividends next season. All of those who have played hockey for the School have given a great deal and I trust that they have enjoyed it. The Jackson-Pacey Cup for the most improved player was awarded eponymously to Sophie Jackson. My thanks go to those who have helped the games to run well: Mr. Guy Shuttleworth and Mrs. Val Taylor for their umpiring, Mrs. Jean Pulleyn for looking after the kit and Mr. John Hall for his preparation of the pitches. D. M. Paterson

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Games were cancelled against St. Aidan's, Leeds High School, Ashville, Lady Lumley's, College of Ripon St. John, Retiring Captain's. Played 21 Won 8 Drawn 8 Lost 5 Goals For 31 Against 23 2nd XI Opponents Queen Margaret's Ashville College Fulford School Giggleswick School York Sixth Form College The Mount Pocklington School Bootham School Durham School Worksop College Scarborough College

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Under 15

Under 14

The hockey year started with a good win over Leeds Girls' High School who we were playing for the first time. The hockey so far had been played in hot, sunny conditions and this match was no exception. The ground was hard and the ball travelled well so it made a pleasing start to win 3-0. The IVth year as a group show much games ability and there are some very talented individuals. When playing matches their effort is always given to the maximum, so it was a pity that their general behaviour was such that I felt it necessary to prevent six players from playing any hockey for three weeks after a disgraceful display at Queen Margaret's. The results of the matches suffered during this time as a weakened team played in the U.16 rally at Tadcaster where they were section runners up. They also lost to the Mount, Tadcaster in the U.16 National knock-out tournament and drew with Manor School. The remaining team members played often with the Vth and Vlth years and I would especially like to thank all those who represented the team during this time. The team returned to full strength with a 3-1 win against Giggleswick with Eleanor Bowling scoring all the goals. The girls were enthusiastic, energetic and more importantly well behaved, and continued the season in this way. Perhaps the lesson had been learned, and essay writing probably also improved during this time! The team was unfortunate to lose by one goal in the closing minutes of the match against Queen Mary's on November 1st. This was the last fixture we played at 4.00 p.m. and it was very muddy, very dark and very wet! Two of the last three fixtures were won with a 7-0 win against Bootham. Eleanor Bowling managed five goals this time and Connelee Morris two. The defence was stretched continually in the last match against Worksop College, with Claire Walker producing some good saves both then and during the season. Laura Clark was also a dependable defence player and the two of them worked well together.

This has been a somewhat mixed season for the U. 14 hockey team, with some successes and some disappointments. Only twenty-two girls were eligible to play for this age group, and out of these seventeen represented the School team this season. Although we were able to run four girls' hockey teams, the U. 14's had fewer matches than anyone else because of having only three pitches. It should be said that during the hockey season the U. 14's also played seven netball matches and a netball tournament. Apart from one or two exceptions, this was not a particularly talented hockey year, despite maximum effort and commitment from all players. Rather than stick to the same eleven players, we therefore gave as many girls as wished an opportunity to play. Unfortunately, our first match of the season was away against Queen Margaret's, a very strong hockey School. Although beaten convincingly, the whole team played hard with continual pressure being put on our defence. Sally Marshall, in her first ever match as goalkeeper, had to pull out some spectacular saves. Against the Mount School, the team were more positive and were beaten only in the last few minutes of the match. In the match against Archbishop Holgate's we really started to play like a team. The forward line worked well together in attack, managing to score a total of seven goals. Despite a spectacular goal by Kathryn Charman in the first half, the match against Manor School saw some very defensive play, with very few shots on goal by our team (we won't mention the lack of penalty corners in this match!!). The penultimate match against Ackworth was one of the best of the season with the whole team playing constructive attacking hockey, and managing to hold Ackworth to a draw. To round off the season, five players out of eleven scored goals in our last match against Bootham, ending the season on a very positive note. In the Spring Term (our netball term) the U. 14's were entered for the York and District Hockey Rally. Although we had a very enjoyable morning at the Mount School, very few goals were scored by any team, with most matches ending in goal-less draws.

Results: Sept. 20 Sept. 23 Sept. 27 Sept. 30 Oct. 6 Oct. 11 Oct. 14 Oct. 18 Nov. 1 Nov. 15 Nov. 25 Nov. 29

Leeds Girls' High School U.16 Hockey Rally Queen Margaret's The Mount Tadcaster Manor Giggleswick St. Andrew's Queen Mary's Ackworth Bootham Worksop College

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Lost Lost Lost Drew Won Won Lost Won Won Lost

0--2 0--2 1--3 1--1 3- -1 2--0 0--1 4--0 7--0 1--3

The following girls represented the U.14 hockey team: C. Alton, K. Charman, H. Clark (captain), Z. Clark, M. Dunn, L. Francis, R. Gilbert, R. Gill, S. Marshall, E. Metcalfe, S. Richards, J. Swallow, C. Taylor, C. Tong, K. Walsh, P. Whiting. D. Westgate Results: Sept. 27 Sept. 30 Oct. 3 Oct. 11 Oct. 15 Nov. 25

The following represented the U.15 XI: C. Walker, C. Lawson, L. Clark, V. Robinson, E. Strong, J. Ensor, E. Bowling, C. Morris, R. Smith, S. Sanderson, S. Brayshaw, V. Gill, C. Graves-Tamvakis, S. Tilston. W. M. Shepherd 70

Queen Margaret's The Mount Archbishop Holgate's Manor School Ackworth Bootham

Away Away Away Away Home Away

Lost 1 — 10 Lost 1— 2 Won 7— 0 Lost 1— 3 Drawn 2— 2 Won 10— 0

SQUASH

NETBALL

A good start was made to the season with a 3-2 win over Barnsley Vlth form college in the first round of the Dunlop National Schools' Championship. Although they had two county players we were stronger at numbers 3, 4, and 5. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding about the time of the court booking, we were unable to play Greenhead College in the next round. We next played Woodhouse Grove where the consistency of Emma Ward's serving enabled the team to win 3-2. Emma has been an enthusiastic and determined player and has made perhaps the most progress over the season. I wish her well as next year's captain. The return match in the Spring Term was lost 2-3, due to the absence of ever-reliable Emma! This was the first year that the squash option was opened to some of the Middle School girls. Obviously this will enable us to have a much stronger team in future years. As in the past the majority of girls were non-squash players on their arrival at School in the Vth form. Congratulations to Eleanor Bowling and Connelee Morris who both represented the School and although lacking in match experience they both show much potential. Our No.5 string was played by Nik Westwood who has done well to win five of her seven matches. She often made life difficult with a slow start but nearly always came back to win. She was also the only player to win her match against a strong side from Harrogate College. Sharon Wareham has proved to be an able and very organised captain. She has led by example and always played with enthusiasm, encouraging the other team players. Alex Masefield and Sophie Jackson have both made good progress over the season and played with commitment. Ali Holley and Juliette Webster were also called on to represent the team and did so with enthusiasm. Again matches have been difficult to organise with fewer Schools willing to play fixtures. Unfortunately Ashville, who we have played for several years, no longer have a team. It is, however, encouraging that we have three of the team left for next year and with more experience at a younger age we can hopefully play against club teams to increase the number of fixtures. Many thanks are owed to Mrs. Shepherd for her expert coaching and the time she has spent on arranging fixtures and travelling with the team.

Netball becomes the major game for the girls in the Spring Term and due to the good weather we had throughout, only one set of fixtures was cancelled. A total of fifty matches were played by the four teams and of these forty-four were won, one drawn and five lost. A really excellent result from everyone, but especially from the 1st team who had sixteen fixtures and were only beaten once and this by older girls from the College of Ripon and York St. John. It was particularly pleasing to beat Scarborough College and York Vlth Form College as we had not done so in previous years. The Vlth Form College also had four junior county players in their side. Some of our team were undoubtedly talented enough for county selection but unfortunately this takes place in September when the senior girls are not playing netball. Eleven players represented the 1st team and eight of these will be here next year to provide the nucleus of the team. Unfortunately Abigail and Louise Fowler are both leaving, as their height contributed greatly to the overall scores. They rarely lost the ball from the attacking circle without scoring as the defence had little chance of rebounds! They both played with enthusiasm (if somewhat noisily at times!) and will be missed next year, as will Ronnie Wareham who decided after all that there was life when the hockey finished at the end of the Autumn Term! She played throughout with great commitment and had good attacking and defending skills, important to all players but especially the centre. Isla Pollard came into the L. VI with great enthusiasm and athletic ability but little netball skill. She made exceptional progress through the season and became a very reliable defence player. She was an obvious choice to captain next year's team and I am sure will provide inspiration for all the players. Eighteen girls represented the 2nd VII and as only one of them is leaving the School I am sure they can attain an unbeaten record next year. Twelve matches were played with nine won, one drawn and two lost. Only one goal separated the scores against Woodhouse Grove and two against Scarborough College. Julia Thompson and Melanie Gibb played the shooting positions in every match. They shot goals with accuracy and were unfortunate not to be regular 1st team players (but Louise and Abigail had a definite height advantage here!) although Julia played on several occasions. I tried to play a team to match other School's abilities, hence the number of girls who played. The 16-16 draw against the 3rd team from the College of Ripon and York St. John and the win against York Vlth Form College by one goal were the best results, with very good team play being shown. Julia Thompson, as captain, led by example encouraging the others. The U.15 team played netball weekly in the Autumn Term and had three matches, winning two of them. As well as the twelve matches in the Spring Term they played in the rally at Joseph Rowntree School on March 14th. They qualified for the semi-final against Huntington School as section runners-up. Here they were unfortunate to lose by only one goal, despite having the greater number of shots. However, the team played well together, both

Results: V Barnsley 6th Form College Home V Woodhouse Grove Away V The Mount Home V Harrogate College Away V Woodhouse Grove Home V Home Barnard Castle V Home Harrogate College V Home The Mount

3- -2 3- -2 6- -0 1--5 2- -3 5--0 3- -3 6--0

The following represented the 1st V and were awarded colours: S. Wareham (captain), A. Masefield, S. Jackson, E. Ward, N. Westwood. W. M. Shepherd/Sharon Wareham 71

The following represented the 2nd team: M. Gibb, J. Thompson, E. Williard, S. Panitzke, E. Copley, A. Suttill, R. Robertson, J. Webster, C. Cooper, C. Morris, E. Strong, R. Smith, A. Rosindale, K. Wood, C. Cranston, S. Hamilton, C. Farrow, C. Malster.

here and throughout the season. The girls played with great commitment, shown by the few numbers who played for the team. Morale was high as was the standard of netball produced. However, although there has been a great improvement in the general standard of behaviour, there is still room for more progress in this area. Connelee Morris played extremely well in all the matches, never giving up on any ball. She would have made an excellent rugby player, as I am sure the opponents who were sent flying would agree with! She also played for the 1st and 2nd team and deserved a regular 1st team place, but it would have been unfair to weaken the U. 15 team. Emily Strong, playing in defence, made great progress through the year with her defending skills. She often seemed to leap out of nowhere, and after re-arranging her hair, proceeded with accurate passes! The U.14 team played seven matches in the Autumn Term as well as playing in the rally in September. Here they finished section runners-up but due to the large number of participants did not qualify for the semi-final. There was much progress made by all the team shown particularly in the scores against Giggleswick — reversing the 12-13 defeat in the Autumn Term to win by twelve goals in the Spring Term. Fourteen players had the opportunity to represent the School but again the majority of matches were played by the same seven girls. Five came from St. Olave's in September, but both the shooters (Margaret Wood and Lucinda Francis) were new to the School and much needed. Jenifer Swallow seemed to grow weekly and this helped greatly in the defending circle. Both she and Cherry Alton gained in confidence as the season progressed and became reliable defence players. Heidi Clark possibly made the most progress and became much more accurate with her passes. Again the team played with enthusiasm but sometimes lost concentration — giggles at times could be heard from yards away! However, a promising first year and again only one of their ten matches during the Spring Term was lost.

Results: v Ackworth v Mount St. Mary's v Barnard Castle v Ashville College v Ripon & York St. John (3rd) v Scarborough College v York Vlth Form College v Pocklington v Durham School

Away Home Home Home Away Home Home Home Home

14- - 9 15- - 7 17- - 4 10- - 6 16- -16 1 1 - -13 1 1 - -10 2 3 -- 5 2 5 -- 7

Won Won Won Won Drawn Lost Won Won Won

The following represented the U.15 team: J. Ensor, V. Robinson, E. Bowling, C. Morris, M. Marlow, R. Smith, C. Graves-Tamvakis, E. Strong. Results: v Ashville College v Queen Mary's v Scarborough College v Ackworth v Queen Margaret's v Mount St. Mary's v St. Aidan's v Great Ayton v Worksop College v Scarborough College V Queen Mary's v Bootham School v Woodhouse Grove v Giggleswick v Leeds Girls H.S.

Away Home Away Away Away Home Away Home Away Home Home Away Home Home Away

•9-- 6 10- -11 2 3 -- 6 16- -10 9 -- 8 10- - 9 17- -12 2 3 -- 3 8 - -19 14- - 8 10- - 7 1 1 -- 5 15- - 4 30- - 2 1 1 -- 2

Won Lost Won Won Won Won Won Won Lost Won Won Won Won Won Won

The following represented the U.14 team: M. Wood, L. Francis, H. Clark, K. Charman, R. Gill, C. Alton, J. Swallow, K. Walsh, S. Richards, C. Taylor, R. Gilbert, C. Tong, S. Marshall, Z. Clark.

The following represented the 1st team: L. Fowler*, A. Fowler*, K. Wood*, S. Wareham*, S. Pitt*, I. Pollard*, C. Cranston*, J. Thompson, A. Suttill, E. Copley, C. Morris. * Colours

Results: v Bootham School v Manor School v Archbishop Holgate's v Giggleswick v Queen Mary's v Ashville College v Scarborough College v Ackworth v Queen Margaret's v Mount St. Mary's v Great Ayton v Worksop College v Scarborough College v Queen Mary's v Bootham School v Woodhouse Grove v Giggleswick

Results: v Ackworth Away 14--13 Won Away 17-- 7 Won v Queen Margaret's v Mount St. Mary's Home 18-- 9 Won v St. Aidan's Away 2 1 --17 Won v Barnard Castle Home 32-- 3 Won v Ashville College Home 12-- 9 Won v Ripon and York St. John (2nd) Away 19--25 Lost v Worksop College Away 17--14 Won v Scarborough College Home 20--10 Won v York Vlth Form College Home 20--18 Won v Pocklington Home 34--4 Won v Durham School Home 29--12 Won v Woodhouse Grove Home 24- 5 Won v Giggleswick Home 2 1 --16 Won v York College Home 20-- 2 Won v Leeds Girls H.S. Away 6-- 4 Won 72

Home Home Home Home Away Away Away Away Away Home Home Away Home Home Away Home Home

2 0 - - 0 Won 6 - - 4 Won 6 - -10 Lost 12- -13 Lost 8 - - 8 Drawn 6 - - 5 Won 16- - 4 Won 17- -11 Won 14- -13 Won 2 2 - - 2 Won 2 3 - - 3 Won 7 - -11 Lost 1 1 - - 9 Won 2 2 - - 4 Won 12- - 7 Won 16- -13 Won 2 4 - -12 Won 1V. M. Shepherd

seniors and Rachel did well to win both the backstroke and breaststroke races. The team wasn't helped by their disqualification in the freestyle relay! Queen Margaret's always have a strong team and when we swam away we always lost the races on the reluctance of the girls to tumble turn although they hold them well during the lengths. Definitely something to work on! The final match of the Autumn Term against Bootham was cancelled as so many girls from both Schools were absent with 'flu. After winning only one of their first four matches the U. 14 team finished well and didn't lose again in the Spring and Summer Terms. The senior team swam at the College of Ripon and York St. John in the Spring Term, and were obviously underestimated by the students who lost by sixteen points. I'm sure that next time they will produce a much stronger team! Swimming is not part of the Summer Term timetable and this is reflected by the number of matches. The U. 15 team finally managed to beat Bootham, as for once we had everyone available to swim.

CROSS-COUNTRY A team was entered in the Milk Cross-Country Schools' Cup for the first time this year. The event is run in areas and ours took place at Tadcaster Grammar School. The team consisted of Claire Taylor, Sarah Gibson, Sarah Richards, Laura Clark, Stephanie Sanderson and Rebecca Sherbourne who came 11th, 14th, 18th, 20th, 23rd and 24th respectively. Claire, in particular, had a good run and the team came third overall, therefore just missing progressing to the next round. The York and District cross-country trials were held on the Knavesmire on December 5th. Teams were entered in all three age groups. The combined junior team from St. Olave's/St. Peter's came first and so did the senior team with all the girls being placed in the first ten positions and therefore chosen to represent York and District in further events. The intermediate team had strong opposition with the greatest number of entrants in this age group but they did well to come second overall. Emma Copley and Esther Williams were selected for the York and District team. An invitation run took place on January 27th at Manor School and we entered a team of three in the junior event. Sarah Glover entered the senior race and she showed an enthusiastic and committed attitude to training sessions. She also represented the York and District team on several occasions. The season ended with another combined team from the junior and senior Schools running in the Rowntrees Athletic Club annual relay race. Claire Taylor was our third year representative, with Stephanie Sanderson from the fourth year. The team was placed second.

The following represented the senior team: A. Daniels, C. Cranston, S. Pitt, E.Williams, A. Holmes, L. Yeomans, R. Ingledew, S. Greeves, C. Lawson, R. Smith. The following represented the U.15 team: R. Smith, C. Morris, L. Sampson, L. Daniel, C. Lawson. The following represented the U.14 team: J. Swallow, C. Alton, L. Francis, K. Charman, S. Richards, C. Taylor, Z. Clark, S. Marshall, K. Walsh. Results: Autumn Term v The Mount (H)

The following represented the School: Seniors: S. Glover, J. Thompson, E. Ward, N. Westwood, A. Suttill, C. Cooper. Intermediates: E. Copley, E. Williams, R. Sherbourne, S. Gibson, S. Sanderson, E. Bowling, L. Clark. Juniors: C. Taylor, S. Richards, A. Dunn. W. M. Shepherd

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SWIMMING v

Recreational swimming has been a popular choice this year on the games programme. Swimming training less so, but several girls opted for this session during all three terms and should be commended for not giving up as the number of lengths they were expected to swim increased week by week. Several swimming matches were arranged throughout the year. On the whole a majority of the girls in each team were also in the hockey, netball, tennis and rounders teams so a great deal has been asked from them in terms of games commitment. I am pleased that generally they do make every effort to partake in these matches though consistently reluctantly! The season started with a very close win for the seniors, 35-34 against the Mount School. Two of the U.15 team, Rachel Smith and Caroline Lawson, swam for the

Seniors U.14 Queen Margaret's (A) Seniors U.15 U.14 Ashville College (A) Seniors U.14 Ackworth (A) U.15 U.14 'A' U.14 'B' Bootham Cancelled

Spring Term v Queen Ethelburga's (H)U.14 v Bootham School (A) Seniors U.15 U.14 v College of Ripon and York St. John (A) Seniors Summer Term v Bootham School (H)

v York College (H)

Seniors U.15 U.14 U.14

35--34 42--36 27--49 28--47 28--48 40--75 55--69 45--31 30--46 38--39

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48--28 47--29 43--33 45--31

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46--30

Won

41--35 Won 46--30 Won Won 50--26 45--32 Won W.. M. Shepherd

entered in the Midland Bank/L.T.A. League and other than a 3-3 draw against the Mount School all the matches were won without the loss of a rubber. The girls enjoy both the doubles and singles aspect of the matches and all have shown much improvement in their game, especially in producing consistent shots. The final against Joseph Rowntree produced another convincing result and the girls lost only four games overall. They now progress to a further round having won the York and District area league. The U.14 team had three friendly fixtures, winning two of them. They would have also beaten Queen Ethelburga's with a full strength team but unfortunately three of them were ill on that day. They had mixed results in the U. 14 York League but finished by only losing two of the eight fixtures. Again illness affected this team for which seven girls played. Kathryn Charman and Heidi Clark both won six of their eight singles matches and Heidi played in every fixture. The players all made steady progress through the summer and it was encouraging that people were enthusiastic and willing to play in matches at short notice. W. M. Shepherd

TENNIS We started the tennis season with a week of House matches. On reflection not very helpful for selecting teams as only one colour — Alex Masefield — remained from the 1st team. We played tennis for a week before the fixtures began but it was difficult to know the best players and how to pair them with people missing from each session. Therefore, for the first few matches the pairings changed considerably before the 1st team became settled. All of the LVI who chose full-time tennis were of a good standard and as six of the first seven remain next year, to be joined by some promising Vth year, competition for a place in the 1st team will be keen. Matches against Leeds Girls High School and Scarborough College were only lost by one rubber but important experience has been gained this year and the girls should reverse those scores next summer. Again Queen Margaret's presented the strongest opposition but although losing 2-7 the rubbers were well contested with long games taking place. In fact the game score was 30-44, a gap which could be narrowed with more determination. The U. 18 team also entered the Midland Bank/L.T.A. Senior Students Competition where after beating Woodkirk 6-0 they lost to a strong team from Bradford Grammar School. Nikki Westwood won the only rubber, without dropping a game, playing the No.3 singles string. She also played extremely well in that position in the U. 18 York League. Here Nikki won all of her seven singles rubbers without the loss of a game in four of them. In the first round of the Aberdare/Glanville Cup, Scarborough College withdrew and Queen Ethelburga's were beaten 4-2. Eleanor Bowling, from the fourth year, played in both these matches, winning three rubbers and losing three. She gained valuable experience from this — if a little over-awed at the time! In the next round, St. James', Knaresborough, had two county players in their team of four so the opponents proved to be too strong. Nikki Westwood and Julia Thompson had a good doubles match, losing only 6-7 with a tie-break. The team were unlucky to finish runners-up in the U. 18 York League by one point, despite not losing a match. A tie-break set, lost 6-7 in the first match, against Appleton Roebuck became the decisive rubber but there's always another year! My thanks to Alex Masefield who was a reliable captain, both as a player and in her organising ability. The 2nd team had a disappointing season with only six matches played and three of these against schools with only two couples. Another three schools cancelled previously arranged fixtures due to lack of players. The match against Queen Margaret's produced some of the best tennis with Emma Ward and Susie Musgrave winning two rubbers. Louise and Abigail Fowler won the remaining rubber and Sarah Durham and Claire Farrow were unlucky to lose 5-6 to the first pair but showed a determined approach. The girls played the 1st team from Barnard Castle with Emma and Susie again winning two rubbers. Unfortunately they lost the deciding rubber 5-7. The U. 15 team has had another successful year. They played six fixtures with three pairs in the team and won five of them, four convincingly. A team of four was

The following represented the 1st team: A. Masefield*, R. Robertson*, J. Thompson*, N. Westwood*, S. Musgrave*, E. Ward*, S. Jackson*, A. Fowler, L. Fowler, E. Bowling, J. Webster. * Colours

Results: v Worksop College Home v Ackworth Home v Queen Margaret's Away v Leeds Girls High School! Away v Scarborough College Away v Hymers College Away v Durham Home v The Mount Away v Bootham Away v Pocklington Away

U.18 League Results: v Appleton Roebuck v Dunnington v The Mount v Bootham v Joseph Rowntree v York Vlth Form College v All Saints

Away Away Away Home Away Away Away

6 -3 5'/2 - 3 ' / 2

2 4 4 9 7 8 8 5

-7 —5 -5 -0 -2 -1 —1 -4

3- -3 6- -0 6- -0 3- -3 6--0 6--0 6- -0

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Draw Won Won Draw Won Won Won

The following represented the 2nd team: R. Robertson, J. Webster, S. Jackson, E. Ward, C. Farrow, S. Musgrave, A. Fowler, L. Fowler, S. Durham, M. Gibb, A. Daniels. 74

Results: v Worksop College v Ackworth v Queen Margaret's v Barnard Castle v Woodhouse Grove v The Mount

Home Home Away Home Away Away

4—0 9—0 3—6 4—5 3—1 4—0

ROUNDERS

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Rounders was played during the summer term by girls of all ages but the fixtures were made for the third and fourth years usually whilst the older age groups had tennis matches. In the U.15 age group five of the tennis team also played rounders fixtures, usually having had no practice! All the U. 14 tennis team also played rounders. We were fortunate to have the use of Queen Anne School's playing fields on Saturday's but we generally found some grass somewhere! The U.15 team played the strongest opposition first, early in the term. They usually played well together, with good team spirit, despite little practice. The U. 14 team saw many changes during the term, due to illness. Heidi Clark was invaluable in organising replacements and announcing to me what would be happening! The third years seemed to be able to either bat or field but often had difficulty doing both on the same day! For the last match against Pocklington I took out the tennis players from both age groups and played a combined team giving the opportunity to a few more players to represent the School.

The following represented the U.15 team: E. Bowling, J. Mindenhall, V. Robinson, E. Strong, C. Morris, S. Sanderson, R. Smith, M. Marlow.

Results: v Worksop College v Queen Margaret's v Leeds Girls H.S. v Hymers v Queen Ethelburga's v The Mount

Home Away Away Away Away Away

8--1 1--3 5- -4 9- -0 7--2 7--2

Won Lost Won Won Won Won

U.15 League Results: v Fulford School v The Mount v Bootham v Manor School v York College v Queen Anne's v Joseph Rowntree (final)

Away Away Home Home Away Away Home

6--0 3- -3 6--0 6--0 6--0 6-- 0 6—0

Won Draw Won Won Won Won Won

The following C. Morris, E. S. Sanderson, Robinson, C. E. Bowling. Ri esults:

V V

The following represented the U.14 team: K. Charman, H. Clark, J. Swallow, M. Wood, L. Francis, Z. Clark, C. Alton, S. Marshall, K. Walsh.

Results: v Woodhouse Grove v Queen Ethelburga's v York College

U.14 League Results: v Tadcaster v Manor School v Bootham v Joseph Rowntree v Dunnington v The Mount v All Saints v Queen Anne's

Away Away Away

Away Home Away Home Home Away Away Away

7-2 3-6 4-2

represented the U.15 team: Strong, R. Smith, J. Ensor, S. Tilston, C. Graves-Tamvakis, L. Clark, V. Lawson, S. Brayshaw, M. Marlow,

V V

Ackworth Scarborough College Bootham Woodhouse Grove

Home Away Home Away

7.5—11.5 5.5— 4.5 15.5— 7.5 9.5- 6

Lost Won Won Won

The following represented the U.14 team: C. Alton, K. Charman, J. Swallow, S. Richards, L. Francis, H. Clark, M. Wood, R. Gill, S. Marshall, Z. Clark, A. Dunn, C. Taylor.

Won Lost Won

1—5 Lost 1-5 Lost 5 - 1 Won 4 - 2 Won 3 - 3 Draw 3 - 3 Draw 3 - 3 Draw 5 - 1 Won W. M. Shepherd

Results: v Ackworth v Queen Margaret's v Scarborough College v Bootham

Home Away Away Home

v Pocklington

Away

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Lost Lost Won

19.5-10 11 — 7.5 Declared Won 4.5- 9 Lost

Matches were cancelled against Giggleswick, The Mount and Polam Hall. W. M. Shepherd

TRAVEL HILL-WALKING IN WALES

Harryman, both Goodwins and I combined to give Ben Fraser and Jamie Gill the best staff-pupil ratio ever seen up there! But for us the day wasn't over. As we plodded west through the early evening greyness, the whole world suddenly went an eerie purple. Somewhere far over the Irish Sea the setting sun was shining under the cloud layers and all the summit mist illuminated. We were awestruck. On the summit itself we paused briefly among the shattered monoliths and began the tricky descent. It took us out of the mist, and we stopped again. We were in sunlight. Between the sky and the sea was an incredible rampart of cloud. We understood immediately how great explorers saw mountain ranges where no lands were: above these clouds we could see snow capped peaks, illuminated by the low rays of the sun. We sat down and watched while it got dark, while the youngsters wondered about these over-excited maniacs in whose charge they were.

Christmas 1989 The usual — even traditional — trip attracted large numbers this winter: for most of the time there were between thirty-five and forty-five people in and around Yr Hafod. Despite what we had been conditioned to think of as the mildness of the winter, we had some good mountaineering and encountered some spectacular conditions. We travelled out to Wales on Saturday morning in two minibuses and a variety of cars and soon settled ourselves into the hut routine. Conditions on the first day were dreadful — even in the kitchen. The weather forecast from R.A.F. Valley, normally given to understatement, suggested that it was bad at the moment and going to get worse: he said "atrocious" and warned of electrical storms on the ridges about 3,000 feet. Since there aren't any ridges below that height, this limited us. We split into two groups with the intention of walking different ways along the valley. Out in Cwm Idwal, I shall never forget large sixth formers being cartwheeled backwards by gusts of wind: the same gusts lifted water so high off the lake that the hut itself was being drenched in the spray — upwind of the lake we were quite surprised to find that it was not actually raining! It took us two hours to walk round less than half of the nature trail. The rest of the party walked downwind as far as Bettws y Coed — and had die sense to arrange a lift back.

The slow, torchlit descent was a strange contrast: pitch dark after all the colours of the previous half hour. Everyone had been aware of that sunset from their different positions on the Devil's Kitchen/Cwm Idwal path, but those of us on the summit do not expect ever to see anything like it again. Snowdon for the third day: because it's there. This time we split into three parties. Simon, David and Andrew Hjort took a party of tigers along the Crib Goch ridge: for Steve Brown, David Quickfall and Dan Britton it was an amazing day, almost alpine in quality. Ann Hodgson led a group up the Rhyd-ddu path and down the Pyg Track: it's a standard route but a good one. Ian and I led the intermediates up Snowdon's Gribin. Again, it took ropes — this time for ice on the rock — and we met Simon's party just below the summit. Our vague plan had been to cross the mountain to the bus which Ann had left at Rhyd-ddu, but Simon's presence altered that: with a car at Pen-y-Pass we too could go down the shorter Pyg Track and drive round for the bus. Then the conditions took a hand. The Zig-Zags at the top of the Pyg had been relatively straightforward in the early afternoon, but now at four o'clock it was cold enough to freeze. Ice-glazed rocks blocked our way — and in the fading light (or growing dark) it was hard to see a safe route. Out with the ropes, again.... By the time we were above Lyn Llydaw it was well and truly dark: we must have burned off more head-lamp hours this trip than in all previous ones put together; and we certainly discovered the virtues of halogen ("hooligan") bulbs. On well-pathed routes in settled weather, this ability to move after dusk has extended our walking days and added a new dimension to the experience of the hills. There were Peterites and Old Peterites in about equal proportions: this makes life in the hut cheerful and

On Monday we divided into 'A' and 'B' parties. I don't think the 'B' party have forgiven me yet for the con. The idea was for Simon Goodwin and Ivan Roberts to take the more experienced mountaineers over the difficult scrambles of Tryfan North Ridge and Bristly Ridge, while Ian Goodwin and I led the novices up the gentle crest of Y Gribin. What actually happened was a bit different. Ian and I were bemoaning the lack of snow when we found some, high in a gully below the Castle of the Winds. We wondered if it would 'go' and went to have a look. Half an hour later it became clear that a rope would be a wise precaution. David Harryman and Richard Robson duly obliged. One rope length turned into three and the afternoon wore on while the temperature went down. No sooner had I begun to speculate on the chances of the 'A' party having reached the top of our gully by their route than they did. The first of our youngsters, disguised by hoods and balaclavas, emerged and greeted Simon cheerily — much to his puzzlement, since he couldn't work out how anyone up there could possibly know him. As others reached the Glyder plateau, the two parties blended and small groups continued on to the west, aiming to descend via the Devil's Kitchen. By the time the last of us stripped the ropes out of the gully it seemed as if the last light had gone from the day. Andrew Taylor, Dave 76

amusing: jobs get done remarkably fast and the catering is of a high standard. Anyone who would like to join us next year would be most welcome: contact me at the School and thanks to all those who helped this time. D. J. Hughes

physically stunning country which Churchill rightly described as "die pearl of Africa". In the school holidays I travelled extensively through the country visiting even the briefest of acquaintances I had made. In spite of physical hardships such as not having running water (and sometimes even water) or electricity, and an exceedingly limited diet (bananas featured prominently), I know that I was utterly privileged to be there at all. Jo Craven

A YEAR IN SOUTH-WEST UGANDA Jo Craven left St. Peter's in 1988, and received a Barry Daniel Award to help her with her travel plans. She sent us this report:

SAHARA TRIP - EASTER 1990

My year-off plan to return to the country where I was born was encouraged significantly by the Barry Daniel Award I received. In the autumn of 1988 I planned to go to Kabale Preparatory School in the south-west of Uganda (East Africa), volunteering as an assistant matron. On arrival the situation changed dramatically with the departure of the missionary head-teacher, the dawn of an African headship and many other factors, which took me from the dispensary into the classroom. There were 170 children aged from five to fifteen years to whom I taught mainly English and Art but also some Geography and History. The lessons were enormous fun for having to improvise without textbooks (those which remained were thirty-five years old). The children had never had any drama before and love it especially. The political and economic state of Uganda affects the school greatly. In spite of this, children came from neighbouring Ruanda and the far north of the country because of its reputation, and we even had the President's children there. But the teachers' wages are pitifully low compared to the constantly soaring inflation, and with political instability the future prospects are never certain. To keep the school running from day to day was an enormous task. Just to keep the food in the kitchen from "wandering", along with the equipment which once provided instantly "got finished", was a huge task. But Ugandan people are extremely philosophical about the situation and they console themselves with the knowledge that things have been worse (especially under Amin). At least everyone has land to grow produce. At least the schools are open, and even though the process can be extremely laborious, events can occur — such as the International Women's Day rally in the stadium. Lorry loads of women came in their traditional clothes. These were women whose lives normally revolved around working in the fields, having children, collecting firewood and water. For one day in the year they had put down their hoes and a female MP had come to talk to them.

At 8.30 p.m. on Saturday 24th March, fifteen members of the Lower VI left school for three weeks in me Sahara Desert under the leadership of Mr. Bulcock and Mr. Tooms. The group consisted of Andrew Berrington, David Blacker, Roland Carnaby, Paul Cove, Caroline Cooper, Adam Dean, Kinshuk Garai, James Harding, Becki Ingledew, Denzil Jelbert, Sandy Lovell, Edward Savage, Anne Suttill, Alex Weir, Nic Westwood and Matthew Williams. After picking Sandy up from somewhere on the A64 we drove southwards for die day reaching Plymouth in the early evening. We stayed the night in me Stonehouse Barracks of the Royal Marines, sleeping in the Gymnasium where we were awoken at 6 a.m. by Mr. Bulcock and after breakfast drove onto me nearby ferry. Some people were inevitably seasick but by the evening the whole group (wim the exception of Messrs. Bulcock and Tooms) were in the disco where Les the trans-European truckdriver showed Caroline a few '50s moves he remembered while Denzil, feeling slightly unwell, went to his bunk early. He was all right the next morning however, when the group minus Mr. Bulcock, Paul and Kinshuk walked off the ferry. Unfortunately tfiose on foot did not have tiieir passports and me bus was spotted already having passed through customs. Eventually a kindly Spanish official allowed us to go

One could see the government was beginning to take more care of its grass roots rather than concentrating solely on the acquisition of more guns. For instance, public work days were announced when the roads were to be repaired (the tarmac having been eroded or bombed away). It was beginning to be apparent that the new government was repairing the decimation which had characterised the seventies and Idi Amin's rule. During my time in Kabale I lived closely with a nation only just being given back its pride. For Uganda is a 77

through passport control without our passports and we found the bus but not Kinshuk who had disappeared. He too was found — after a while — and soon we began our twenty-four hour drive through Spain. After going through Burgos we stopped for a picnic lunch by the roadside before going to a Spanish hypermarket where we stocked up on vital desert supplies and die less adventurous went to MacDonalds. After dinner we then prepared to spend the night on the bus.... it was a weary bunch of Peterites who boarded the ferry in Algeciras the next morning. Across the Straits of Gibraltar we landed in Ceuta, a Spanish owned city, where alcohol is ridiculously cheap, and then made for the much maligned Moroccan Customs where Mr. Bulcock disappeared with a minder on either side and a look of grim determination upon his face but a few minutes later waved the bus on smiling happily. We then went to cash some travellers' cheques — Dave was nearly conned out of £10 and others received hefty commissions.

were travelling round the world. We settled into a pattern of going to the oasis, staying at the camp on guard duty and going into the nearby town of Errachidia, disrupted only when we were awoken one morning at 3.45 a.m. to go to see the sun rise over some sand dunes near the Algerian border, an amazing spectacle. The few traders there were at the oasis each had small open-fronted shops crammed with all the things we had seen in Marrakech, yet were much more friendly than their city counterparts, serving us mint-tea as we bought rugs, rings and drums. All too soon it was time to leave the oasis and we drove into Errachidia to celebrate Denzil's birthday before going back to Asilah where much to our disappointment it rained all afternoon. Tangier too was a disappointment, especially when compared with Marrakech. After some duty free shopping we crossed back from Ceuta to Algeciras and found a hotel opposite the Rock of Gibraltar to spend the night. Most of the group toured Gibraltar by taxi visiting the caves and apes and getting a good view from the top. Mr. Tooms drove us down 'The Highway of Death' upon leaving Gibraltar and our journey continued on through the night and the following day, uneventfully, but for Becki who lay on a campbed down the middle of the bus feeling mysteriously ill. We boarded die ferry in Santander for a calmer crossing man coming and arrived in Plymouth witii feelings of happiness and regret. After Fish and Chips in Exeter we had a peaceful journey home interrupted only by the bus breaking down, pushing it up a hill and Paul being run over by the trailer. Mrs. Bulcock kindly cooked us a fabulous breakfast before we unpacked all our equipment and presented Mr. Bulcock and Mr. Tooms with richly deserved presents for giving us a fantastic holiday.

The next morning we awoke in our hotel next to the beach in Asilah where we got our first chance to do some sunbathing. Soon we had to leave, however, happy in the knowledge that we were booked into the same hotel on our return. We drove for the whole day stopping occasionally for lunch or a drink and after midnight stopped a few miles outside Marrakech to camp for the night under the stars. The following morning we were dropped off near the Great Square in the city; a place full of orange sellers, storytellers, snake charmers and water carriers, went into the market and were immediately led into various shops all selling the same things. Deals were done and bangles bought and after exhausting the market we went on to the Medina (the old part of the town), led by our guide Ali. Merchants offered to swop our western T-shirts and neckerchiefs for their own goods and more things were bought — Nic and Adam getting the prize for the bargain of the day after some tough haggling for a couple of leather bags. After finding the bus, Dave, Ed and Andy turning up in native costume and Roly hitching a lift on a passing bicycle, we drove to a hotel where Mr. Bulcock's aunt and uncle were staying, whom he had chanced upon in Marrakech. The girls were whisked away for a shower and then treated to a drink; the boys fended for themselves although some got a shower too, whilst others were being thrown out of the swimming pool for washing dieir feet in it. Too soon we had left the luxurious hotel and were camping out again, this time in the rain. The next day we drove through the Adas mountains which provided some spectacular scenery and finally reached the desert. After we had set up camp a persistent Moroccan hung around wanting to take various things. However, Ed's displeased face and his G.C.S.E. French soon persuaded him to leave. The next day we reached our campsite for the following week and put the tents up in a dust-storm.

Matthew Williams

The Source Bleu de Meski oasis was much different - but also much better - to what we had expected. We spent the week sunbathing, swimming and visiting the Kasbar, a deserted town upon a nearby hill, led there across a river and through a graveyard by an American family who had been in Morocco for four years and who 78

ITALY TRIP - EASTER 1990 On 24th March, eleven sixth formers and three members of staff set off for Italy. No-one really knew anything about the country and its people, despite an intensive language and culture course from Mr. Drysdale (loved the book!) and so on arrival, even a mission to try to order the customary pizza was fraught with hardship. Nevertheless, we made it to Florence and settled in, to the start of one week of sun, culture and wine. In Florence it rained, the Uffizi Gallery was closed most of the time and the wine was not cheap. Fortunately, the Duoma was open to the public, and its belltower provided us with a view of the Florentine rooftops, and other attractions like the Medici Palace. Our efforts at tourism were not confined purely to Florence. Lucca and Pisa were both visited, while Siena and San Gimignano, despite being tainted by torrential rain, proved to be the highlights of the Florence visit, with their pretty alleyways and streets, and towers respectively. Finally, after four days and a visit to the Uffizi Gallery (very oppressive religious art) which was actually open, we set off for Venice. The long coach journey was lightened by increasingly bright weather and a very bright atmosphere in the party. In Venice I was immediately struck by the beauty of the buildings and waterways, heightened by the sun and by the fact that since there were no cars in Venice (the streets are not wide enough) there were no car fumes, the only fumes present being from the canals themselves when the wind blew the wrong way. On top of all this was the fact that the hotel was only minutes from the Piazza San Marco, and only one minute from the Grand Canal itself: the spectacle of which has graced many a painting and postcard. The galleries were the main point of interest. As water buses were not too cheap (in fact all forms of water transport in Venice are quite dear, with a half hour gondola ride costing around £40) and Venice itself is not that big, the scenery in between was absorbed on foot. The Peggy Gugenheim Museum offered the chance to see art from famous modern artists such as Jackson Pollack, Salvador Dali and the Andy Warhol exhibition which showed very interesting, if somewhat infantile, art (though I like it). At the other end of the art spectrum, the Academy was a chance to see yet more oppressive, and huge artwork, from greats like Caravaggio — all very educational. It must be stated that a very commercialised Venice was made by the glorious weather. Florence seemed to pale into insignificance, which it might not have had it not been raining all the time. Having said this, the trip as a whole was made by the people on it and thanks must go to everyone involved, especially Mr. Drysdale for organising it. Simon Gildener

There were also the inevitable ski trips at Christmas and Easter. 79

OLD PETERITE NEWS again his great love of cricket shows through, and he was elected a member of the Authentics at an early stage. With such varied skills and talents he must have found it somewhat difficult to decide what career to follow, but eventually he decided to follow in the footsteps of his Headmaster father and teacher mother, the education service thereby gaining a great deal. Not surprisingly he became a games master, but also quickly showed himself to be adept at other forms of teaching and administration. It was pleasing that at Glenhow School, near Saltburn, he was serving under another O.P. — P. H. Sykes, whom he was eventually to succeed as Headmaster. In the meantime he had had the good fortune to meet and marry Sally on a trip to Norway — surely one of the best holiday souvenirs anyone could have brought back. In 1966 he returned to St. Olave's School to teach maths and games and to become the first Housemaster of the new Fairfax House, a very astute move by John Dronfield. It was quickly seen just how well he fitted into the scene as a colleague, always keen, willing and observant. All these qualities showed, with others, when he was appointed Master-in-Charge of St. Olave's to succeed Tudor Howat. John quickly settled into his new responsibilities, and soon it became difficult to imagine St. Olave's without him. His career as a builder became apparent in the careful planning and organisation of School matters. He served under five Headmasters of St. Peter's and to each one of them, varied though they were, he gave loyalty, strength and wisdom, never being afraid to "stick his neck out" if he thought that the best interests of St. Olave's were not being served. During his time he had to face many problems, some of them apparent, others which no-one ever knew about, yet at all times he never complained or felt sorry for himself. He was generally the first member of staff to arrive at the beginning of the School day, and could always be found there long after most people had gone home.

JOHN RAYSON

If the records of the City of York are studied, amongst the list of Freemen of the City for many hundreds of years the name of Ray son will appear frequently, generally as carpenter or builder. Although John Rayson still displays the skills of his forebears as an enthusiastic D.I.Y. expert, building would not normally be expected of him. And yet, what a splendid builder he has been — not only in the physical sense as evidenced in the planning of the new and superb Chilman Building but, more importantly, in the mental and spiritual sense of building traditions, high standards and character. John's first association with the School began in 1942 as a day boarder, transferring as a full boarder in The Rise in 1944. He certainly seems to have had a busy life, winning form prizes, boxing, fencing, shooting, becoming sergeant in the J.T.C., then drum-major, chapel monitor, school monitor and Editor of "The Peterite". But out of all these activities it was his cricketing skills that play a large part in the records. First awarded 1st XI colours in 1944 he received them again in 1945, 46 and 47. He was Vice-Captain of Cricket in 1945, and Captain in 1946 and 47. In 1946 he was presented with a bat by Norman Yardley, played a second time for Yorkshire Public Schools against Lancashire, captained the Yorkshire Under 18 team v Sussex, and it was said of him "He has all the shots in the bag, and a great future may well lie ahead of him". During these years he also played for the Colts XV and the 2nd XV and was awarded his colours in 1945/46. A successful career followed at Brasenose College after his military service. At Oxford he appears to have been the first O.P. to read agriculture. Once again he seems to have led a very busy and happy life — and once

He was always completely approachable and, no matter now small the problem might have seemed, even the youngest Olavite was assured of his attention over a lost raincoat or a missed parent. Indeed the pupil or parent he was dealing with was always the focus of his full attention. In matters of discipline he was firm but fair, sympathetic and understanding, and when action was necessary his first reaction was always "Justice has been done — now, what can I do to help?", and always he gave the finest form of discipline — that is by example. Whether in his great love of games, his keen support of so many School activities, his singing in the choir (and even being persuaded to dress up and take part in School productions, and undress to have wet sponges thrown at him during the School summer fetes), his dignified help as a special minister in services of Holy Communion, all 80

formed part of the pattern of School life, and all revealed his quiet influence. In addition to many things the pupils benefited from in School, many children have cause to be grateful to John and Sally for their initiative in organising the original Cairngorm Adventure Holiday, a splendid introduction to wonderful countryside and many exciting activities which they would, perhaps, not otherwise have sampled. For thirteen years John and Sally combined their talents and their Schools to organise and run the annual week. For the first six years this was a joint venture with York College for Girls where Sally was teaching part-time. The first four years were based in the Norwegian Hostel (selfcatering!) at Loch Morlich, and here she was responsible for the catering for forty-eight children and adults, helped of course by the other ladies in the group. In 1988 there was a change of venue to the Y.M.C.A. National Centre at Lakeside on Windermere, and 1989 was a transitional year when John and Sally handed over the organisation to John and Jacky Slingsby, so now this innovation by John has become an ever-popular and exciting event. The greatest change in John's time at St. Olave's has, of course, been the introduction of co-education. The change when it came was so smoothly carried out that it seemed no change at all, just as though it had always been, and this again says much about John's interest, meticulous planning and progressive thinking. It will be difficult to imagine St. Olave's without him for we have come to rely on his presence, with Sally typically always in the background, yet always ready with help. They, their two Olavite/Peterite sons, Ian and Duncan, and the rest of the family have given so much to the School. But this is only the ending of a chapter not the closing of the book, though what a superb chapter it has been. The splendid new Chilman building will stand as a monument, not only to Chilly who laid the foundation stone but to those all important invisible foundations so firmly laid by John Rayson. We wish him and his family all true happiness in the golden days ahead. We know just how busy John's retirement will be with all his hobbies, interests and activities, and we also know that although his familiar figure will not be seen as much in the School grounds, his heart, devotion and interest will remain with St. Olave's and St. Peter's. Many pupils during the past years have benefited from his wisdom, advice and words of thanks. Now it is his turn to listen to our heartfelt gratitude and we end by appending the name of that paragon of all Olavite virtues, the one whose name was constantly used by John as an example of correctness in writing, speech and behaviour. Joe Bloggs

COMMEMORATION 1991 Commemoration next year will be Friday, 5th July and Saturday, 6th July.

O.P. GOLF SOCIETY A report appears later on the successful meeting at Easingwold G.C. R. F. Harding has looked after the organisation of the Burnett Trophy and Founders Trophy Competition for the last twelve years and the society has every reason to be very grateful to him. Ian Leedham will now be responsible for next year's meeting, details of which will appear in the next issue of the Old Peterite News.

OLD PETERITE NEWS The Club is very grateful for the good work done by Eric Thompson in editing the second issue of the Old Peterite News. This is a most important communication and O.P. 's are urged to send their news or reminiscences to E. G. Thompson, "West Winds", 4 Moor Lane, Haxby, York Y03 8PH by April 1st 1991.

NOTES 1. The Editor of "The Peterite" is always pleased to receive letters from the universities. 2. On matters of' "The Peterite'' circulation, or changes of address, please contact the Headmaster's secretary, St. Peter's School, York Y03 6AB.

CLUB PROPERTY The following are available from the Hon. Secretary, R. D. Harding, Hall Cottage, Foremarke, Milton, Derbyshire, DE6 6EJ. Please include postage stamp(s) separately from the cheque made payable to the Old Peterite News. Club Tie: £5.00 (plus a 20p stamp) Ladies Brooch: £4.00 (plus a 20p stamp) The Hon. Secretary's Book: £2.75 (plus 34p stamps) (A chronology:627 A.D. to 1981) Centenary Spoon: £2.00 (plus a 20p stamp) Cuff Links: £20.00 (plus 28p stamps)

A REQUEST J.J. Penn, formerly of Shrewsbury School, has written to the Hon. Secretary about a book he is compiling of amusing School stories about public Schools... "I am making a collection of amusing stories about our Public Schools which I hope to publish. I have no doubt that a large reservoir of such stories exists and I 81

am very keen to tap that reservoir. I wondered, therefore, whether it would be possible to publish a request for material of this type in your Old Boys Newsletter or any similar publication? The sort of contributions I am looking for would be humorous but not too long. The stories selected for publication would appear in a good quality paperback, liberally illustrated with cartoons with a foreword by a well-known Public School wit. Each individual entry would note the School of origin, the approximate date of the story and the full name of the contributor. Rather than make individual payments for the material, I propose to allocate ten per cent of my royalties to be divided among the Old Boys societies on the basis of the number of contributions selected. I am sure that a very large number of ex-public School boys would derive pleasure from such a book, and would be especially keen to see the stories about their own School. A typical example might be:

John DENISON (Past President of O.P. Club) Temple Robin FIELD Grove Michael FIRBY Queen's/ Dronfield/School Queen's Doug FLEMING Paul GITTINS Temple Alan GOMERSALL Grove Earlam GRAHAM School James HANSON (Past President O.P. Club) School Richard HARDING (O.P. Club Hon. Sec.) Rise John HARDING (Past President O.P. Club) School Richar HART Temple Graham HART Dronfield John HAYES Grove Keith HEADLAM Temple Allan HEADLAM Temple John HERRING Temple/Queen's Steven HILL Manor Peter HYETT Dronfield Peter JOWSEY Temple Christopher KING School Laurant KSSIS School Tim LAYFIELD Grove Richard MOSS Rise Andrew MOTION Wentworth/ Manor Carl PATTISON School/Manor Robin PITTMAN Headmaster of St. Peter's School Andrew Powell Dronfield Colin QUICKFALL St. Olave's/ (London Dinner Sec.) Grove Michael RANSON (President of O.P. Club) Rise David RAYNER Grove John RAYSON Rise David RUMFITT (Past President O.P. Club) Temple Edward SEDMAN St. Olave's/ Temple Neil SHUTTLEWORTH Elmet/Rise Chris SMITH Manor Peter SPEIGHT St. Olave's/ Manor Jonathan STONE Dronfield School/Manor Robert STRATTON (Chairman London Dinner) David TATE St. Olave's/Rise Eric THOMPSON St. Olave's/ Manor Grant WHITE Dronfield

Shrewsbury School 1950's There used to be a lesson before breakfast widely disliked by both staff and boys known as First Lesson. A significant number of both were often late. One such morning the bell went as SheltonAgar was passing the Headmaster, Jack Peterson, on the stairs of the Main School building. "Late again Shelton-Agar" said Jack. "Yes sir, so am I!" replied Shelton-Agar as he sped past. J, J. Penn'' He plans to distribute 10% of his royalties to the Old Boys Societies of the contributors. Contributions should include the name of the School, the approximate date of the story and the contributor's name, all of which will appear in the book unless the contributor requests otherwise. The address for contributions is: 14 Henning Street, London SW11 3DR.

THE OLD PETERITE CLUB LONDON DINNER The Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington W2 Friday, 3rd November 1989 John ADDEY Will ADLER Chris BEAUMONT Tim BEAUMONT Harry BELCHAMBER Peter BLEACH Anthony BRINDLEY Nigel BRINDLEY Christopher BROCKBANK Rupert BROWN Richard CLAYBOURN Robert COLLIER Patrick CRAVEN

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OLD PETERITE CLUB DINNER IN NEWCASTLE

THE OLD PETERITE CLUB ANNUAL DINNER

The above dinner was held at the Stakis Airport Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Friday, 29th September 1989.

The Old Peterite Club Annual Dinner was held on Saturday, 7th July 1990 in the School Dining Hall by kind permission of the Headmaster. The toast of "The School" was proposed by E. G. Thompson. The Headmaster, R. N. Pittman, replied and gave the toast of the Old Peterite Club to which the President, E. M. H. Ranson, responded. In recognition of his devoted service to the School as Master of St. Olave's for twenty-one years, J. C. M. Rayson was presented with a gift from the club. After he spoke about his years at Glenhow Prep. School and St. Olave's, the President formally concluded the evening by handing over his badge of office to D. L. Brown (Rise 1955-1961), who was elected at the A.G.M. earlier. The club is very grateful to Mr. G. H. Wogan and the School catering staff for the excellent meal. Those present:

E. M. H. Ranson D. H. Hamilton J. C. M. Rayson R. D. Harding J. F. Brown C. J. L. Clarke Dr. W. Graham J. T. Harding W. G. Huntley G. M. Jobling R. L. Jobling J. S. D. Pearson R. Pickersgill W. E. Potts M. E. Robson J. Watson K. Brown

President Second Master Headmaster of St. Olave's School Secretary

The President (E. M. H. Ranson) The Headmaster (R. N. Pittman) The Hon. Secretary (R. D. Harding) The Hon. Treasurer (S. M. Burn) S. Al-Bassam B. Allen G. P. Bailey S. Bailey A. J. Barron R. M. Barron V. M. Black R. A. Brindley D. L. Brown J. Brown N. E. R. Brown J. E. B. Burdass M. Burdass G. R. Burn E. Carling Karen Clarkson S. Cotton P. Coverdale P. M. Darley D. F. Davies N. G. Davies G. Davidson J. Davidson Rebecca Davidson E. A. K. Denison J. A. Denison M. R. Doncaster A. J. Figge Vanessa Figge P. J. Gibson G. Gildener M. G. Grant Mrs. N. C. Goodwin S. J. Goodwin J. T. Harding R. F. Harding

THE OLD PETERITE CLUB WEST RIDING DINNER The dinner was held at the Bradford Club in Piece Hall Yard, Bradford on Friday, 17th November 1989 which twenty-eight O.P.'s attended. Another very enjoyable evening was organised by Bill Hudson and Chris Gilman.

THE OLD PETERITE CLUB EAST RIDING DINNER The 31st dinner was held at the Bell Hotel, Driffield, on Friday, 25th May 1990, which forty-four attended. Those present: The President (E. M. H. Ranson) The Headmaster (R. N. Pittman) J. Abbey B. Allen C M . Atkinson D. P. Atkinson J. S. Atkinson P. S. Atkinson N. Brown F. D. Browne C. Burdass J. U. Burdass M. Burdass R. Burdass C. C. Dee M. Dee S. Dee J. Dent C. Frank J. A. Frank F. T. Gooder

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R. Hart M. G. B. Hepworth J. K. Hick E. J. Hillyard R. Hobson W. M. Hudson Victoria Inness D. G. S. Jesper D. P. Johnston G. E. King-Reynolds G. Knowles L. C. Le Tocq D. J. Lister W. G. Mackellar I. Magson N. J. Magson P. J. Netherwood R. W. Oliver M. Oxley G. D. Parkin F. N. Parkin J. R. Penty Dr. P. R. Penty R. F. Pulleyn R. I. Rawson-Lax J. C. M. Rayson P. Reah J. L. Richardson A. M. Robson D. T. Rumfitt Sir Peter Shepherd G. D. Smith S. Stark R. A. Stevens J. Stone C. Suttill M. W. Territt E. G. Thompson C. W. Thompson P. Thompson B. Tunstall D. Tunstall M. W. Woodruff

allowed to play in the morning and a full-house (twentyfour) followed in the afternoon. A howling gale blew all day and conditions off the medal (white) tees were testing in the extreme for everyone. Eight contestants (including Grafton Morrish team members) were off simple figure handicaps, the remainder with handicaps ranging from 10 to 27 — a splendid mix. David Potter (7) is to be congratulated on winning the Founders Trophy with an outstanding score of 75 gross. The Burnett Trophy was also hotly contested with both David Baxter (4) and Mick Wright (10) recording 34 points — the former winning the Trophy on the back nine holes by one point. No less than five players followed with 33 points, but only Barry Avison (20) and Jon Stone (9) were lucky enough to be amongst the prizewinners. Evening proceedings at the Durham Ox, Easingwold were much enjoyed by young and old alike, thanks in no small measure to the hospitality of our host, Ian Chadwick (O.P. 1953-1956). The occasion was noteworthy for the presence of both Paul Middlebrook (non-playing Captain of the Grafton Morrish team) and Philip Crowe (donor of the Founders Trophy), which finally marks the conclusion of Robert Harding's organisation on a happy and satisfying note. R. F. Harding

NEWS OF OLD PETERITES At the Sovereign's Parade at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, on April 12th 1990, five Old Peterites were granted commissions having completed the standard military course. I. McDonald S.S.C., R. Irish A. P. M. Gray S.S.C., R.E. S. P. Harrison Reg. C , P.W.O. F. M. Lawrenson S.S.C., 13/18H C. P. Richards Reg. C , Green Howards We wish them well in their chosen regiments or corps. D. A. Calderhead (Grove 1980-1986) is at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana studying for a degree in Government. He was third in the national final of the Collegiate Championships and is also fencing captain for his university. Dr. R. W. Orange-Bromehead (Grove 1980-1985) has gained the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Sheffield University graduating on July 13th. Dr. Richard Sharpe (1967-1972) has been appointed to the Readership in Diplomatic at Oxford University from October 1st 1990. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1988 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1990. Since 1981 he has been assistant editor of the Medieval Latin Dictionary and graduated Ph.D. from Trinity, Cambridge in 1987. E. G. Thompson (Manor 1944-1949) preached in York Minster for the massed parade on St. George's Day. Dr. R. Talbot-Jones (School House 1962-1966) writes from "The Great White North of Canada" and was pleased to see girls admitted to the School after "twelve centuries of debate on the issue" and congratulates those who carried the motion. C. H. Lewis (Rise 1949-1955), Chairman and Chief Executive of Clive Lewis and Partners, has been appointed the Deputy Chairman of the Merseyside Development Corporation and took office on 7th July 1989 as President of the General Practice Division of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Miss R. C. Hirst (Queen's 1981-1983) won the silver medal in the lightweight women's coxless fours at the 1989 World Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia last September. Mrs. T Jewitt (neePemberton) (Queen's 1981-1982) has gained a Master of Philosophy Degree in Hydrology and now works as a computer programmer in the civil service.

BIRTHS R. A. C. Bronk (Grove 1973-1978), to Richard and Vyviah, a son, Justin James Ramsey, on 23rd January 1990. J. E. Prowde (Temple 1969-74), to John and Sheila, a son, Charles Edwin, on 16th August 1990.

MARRIAGES A. Jewitt (Dronfield 1977-1982) to Miss Tiffany Pemberton (Queen's 1981-1982) on 10th September 1988 at Clun, Shropshire. S. P. Stevens (Dronfield 1982-1984) to Miss Karen Depledge on 5th May 1990 at Sprotbrough Methodist Church, Doncaster.

DIAMOND WEDDING ANNIVERSAY Brigadier C. C. Fairweather (Manor 1919-1922) and Mrs. Alice Fairweather on Monday, 9th July 1990.

DEATHS AT. H. Chapman (School 1921-1926) on 8th November, 1989. P. Daintrey (Rise 1922-1926) on 13th June, 1989. M. Hallas (School House 1943-47)on 19thy July, 1989. S. H. Jacques (School House 1928-1930) on 5th May, 1990. D. G. Ogilvie (1920-1924) in 1988. Wing Cdr. J. S. P. Phillips, D.F.C. (School House 1932-1936) on 9th December, 1989. W. B. Powell (Rise 1947-1951) on 12th March, 1989. C. J. Swiers (Rise 1961-1966) on 20th January, 1990. N. W. D. Yardley (School House 1928-1934) on 4th October, 1989.

THE OLD PETERITE GOLFING SOCIETY Following a mildly persuasive Christmas message to all Old Peterite golfers known to have participated previously, a splendid response brought forth a record turn-out of thirty-four players to compete for the Founders Trophy and Burnett Trophy at Easingwold G.C. on Sunday July 8th. Thanks to the generosity of the Club, no applicants were disappointed as ten 'locals' were 84

Yorkshire. Surrey at this time were beginning their great run as champions. Yardley's pleasant, easy-going manner was a delightful feature of his character and yet in a sense a drawback to his captaincy. He was never prepared to drive a side to the same extent as other captains. He was widely popular, as he deserved to be with so generous a nature and such high integrity. As a batsman he was an on-side specialist and a most effective one at that, as his figures show. He scored 18,173 runs during his career with a highest score of 183 not out for Yorkshire against Hampshire in 1951. For many years he shared with D. C. S. Compton the record fifth wicket partnership of 237 for England against South Africa. After his retirement as a player he remained an active member of the Yorkshire Committee and became president of the club in 1981. It has often been difficult to hold such an office in Yorkshire without becoming involved in internecine strife, and when, in January 1984, the county committee received a vote of no confidence over the sacking of Geoffrey Boycott, Yardley resigned from the presidency. He was subsequently made a vice-president.

FROM THE TIMES, OCTOBER 1989 NORMAN YARDLEY England's easy-going cricket captain Norman Yardley, who captained the England XI fourteen times, died in a Sheffield hospital yesterday. Yardley, who had a stroke earlier this summer, was 74. In all he played test cricket for England on twenty occasions just after the Second World War. From the time of his going up to St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1935, until his retirment twenty years later, he was an eminent games player. At Cambridge he was a triple blue, excelling at squash rackets and hockey, as well as cricket, and playing all his games with the same economy of style. Born at Barnsley on March 19th, 1915, Norman Walter Dranesfield Yardley was unrelated to William Yardley who had distinguished himself in the 1870's by scoring two centuries for Cambridge against Oxford. As a boy, however, at St. Peter's, York, he was prodigiously successful, having five years in the School Eleven and making a great number of runs. When, in 1933, he was chosen to play for the Young Amateurs against the Young Professionals at Lord's he scored 189; in 1934 he made the first century for the Public Schools against the Army, and his advance as an undergraduate was only to be expected. Yardley won a cricket blue in his first season and scored 90 against Oxford in his second. In his third he made 101 in the University Match and in his fourth and last year he was the Cambridge captain. By then he was playing for Yorkshire whenever he could, and in 1937-38 he toured India with Lord Tennyson's team. The following winter, after going down from Cambridge, he went with a fully representative MCC side to South Africa, where he had few chances owing to the exceptional power of the English batting. Yardley served during the war with the Green Howards. He was in the Sicily Landings, alongside another Yorkshire and England cricketer, Hedley Verity, who was mortally wounded there. Further first-class cricket had to wait until 1946. In the winter of 1946-47 he went to Australia as vice-captain to W. R. Hammond and enjoyed a notably successful tour playing in every Test Match and surprising even his warmest admirers by dismissing Don Bradman three times. Yardley was a change bowler of medium pace, who looked entirely innocuous and found it amusing to capture a good wicket. On his return from Australia Yardley inherited the English captaincy and in 1948 he took over the Yorkshire side from that sternest of disciplinarians, A. B. Sellars. His first Test rubber as captain, against the South Africans in 1947, brought an English victory; in the second a year later England were heavily beaten by a fine Australian side. Yardley led England three times against West Indies in 1950, giving way to F. R. Brown only when he announced that he would not be available to take the MCC side to Australia at the end of that season. Thus, from 1951 onwards, Yardley's activities were confined to being an England selector — he was Chairman of The Selectors Committee in 1951 and 1952 — and trying in vain to win the County Championship for

FROM THE INDEPENDENT (NOVEMBER 1989) KEN CHAPMAN At a time when rugby football may be taking itself too seriously, it is a great tragedy that the game has lost one of its most humorous and erudite characters. Even in his eighties and suffering from the debilitating Parkinson's Disease, Ken Chapman could lighten up any conversation, however serious, with his charming wit and charismatic nature. As President of Harlequin F.C. he would come along to the games and stand in the corner of the bar surrounded by a group of friends who were eventually smiling and laughing. If you asked to buy him a drink he would announce that he would probably spill more than he drank, making light of his illness. Chapman was associated with Harlequin F.C. for over sixty years. He played for and captained the club before and after the Second World War and had numerous committee jobs before assuming the presidency on the death of Lord Wakefield of Kendal. He was the Middlesex representative on the Rugby Football Union, taking over as the treasurer in the 1970/71 season and becoming the sixty-seventh president of the union in 1974. During his playing career he played for both Middlesex and the Barbarians. His speeches were full of humour and his love for the game came through on every occasion. He was always generous to the opposition but was prepared to speak his mind when the situation demanded it. In his year of presidency Chapman accompanied the England side to Australia and during the second international an almighty fight broke out in the first minute of the game, culminating a short time later with one of the English players being sent off. There was a strong feeling that the Australians had taken the field ready to cause trouble and Chapman 85

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was prepared totally to condemn the violence and warned that no side would be welcome in England if such an aggressive attitude was maintained. The son of Herbert Chapman, secretary-manager of Arsenal, Ken Chapman had a successful career in business with the Thomas Tilling Group, joining as legal adviser and becoming managing director. He was still a nonexecutive director of RMC Ltd. when he died. He had previously served with H.M. Land Registry and the Ministry of Aircraft Production during the war. There are so many stories about Ken Chapman but his good friend David Brooks, another great Harlequin and a past president of the RFU, smiles when he relates the story of Ken playing against Oxford University and the very hard forward B. H. "Jika" Travers who played many times for England. Travers was making life awkward for a young second row, Chris Horner. Ken changed places with Horner and after some "sizing up" Ken was seen on his backside yards away from the lineout with blood all over his face. "O.K., Horner you can go back now, I've sorted Travers out." In fact because of Ken's humour Jika Travers joined Harlequins after Oxford and became a good friend of his. The forthright Lancastrian John Burgess, another past president of the RFU, always held Ken Chapman in the highest regard as a man of principle and a man of rugby — high praise for a great character.

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The Old Peterite Club Officers and District Hon. Secretaries 1990/1991 President: D. L. Brown, "Ashcroft", Ashcroft Road, Darlington, Co. Durham DL3 8PD. Past Presidents: J. A. Hanson, T. J. Lewis, C. W. Thompson, P. S. Atkinson, F. N. Newdick, R. F. Harding, D. T. Rumfitt, J. T. Harding, J. A. Denison, E. M. H. Ranson Vice-Presidents: The Head Master, K. G. Chilman, Brig. C. C. Fairweather, Sir John Rodgers, Bt. Hon. Secretary: R. D. Harding, Hall Cottage, Foremarke, Milton, Nr. Repton, Derbyshire DE6 6EJ. Hon. Treasurer: S. M. Burn, 11 Lendal, York YOl 2AQ. District Hon. Secretaries: London: C. J. Quickfall, "Hollyside", 151 Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 5JP. West Riding: C. E. Gilman, Cherry Tree Cottage, High Street, Clifford, Nr. Wetherby, West Yorkshire. North West: Dr. G. E. L. Graham, J. P., "Croft End", 297 Wigan Lane, Wigan, Greater Manchester WN1 2QY. North East: D. L. Brown, "Ashcroft", Ashcroft Road, Darlington, Co. Durham DL3 8PD. East Riding: P. S. Atkinson, The Exchange, Driffield, E. Yorkshire Y025 7LJ. York: S. M. Burn, 11 Lendal, York YOl 2AQ. General Committee 1990/1991 D. P. Atkinson, V. M. Black, J. E. B. Burdass, P. M. Darley, C. Frank, C. E. Gilman, Dr. G. E. L. Graham, G. Grant, F. B. S. Harnby, Miss V. Inness, G. M. Jobling, I. P. J. Leedham, R. W. Oliver, J. C. M. Rayson, S. Ryder, P. M. Shepherd, G. M. Shuttleworth, G. D. Smith, D. Tunstall.

The Old Peterite Club 99th Annual General Meeting was held at the School on Saturday 7th July and was attended by fifty members. The Audited Accounts for the year ended 31st December 1989 were presented which showed the accumulated fund for the running expenses of £25, 056. Miss V. Inness, D. Tunstall, I. Leedham, S. Ryder and J. Burdass were elected to fill vacancies and P. M. Darley, R. W. Oliver and P. M. Shepherd were re-elected to the General Committee. J. V. Mitchell was appointed Flag Officer in succession to J. C. M. Rayson and the following events and dinners were announced: Friday 28th September: Tyneside Dinner - County Hotel (opp. Station), Newcastle. Hotel Tel: 091-2322471. 7.00 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. Organiser: Richard Pickersgill. Tel: (Home) 091-2843770, (Office) 091-2611841. Friday 2nd November: London Dinner - Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington W2. Hotel Tel: 071-723-8064. 7.00 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. Co-organisers: Hon. Secretary (circulars), Colin Quickfall (replies). Tel: (Home) 0892-32270, (Office) 0892-33733. Friday 16th November: West Riding Dinner - Bradford Club, Piece Hall Yard, Bradford. 7.00 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. Organisers: Chris Gilman (tel: 0904-646313) and Bill Hudson (tel: 0943-74504). Saturday 25th November: General Committee Meeting, Stephenson Room at 4.30 p.m. Friday 22nd March 1991: O.P. Spring Ball at St. Peter's. Friday 26th April: North East Dinner - Hardwick Hall Hotel, Sedgefield, Co. Durham. Hotel Tel: 0740-20253. 7.30 p.m. for 8.00 p.m. Organiser: David Brown. Tel. (Home) 0325-465543), (Office) 0325-381600. Friday 31st May: East Riding Dinner - Bell Hotel, Driffield. Hotel Tel: 0377-46661. 7.30 p.m. for 8.00 p.m. Organiser: Peter Atkinson. Tel: (Home) 0377-42212, (Office) 4377-43151. Saturday 6th July: Old Peterite Cricket, 100th Annual General Meeting and the Annual Dinner. Friday 8th November: London Dinner. 87

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Britain's premier roofing specialist? (8) 5. Hong Su, unstable eastern potentate. (6) 9. Victorian philanthropist who founded orphans' homes. (8) 10. He fed on music (especially viola). (6) 12. Add this to injury if you really want to rub it in. (6) 13. Occidental country whose chief product is the helicopter. (8) 15. This year it was May 24th. (9, 3) 18. Get in a crazy racoon, old-timer! (12) 23. These can clog up the works. (8) 24. O, Malta is an explosive combination! (6) 26. Mature trees. (6) 27. Species of dog (or frog?). (8) 28. Pinches loose slates. (6) 29. England's answer to Fmisterre. (5, 3) Completed entries should be sent to: The Editor, The Peterite, St. Peter's School, York. A book token will be awarded to the first correct entry received.

DOWN 1. Former Tory chairman — and future leader? (6) 2. There are two sorts of this — cardiac and criminal. (6) 3. French town painted by Van Gogh after church briefly. (7) 4. Icelandic sagas add up to a point. (4) 6. Hamlet's pal also had his eye on Lady Hamilton. (7) 7. Mad, mad girl I found at the circus. What a joker! (8) 8. "There are flashes struck from midnights, There are fireflames kindle" (Browning). (8) 11. A point in the middle of the Sahara for afters. (7) 14. Holy man reincarnated as a dog? (7) 16. Seasiders use these to pass the port. (8) 17. Stray darts led to legs being wide apart. (8) 19. & 21. Industrial action sounds militant, or even military. (7, 6) 20. Badge of office or token of sympathy. (3, 4) 21. See 19. 22. Ned climbed alp and made a smooth finish. (6) 25. We hear a tiny insect run away. (4)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Editor would welcome letters on issues of interest and relevance to the School, for inclusion in next year's Peterite.

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NEW NAME-PLATE Mr. David Rayner presents a locomotive name-plate from an Inter-City 125 train to the Headmaster and the Heads of School. The name-plate had travelled over 1.5 million miles in less than six years' service on the East Coast main line. Mr. Rayner, himself an Old Peterite, is British Rail's managing director of operations and engineering.

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