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
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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.
