Oct 1976

HOUSE NOTES DRONFIELD Christmas Term At the end of last term we said goodbye to George, our porter, who has been very ably replaced this term by Herbert Rollinson. We also welcomed Mr. Hughes as our new Assistant Housemaster at the beginning of term.

John Clark returned for his Oxbridge term and was both Head of House and Head of School for its duration. We have since heard the news of his success in gaining a place at Lincoln College, Oxford.

Brian Kay captained the Athletics this year and in the sports we gained fourth position as opposed to last year's sixth. Julian Guy performed very commendably and Tim Kirby deserves mention for his second placing in the Senior Long Jump. Our athletics standards, however, did not go quite as well.

"All the Young Dudes" was this year's contribution to the InterHouse Singing Competition from our willing, if not all that talented. choral volunteers. It was adapted, instrumentally accompanied, produced and directed by Edmund Atha, with Tim Barker providing special vocal effects during the performance. Paul Rushbrooke gave us the help on the guitar which we could not have been without. Although our performance only gained us fifth position overall, it had a distinct taste of originality.

In the House Rugby Competition, we suffered two fairly narrow defeats. In the Senior competition we met Temple, and after a hard fought game the opposition eventually came out on top. The side was captained by Tim Kirby who also had a good season with the School 1st XV and was consequently awarded his Rugby colours. In the Junior Rugby competition (which did in fact occur during the Easter Term) we narrowly lost against the Grove, and Ashley Powell, who captained the side, must be highly commended.

Edmund Atha, Stephen Atha, Tim Barker, Philip Reay, Paul Aagaard and, of course, Mr. Coulthard must be mentioned for their very creditable contributions to this year's School play production, "lolanthe".

At the end of term Tim Kirby, Brian Kay and Charles McGregor were awarded their Senior House colours.

Easter Term Tim Kirby was made a School Monitor at the start of the term.

This term saw the start of a comparatively new sport inside the School, the indoor five-a-side football. Each House had two teams and every team in the competition played each other. Our captain was Marc Dietrich who showed "tremendous" skills in the execution of this sport.

Although we did not in fact win the competition, if the two teams' performances are combined, we came out on top. It must be noted, however, that when our 'A' team played our 'B' team, the supposedly less skilful 'B' team won!

Marc Dietrich also captained the House Cross-Country team, but despite his hard efforts with training runs and such like, we only 83