aggressive!) talent. During the last fortnight of term a Junior St. Peter's team beat a team from the Mount School o-6 (despite being outnumbered in supporters). A rather hurried House match was won by Temple, while Chris Drury defeated all four Sixth Formers in a nerve-racking individu al competition. Finally, my best wishes for the future go to all school fencers, especially Martin Hall, who takes over from me as captain. C.J.E.B.
BRISTOL LETTER Mid-Nov. Week, 31st June, 1980. After three years we've eventually produced the long-awaited Bristol letter! No O.P. dinners have been held this year, but we think all are alive and well, except for Dave Young (Grove 71-76) whom no one has ever been too sure about. However, it is rumoured that he has graced the Polytechnic with his presence, and has shone as a co-editor of the Bristol Student newspaper and part-time underground musician. Having just graduated in Human Studies, we eagerly await news of his next move. After extensive Antipodean travels Steven Bruce-Jones (Manor 71-76) has had a ruthlessly efficient three years in which he has presided over the renowned Geographical Society, appeared as a leading light in various operatic productions, and battled arduously on the rugby field for various reputable institutions. He leaves us this year to take up a trainee managerial post with Rio Tinto Zinc, having just survived a year of cohabitation with Graham Nicholson (School 71-76). The latter has captained the University squash team to unparalleled heights, but his talents are to be lost this year when he dons his 'wellies' to become a real-life civil engineer with Redpath Dorman Long Contracting. He parts company with two other regular CAMRA connoisseurs in the squash club, John Lethem (Queen's 73-78), next year's captain and devotee of expensive restaurants, and James Larcombe (School 71-76), both of whom are budding quacks. James Larcombe, in his capacity as treasurer of the club, has unexplainedly managed to finance trips to Switzerland to the Open Squash Championships for certain O.P. members (with a little time off for a spot of skiing, of course!) Having almost caused a local bus strike as Athletic Union Transport Co-ordinator he has now resorted to shooting space invaders in the local hostelry. Paul Atkinson (Temple 71-76), ex-cohabitor of the aforementioned Larcombe, rose to the heights of public life last year as editor of the University's Student Prospectus, but has now retired to the world of academic study from which he regularly emerges in the early hours of the morning. He graduates in English Literature this year and describes his future as "uncertain". His brother, Simon Atkinson (Temple 68-73) adds his own personal touch of maturity to our ranks. A respectable accountant, once a mainstay of the "Cambridge Letter", he is now more accustomed to being seen "after-hours". Brian Kay (Dronfield 71-76) another student of English, part-time philosopher and collector of wayside "objets d'art", leaves us this year for a position with the "Yorkshire Evening Post" as a journalist. Our other final year student is Paddy "Stirling Moss" Smith (Manor 72-77), renowned rally-driver and capable economist, who takes a sojourn in Australia next year. Patrick Crowley (Dronfield 74-79), operatic superstar and political activist has already made his presence felt in his first year. When asked, he denied modelling himself on Gatiss (Trinity College, Cambridge 77-8o). 128
