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THE SUTTONIAN THE MAGAZINE OF SUTTON VALENCE SCHOOL VOLUME 35 NUMBER 5 1994

EDITORIAL The Reader will discover that most of this edition has been written by pupils. No attempt has been made to impose a style upon contributors. Some pieces are conversational in tone and form. This may not be a weakness. Editors should be grateful for copy and gracious in their treatment of the work of other writers. I wish to thank all contributors.

The typing of this edition was undertaken in School by Margaret Knowles and the Editor. The layout and typesetting was done by Linzi Rothwell, a difficult but professionally executed task. I gratefully acknowledge the expertise of Margaret and Linzi to whom we are all indebted.

Any virtues in this edition may be attributed to the Deputy Editors, Stephen Buckler and Ola Irukwu, whose assiduity equals that of professional journalists I have worked with in the past. I am happy to take the responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies.

This journal should give the reader an adequate impression of life in Sutton Valence School from June 1993 to May 1994.

Warm greetings to all our readers from all in the editorial offices.

John Watson Editor -1-

THE HEADMASTER'S SPEECH AS GUEST OF HONOUR ON HIS FINAL SPEECH DAY BEFORE HIS RETIREMENT I recently watched a video of Leonard Bernstein making a recording of West Side Story with two great stars of classical opera, Jose Carreras and Kin i Te Kanawa, cast in the roles of Tony and Maria. It was not only an intriguing insight into the whole business of recording: it also revealed two fine classical singers who found the greatest possible difficulty in adjusting from the musical world in which they were comfortable, to the freer, more popular world of Bernstein's music.

Carreras in particular was absolutely awful. He was, by turns, flat and rhythmically at sea. He knew it and appeared to be in considerable physical and emotional distress throughout the recording. The record which eventually emerged was judged a failure.

In the belief that people should stick to doing what they do well, I felt little sympathy with Carreras but, when it dawned upon me last week that Speech Day was rapidly approaching and that, in addition to what I have come to regard over the years as the pretty uncomplicated, if time consuming business of producing a conventional `state of the nation' address, I was also actually expected, in my strange metamorphosis from Headmaster to Guest of Honour, to say something significant and uplifting. I recalled the recording and began to feel as Carreras must have felt. Honoured though I of course am to appear on this side of platform today, I am conscious that I may well be about to sing , at least in part, in what may well sound like a false register. I may indeed turn out to be flat and rhythmically at sea.

Please don't misunderstand me. I am, I believe, at least competent at saying significant and uplifting things to large audiences of the young - providing I am addressing someone else's young! There is nothing quite like a fresh face, a new voice to give authority to familiar exhortation. I am very conscious of having had to struggle hard to avoid sounding as though I have simply combined a pre-exam briefing session and an Assembly pep talk with just a -2 -

dash of my annual dollop of wisdom at Parents' Evening. I can only hope that I have avoided the production of a cocktail whose taste is too familiar for you. We shall see.

Having appeared to invite a comparison between myself and, by turn, a distinguished operatic tenor and a high class barman, I am going to shift comparisons yet again. I have already suggested the possibility of a certain dysfunction this afternoon and would ask you to make allowances accordingly!

I actually feel as though I and standing at the moment rather like a traveller who, having marched for fourteen years on a journey, is not nearing his final destination, but the end of a major leg of the total odyssey. I look back, when time permits, and remember the fair weather and the foul, the mountains where the going was formidably tough and the fertile plains where the pace could be more leisurely, where `the living was easy'. I remember the times when the bandits attacked and I was near to being overrun. I remember battles lost and won and many treaties satisfactorily negotiated. Most important, I remember that I was never alone on my journey and that nothing achieved during it could have been achieved without the help of those with whom I have travelled.

All such journeys will evoke similar memories but, although I firmly subscribe to the view that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive stasis is, after all, a form of living death - not all journeys are equally rewarding or worthwhile.

The last fourteen years here have been for me intensely rewarding. I took no time at all to fall in love with the school on my arrival and the affection has deepened as the years have passed.

I like its manageable size, the absolute commitment of the staff, the loyalty and uncomplicated friendliness of the pupils, the powerful sense of community, the important absence of the unhealthy snobbishness and exclusivity of so many Independent schools. Less attractive, coming as

I did from ten years in the comparatively civilised atmosphere of a co-educational school, was a certain brutishness in the all male atmosphere, a certain insularity and the rather modest place which academic excellence seemed to occupy in the school's and on individual pupils' lists of priorities. There were certainly enough challenges to make the journey then in prospect an exciting one.

our Appeal but to the traditional good housekeeping of our Governors and the Foundation.

We are, I believe, unusual for a small school at the moment in being entirely free of debt despite a development programme over my years to the time of three and a half million pounds. It is good to know that I shall be leaving a school not only so well equipped but in such good financial heart.

I would bore you stiff were I to try to recall the main events of the ensuing years. You have, after all, sent your children here. You have joined the journey because you must recognise that the direction has been the right one for you. I would, however, like to highlight just two events in the last year which are, I think, significant, symbolic landmarks which typify what we have been working towards over the years.

The last miles of my route therefore have been marked both by a significant recognition of our progress academically and by the addition of another major and important facility. I must, on my last Speech Day, be allowed to be just a little immoderate in boasting about our achievements.

What I must not do is to appear to arrogate to myself the credit. The journey, as I have already said, has been one of partnership and I want to pay full and sincere tribute to the devoted and timeless work of the staff, past and present, whose tremendous commitment has not only led to the `most improved' recognition but has always made possible all those other vital successes of the school - in sport, in extra-curricular activities, in our good pastoral care, in our charitable giving - which time and circumstances prevent me from detailing this afternoon.

The band of travellers, of course, extends far beyond the Common Room. Where would we be without the fine work of Governors and Trustees, our excellent and dedicated administrators, maintenance team, caterers, grounds and garden staff, matrons, sanatorium and domestic staff? There is but one successful jigsaw puzzle -a complete one - and we are fortunate to be so comprehensively well served.

You all, I think, know my views on the nonsense of the annual Examination League Tables as they are at present constituted. It was therefore almost with a sense of embarrassment that, after all the nasty things I am on record as saying, the number crunching exercise last September threw up the interesting fact that we were nationally the Independent school with the most improved results over the last five years - in other words since such national figures were available. Now this was worth shouting about and not just because it reflected well upon us. Here were national statistics being used to good purpose to show a dynamic trend. More important for us, here was recognition of the fact that we were being successful in pursuing one of the central thrusts of school policy over the years which has not been to change radically our entrance policy, which gives us the mix of ability which we like, but to ensure that every pupil in school is more and more seriously challenged to achieve his or her potential. This was exciting, worthwhile recognition.

As exciting, in a very different way, was the Governors' decision to go ahead with the floodlit Astroturf pitch as a memorial to Edward Craven.

We now enjoy one of the finest of such facilities in the county. That its construction, at the cost of a quarter of a million pounds, in a time of serious recession, has been possible is a testimony not only to the generosity of those who have given to

The jigsaw is, of course, not yet complete. Indeed, all the really important bits have yet to be put into place. We have no context whatsoever without our pupils. That is to state the obvious, but there is, I believe, a real danger that, in the wider national context, education has become so politicised that processes and ideologies are reducing the concept of the pupil as a unique human being to its vanishing point. I like to think that we successfully resist that tendency here, so let me for a moment place our pupils where they truly belong, on centre stage, in the limelight.

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Let me, briefly, say something to you, the members of the school, and to you alone. My own school career was a distinctly chequered one. I was, until my early teenage, what would now I think be labelled as mildly hyper-active (how I often wish one could bottle early hyper-activity and use it later in life to boost energy levels! ) Back in the 1940's they still called it, rather quaintly, St. Vitus' Dance. I was fairly bright but I was `difficult' throughout my teenage years.

I was rebellious and non-conformist in the 1950's when this was not yet as fashionable, and thus pardonable, as it was to become in the late 60's. I was, I believe, rescued from the dustbin and from educational oblivion partly because I was, though conventionally lazy, never actually idle. I always loved all the activity of school and whenever I was in danger of sinking below the surface, I was frequently rescued by a remarkable history teacher who was himself idiosyncratic and unorthodox. Long before Robin Williams made the Latin tag `Carpe Diem' popular currency in that splendid film `The Dead Poets' Society', my history teacher had it permanently chalked in large capital letters on his blackboard - indeed it was, as far as I can remember, the only thing I ever remembered seeing on his blackboard. He somehow managed to enthuse us about history, art, music, debating, while talking about nothing but rugby, which was his unqualified passion. Every morning at registration, as he gently bullied us into participation in this and that activity, he would always end by beaming at us and pointing at the blackboard. `Remember', he would say.

For those of you who have not seen the film and have no Latin, `Carpe Diem' translates as `seize the day'. To put a gloss on the tag, it is the rallying cry of the enthusiast, the adventurer, the optimist. It hints at a world full of physical, intellectual and spiritual wonders just waiting for every one of us to explore. It suggests risk, danger, excitement and the possibility, but never the realisation, of fulfilment. It speaks against the predictable the pigeon-holer, the complacent, the self-regarding, the indifferent. It is a great, simple rallying cry which, I believe, played its part in saving me. I recommend it to all of you as your person 'leitmotif'.

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I suggested at the outset that I was uncomfortable in my role today, uncertain about my capacity to carry the conviction which the fresh voice can bring. While I believe passionately in the efficacy and power of the injunction to seize the day, I felt that, somehow I needed an ally who would underwrite what I feel and give it legitimacy and further conviction. As if in answer to an unspoken prayer, two days ago, my ally appeared. I received a letter from a 15 year old Croatian girl whose life over the past years has been, as you can imagine, quite horrendous. In it , she told me in the most moving terms of her life and of her philosophy of life. None of the words I have spoken can be as powerful as hers in reinforcing my message to you - `Carpe Diem'.

Let me quote two extracts verbatim - do remember that this young lady has only school English and marvel with me at her powers of expression despite the odd eccentricity.

"With regard to my school subjects, there's no certain that I'm particularly devoted to, but I could say that arts and mathematics interest me the most. In fact, I'm interested in everything that's happening on the planet and around, so my ambitions are to learn as much of everything as it is possible to. I love learning, but by this I don't mean learning in the conventional way swotting, tests writing and marks getting. The schooling systems are generally arranged in the way that unmissfully causes tension and panic among students......"

"Because I am always acting so cheerfully and in the accordance with pleasances of life, I'm known as the optimist but very often as a daydreamer too. I think its' perfectly correct, I couldn't even imagine having another point of view. Just a single blade or a leaf brings so much loveliness that you simply have to feel growing and getting lost in the beauty of the world. Everyone should really be feeling blessed that he was even born.

But now comes the horde of problems reminding of wars, of hungry, poor and homeless. How can I respond to that? It's not hard to set up the diagnosis, it's the same as with the tiny gifts of nature that nobody perceives: like horses trailing the wagon with blinkers on their heads, people are towing their lives not looking around

but just blindly following the footsteps of their own destiny. If you care only for yourself, it's not strange that the world collapses.............

"The medicine for this starvation of spirit and low-life disease is not complicated to be prepared but it's invaluably expensive. How to make people looking around?.......

"If everyone just took a glance on what's happening around, heaven would come to Earth.

Music, politics, culture - all of those can make the influence, but music has to get stronger in its domination, politics needs a messiah and culture is still not piercing enough.........."

"I still don't know what to expect from life but loving animals, nature, science, arts, people surely is the best and the most amusing way to walk through it."

I can add nothing more to improve these words.

Increasingly, as the term goes by, people ask the what I will miss most when I leave - or of what I have been most fond or proud. I think I have already suggested my answer. It will not be the physical resources of the school, although I take quiet satisfaction in what we have and immense pleasure in our superb setting and beautifully maintained grounds and gardens: I will miss the lovely environment which we are fortunate enough to enjoy. It will not be the anticipation of another fruitless review of our precise academic position on the national ladder, nor will it be the ever growing torrent of administration and paperwork , nor the endless pouring over sheets of financial figures - thanks heavens for the expertise of others in this area! It will not , I hope, be the trappings of the office of Headship, because I have never particularly felt the need of these. Indeed, my modesty in this respect was shown upon my arrival in 1980 when I asked the then Bursar to keep the furnishings in my study as simple as possible. I wanted nothing more than a throne and a prayer mat.

My real pride and, consequently, my real sense of loss is and will be for the people of Sutton Valence and, most of all, for the pupils. I have spent thirty years of my life working with the young. I have been constantly invigorated by their friendship and their trust, by their freshness and enthusiasms, by the sheer exhilaration

of their potential. I have been constantly challenged and frustrated by their problems as they have struggled from the chrysalis of childhood to spread their wings and strengthen them in the sunshine of learning and living together. To be able to play some part in that process has been a wonderful and daily renewing experience and nowhere has it been more rewarding for me than at Sutton Valence.

Stella would, I know, wish to join me in thanking the Chairman for his generous words about us.

Let me finish with some very simple arithmetic which will serve to keep everything in perspective. Sutton Valence is 418 years old. The school's roots are deep and strong. It is a far greater place than the simple sum of its parts. Its organic sense of continuity and purpose is powerful. My Headship has occupied only 14 of those 418 years and, as year succeeds to year ,and the school goes from strength to strength, as I know it will, my fourteen years will become an ever smaller, less distinct, fraction of the whole. Today I have been the school's Guest of Honour and I am grateful for that kind gesture, but in the long rhythm of history, I regard myself as having been a privileged guest not just today but for the past fourteen years, during which the sense of honour has always been mine. Thank you.

The Rowing Lesson Uncle Peter took me rowing, on the river that was flowing.

Saw a dolphin, saw a shark Luckily they did not embark.

Hit a rock, hit a stone But sadly we could not phone home.

Caught a salmon, caught a trout, Thankfully there was no drought.

Slept through evening, slept through night; In the morning, looked a sight.

Found a barrel, floated home Like a dog to a bone.

I'll never embark on a boat again.

Next time I might turn insane!

Charles Piper and Wm Richardson 1A -5-

M.R.H. - An Appreciation GCSE, National Curriculum, Local Management, centralisation ................... the period since 1981, when Michael Haywood became Headmaster of Sutton Valence has arguably seen deeper and more rapid change in the British educational system than any other period of comparable length this century. Furthermore, unlike many innovations of bygone ages, these changes have had a profound effect on the independent as well as the maintained sector. In addition, the Head Teacher of the independent boarding school has had to cope with the Children Act and with the dramatic change from a booming market for independent education in the mid 80's to the cut-throat competition of the recession-hit, league -table-infested 90's; the economic difficulties of recent years have brought Michael face to face with some particularly painful decisions. Sutton Valence is, however, emerging from this period as the most improved HMC school in the country over the past five years in `A' level results, with a distinguished record in GCSE's, sport, the arts and CCF, and, above all, with an almost universal regard amongst parents as a very happy school community. These are all things of which Michael can feel justly proud.

During this time, too, increasing attention has been focused on the Head Teacher of a school as a key factor in its success. Indeed, the job of Head Master has changed almost out of all recognition in the time that Michael has been at Sutton Valence. Gone is the image of the pipe-smoking, tweed-clad figure who would emerge from his study to teach perhaps as many as ten periods per week to hushed and reverent classes. Now the study has become an "office" and the world at large expects a tough, managerial executive, adept at reconciling the all too often conflicting interests of "the Board" (Governors), "shareholders" (parents) and "the workforce" (academic and non-academic staff), not forgetting the pupils (sorry, "students"). Michael has coped adroitly with this transition about which, like so many in the educational world, he has very mixed feelings.

He has not yet managed to shed the pipe but he is now seen only rarely in tweed and, though an extremely gifted History teacher, has been forced, regretfully, to withdraw from the classroom. Increasingly his time has been taken up by the burgeoning committees of the Governing Body and by the PR aspects of his job, both of which are areas in which he has made a very significant

contribution. He has nonetheless kept himself very well informed about individual pupils and has dealt wisely and skilfully with those pupils who, for one reason or another, have required his personal attention.

More tangible monuments to Michael's time as Head Master are the Edward Craven Science Laboratories, a superbly appointed girls' boarding-house, a magnificent new library and an Astroturf which is one of the finest hockey surfaces in Kent. Overall, Sutton Valence under Michael Haywood's leadership has continued to inspire affection, even amongst its competitors, for the way in which it has upheld traditional educational values. It has also, however, not merely kept up with developments in a period of great change but has, in so many areas, kept well `ahead of the game'.

When the history of Sutton Valence in this period comes to be written, however, one of the changes which will be seen as most significant is the introduction of co-education, not just in the Sixth Form, as has occurred in so many other HMC schools, but throughout the school's agerange. In this bold and highly successful move a key figure has been Michael's wife, Stella. She has presided over the girl's House, Valence, from its earliest beginnings with fifteen members in 1983 to its present flourishing state.

We thank Michael and Stella for all that they have done for Sutton Valence and wish them every happiness in whatever the future may hold for them.

A Sixth Former talks to the retiring Headmaster.

Michael Haywood arrived at Sutton Valence in August 1980, fourteen years ago. When he was appointed he was only 36 years old. At the time that was considered very young for a Headmaster. Mr. Haywood's successor is about 35.

For five years The Headmaster taught History at Dulwich College. He then decided to go back "home" to Scotland but "not Edinburgh because that would be too much like going home".

He went to Dollar Academy as Head of History at the age of twenty seven; after a year he was made a Boarding Housemaster; within five years of

joining Dollar he was made Deputy Headmaster transformed in to what is now Sutton House. The girls have obviously been a success for they warthere.

The Haywoods left Dollar because Michael ranted an extension in 1989. wanted to become a Headmaster. He chose to The list of the Headmaster's achievements is apply to Sutton Valence because of the type of long and distinguished and they include: the new school it is, not where it is. "I didn't really decide science block, the expansion of the computing to leave Scotland, what I did decide was that I department, the transformation of Gulland Hall wanted to be a Headmaster. I wasn't tempted by in to an art centre; the transformation of the the joys of Kent; I was tempted by the joys of workshop to the new C.D.T. centre; the closing of Headmastering". He was looking for a small Lambe's House as a boys' boarding house and its school, one that had a strong sense of community change in to a day boys' house; the creation of the and one that felt pastoral care to be very impor- James' Library (the old library); the change for tant. The reputation the School has for being good Cornwallis from a boys' boarding into a girls' day at sport and its friendliness impressed the pro- house; the hugely expensive Astroturf pitch. The spective Head. He was not really concerned with project which regards as his most significant getting a school that catered only for the intellec- achievement is the Lambe's Library. The point the tual "creme de la creme" but took in a wide range Head makes is, however, that it is not the buildings of academic ability. This in no way suggests that that matter, or how attractive they look, but what Sutton Valence's results are not respectable. They and who is in them and how they operate - that is are not broadcast widely. We are a modest what makes a good school.

School. The Head felt there was, however, work Sutton Valence, in the opinion of the outto be done. He wanted to raise each individual's going Head, is a school that is not too big yet not expectation of himself. He had no ambition to too small. He thinks that it is important for him turn the School in to one which produced all `A's to be able to know something about each and at `A' level and G.C.S.E. (then `O' level) because every one of his pupils "without having to refer to that would destroy much of what Sutton Valence a file". Another good point is that the lines of stands for. communication are very short and efficient, if Mr. Haywood was very keen to introduce anything needs to be known the right people get to girls as soon as possible and Sutton Valence did so know very quickly. The most important aspect is very early compared to many other schools of its the "extended family", Mr. Haywood hopes that type. They were introduced in all year groups as no-one "feels like a number, everyone matters a day girls in 1984. "I would never have come here lot to a lot of people". if I had not thought there was a possibility of Obviously the Head expressed mixed feelchanging it to a co-educational school. Sutton ings about leaving, but is optimistic. A "fresh set Valence went co-ed because we wanted to go co- of eyes" will be good for the School. The future ed, not because we had to". At the time the School will bring change, inevitably, but the School will stated that it was not going co-ed to increase its remain Sutton Valence; it is impossible for it to revenue or numbers but to improve the good change its fundamental characteristic: its friendatmosphere of tolerance and goodwill. In many liness. He looks forward to seeing what happens ways girls did enhance the "extended family" from the outside. He will miss the facilities we feeling of the School. He recognises, however, enjoy and the way in which the pupils take a pride that girls and boys need to be treated differently in how they appear, he will miss the immaculately and does not pretend the transition was easy, even kept grounds and pays tribute to the entire School. though he had the full support of the Governors The plan for the Haywoods at the moment is and the staff, even O.S. were in favour of the for Michael to retrain to teach dyslexic children. change. He is very grateful for the efforts of his He misses teaching however and may simply wife in making sure the girls were fairly treated in return to the classroom. You can, nevertheless, a male dominated school; the balance between detect his apprehension: "I may not like it.... but girls and boys is now 40%-60% and Michael I'm looking forward to it, wherever it is!".

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STELLA HAYWOOD Stella Haywood moved to Sutton Valence with her husband when he was appointed Headmaster. Though originally trained as a P.E. teacher, she later studied for a degree in English and History with the Open University. She joined the staff of the school in September 1983. As well as being Housemistress of Valence, overseeing the admission of the first girls to the school, Stella taught a full timetable in the English Department from First Year to Upper Sixth level, was Head of Girls' Games, and helped with JUAM (Junior Unit Activities on Mondays), producing plays such as The Children's Crusade and The Wizard of Oz. Had Stella only done a third of what she has done for the school over the last eleven years, her contribution would have been remarkable; as it is, one marvels that one woman could have packed so much into every day. Her energy seemed to be inexhaustible, as she moved tirelessly from one activity to another: chiding and encouraging the girls in Valence; enthusing about Antony and Cleopatra to a bright A-Level class; explaining with vigour and clarity the mysteries of inverted commas to a second year class; urging on a hockey team; and, as often as not, ending the day by taking a party up to London to see a play, not returning until midnight. I early on learned to compress messages about English Department business to a telegrammatic urgency and brevity; a moment's hesitation, and she would be out of the room, off to count netball bibs, or deal with a fourth year girl's personal crisis, or mark some more essays on Wordsworth - or possibly all three at once.

Hyperbole was in Stella's nature. Every play she saw, or book she read, or essay she marked, was either "The best play/book/essay I've ever seen/read/marked in my whole life" or, alternatively, "The worst play/book/essay I've ever seen/read/marked in my whole life"but more often the former. And it was the warmth and generosity of her enthusiasms that made her such a brilliant teacher. No one in her classes could come away indifferent to what they were reading or doing; every one of her pupils was jolted into a new way of looking at things by her inspiration and her insights. Her enthusiasm for English Literature was real; she

continued to read contemporary literature, and take an active interest in the theatre, in the middle of her very busy working life here.

Added, of course, to all the above, were the additional duties imposed on her as the wife of the Headmaster. Her impressive range of haute cuisine dishes, and her genuine interest in her guests, helped to make the Haywoods' hospitality a delight.

But Stella deserves to be remembered entirely in her own right, as an inspiring English teacher, a sympathetic and supportive housemistress, and a untiringly energetic Games mistress, without whose dynamic presence Sutton Valence School will be the poorer.

JFB

The Sponsored Walk (After Chaucer) Did all begin upon a sunny morn Where we did meet soon after crack of dawn.

The trip began: a walk across BM! None did want a harder trip from then!

'Twas run by some, but most did walk, For those who ran did never look or talk.

Those who did walk did spend a longer time For they did look and had the time to rhyme!

The pain soon felt by all in feet was great They carried all around a a massive weight The walk lasted for all of twenty miles And lead us up and over many styles.

The map given proved of little usefulness (And oft times proved itself very useless.)

The walk was a curios nice thing Relief was felt by all who heard the school bell ring.

Joshua Jones 3A

THE EDWARD CRAVEN MEMORIAL APPEAL OPENING OF THE ASTROTURF The Astroturf pitch was officially opened on Sunday 20th March 1994 with a series of matches between the School and Old Suttonian teams which the school teams won. The Captain of the Girls 1st XI was Rebecca Gear (V) and the Captain of the Boys was Timothy Lavers (L) Mrs Beryl Craven opened the Astroturf pitch. She was attended by her son Tim Craven, the Headmaster and a substantial group of friends.

Ian Kay ( 1941 M) the Vice President of the Old Suttonians Association ,and a lifelong hockey player who played for the OS for a quarter of a century, spoke about Edward Craven before the opening. He said that `Tubby' - a nickname Edward Craven acquired at Cambridge - would have been proud of the venture undertaken in his memory and honour. Edward Craven was a pupil at Sutton Valence from 1918 to 1924 and then read Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He was intending to go into Industry but Holdgate, the Headmaster in those days, told him to return to Sutton Valence as a Master. Tubby remained at the School for the rest of his life, apart from his war service in the British Army. He was a fine sportsman, playing rugby for the Wasps and Middlesex and cricket for the Incogniti and the MCC.

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Tubby Craven was not a hockey player but Ian Kay had no doubt that if Sutton Valence had played in those days he would have been a good player. Craven distinguished himself in every sport he took up. It was good to associate him with the appeal and the opening of the Astroturf.

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This Astroturf Fitch was opened by Mrs Beryl Craven and Mr Ian Kay OS on Sunday 20th March 1994 in honour of the memory of EDWARD ASHTON CRA VEN MA (1905-1988) Who was a Master and much more at Sutton Valence School from 1928 to 1969.

With thanks to all who contributed so generously to the Edward Craven Memorial Appeal Following the opening, two O.S. Representative sides took to the turf and played to a 3-3 draw.

The teams included eleven Captains of School Hockey, the oldest was Tony Rutherford (1972 F) from 1972 and the most recent was William Waters (L 1993).

Present members of the School felt that this was an important, historic event, linking us all with Tubby Craven, the most legendary figure of the School in this century, and with the hockey tradition which is now so well established. The Astroturf is spoken of reverentially by players who know about these things and those who do not recognise a good thing when they see it.

Catherine Day L6

Solipsism I'm the only one None of you are really here You are conjured up by my imagination You are all my creation I am drifting alone through life's wounded path I cause my own happiness, my own depression Or do I? Do you exist?

Do I exist?

How painfully these erupting thoughts claw at my mind, forever destroying my original solid thoughts Will anything ever be certain again?

Will the twilight hours continue to be so purely peaceful?

Time simply flows by and I am but a mere spectator on the eternal journey.

Catherine Bond 3A

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CHAI DISKUL (OS) Up in the hills of Northern Thailand a most interesting project is going on directed by an Old Suttonian.

Chaff Diskul came to Sutton Valence from Thailand in 1955. He has many friends in Kent and a great affection for the county. He returned to Thailand and after a few years in business joined the staff of HRH the Princess Mother, becoming her secretary.

The Princess Mother is much loved and revered in Thailand and has done a great deal to help people within her country. She has spent much time in Switzerland but at 90 years felt it was too far to travel. Chai masterminded a plan whereby she could develop a project for the resettlement and rehabilitation of the hills tribes of North Thailand, in whom she has a particular interest.

Here she has a country chalet residence, reminiscent of a Swiss Chalet perched on top of the hill and surrounded by beautiful gardens. It looks out over the area of the Doi Tung Development project. This is a Government project, the infrastructure supplied by the Government. The Mae Fah Luang Foundation, of which the Princess Mother is patron, is involved in the co-ordination of the private programmes.

standard of living. They are encouraged to keep their own traditions. Each person is registered and of the 8,000 in the 27 villages, 500 drug addicts were found. They are being treated and helped to overcome their addiction. Their families are being educated in the unacceptability of drugs and the addicts trained in some skill. The health of the people is monitored throughout the development and treatment is available.

This a mammoth and very exciting task.

Chai Diskul is the driving force in all the various schemes and the best qualified experts in Thailand are involved. Very interesting agricultural projects are in progress. The canopy provided by trees is used to grow certain flowering plants for market. Coffee and Macadamia nuts are being grown to sell.

Chaff's enthusiasm is infectious and his drive has attracted help from may sources. It is amazing and inspiring work.

SBB From the studios of Gulland Hall (1)

The local tribes within this area, right on the Burmese border , have practised a policy of slash and burn. The trees have been cut down and burnt, poppies grown in the clearings and opium produced and sold. They then have to move on to repeat the same. This has led to wide spread devastation and related drug problems.

The young girls were sent South for prostitution.

Now at Doi Tung the tribes (Akha, Laku and others) have been allotted land, villages established and communities kept intact. The people are shown how to live without growing drugs. Reforestation is taking place and crops are grown for sale as well as food. They are paid for their work. Eventually they will be paid for their produce. They are taught to look after the land and with their wages can improve their

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A Book Review "Stiff Upper Smile", by Douglas Milmine.

Laguna Books, price: ÂŁ5.99 Bishop Douglas Milmine is an Old Suttonian. He came to Sutton Valence School in September 1934, and left to become an undergraduate after his public examinations in the summer of 1939. In his recent autobiography, "Stiff Upper Smile", he has devoted an entire chapter to S.V.S. which all past and present members of the school will find very interesting. The bishop won his 1st XV colours and became a prefect.

Today's pupils will be surprised by many things in this chapter, not least by the discovery that china chamber pots were `de rigeur' in 1938. A firm, traditional Christian faith informs every page of this book.

The bishop is now enjoying an active retirement at Eastbourne after a life packed with activity and service for others in the Anglican Communion. He served the church in South America for over thirty years, with a short break at Oxford between tours of duty in Chile and Paraguay. He is a Commander of the British Empire, an award in recognition of his service in Paraguay and other parts of Latin America.

In Bishop Milmine's schooldays at SVS the Headmaster was `Jas', T.M. James, the head of English was 'Baldy' Derrick and the Head of Classics was `Pub' Bentley - it stood for `publius' and had no reference to his visits to the village!

The chemistry-cum-sports master was Mr. E.A. Craven, the famous `Tubby' who remained active at the school until his death in 1988. The German teacher, Mr. Hardenfeldt was ordained as an Anglican priest during Douglas Milmine's time at the school and became the Chaplain. The future bishop became the new chaplain's server at Holy Communion.

Douglas went from SVS to Oxford where he read Economics and Theology before joining the RAF for the Second World War. The bishop provides exciting accounts of air training, crash landings, and many other incidents of high drama. Intermingled with these are personal experiences explaining the grief experienced at the mounting toll of the deaths, crippling and separation: of human relationships broken or enhanced by the struggle against the Nazis. His -12 -

account of how he came to terms, as a Christian, with the bombing of German cities will interest many readers. He served in No.35 Squadron, Pathfinder Force and was shot down over Europe. Graphic descriptions of the bombing raids, of being `on-the-run' in Europe and of prison camp life, convey a sense of danger and of courage. He was a Prisoner of War for some years in Stalag Luft 33 and other places, returning to peacetime Britain and to his marriage to Ros in 1945. The couple are still together in retirement.

Throughout the book we are aware of a strong, Evangelical Christian faith which was reinforced by his post-war training for the min istry at Clifton. He went out to serve with the South American Missionary Society and this was to be a major part of his life. For fifteen years the Milmines served the church in isolated parts of Chile, but after an interlude in England they returned to Paraguay where Douglas was the bishop. He and his wife have met the challenges of a difficult, strenuous and busy life because of their faith in the grace of God. Every O.S. should have their copy of this book.

THE Author Visits SVS Bishop Douglas and Mrs Ros Milmine came up from their retirement home in Eastbourne to visit Sutton Valence on Wednesday 11th May. It was their first visit to the school since the Second World War. After dinner with the Headmaster and the Chaplain, the Milmines had a meeting with representative Sixth formers at Aylmer House.

The Bishop entertained us with some marvellous stories of Sutton Valence as an all boys school in the years before the 1939-45 war. He was a prefect in Westminster and remembered, amongst others, the famous `Tubby' Craven.

The Milmines seemed to be very youthful 70 year olds. They made a great impression upon those at the meeting because of their lively and open minds.

On Thursday morning 12th May it was the feast of the Ascension and the termly School Eucharist. Bishop Douglas preached a direct sermon appealing to the congregation to trust the Bible as he had through thick and thin

during his years as a missionary bishop in Latin America.

After the Eucharist, the Milmines had a working breakfast with the Sixth Form RS group when they spoke about their experiences in the Church over many decades. It was difficult to pull the Milmines or the pupils away to other tasks. Bishop Douglas and Ros were most welcome guests of the school and I would not be surprised if they found some pupils responding to their obviously genuine invitation to pop in to Eastbourne any time.

The review of the bishop's book was written long before his visit. He informs me that the first edition is sold out. It just might be possible to obtain a copy from the South American Missionary Society. If not, it may be necessary to wait for the next edition.

Stephen E. Buckler L6

Bishop hou I~~s Milmine (OS) with servers in Chapel

Review of Macbeth. A production by Shared Experience The cast consisted of five or six actresses under the direction of Luke Dixon. This was an unusual production of Macbeth as it was acted entirely by females and was also cut down to an hour and a quarter.

The fact that it was an all female cast

presented quite a challenge as the play is predominantly masculine. However within a very short while Macbeth and the others had established their masculinity and I was no longer distracted by the sex of the actresses. What surprised me the most and intrigued me was how successful the actress playing Macbeth was at dealing with her character. She held a broadshouldered, masculine posture; she used quite a lot of facial expression and had an effectively deep voice. I was also impressed by the actress playing Lady Macbeth, who convincingly seduced her husband and was daring enough to venture on to stage in a thin nightdress.

The scenery was plain but effective. There was a cream-coloured backdrop with several gaps in it, through which the characters could make easy exits and entrances. Apart from that there was only a row of candles at the front of the stage. These had significance towards the end of the play; only one candle, in a red jar, was left burning. This was to represent evil and death.

Any other effects were created by music, special lighting or the skill of the actresses, as were the witches who were heard but never actually seen on stage.

One obvious adjustment to the play was the timing; the play had been cut down to an hour and a quarter and whole scenes and even characters had been eliminated, probably partly because the cast was so small. However, this worked well, with occasional references to the characters that did not appear. One criticism I have is of Duncan's death. I feel they should have made more of it. It is an important scene in the play but the cast had cut it down quite considerably and it was as if we had missed something.

The cast had added quite a few interesting interpretations. One actress was used to represent several different characters; a messenger, a servant and even one of Banquo's murderers.

She also appeared to represent the Devil, a suggestion that she had been sent by the three witches to watch over Macbeth.

It was quite useful for me, at the moment of studying the play, to watch this production, to see the play through different eyes and consider someone else's ideas. It helped me, because it was so abridged, to establish the essential characteristics of the play.

Olivia Piper 5A - 13 -

Biology Field Courses The 25th Anniversary Year Biology Field Courses were introduced at Sutton Valence in the Summer of 1968.

Places visited in the last twenty-five years have included: Sheringham, Norfolk for the study of the Marine environment and woodland ecology; Durham, to visit the marine laboratories at Cullercoats; Farne Island Scarborough and Whitley Bay for marine studies and a visit to the department of Biology at Newcastle University; the Isle of Foula in the Outer Hebrides where peat bogs were studied; Kendal in Cumbria for marine and marsh ecology; St Margarets Bay for marine ecology; the Gower Coast in Wales for marine biology; Flatford Mill Field Study Centre, Essex for woodland, pond and lack ecology; there have been and numerous visits to Cornwall, Swanage and Norfolk.

The Annual L6th Form Biology Field Trip The annual four day Biology excursion took place again last year with high expectations of painting Swanage red by the Biologists taking part. We had been forewarned by Mr. Clarke that we would "Be condensing a term's work into four long days of intensive study", but what self respecting student could possibly believe that forecast of doom and gloom?

We set out in convoy with Mr. Clarke's `passion wagon' leading the way loaded down with Biology gear and the minibus bringing up the rear. On the way we stopped at several service stations and the New Forest and noted the types of lichen present on the trees and the rocks. This enabled us to separate the areas into zones of air cleanliness and eventually draw a transect across the South of England; this was the first part of our project.

The first item of business when we arrived at the youth hostel was to grab a bunk and unpack. We were then marched off to the work room where we would be spending much of our time. Mr. Schofield briefed us on the area and what was expected of us and then we set out for the shore near the hostel. Here we made the first of a series of field drawings of limpets, seaweed -14-

and anything else we could find; we also exchanged a few stones with the locals who decided to disturb us. It was here we learned the trick of sneaking up on a limpet and kicking it off the rock with one blow before it had time to clamp on too tightly. The evening was spent learning about point quadrats and the finer aspects of molluscs all of which was so absorbing that we nearly forgot to go into Swanage, check out the pubs and avoid three teachers.

After an early start the next day we went to the main site of the field trip known as Kimmeridge. Here, along with several other schools, we counted numbers and types of species, read extensively about the shoreline and the underwater trail and eyed the sunbathers who unfortunately packed up and left before noon. After lunch we took a long walk along the beautiful Purbeck Heritage coast to East Kimmeridge and surveyed the shore there using different methods. While most of us walked back to the minibus a few hardy souls decided that they would run all the way back to the youth hostel probably to avoid carrying the equipment.

That evening was spent learning about statistics and writing up the day's endeavours, all of which was even more riveting than the previous evening. We were also briefed on our personal project and all decided which one we would do.

The entire third day was spent doing our personal projects: seaweed was measured, sea anemones were counted, crabs were captured and the litter found on both of the Kimmeridge beaches was collected and analysed.

We returned to the hostel and immediately dived headfirst into our work for we each had to present our findings in a ten minute discussion and only had a few short hours to prepare.

Eventually the time came and we nervously scribbled the last few incoherent lines, shuffled our papers and hoped desperately that we would not be picked. The three grinning teachers (who obviously enjoyed seeing us in pain) took the first name out of the hat and all but one expelled an enormous sigh of relief.

After that the laughs came thick and fast, the more notable ones being for James Roberts. He tried to explain how a limpet changes shape on different beaches and, consequently, had us in

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stitches due to the double entendre of his diagrams, and Michael Fox who really didn't know what was happening and couldn't care less!

On the morning of the last day we packed our stuff and headed for Studland Bay where we would study the succession of the sand dunes.

We started off well by leaving behind David Harvey (whom we eventually went back for) and by nearly losing our way. Once there we took a walk on some very wet heathland where Mr. Clarke, in one of his jovial moods, led some people across a floating mat of vegetation which promptly collapsed beneath them, soaking them to the knees. Even after this lesson there were those (T. Griffin) who decided that if you ran fast enough you would not breakthrough. This was, however, quickly disproved, The sand dunes themselves were a nudist colony and you had to take care where you threw your quadrat lest it land on some irate mammal's most delicate parts!

After an ice-cream supplied by the biology department and a quick paddle in a canoe we bade farewell to Swanage and drove home having learned that biology is occasionally fun.

The Tiger The tiger eyes me impassively from sharp, narrow slits.

Unblinking, he returns my gaze.

The soft ruff of fur surrounding his throat pulsates with a steady beat.

The silence is broken only by the hooting and chattering of monkeys.

Silently, he rises.

His coat is splendid, rippling, gleaming, alive.

The powerful muscles tensed like a dynamic athlete.

He springs, the sharp claws slashing through flesh in one neat motion.

As soon as the hunt is started, it is over, The kill still warm, the meat still fresh.

Dragging the meat across the sun-baked ground, the corpse's head still nodding as if in silent agreement.

The king sits down to dine.

Simon Knowles lA

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Awards 1993/94 Foundation Awards Scholarship

Catherine Bond

(UJnderhill School)

Exhibition

G.H. Horton

(Underhill School)

Art Scholarship

Megan Russell

(Dulwich College Prep School)

A.R. Applin

(Underhill School)

S.G. Knowles

(Spring Grove)

J.R. Abbott

(Spring Grove)

Junior Awards Junior Scholarships

,Junior Exhibition

Awards as a result of GCSE Scholarship

Amelia Shaw

(Valence House, formerly Dulwich College Prep School, Coursehorn)

Art Scholarship

F.E. Rubie

(Founder's House, formerly Underhill School)

Exhibition

Y.C.K. Lee

(Westminster House, formerly St. Stephen's Church College, Hong Kong)

Prizes

S.E. Buckler

(St. Margaret's House, formerly Parkside School, Cobham)

E.P. Copland

(Lambe's House, formerly Tenterden Junior School)

A J. O'Keeft

(Founder's House, formerly Swadelands School)

Awards to O.S. Bennett/Hunting

J.F. Barr (1990 W)

reading Economics at Loughborough University

R. Blanchard (1990 F) reading Dentistry at University College, London Atchison Bequest

C.A. Evans (1991 L)

reading Music at St. John's College, Durham

Elizabeth New (1991 V) reading Law at Sheffield University

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SPONSORED WALK 1994 We have had five sponsored walks since 1981 (the year of the disabled). We arrange the walks for two major reasons; as a convenient way to raise money for a variety of good causes, and to create a social event where teachers, pupils, non-teaching staff and parents and friends can share in a gentle stroll along the by ways of this part of the county. The walks give us an opportunity to work as a team.

This year we walked 20 miles for a variety of causes - each House nominating its own charity.

While the organisation of the walks was determined centrally the detail of sponsorship and collecting money was done `in-house'.

To an old hand like me the walk offered little that was new, except that there were a variety of beneficiaries rather than just one. For most of the walkers it was a new experience and it was a real pleasure to see how well they tackled the event. Girls were wearing Air Ambulance badges beforehand and T shirts on the walk itself. We were all moved by Westminster's presentation bringing to our attention the plight of the needlessly blind in the less developed world. The Hospice, the Royal Marsden Hospital , the NSFCC, Kent Kids and Multiple Sclerosis will all benefit from our help.

"Plan for the worst and hope for the best" is a fatalistic philosophy, but one which is suitable for a walk. We brought warm clothes and waterproofs but the sun shone all day and we were given a whole set of wonderful views on a super spring day. We didn't plan for sunstroke, and some of the fairer skinned did suffer a bit because they exposed themselves to the elements rather more than they ought to have done. Nevertheless, there were no serious injuries and everybody completed the walk more or less intact.

In previous accounts of our sponsored walks I have been able to recall interesting incidents which happened on the circuit; there were several this time. Our gardeners , managing their checkpoint very well while being able to conduct a competitive game of Trivial Pursuit ,is a case in point I was struck during this walk, however, by the almost total emptiness of the school premises and the strange feeling of guilt I had at being one of the few people to be in school while everybody else was doing their job. That aura is testimony to the full scale involvement of the whole school and any success we have is due to the efforts of everyone. I thank you all.

David Pickard

loin Pally, on thy sponsored walk, takes his eyes off the girls for a moment

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SALv~/ JETS Autumn 1993 Upper 6 C.S. Beauvais Sarah W-M. Wo Lower 6 Emily L. Baldock P. Barton O J. Elliott N.J. Greaves Joyce Holland-Gladwish Ola I. Irukwu Kathie Munz A. Ruboczki E.R. Rwelamira Emily P. Sisley Kristina von Petersdorff Melanie Vathauer Form 5 I. Lazarevic

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Form 4 G. Chan Elinor K. Hoult J.J.M. Livingstone 1I. Mitsuhashi C-M Yeung Form 3 M. Babayev Catherine L. Bond P.O. Brown Michelle V. Buckler R.A. Gladwin S. Harris J. Hau WJ.E. Hodson G.H. Horton M.A. Kent Rebecca L. Lacey S.J. McHale A. O'Donovan Megan Russell Clare D. Shaw M. Slattery

Victoria A. Summers Mj. Unsworth-White Sally S.F. Wight R.G. Williams M.G. Wooderson M. Yamazaki Form 2 G.D.B. Stiff Form 1 J.R. Abbott B/H R.W. Best H/B E.A. de Trute B/H I.J. Fraser B/H S.J. Iles B/H S.G. Knowles B/H B/H J.A. Le Grys M.W. Meredith B/H C.W. Piper B/H W. Richardson B/H R.D.G. Walker B/H

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THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION SCHEME FOR SCHOOLS & COLLEGES IN ENGLAND

THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION

SCHEME

The Sutton Valence School team for this scheme consisted of Neil French, James Richardson, Eddie Copland and Richard Sankey.

We were asked by the directors of the programme to work in conjunction with Dungeness `B' Nuclear-Electric power station. Our task was to design a motor testing device.

We were introduced to the programme at Bishop's Stortford in Essex where, as a minor `fun' project, each team was told to construct a platform from straws and pins to support a house brick with a minimal amount of materials. Unsurprisingly, the Sutton Valence elite won this competition!

The Engineering Education scheme was extremely demanding. Our project required at least 100 hours of extra-curricular work, as well as four days and three long nights at Loughborough University. We managed to amass a great deal of information which resulted in an acceptable solution. We were able to develop this to a satisfactory conclusion when we returned to Sutton Valence.

There was a disco on the third evening of our stay at Loughborough but it took a lot of time to persuade the DJ to play decent music! All in all, however, it was a good few days, and we gained a lot from the whole experience. The scheme ended in grand style in March 1994 at County Hall in Maidstone when we had to organise a display and give a 15 minute presentation to a team of professional engineers.

Dungeness `B' seems to be happy with our solution and they are going to use it. Many thanks to Andy Saunders, out contact engineer, and to the Head of Science, Geoff Piper, who got us into this mess!

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FAREWELL PEANUT! So. Farewell then Michael Haywood We know that you are only retiring not departing but you read the Eye You were famous for Looking like a leguminous plant or wearing a toupee; Your hymn singing; Attacking the Conservative Government; Your dapper outfits, winter and summer; Your avuncular pipe; Your specs slipping down your nose: Saying Um, Umm, and Umm, Ray? And for pronouncing all African and European names in Gaelic At least, that's what we assume it was.

Your portrait in Main Hall will never be as good as this one by Alex Lau Remember that when he becomes famous.

E. J. Thrupp (173/4) Lower 7th

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Adrian Leang, the Director of Music, is introduced by Elizabeth Harrison Adrian Leang joined the School in the Lent Term of 1994. He wasted no time upon arrival: choir rehearsals began at the first available lunch time.

As a child, Adrian was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral for five years, and, impressed by this first taste of music, he was encouraged to develop it further. He took up the piano. Mr Leang claims that his career "took off from here". He won his first organ scholarship whilst still at school and then his second whilst reading Music at Cambridge.

Before joining us at Sutton Valence, Mr. Leang had taught for twelve years at Malborough College, as an assistant. When I asked him why he chose to come to Sutton Valence he replied, "I wanted to be more independent and run a department. The school offered many possibilities and wasn't too big - this was very important to me". His intention is to build up the instrumental side of the school's music as much as possible.

In the short, but equally busy time he has been here, Mr. Leang has been impressed with the school: "It is extremely friendly, and musically, has a lot of potential. However, it will take time to get used to being the Director of Music rather than the assistant!"

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Dr. Ian Gray, Physicist, is Introduced by Amelia Shaw Dr Ian Gray comes to us straight from Cambridge University where he was involved in post-doctoral research with a Fellowship at St. Edmunds and Trinity. He lectured in statistical physics. His first degree was a joint Honours degree in Maths and Physics. He holds a Cambridge PhD. He enjoyed his time at Cambridge very much and manages to maintain his connection with the university and returns there as often as possible. He is supervising a PhD student called Christian Pfleiderer.

Ian Gray enjoys singing. He is an operatic tenor and works with Neil MacKie at the Royal College of Music. His main interest is Italian opera, though he has sung in the Faure Requiem here at school. His other hobbies include Ornithology and walking. He has spotted many species of bird since arriving at Sutton Valence. In his spare moments he is taking an Open University degree in Teaching.

Dr. Gray likes Sutton Valence because it offers hint the opportunity of teaching Maths, Physics and Astronomy and because of its location. He enjoys working with young people and hopes to continue teaching either in school or university. The idea of being Head of Science somewhere appeals to him.

He is the first male tutor of Valence House.

Ian says that his main interest is Physics, teaching is important but Physics is more important.

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Julian Bell, the Head of English is Annabelle Bimont introduced by Noel Greaves Julian Bell, Esq., the new Head of English joined the school in September 1993. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and obtained a further degree during his teaching career, this time at the University of Sussex. I enjoyed asking him a few questions on behalf of Suttonian readers.

Sutton Valence is a big change for Mr. Bell.

He has come to us from an all boys school in Croydon; a school where he was once a pupil himself. He believes that most of the time he manages to create a good rapport with his students and also thinks that to be a good teacher he must also be learning with his students because our appreciation of literature is always developing and changing. He believes that this an ideal way of helping everyone to learn.

Everyone learns together in real education.

In his free time, Julian Bell enjoys travelling and has been to many exotic places; the Islamic artefacts and visual aids in the RS department are the result of one of his many visits to North Africa. He enjoys rock climbing and a really good read. Julian is not married and lives in the school grounds so that he is easily available for school commitments.

We welcome him to Sutton Valence

Mademoiselle Annabelle Bimont, the twentyone year old tutor of Sutton House, was born in Dieppe on the 19th September 1972. She studied at the University of Rouen. She spends most of her time reading and listening to music and she loves to wear black - as we've all noticed!

Annabelle is studying for exams in June and came to Sutton Valence because it is necessary for a student of English to spend a year abroad. She returns to university in the Autumn.

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The Street Light I stand tall and thin not alone in the street, People of all sizes large and small, Drive, ride and walk under my rays of light.

I am the strength in the darkness.

Showing people a different way I laugh at their shadows, changing Long and slim, short and fat.

But in the light of day, I feel large and ugly, plain and awkward, Nowhere to hide from my shame.

In the moon lit night I feel smooth and grateful, Wanting to show myself to the many who pass.

But now no-one is there.

For it is late. People are in their beds.

Warm and cosy.

Whilst I stand quiet and still, In the silence of the night.

Mark Critchley 5A

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`A people divided by a common language.'

A teaching exchange for a year is an opportunity to be involved in the educational programme rather different from the one in the home post.

St. Paul's School is an independent school about ten miles north of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. The welcome and reception soon made one begin to feel at home, although getting used to their academic procedures took a little longer.

The sense of informality in the classroom especially required time to adjust to.

What are some of the differences between St. Paul's and Sutton Valence? (i) Class position of a pupil. This is more or less irrelevant at St. Paul's. The main thing parents and pupils are interested in is how things are getting on with respect to grades. The instructor tends to be judge and jury: the course and results are very much in one person's hands. (ii) British schools need to ensure that the availability of the A levels as a central core in the lower and upper sixth is preserved. The balance

between curricular width and subject depth need,not cancel each other; pupils need to be involved in both. (iii) American schools make much of Graduation (Commencement) at the end of the 12th grade year, when the next step for most students is college/university. St. Paul's is no exception.

The end of year ceremonies for the leaving class are the highlight, even if it is only to mark the end of (and their getting away from, at last!) the school routine. Requirements for graduation are strict. If any part of the school programme (eg: academic, community service, sport, senior projects or detentions) has not been completed then the graduation certificate is not awarded.

There must be no fees unpaid. The non-award of the certificate can severely complicate things for the future. One pupil at the graduation in June 1993 made a great show of holding his envelope up to the light to check that his document was actually in there! Needless to say there was laughter from the faculty and others. A personal touch on these occasions is that if a parent of a graduating pupil is on the staff of St. Paul's then that parent, not the Headmaster, makes the presentation. Those graduating elect from among themselves who is to give thegraduation speech. I have heard many worse speeches.

The graduating class sit on the stage - not the

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staff. The graduation process included a Church photographer was always on hand to provide a service, and also a Prom which the pupils organ- full pictorial record for display, publicity and ize completely themselves and the 11th grade magazine requirements.

(Lower Sixth) are invited. As the Prom takes A year away in (for me) another English place toward the end of the second semester and speaking system is a broadening experience. therefore in terns time, there is a faculty pres- While what each school does is probably best for ence to ensure that things go smoothly. After its culture and tradition, such exchanges do graduation the whole of the graduating class go provide the opportunity to have first hand expeoff on a week's holiday together - to Ocean City, rience of seeing an alternative way of doing where just about every such class from several things. It is one thing to see a country as a tourist hundred miles around has the same sort of - quite another to work there. celebration. These thousands are collectively Thank you to the Headmaster of Sutton known by the Ocean City locals as the June Valence School, Michael Haywood, for his enBugs'. The 12th grade send off indicates the way couragement to seek an exchange.

St Paul's invests in the future through its Thank you to Bruce Latta for coming over Alumnae. The main sporting awards (for the year) are done at a special banquet to which to take `my place'; parents are invited - and come. I feel more could M.E.F. Pettman. be done at Sutton Valence to profile sporting awards (colours and cups) in a similar way.

Each system has its own way of inculcating responsibility. The British prefectorial system has its counterpart more in the Student Council FORENSIC LECTURES IN and Discipline Committees, made up of both SHEFFIELD pupils and faculty. Having to come before the Discipline Committee where the pupil would be Five Sixth Form scientists - all girls - attended a facing some of his contemporaries is no small course on Forensic Practice in Sheffield. This matter. The Discipline Committee in assuming involved a stay overnight in a Hall of Residence. the guilt of the individual meets with the of- The Course consisted of a series of nine lectures fender before making recommendations for spread over a period of two days.

The lectures covered a wide spectrum punishment (suspension, even expulsion). The tradition of open forums and debating issues at which included `The Response to Terrorism', assembly (the whole of the St Paul's Upper `Fleshing the Bones; Facial reconstruction' and School present and taking part!) is strong. One `Forensic Hypnosis'. During the latter we were felt at St Paul's there was a greater readiness to taught how to hypnotise ourselves and others. share on issues, even if the decisions at the end The lecturer conducting the session on facial reconstruction was a recognized international of the day had to come from one person.

I also had the opportunity to visit a number authority. He had travelled the world reconof OS living in the States. It was interesting to structing faces using only the skull as a hear of the goings on at Sutton Valence: whether foundation. This presentation was particularly in the late nineteen twenties or through the stimulating. Some of the likenesses produced in years to the early seventies, with photographic reconstruction were quite amazing: they were evidence of what the scenery around the school so like the people as they had been.

Over one thousand students attended these was like at the time. Hospitality on all visits was generous. I look forward to meeting you this lectures and another one and a half thousand side of the Atlantic! For someone waiting to arrived as we were leaving. As a Sixth former write a history of Sutton Valence School, there is interested in studying Forensic Science I found plenty of scope for an American's view. the lectures very informative. It was also good The staff involved in development and to have an insight into student life at Sheffield. fund raising ensured that there was a continu- I now have some idea of what to expect at ous series of publications highlighting recent university. The whole exercise was worthschool activities and achievements. The school while.

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On The Boundary with D.P., the master in charge of cricket

Cricket An Anecdote from the Cricket Field A sunny day on that exquisite of cricket grounds, the Upper. It is now late afternoon and a home eleven are making a real meal of exceeding the opposition's paltry total of 89. Their reply has reached 38-5, when Number 7 in the order, with the air of a player about to emulate Botham's historic innings against the 1981 Australian tourists, marches deliberately to the wicket, takes guard with that knowing look we have all seen on the face of the experienced professional, and awaits his first ball with a sense of calm detachment quite out of keeping with all that has gone before. With two balls of the over remaining, the bowler trundles up confidently, bowls and then stares, goggle-eyed, as his delivery is smashed savagely out of sight past a dozing midwicket who scarcely realises what has happened.

The hero of the moment repeats the shot next ball but top-edges it wickedly towards a ponderous cover-point who never looks like catching it.

An easy single results; it is the end of the over and No. 7 has the strike.

There is now the habitual mid-wicket conference : the non-striker, by his gestures, appears to be suggesting that his partner should not attempt to hit every ball for four. Quite undaunted, however, the striker with five runs already to his name, wafts his bat once again.

We look towards the legside boundary, but the ball, instead, glides gently to - guess who? cover-point who somehow contrives to drop it!

The non-striker, now feeling it necessary to be

more assertive in his advice, calls out, `Be careful - play straighter!" and casually demonstrates exactly what he means. He receives only a glare from the other end before a second innocuous, if straight delivery, is bowled from the pavilion end. Suddenly, seeming mystified as to what shot to play, our potential match-winner plays no stroke at all, and watches in total misbelief as the ball slowly hits the wicket and the bails fall to the ground. He has had his moment of glory and marches out with that same unabashed air as he had arrived at the wicket, muttering as he passes the non-striker, "That's what happens when I try to play correctly"!

RDC July 1993

U14 Cricket 1993 This was not a particularly successful season, it was somewhat curtailed by the weather and the side lacked the strength and experience to cope with some powerful opposition.

There were, however, some encouraging individual performances. Kelly produced some fine off-side strokes and batted with considerable character against a very strong Cranbrook attack, whilst Cowell showed great promise with his leg-spin. In this he combined very effectively with Thomson who made great progress with his wicket keeping and took several good stumpings off Cowell's bowling.

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batted well against St. Bede's and shows promise as an opening batsman. He also did the captain's job quite well; this is never easy in a losing side.

Debney is, as yet, rather short of attacking shots but he plays pretty straight and should make runs in future seasons; he is also a fine fielder in the covers.

Of the other players, Saunders' bowling was fairly quick at times but far too erratic, Harper defended his wicket quite strongly at times and Bunyan showed potential as a medium-pacer. Loffstadt's bowling lacked a little in penetration but was more accurate than most.

Standing fielded well but still has a good deal to learn about batting and bowling while Purvis need to take a more serious approach to the game if he is to make the most of his ability.

In general, the lessons of this season are clear: determined batting and accurate bowling are vital if a moderate side is to have any chance against good opposition.

CWA0VAA

U 15 X 1 Cricket Report 1993 Played: 6 Drawn: 1 Lost : 4 Abandoned: 1.

It is saying only the obvious to report that this season was disappointing from a result point of view, but the truth is that it was scarcely a season at al1I A total of six matches, reduced to 5'/z because of the abandonment of the first game, was desperately inadequate. For players of this age-group, talented or otherwise, experience in the middle is the vital ingredient following an Under Fourteen season in which emphasis had been put on teaching the intricacies and basics of the game in both net and square practice.

There was some feeling of hope at the start of the current season that despite a dearth of real talent, the group would be capable of performing adequately and would continue to make the sort of steady improvement that had been so palpably evident in the fine match of the previous season played against the Duke of York's and Cranbrook.

Somehow, however, that hope was never quite realised : before one knew it the season was over though, fortunately, not without some enjoyment of the game having been obtained first.

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School, prospects of a moral-boosting start looked bright when we closed on a carefully built 108 (Wright 38). Unfortunately, with the opposition on 38-2, the most dramatic hailstorm most of us had even witnessed brought proceedings to an abrupt conclusion.

Following a heavy defeat at Rochester (though our 42 runs, thanks to Bond's long innings and Clarke's runs, took 2'/2 hours!), the encounter with Dover College was far more competitive. Ben Woodcock made a fair declaration at 100-7 (Milsted 27) but though Wright and Cook bowled with some menace, there was a lack of variety and Dover managed to hang on at 80-8 in an exciting finish. So far the cricket had been interesting and enjoyable but it was early May and three matches only remained!

King's Canterbury, as expected, were strong but lessons in how to occupy the crease were again able to be put into practice. John Milsted, so keen on his game, showed promise with a painstaking 21, with the result that Sutton Valence was still occupying the crease well after tea! The bowling collapsed far too quickly, however, and King's won too easily by nine wickets.

Some poor weather, athletic finals, exam commitments and a long half-term combined to prevent much cricket before the game versus the Duke of York's R.M.S. Neither side rose to the occasion here and, in a low standard contest, the only highlights were two superb catches by Mark Critchley, back on the cricket stage, and some improved slow bowling by Milsted who didn't, perhaps, receive the credit he deserved at the time. The season officially ended against Maidstone G.S. who contained several classy batsmen and two very hostile quick bowlers.

Though the home side declared at 183-7, the bowling and fielding - though not the field placing - had been encouraging: Clarke (2-52) managed to move the ball away from the bat in a way that no present England fast bowler finds easy to do, while Wright (3-45), inconsistent as ever, found a better line and length when he changed ends. Against such a mature bowling side, we had little chance, but the attitude of the team was very pleasing and very positive.

Woodcock and Cook made useful runs, the latter in vary cavalier fashion, ensuing that the game was not as hopelessly one-sided as the bare figures suggested.

Many of the side are sufficiently interested in the game to improve, but they lack confidence. They must play some cricket, in the holidays for example, read and talk about the game, seek and listen to advice and practice with real devotion. John Milsted, who captained for the last two games, has undoubted potential; Simon West must believe in himself more and adopt a more determined attitude towards winning, while Spencer Clarke, Thomas Horton and Leslie Bond all improved without making a sizeable contribution. Giles Cook has as much natural ability as any, but his casual approach won't help him at all. Edward Wright and Ben Woodcock contributed each in different ways, but their basic weakness make them more limited than they should be. The two wicket-keepers, Russell Byrnes and Simon West were disappointing : this is a position that influences the fielding and attitude of a whole team but neither realised the possibilities open to them. It was pleasing, however, to see Mark Critchley and Philip Day involved in some of the matches : my abiding memory, in this my last season of taking a side at Sutton Valence, is of Philip saying how much he personally had enjoyed his cricket, and he felt others had, too. This is, of course, the main reason for playing and I wish all of the boys many hours of enjoyment and friendship in the cricket that lies ahead of them.

Besides those mentioned above, others who played were : Richard Dowse, Ben Hodgson, Matthew Noakes and David Wootton (who should be complimented on his scoring in the final two matches).

RDC July 1993

THE 1993 CRICKET SEASON We began this season knowing that it would be the last for Bob Chance, who was going to leave the school after 33 years of marvellous service.

With a zest that I can only wonder at he took on the task of steering the Under 15 side through the season, when he could easily have eased himself out by taking a less arduous role coaching and advising pupils and staff alike. On second thoughts I should not wonder at Bob's attitude, for it is so like this dedicated servant of Sutton Valence sport that he would give of his all and set the highest standards right to the end.

When I arrived at Sutton Valence a mere 16 years ago, Bob had already done a stint as Master in Charge of Cricket. His mantle had been picked up by Graham Able and later by Alistair Grierson-Rickford. In those days I was to watch RCD score lots of runs for the Band of I was Brothers against good school sides. fortunate enough to play with him on several occasions for the BBs against a variety of Club sides - and to be able to pick up some of his philosophy about the game was an added bonus.

When, in my turn, I took over the running of cricket I found a very supportive and extremely valuable companion in my senior colleague and his influence has gone well beyond the sporting field. Bob Chance will always be welcome in our pavilion.

We started the season with a new responsibility - to offer entertainment to the new occupants of the Old Sanatorium, now called Warmlake Pines, a home for retired Gentlefolk.

Our first attempt ended, unfortunately, with us hitting one of them on the head! The safety net between their land and ours was too low! It has since been raised and we welcome their interest in what we do, hoping that their viewing will now be safer.

I had high hopes, as the season began, that we would be an entertaining side, and a strong one. Most of the players had a good deal of experience. Their performance in previous years augured well, and there seemed to be a good spirit developing between the new captain, Alan Barr and the senior players.

Results: Played 15. Won 3.

Drawn 4.

Lost 8.

School 59 Cranbrook 43-1 draw The school failed to score enough runs on a poor pitch, nor could they find it easy to control the ball when fielding in steady rain. The game, thankfully, terminated in a hailstorm, thunder and lighting.

St. Bede's 99 Painter 7-12 School 100-2 Barr 33, Waters 30, Painter win 26.

St. Bede's youngish side recovered well, Painter having done damage to their openers, and, after he also finished off the tail very clinically, we

were set a target of one hundred runs from 24 overs. Steady, sensible batting by Barr and Waters set the stage for a ferocious attack by Painter and the game was won with an over to spare.

School 178- Barr 79 King's School Rochester, 179-7 Painter 3-35 loss The school reached a good score in fits and starts, losing wickets when many maidens were being bowled, then accelerating and looking as though they could score at will. The declaration had to be generous if we were to have enough time to bowl the opposition out and it had to be a reachable target (This sounds as if I am trying to justify a poor decision - but I do not think so.

Often, in order to win, one had to take the risk of defeat). In the event the gale, which had already destroyed the flagpole and toppled a sightscreen, made the job of bowling and fielding very difficult and we could not defend the score against solid and sensible batting.

XL Club 207 School 121-9 Painter 36 draw Keith Wooding scored another hundred for the XL Club (he has now scored well over a century of hundreds in good club cricket) and we were set a sensible target if we batted well and maintained patience. We lost early wickets because of rash strokes and then lost the middle order in an attempt to hit our way back into the game, just as we were beginning to get back on target.

The tail held out for the draw to defy our wily opponents.

Dover College 146 Painter 4-41, Barr 3-30 School 149-2

Waters 93, Barr 38

win Dover are never an easy side to beat. They fought back well after an early collapse and recovered with fine spirit after losing the middle order in the eighties. The target of 147 would not be easy. However, a quick fire start by Hodson and Waters followed by a fine stand of 120 between Waters and Barr set up the win in admirable style. On 93, and with 10 runs to win, Waters tried a bit too hard and paid the -28 -

penalty. Barr smashed the ball out of the ground for a six to crown the emphatic win.

The Mote 174-4 School 85-3 Painter 47, Waters 34 draw We played on the County ground and were royally received by the Mote. Their batsmen made heavy weather of scoring the runs, especially in the early part of their innings and the declaration, when it came, did not leave us a great deal of time. In poor light and increasingly strong drizzle, which made it difficult for the bowlers, Painter and Waters took the fight to the opposition. They scored a quick, and undefeated 84 by the beginning of the last twenty overs - only 90 to win and all wickets intact. The rain was the winner, however. In extremely difficult conditions we lost wickets in the chase and the men found it perilous to carry on, and both sides abandoned the ground to the elements.

The Band of Brothers 192-7 Wright 2-20 Fox 275 School 100 Waters 68 loss Despite a depleted side, because Painter and Barr were playing for Kent on this day, the boys put up a good show against a strong BB X1.

Restricting the men to 89-2 at lunch, and bowling tightly enough afterwards to prevent the BB's accumulating a score over two hundred, was good cricket. If the bowling had more penetration we might just have done better. As it was, Michael Fox bowled particularly well and deserved more luck. The batting was fragile and we needed more than one of the side to keep William Waters company for a long time and the others to dig into their reserves of concentration.

The boys clearly showed that when they were at the wicket they were capable of scoring runs, but only Waters stayed for any length of time.

He gave another fine display.

The M.C.C. 226-3 School 181 Waters 82, Thomson 33. loss William Waters would have been a professional cricketer if he could have scored a second con-

secutive hundred against the MCC. He was out on 82 making a valiant effort to lead the side to victory. One again, the problem was in finding partners with enough concentration to stay there with him.

O.S.

172 Waters 3-45, Barr 3-22

173-6 Waters 70, Painter 36, Barr School win 25 The OS started very well and put on 97 for the first wicket. 122-4 at lunch was a score that suggested they could score two hundred. Waters and Fox had other ideas and we did well to restrict their score to 172. W e batted exactly as they did with a big opening stand and a minor collapse. However, at the end Fox and Harvey had no difficulty in completing the good work of the opening trio.

Waters 76, Painter 44 School 157-9 Duke of York's 76-9 Painter 4-27, Waters draw 3-22 Put in on a fast track we scored very quickly and declared just about on half-time. We took wickets steadily and the win looked assured until the last three opponents came to the crease.

They held out superbly. Although we managed to winkle two of them out we could not manage the last one - who obviously did not suffer from claustrophobia - so closely did we crowd his bat for the last six overs.

H.M.'s X1 210-4 Barr 40 School 75 loss A strong HM's X1 never looked in any trouble once they got over a slowish start when two wickets fell, and the declaration, when it came, was hardly generous given their depth of bowling. A good start by us would have made it a different game but we lost three early wickets and the heart was ripped out of the batting. We hung on gamely and made it a match by selling our wickets dearly (in terms of time if not runs).

King's School, Canterbury 226-5Fox 3-30 loss School 99 We bowled well enough on the whole, but

fielded dreadfully against very aggressive ruulfling .between the wickets and, where we had looked like keeping the King's total a low one at the beginning of the game, we allowed them to fire a quick 80 odd runs from the last ten ovens to set up a winning total. Once again we lost quick wickets at the head of the batting, and with confidence at a low ebb from the pasting of the match before we lost wickets too easily.

Hamilton High School, Victoria 290-7 B a r r 3-53 Barr 38, Thomson 43 213-8 School loss The tourists had asked for a 55 over game, so there was no point in playing defensively against their massive score. The school chased the runs with gusto, but were never quite up with the asking rate and always seemed to lose a wicket when they looked like making runs more quickly.

This was a most enjoyable game of cricket in which we learned just how keen the Australians were to win. If they could have bowled us all out for nothing they would have done so. Their attitude was extremely positive, and we managed to pick some of it up in the run chase and in the following matches.

Maidstone G.S. 132 Waters 4-33, Painter 331, Barr 3-30 loss Waters 46 School 99 This was a game we should easily have won. We took wickets regularly on a slightly suspect wicket and the teamwork was of a high standard until we were frustrated by a last wicket stand of 29, during which catches were dropped and runs given away carelessly. After a nervous start we reached 95-4 with 8 overs remaining.

Two silly run outs and careless batting allowed 6 wickets to fall in 5 of those overs for the addition of only 5 more runs.

Simon Dykes's X1 153-9 Waters 4-55 loss School 115 Painter 53 Once again we were delighted to keep the opposing team to a respectable score. We had, however, bowled our overs rather slowly so that the time left to us to knock off the runs was shorter than we had hoped. Once again we lost early wickets when a solid start would have set the platform for a determined attempt to win the -29-

match.

The season was a disappointment one, given my aspirations at the beginning. Without a blossoming of young talent we had to rely rather heavily on the efforts of Barr, Painter and Waters. While they did magnificently, taking over sixty wickets and scoring more than twelve hundred runs between them, they could not win matches on their own every week. However, Painter and Barr will both play for Kent U1 9s in the holiday and the school will also be represented in other age groups. More boys are playing club cricket in the holidays than has been the case for some years, and the intake of 1993 is said to contain some excellent players.

David Pickard

Under 13 cricket report 1993 Played 5 Lost 5 The season started with much promise as a number of old hands returned and were joined by four under twelve players who showed good talent in early season practices. However we did not manage to turn potential into good performances in matches. The bowling was often too short and too much down the leg side to trouble the batsmen consistently. The major problem however was the batting when too many players got themselves out playing poor shots. Proper batting technique must be well learnt and then followed when in the middle. Catches were spooned up by too much bottom hand when playing shots and not enough attention was paid to moving the feet forward and backwards when appropriate. The calling and running between the wickets was also spasmodic and inconsistent.

However everyone played with great enthusiasm and apart from the matches against Underhill all were quite closely contested until the end, indeed the final match against Bethany could have easily swung either way at the end when we eventually lost by just three runs. M. Walker captained the side quite well but must keep an eye on his field placing especially when he is bowling. M. Day flattered to deceive with the bat only really scoring well against Bethany.

His bowling was fast but not well enough pitched up to tie the batsmen down. T.Sisley also showed that he is a talented cricketer who has a very

good eye. However he must slow down his bowling to achieve better accuracy. When batting he must learn to play back to shorter bowling. P. Schofield kept wicket tidily and batted well on occasions and M.Groom, in addition to a couple of nice innings, caught the ball magnificently in the field.

The north versus south match was won by South.

I would like to thank Mr. Alan Day for his help with coaching the team.

Results:

S.V.S. 110 Underhill 113 -3 Lost by 7 wkts Eylesdon Court 96-9 S.V.S. 61 Lost by 35 runs S.V.S. 95 Bickley Park 96-3 Lost by 7 wkts Underhill 158-0 S.V.S. 82 Lost by 76 runs Bethany 68 S.V.S. 65 Lost by 3 runs The following played for the team:.

B.Pratten, J.Parrett, M.Groom, T.Sisley, P.Schofield, T Janes, T.Jordan, M.Walker, E.Power, J.Colgan, Tjones, M.Day, D. Shepherd.

Cabaret Alex Mansfield as Em Cee, with primate

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Drama

The Kit Kat Klub Girls in Cabaret

ADJUDICATOR'S NOTES ON THE 1994 HOUSE DRAMA -MAY 12TH Jane Boston Head of Voice and Acting Tutor Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

My overall response to this varied evening of Drama was one of appreciation and respect for the enthusiasm and dedication which had obviously gone into many of the productions presented. The range of style was certainly varied, as was the content of the pieces, and there were clearly some school favourites which stood out for merits other than dramatic. It was , though, possible to distinguish qualities of excellence in much of the work from that which was simply playing to the house.

Looking at the pieces in more detail, I can single out the clearly staged `A bit of Diabolism' from Margaret's (Director: John 0. Adam) for its sustained style and integrated use of sound, costumes and lighting. It was clear, to the point, and it stood out for maintaining this definition.

Westminster ( Director: Chas. Beauvais ) offered an adaptation of `The Thwarting of Baron

Bolligrew' where the cast veered on the side of playing themselves rather than towards the discipline of transformed characterisation. Their enthusiasm could have been better directed towards telling the story more clearly and directly. `The Chalky White Substance' ( Founders.

Director: Alex Mansfield ) stood out for the integrity and imagination of its acting, in which emotional issues were handled with delicacy and focus. I was particularly impressed with the way in which the cast of two handled poetic language with a seeming conversational ease; this is something which is not achieved easily! `Naomi in the Living Room' ( Lambe's.

Director: Tom Kelly) was well-staged in terms of using the set in the space wisely, and all the actors stayed in the world of the play with great concentration and integrity which allowed us in the audience to really hear and see the eccentricity of the piece itself. I applaud the cast and director for taking risks in handling such tricky material and pulling it off on its own terms commendably.'The Drinking Companion' (Valence. Director: Amelia Shaw) had some good staging ideas, particularly with the placement of - 31 -

the upstage drinkers, and there were moments of clear conversational ease in the acting. Overall, it could have benefited from a greater sense of clarity in the action. `The Great Train Robbery' ( Margaret's.

Director: Stephen Buckler) was perfectly clear, to the point and humorous, with some good focused work by the actors, demonstrating clear listening skills on-stage and excellent direction. `A Talk in the Park' (Sutton. Director: Katie Harper) showed an imaginative use of space on the stage and allowed a varied range of characters to really speak to us in the audience and reveal their idiosyncratic behaviour. Especially notable was the character who fed the ducks, demonstrating that it is not always through words that convincing characterisation can be discovered. Good focused work all round.

All the best for the productions during the rest of the year. I look forward to your Drama Season in 1994-95). ( Ms. Boston awarded the Best Actor award to Cyrus Shahrad of Founders and the Best Produc tion award jointly to Lambe's and Founder's).

The Travels and Loves of Peer Gynt This was an adaptation of Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen: Ibsen's play lasted for five hours and this version lasted for just under an hour. It was the right length for the Juniors who would have found another hour too much, let alone another four hours.

The chorus was very large. They were led

by Hannah Schofield and Allan Archibald who gave good leadership though they lacked real vivacity.

The first to speak, Peter Cleghorn as Aslak, spoke clearly and obviously enjoyed it. I felt that he would have benefited from a larger part though these were limited. The Director (John Watson) , who also wrote the adaptation, did well to involve such large numbers with so many major roles.

Andrew Applin ( Peer Gynt) spoke and acted confidently although at times, especially in the romantic bits, he seemed to merely recite the lines. Sarah Wyatt (Ingrid) delivered her lines with apparent ease and both actors show a lot of promise for the future: Sarah has in fact -32 -

James Abbott as Ballon in Peer Gynt

appeared in one of the Director's Workshop productions already. She has a good stage presence. Christy Best as Solveig was also impressive and sang beautifully.

The actors representing the countries of the world were superb and, frankly, stole the show, especially James Abbott as Ballon, the French man. He captured perfectly the accents and mannerism typical of the French. This is true of the other actors who represented Germany, Scandinavia and Britain. The Stage Manager (Stephen Buckler) must be congratulated for his efficient and humorous use of the stage team. The appearance of the Stars and Stripes upside-down was not entirely appreciated by the Musical Director Charles Beauvais.

The delivery of the Swedish flat - right way up - was greeted with loud applause.

Alex Lau's designs were magnificent. His artistic development of the masks for the Trolls in the Hall of the Mountain King was outstanding.

Simon Knowles is an actor to look for in the future. His performance as the Button Moulder will be remembered for a long time. His diction is (lean and clear. His stage presence remarkable for one of his age.

All in all, the show worked well as a pleasant introduction to Ibsen for the audience and as an introduction to SVS Theatre Workshop production techniques for the young actors.

Adella Brooks L6

Cabaret For three nights at the end of the Lent Term the School Hall was transformed into the Kit-Kat Club, the sleazy night club frequented by Cliff Bradshaw, the fresh-faced, impecunious, wouldbe novelist hero of the musical `Cabaret'. It is there that he meets Sally Bowles, performing a nightly routine of suggestive song and dance under the ambiguous eye of the louche and epicene Em-Cee. Cliff falls in love with her; she moves in with him and is soon expecting his child.

This is hardly an original story-line, but there is a parallel plot. Cliffs middle-aged landlady, Frau Schultz, is being courted by a respectable fruiterer, and Cliff is giving English conversation lessons to one Ernst Ludwig, a business man for whom Cliff also runs mysterious errands. At the party Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz give to celebrate their engagement Ludwig reveals himself to be a Nazi agent who promptly and with ominous insistence condemns the relationship. Herr Schultz is a Jew, before long he is brutally bundled away by brown-shirted thugs.

There is a neat contrast of the recklessly carefree night-life of cabaret, with its sexual licence and sharp satire and the day-time reality of social disintegration and political menace, with its increasing violence (and portentous rantings).

One might argue that directorial pruning reduced the second plot to dramatic insignificance, but the singing, dancing and acting of the Kit -Kat Club scenes were so confidently performed, that this part of the musical took on a discrete character and resonance of its own.

Given the youth of the majority of the cast and its irrepressible enthusiasm, this was, perhaps, appropriate.

Alex Mansfield (Em-Cee) in the opening number 'Willkommen' set the production in motion, and it hardly put a patent leather foot wrong throughout the whole performance. The scantily clad chorus, all legs and bare shoulders, danced and sang with knowing but never tasteless frivolity, and were superbly choreographed.

Noel Greaves as Cliff andJoyce Holland-Gladwish as Frau Schultz, gave firm support to Emily Ward, as Sally, in her strongest performance in recent appearances. Peter Barton was well-cast as Herr Schultz, meticulously deferential in his

courtly solicitude, and Daniel Willdridge as Ernst Ludwig, ram-rod straight and icily controlled, ominously conveyed subliminal threat.

Margaret Lake, a slinky one-woman mission to lonely seamen played Fraulien Schneider with surpassing guile and sensuality.

Every number and scene was well crafted, and the continuity was generally seamless.

The items which drew the loudest applause from the patrons, however, were `Two Ladies' with Jo Baillie and Phillipa le Grys perfectly cast as blond, buxom, Aryan beauties, romping in the sheets with EM-Cee, and `If you could see her through my eyes', with Louis Kampanis displaying an uncommon allure in a gorilla's costume. The songs were sung with suitable lascivious relish and poignant pathos, and showed the astonishing versatility of the fourteen year old Alex Mansfield. Through sustained eye contact he established unbroken contact with the audience, and his stage foreign accent, so easy to exaggerate, so difficult to sustain, was carried through, to the end, without loss of uvular trill or Umlaut.

Space limits giving every individual his or her due praise, but as this was such a magnificent team effort, that everyone can consider himself a rightful recipient.

The marvellous atmosphere of the evening was also in large measure due to the inspired catering of Catherine Day and her team; and the busy bustle of attentive waiters enabled the audience to prime themselves with a glass of wine or two before the curtain-up. The Expressionist flats by Holly Browne were a great success and lent an authentic atmosphere and a transforming splash of colour to the proscenium and apron. Costumes, props and make-up were all of their customary high standard, and the band, under Philip Horley, played with power and panache. All those behind the scenes, supervised by Stephen Buckler, quite evidently worked unstintingly to ensure that there were no hitches; and there were none.

The final tribute must go to John Watson.

His organisational skills, discipline and clear vision of what he requires permeated the whole production and enabled a large number of pupils to enjoy the excitement and delight of participating in a most successful entertainment.

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John Adam as Woyzeck

A Play Review of "Woyzeck" by Georg Buchner (in a new translation by John Harcourt) I shifted uneasily in my seat, the darkness suddenly being interrupted by the unwelcoming infiltration of light. I drew in a long, deep breath exhaling a sigh of provoked sarcasm; the cast were trudging in paper boiler suits, and to my mind, perhaps not to the intention of John Watson's direction, it seemed for all the world that these ghostly apparitions had donned a new type of white fall-out suit, serving as an indication of imminent nuclear war. Yet the play certainly didn't revolve around that, it focused on the quest for the answer to this question: "What is a man?" In a sequence of twenty four scenes, complete pieces in their own right, Woyzeck is Buchner's pathetic device for exploring all the negative thoughts of our existence on earth. The actors and actresses were all dressed in white so that the play belonged to a universal time, for, on reflection, man has been trying to delve to the origins of his existence ever since his first appearance on earth. The 'boilersuit' theory also helps to mask the true behaviour of the pupil; if we go to a play it is obvious that little Suzie or Freddie is merely pretending to be someone they're not. Woyzeck is a true play in -34 -

the fact that you don't question the reality of the characters; they're accepted as the real thing.

The only visual indications of rank or station was the occasional jacket, bow or shawl which injected a little colour into this essentially `black and white' play.

The fractured events of the play are more than a little depressing and demand the complete involvement in the audience who, at certain points, feel that the play has reached breaking point. Woyzeck (schizophrenic, misunderstood) is deserted by his wife (cunningly typecast with Emily Ward) for a handsome Drum Major (Will Slater, who, for quite a renowned school actor, the most memorable line was `What a wench!') Emily spoke her lines provocatively then movingly, making an essential contribution to the atmosphere of the evening's events. Most surprisingly it was Cyrus Shahrad as the doctor who shared the limelight with John Adam as Woyzeck. The scene that comes to mind is the medical examination in which Woyzeck is put on a diet of peas.

Man is shown as a walking experiment but however hard scientists try to pull man apart, labelling him with Latin names (which Cyrus pronounced fluently and naturally) they will never reach the answer to `the question' nor will they fully understand diseases of the mind; schizophrenia for example has baffled and provoked all kinds of worrying reaction from other humans. Woyzeck stands as a lone figure in a society which condemns him for being poor as well as nlad.

Alex Lau trust be congratulated for his design, the cardboard sculptures of horse's head, ape's head and cat were particularly good visual focuses. The one thing man is not is an animal, or is he? The lighting crew did well to execute the bursts of light then darkness between the scenes. The effect of changing to a red filter when Woyzeck murders Marie coupled with the deliberately slow movements what would have been wild, stabbing arms creates extreme emotion, Woyzeck appearing as a ghastly black silhouette; the blackness and shadows in these scenes could be deemed Expressionist and the feelings that seemed to rise from the moving figures before me made me think that I had stepped into a living work of art. Woyzeck may not have been to everyone's taste but it can't be denied that standard of acting, singing and design was particularly high. The repetition of

the same folk tune was in no way tiresome, for all the actors and actresses who sang did so in various and personal styles, ranging from the angelic and sweet rendition by Christy Best to the somewhat strong and cynical one by Daniel Willdridge. In a way the repetition of not only this song but of the keywords `blood' and `love' served to send a telegram to the listener who wasn't burdened by having to read between the lines and interpret solid blocks of dialogue; the lines of the script were kept short and to the point.

Between the opening and concluding scenes which were both the same, John Adam as Woyzeck never failed to captivate the audience with his seemingly whole-hearted involvement in this production. At the start the opening lines seem to be pure madness in themselves and to close they were magically untangled with the realisation that Woyzeck was drowning in the waters. I rose from my seat, slightly shocked and distant and I left the hall, dissatisfied not with the play but with myself. A distressed rumbling of emotions haunted me; Who am I? What am I? Woyzeck must be described as the most gripping play that I have seen at Sutton Valence School and to John Watson, John Harcourt and numerous other staff and pupils who rarely receive acknowledgement for their important contribution, many thanks.

Holly Elicia Browne 5A

SVS Theatre Workshop Now that terrestrial television has abandoned virtually all attempts to stimulate the intellect, thank goodness for SVS Theatre Workshop for providing at least two evenings during the Autumn on which we could be both entertained and challenged. In the now well established tradition of the company, on neither occasion did we fully understand what was going on but, no matter, on each we were left with much food for thought and a vague feeling of having been uplifted.

In many ways these two productions complemented each other. Both are set, at least in part, in a military context and both deal at various levels with personalities who are judged by at least some of their contemporaries to have been mad. And while Woyzeck is nominally a work of fiction, we are told that Buchner based

his character on a specific case encountered in his work as a neurologist. Conversely, while Lawrence certainly existed, much of his reputation as a soldier seems to have been based either on his own not necessarily reliable reportage or on propaganda generated by the need during the Great War, as in all wars, for the authorities to fabricate heroes to encourage the masses. The way they subsequently treat those heroes once their usefulness has expired or indeed their existence has become an embarrassment is part of Lawrence's tragedy and has echoes in Woyzeck's treatment by his superiors.

Thus in Woyzeck we have a fictional character who is regarded by his contemporaries as having been mad but who comes across to us as all too real and sane, while in Lawrence we have a historical figure who in his time was regarded by most as eminently sane but who comes down to us as a fabrication and a none too sane one at that.

Part of the pleasure to be derived from seeing both productions in relatively rapid succession lay in the juxtaposition of the characters played by individual actors, to an almost uniformly high standard, in the separate works.

Thus John Adam succeeded in generating real anguish in his depiction of Biichner's central character which contrasted excitingly with his splendid pastiche of Field Marshal Lord Allenby, incidentally, whether through good luck or good management, almost the sole general to have emerged from the Great War with any kind of lasting military reputation. Similarly, the poignancy of Emily Ward's depiction of Marie, Woyzeck's common-law wife, in her predicament in being entangled inextricably with a man who all around her consider mad, contrasted splendidly with her portrayal of Karen of the Sad Cafe at Charon-on-Styx, a sort of underworld Fraulein Sally Bowles.

Only Charles Beauvais, bringing a touch of transatlantic panache to both productions could be said to have found similar characters in the showman in Woyzeck and in the truly awful Lowell Thomas, the journalist responsible for much of the original Lawrence of Arabia myth, and therefore perhaps the last person Lawrence himself would have wished to meet on his journey to the other side. Matthew Groom convinced entirely both as Woyzeck's Prussian superior officer and as the languid, Rupert Brooke -35-

like Stanley Cockerel, waiting to accompany Lawrence on his last journey. Indeed only Richard Rothwell's Honda can be selected from the entire companies of both productions as having not entirely mastered its part, failing quite to convince in its role as a Brough Superior.

Those of us who have inexplicably neglected as yet to read Woyzeck in the original were in no position to j udge the accuracy of John Harcourt's new translation but there is no doubt that it provided the basis for a memorable, if at times baffling, evening. Those of us who, on the other hand, have read "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" will recall that Lawrence himself left the completed manuscript on a train and had to rewrite the entire work from memory. Any liberties that John Watson's ingenious script may have taken would no doubt have been justified by the lost version.

Andrew Bond

Ross L. Shaw Four dead friends and acquaintances of a man who has still to die turn up, separately, at a restaurant on the banks of the river Styx. They are all passengers on the one-way ferry and await the doomed man's arrival. The jovial and demotic proprietress offers a cordon bleu menu and jauntily drops names of former patrons: `I `ad that Napoleon in `ere once'. (Her brother is still working as a London cabby...) As each new guest talks about the absent man, the others are unaware that they are expecting the same person, so different have been their experiences of him and the circumstances in which they knew him.

In "Ross L. Shaw", an entertainment written/compiled by John Watson and performed by the Sutton Valence Theatre Workshop, we are introduced to the enigmatic English eccentric, T(homas) E(dward) Lawrence, (1888-1935). Scholar, author, soldier, aircraftsman and, most notably, champion of the Arabs against their Turkish colonial masters during the First World War. Lawrence is a fascinating, highly elusive and ultimately unfathomable legend. He is best known to recent generations as the eponymous hero of David Lean's'60s epic, but without the occasional T.V. re-showing, this protean adventurer would surely slip into obscurity. Few young people -36 -

read his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1926) nowadays and even fewer have heard of, let alone read, "The Mint".

T.E. Lawrence died on Sunday, 19th May, 1935 as a result of injuries suffered in a motorbike accident. No-one else was involved. The circumstances of the crash remain unelucidated.

The testimony to his friend by each new arrival is responded to somewhat self-deprecatingly by a spectral Lawrence, who appears back-stage clad in full Arab costume and accompanied by a chorus of motor-bike mechanics in overalls and yellow hard hats. They supply further details of his life and personality, and his obsession with speed: `High-powered. We are his furies : building motor bikes.' They record in grisly detail his bizarre and lonely death.

This was a well-constructed piece of theatre, both in terms of the division of the stage into three distinct areas - restaurant, mechanics and `RLS's spaces - and in the `This is Your Life' format of the characters' development of Lawrence's multi-faceted persona. All the principal actors gave credible performances, with a particularly fine Allenby from John Adam, who has graduated rapidly from cameo parts to roles with considerable dramatic demands. Alex Mansfield has a very natural stage presence and speaks his lines with intelligence and insight although his part as Bruce Smith in this 'entertainment' was arguably rather lightweight for Alex' conspicuous talents. Charles Beauvais, Matthew Groom and Greg Walker as the American journalist Lowell Thomas, Stanley Cockerell and Daoud el-Hashimi, respectively, gave doughty support, but were occasionally a little flat in delivery and awkward in movement.

Emily Ward is an old campaigner and has given some impressive performances. She did not seem quite at one with the part of Karen and seemed uncharacteristically nervous, especially in the three songs. These had been specially written by Martin Bruce, who travelled down for the evening from his new school. I am not particularly fond of choral speaking, but this particular group were clear, well synchronised and visually striking.

Top honours for his performance as Lawrence mustgo to Stephen Buckler who overcame a very heavy cold, if not `flu, to give firm, confident and convincing life to one of the century's most intriguing characters. Illness, it

should be said, had also affected some of the other members of the cast.

It was clear that little trouble had been spared in all departments of this production, and scrupulous attention was given to detail in costume and props. There were some nice touches. Allenby's medal ribbons, Lawrence's motor-bike and the authentic, if cold food 'prepared' by Karen's silent chef (Andrew O'Donovan). Stage discipline was, as usual, impressive, and Sabina Ulrich's professional make-up a special treat.

PJH

On the day of the play my [)ad asked me if I was nervous. I told him that I wasn't nervous at all.

I never get nervous until the end of the play because I don't know if I've got the whole thing right or not.

Hannah Schofield My favourite line was `Bite his bum!'. I enjoy acting but I'm not very good.

Charlotte Jasper It was hard work.

Charles Piper It was a good experience. We did not need to spend too much time on it. On the night there were no bad mistakes and it all went very well.

I hope to be in more plays.

James Abbott Inside me I felt cool, calm and collected but my bladder did not. Father John wanted a pint but had to watch the play. I produced a Swedish accent.

Edward Sainshiiry

Stephen Buckler as T.E. Lawrence

PEER GYNT - the voices of the actors I was Buttonnioulder. He is a character resenibling the Devil who tries to take Peer's soul.

Strong stuff[ I felt that I had to play the part in the style of an old man with a hidden secret, like a shambling miser. The skull mask added to the sepulchral atmosphere.

Alex Lau's masks amazed all the parents by their sheer class!

Simon Knowles To be good you have to wipe out your own characteristics and adopt the part you are given.

Andrew Applin (Peer Gynt)

John Adam as Lord Allenby

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Stephen Buckler with the Coptic Patriarch at Abu Talat in Egypt

CHURCH TIMES 6 May 1994

They struggle for their faith A Kent schoolboy, Stephen Buckler, visits the Copts AS A DIRECT RESULT of my GCSE grade in Religious Studies, the Coptic Institute awarded me a fortnight's travelling scholarship to visit the Coptic Orthodox Church at home in Egypt.

My two GCSE options had been St Mark's Gospel and Islam. Mark was the first patriarch of the Copts, and Islam is the majority religion in Egypt. I was in that country for two weeks of the Easter holidays, mostly under the auspices of the Bishopric for Ecumenical Affairs.

The Copts — the word is simply an abbreviation for the Greek word for an Egyptian, but is now used solely to refer to an Egyptian Christian — I found to be warm and welcoming. I visited some of the great monasteries of the Wadi Natroun. The monks were genuine people and welcoming. I was impressed by the intensity of their faith, which they openly expressed. The majority of the monks are university graduates. A very high percentage are physicians, and most monasteries have a clinic for the Bedouin who camp nearby.

There has been a revival of monasticism in recent years, and every monastery is full of monks and novices, so that new accommodation has been built in most monasteries. A few days before my arrival two monks had been shot in a monastery by Islamic fundamentalists.

Like most Anglicans, I don't know any bishops personally and certainly cannot remember having a meeting, let alone a discussion, with one. In Egypt I had two private meetings with His Holiness Pope Shenouda Ill, who is the head of the world's ten million Copts. He speaks good English and is always joking. He has a permanent twinkle in his eyes. I liked him. He treated me as an adult. The Pope said that his relations with the Anglicans, which had once been very good, had been changed by the ordination of women, to which all Eastern Orthodox patriarchs are absolutely opposed.

There were signs everywhere of the threat to Egypt by Islamic terrorists, but everyone told me that they were continuing to lead as normal lives as possible. Pope Shenouda said that the Copts were not afraid.

The four church services I attended were absolutely packed with people and many of them were young. In the parish church where went on Sundays the congregation was numbered in thousands and there were several hundred communicants. I attended a Bible study conducted by the Pope on Wednesday evening in his cathedral in Cairo and the congregation

was about 6000. It lasted for an hour and a half The most disturbing and moving moments of my 14 days with the Copts were spent among the garbage-collectors of Cairo. The streets where they live are far off the tourist tracks.

When I stepped out of the car which took me to the Mokkatam Hills, where the poorest of the poor live, I was lucky to get down the street without sinking my foot once or twice in the unmentionable mire where the children played, the women sorted through the trash for things to sell or recycle, and dead animals lay. ,Taking care where to tread, I came suddenly to a metal gate and beyond it to a school, a church and a new hospital. The latter had been donated by the Government of Finland and was to be opened that week by the Coptic Pope. One side of the gate was a hell on earth; the other side was clean and disciplined. The children in the school, who were all of primary age, greeted me in English: "Good morning. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome." Their teacher came from Poole in Dorset. The locals said that he spoke flawless Arabic: his English was pure and precise. He said that the children from the garbage-collectors' families were highly intelligent. I could believe him, With the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism, which threatens all Christians rich or poor, I wondered what future these children had.

The Copts are people who know how to look after themselves, and the care of the poor garbage-collectors is in the hands of Copts who are better off. The Social Services Department of the Coptic Patriarchate is headed by Bishop Serapion. He was a consultant surgeon before becoming a monk in the Western Desert and then a bishop. He was clearly a wise man, never in too much hurry to talk, but very much in charge when a decision was called for. I noticed everywhere that the Copts seemed to treat young people with much more respect than we are used to here in the West. I had the impression that the Coptic Church was a young persons' Church.

My impressions are inevitably kaleidoscopic, but it was an unforgettable experience, to be with very strong Christians who have to struggle for their faith. They triumph. They are an example and a challenge. Whenever I hear about the Middle East I shall reflect that there are millions of Christians there who are largely forgotten.

Stephen Buckler is doing A levels in Islam and the New Testament at Sutton Valence School.

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THE HOCKEY TOUR OF EGYPT APRIL 1994 Making a major tour every two years gives me ample time to have the trip well organised. We went to Kenya in 1990 and India in 1992. But advanced planning cannot take into account changing political situations and the varying degree with which parents will place importance on examination revision. The latter one can assess easily enough but the former is out of one's control. Gamal Shirazi, President of the Egyptian Hockey Federation and the General Secretary Hamed Ahmed had organised a superb tour for us but the Muslim Fundamentalists threatened our trip right up to the last minute.

We went with a reduced squad.

Our constant companion for the tour was Tarek Moustafa, ex-hockey international and now top international umpire.

On our first day we went to the pyramids.

They were impressive. The sun shone. Two of the team were conned into a camel ride. Ten Egyptian pounds to go up and another ten to come down! We laughed and relaxed. We moved to another magnificent pyramid in Giza and wondered how they had lifted those thirty ton blocks one hundred metres into the air. We all had a camel ride, took a team photograph and haggled

over souvenirs. We went to the Sphinx, which was smaller than expected, and were sold some pictures on papyrus.

We visited the magnificent Mohammed Ali mosque on the Citadel above old Cairo and saw the Tutankhamun treasures in the Cairo museum.

Two days had gone and on the next we had nothing to do until the afternoon game against the Egypt U18 XI. We had seen a great deal of armed police but everyone had been very friendly. Nobody had tried to blow us up!

We had come to Egypt to meet other hockey players, to play the game and to see their magnificent country. We fulfilled the first two objectives at the superb National Stadium. Our hosts had collected the best forty-four U 18 players from the sixteen clubs that play hockey at this age. It was quite daunting to see them assembled at the pitch to welcome us. We played the game, we fought hard, but they were undoubtedly too good for us and we lost 0-5. We were being used for Egypt to select their squad to play in the African Championships.

The next stage took us South. The High Darn at Aswan is impressive, the Feluka trip on the Nile was wonderful and we visited the Valley of the Kings and the Temple at Karnak.

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Next it was the Red Sea and the fabulous reef. The high-point here was probably the team's swim with a group of dolphins, and the low point the seven hour busy journey back to Cairo. Personally, I found the trip through the Eastern desert to be most interesting and I was heartened by the information that although the Egyptians are taking a large amount of oil from the Red Sea, they have cut their production significantly so that the danger to the reef is lessened. They are relying on Tourism to compensate for the loss from oil revenue. It the tourists stay away, the major sufferer will be the environment.

We had done the antiquities trail, we had passed through the gut problems that had been so debilitating in India and now it was time to concentrate on hockey.

Alexandria's Smouha Club with 60,000 members was our next venue. We were 0-2 down at half-time but pulled back to draw at 22. It was the socialising afterwards which really made the day. We had come to meet other young hockey players and the picture of my youngsters chatting and exchanging addresses with our hosts was most gratifying. Summer arrived the following morning and the temperature soared to the mid-thirties Centigrade.

The arrival of Summer in Egypt means that Cairo, to which we now returned now has temperatures reading around Forty. The wind was hot and the smog lay thick over the city. We had three games to play. The first was against Zagazig's U21 XI. We lost but learned a valuable lesson, that the one thing we were not supposed to do was to win any games!

To meet the Egypt U18 team again, we rearranged our line-up and by half-time we were drawing 1-1. We lost in the end, but my hardworking, small and exhausted squad had fought to the end, earned a lot of respect and made our hosts think a bit. Against their national U18 squad , I think that we did well. We took away a great deal of satisfaction from our performances, but also a great deal of respect for the Egyptians as hockey players.

Our thanks to Richard Taylor of Bernhard's of Rugby who put down our own super sandfilled artificial grass pitch and who were so generous in their support of our tour, and to the three Egyptian gentlemen previously mentioned for all their time and enthusiasm. Having writ-40 -

ten to many National Hockey Federations over the last ten years of touring, it was an enormous pleasure to have one that was so supportive.

John Posnette

Boys Hockey -- 1st XI To follow the'92 and'93 teams would always be difficult. All thirteen people who had represented the 1st XI in 1993 departed and this left me trying to completely rebuild.

I thought that it would be arduous as there appeared to be a dearth of talent. The good thing was that in the captain, Tim Lavers, it turned out that we had a good leader and one who generally did not get too depressed by the result. He certainly cared, but would always keep working hard himself and encouraging others. It is easier when you're winning, but very much more difficult when things are not good. Tim's game improved enormously and he became a sound and determined tackler and sweeper. At the other end, our single striker, Michael Fox, was also improving. He had tremendous skill on the run, but always seemed to end up on the wrong side of the goal. Certainly, he gave defence a hard time, it is just a shame he did not score more.

Our first game against St Edmund's will probably go down as the worst schoolboy match I have every seen. We drew, but there was no structure to the game and we lacked determination, thought and vision.

Actually, things looked pretty bad.

We lost the next six games. That is not to say that we necessarily played badly, but it was just that the other teams were better than us.

We tried hard and improved our game, but lacked some of the basic skills of astro hockey: vision, the square ball, movement off the ball and the ability to hang on to the ball until a pass could be made. Many felt that the only thing to do was to run at the opposition and hope. This may work sometimes on grass where a wellplace bump may help the under-developed stick work, but on flat, plastic grass, we did not get through. The team was then left with too many people up and not really determined enough to get back goal side of the ball.

Still, we learned and certainly improved.

We came third in our group at the Frank Mason because we had scored one goal less than the

second placed team. We niet Grammarians, with whom we had shared the final in 1993, for the 13th/ 14th play-off. We drew with Caterham School and then Skinner's and had a final fling against King's Rochester, when many of the things that we had talked about seemed to come good.

Tim and Michael leave at the end of this year, as do our right midfield, Malta Koffke who was here for two terms from Germany and flying right wing, David Harvey. If we could have combined David's speed and determination and Malta's skills into one person, we'd have had a great player; as it was they linked quite well together and we will miss them next year.

The rest of the team was made up of four 5th formers and three L6th, which gives us a more experienced base to build on than at the start of this last season. Luckily, too, they have all been very willing to learn. The 5th formers, Toni Horton, tough in the tackle, but needs to release the ball more effectively, Mark Critchley at right defence who really must be used more in attack next year and the two midfield players, Simon West and Ben Woodcock. Simon has been an established player for some time, coming from an excellent pedigree, and was the only player with enough vision to use the square ball and Ben developed some outstanding stickwork:

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The Hockey team before the first test v Egypt's U18's

he just has to raise the work-rate a little.Tiie lower 6th players consisted of next year's captain, Graham Lloyd-Bennett in goal, David Hayman at centre back and Adam Robertson the left wing. Although we let in quite a large number of goals, we have to remember that several other people have either lost the ball or missed a tackle before it arrives at the goal.

Graham, through a great deal of practice, learned a huge amount: there is still room for better positioning and timing of a run, but he's learning. David learned quickly that a low stick and strong body positioning will stop many forwards and his play improved enormously. Adam had too little use, but made the best of what lie had and now only has to perfect his crossing.

A hard season, but the team kept its morale high and my thanks to them and especially to Tim Lavers who was a really good captain.

2nd XI hockey report Played 10 W2 D2 L6 Goals: for 10 against 27 If you looked at the results above you would think that it had not been too good a season. You would be right.

After a reasonable start (a I -1 draw against St Edmunds) things went downhill. Some players lacked motivation and commitment and for a longish period we did not look much like scoring many goals apart from the 4 which James Roberts scored - he started the season very well. We were leading at Eastbourne but later went down heavily to them also there was a pathetic performance at St Lawrence when the commitment and team spirit of many members had to be examined. After threats, warnings and soul searching the general standard was massively raised for the next match and the team showed excellent effort until the end of the season. This was largely due to the move of Martin Sands up to striker position, after the departure from the side of the previous one.

Martin Sands played extremely well and scored 4 goals in 2 matches completely restoring the team's general morale - his efforts were tireless.

Thus the matches against Manwoods (2-2), Simon Langton (2-0) Caterham (0-1) and Skinners (1-0) were played in excellent spirit and showed as high a standard of 2nd XI hockey as I have seen at Sutton Valence. It was a shame that -41 -

"we were robbed" in the last minute of the last match which was against Rochester.Chris Leggat played well, consistently and put a lot of work into his hockey, as did Matthew Hemmingway on the wing.

Team: regulars:Spencer Clark, Louis Kampanis,David Wootton, John Milsted, David Anthony, Chris Leggat, James Simmonds, James Roberts (capt), Matthew Hemingway, Martin Sands occasionals: Geoff Anderson, Adam Roberts, Rick Hodson, Neil French, Ivar Dickins, Noel Greaves, Grant Hemmingway, Piers Yea, Piers Catt.

2xd XI colours were awarded to James Roberts and Martin Sands.

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3rd XI Hockey At the start of the term it seemed possible that we would have difficulty in raising a team: no 4th XI was possible this year. As it transpired, the enormous enthusiasm of those involved meant that we were able to field a team for four matches, one of which was drawn.

In the match against Cranbrook School, with extra help from the goalkeeper and one outfield player from the 2nd XI, the general framework of the team was established and we went down by a single goal. In the match with St. Lawrence, Ramsgate we played with great purpose, scoring early on, butgoing down again when the opposition score three goals in the second half.

A single goal decided the game against Sir Roger Manwood's at Sandwich and we looked for our first win against Skinners. We were on top at first and scored a very good goal, but we eased the pressure and in the end were happy to settle for a draw. Ivar Dickens captained the team and I am grateful to him for his enthusiasm and help.

Under 13 Hockey We have enjoyed a gpod season with many individuals showing great improvement and the standard of play much better by the end of the term.

Our two best players were pushed up into the Under 14s which left us unable to cope against top class opposition, losing by large margins. Ian Fraser has been tireless in defence -42 -

and Simon Knowles has made excellent progress in goal. Neil Bennet learnt the game quickly after arriving from a school which played soccer and has been a model of good sportsmanship and endeavour. Tom Chantry scored five goals in the Seven-a-side Tournament.

The highlight of our season was our victory over DCPS. It was a pity that several games were cancelled towards the end of the season when we were playing well. Edward Sainsbury was the most improved player in the B team. The A team won 3 and lost 6 ( excluding the Tournament). The B team lost 2.

U14 Hockey 1994 This was a successful season rounded off by a fine performance in the international U14 Tournament held at Sutton Valence.

The team's six victories, against St. Edmund's, Skinners, Underhill, Chatham House, Holmwood House and King's Rochester, were based around the goal-scoring ability of Sisley and Hodson, the calm defence of the captain, Horton, at sweeper and the brave shot-stopping of Gladwin in goal. Slattery defended stoutly on the left and also showed signs of more creative ability, while Boon made considerable progress at centre back. On the wings Day and Shahrad both showed good positional sense and looked dangerous when they received the ball. All these players received colours.

Defeats were usually a result of failure to pass the ball around and use the wings (Cranbrook) or indifferent marking (Eastbourne and Caterham) . The team had gone a long way towards remedying both of these faults, however, by the time they reached the tournament.

In this, strengthened by Thomson and Posnette from the U 15 squad, the team came second, the best result ever in such a tournament by a Sutton Valence boys' team. They suffered only one defeat, at the hands of an outstanding team from Bayside School, Gibraltar, in the course of which they showed great determination in defence.

This was a very promising season which bodes well for the future of Sutton Valence hockey; both Sisley and Day are very young for the group and in Horton the team has an outstanding leader. There is also a certain amount of strength in depth; Janes' powerful shot was particularly effective at short corners, and Walker made light of his diminutive stature to

score valuable goals and show considerable skill and pace. Morrison and Jordan made excellent progress in defence, while O'Donovan and Pratten contributed well in midfield. Well played, everyone.

Ellen to blossom into a much more committed thoughtful player.

This has always been an attacking side and I cannot praise too highly the skill and the spirit of Michelle Titcombe, Katie, Amy Lovegrove, CWWW Belinda Upton, Risa Drewer and Martine Davies.

They showed great style and determination and Girls' Hockey 1993-94 produced a high scoring record.

U/ 15X1 PS W6 L 1 D 1 Michelle this term has played for the 1st XI and was entered for the U/ 18 trials. She has U/14XI P6 W4 Ll D 1 learned to be a more generous player and her stickwork is excellent. Amy who got through to U/15 Colours: M. Titcombe, K Slaughter, B the final of the U/ 16 County trials is quick and Upton, A. Lovegrove, C. Critchley indefatigable and scored goals in nearly every match. Belinda is quiet but responsible and is U/ 14Colours: J. Woods, K. Simmonds, R. Lacey, a delight to watch.

C. Shaw I expect that some of this group will make it to the 1st XI next year. All the girls in this U/ One of the activities which has given me most 15XI are capable of 1st team status. I wish them pleasure over the past few years has been coach- every success and thank them for their enthusiing the U/ 15 and U/ 14 hockey XI's. We have asm, their hard working approach and their a great many excellent hockey players in school, friendliness. I shall miss them.

The U/ 14XI season began badly. The U/ they are all enthusiastic about the game and in both age groups the teams have been successful 13 team had to be completely reorganised and there seemed at the start little hint of their over the years.

This year has been no exception and I have potential. Goal keeper position was eventually been extremely lucky in my final year at Sutton and reluctantly filled by Michelle Buckler. She Valence to find myself coaching such a reward- has a fairly casual approach which seemed to work. Emma Wills and Rebecca Duffell as backs ing group. learned when to come forward and when to Captained by Katie Slaughter the U/ 15's defend. Kelly Rees is a natural but undisciplined have had an excellent season. She herself sets games player but she showed promise in the left an excellent example in her manner and her half position once she calmed down. Katy dress and she proved to be one of the main goal Simmonds is calm and sensible in centre half scorers. Phillipa le Grys in goal had not always position and was always willing to move to a great deal to do for this was above all an whatever side was under attack. Like the U/ 15 attacking side but when required she was calm side the U/ 14XI learned that attack was the best and reliable. Elizabeth Bailey and Catherine form of defence and Rebecca Lacey, Clare Shaw, Evans as backs learned a great deal; they were Joanna Woods and Leone Keys with either Sally seldom under pressure but tended to retreat Wight or Sarah Leggat proved a successful forunder the odd attack. Catherine especially ward line.

Jo is very aggressive and learned to come forward to sweep the ball away single-minded in her determination to score decisively. Caroline Critchley at centre half was goals while Leone and Rebecca showed great a key player. Her absence through injury speed on the wings, and in Rebecca's case great showed the team how much they relied on her skill. Clare was another determined player and calm dependable manner combined with excelthey combined well to make it a successful lent stickwork. The other half position was season. filled by Christine Judd who earned her place I expect this side to do even better at U/ 15 through sheer determination and reliability while Fiona Wight and Ellen Midwood shared level; I have enjoyed watching their progress the right side. Fiona is a steady, thoughtful and I shall also miss them enormously.

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An invitation to all readers of The Suttonian from the Master in charge of Rugby

vidual tables were decorated with materials to match Holly's design. The play became a cabaret within the `Cabaret'.

Holly is presently working at A Level Art in the Fifth year, with her other subjects.

The complete mural may be seen on permanent display on the wall of the Refectory.

Do you live near enough to Sutton Valence or to one of our other venues to enable you to support us in the 1994 season? If the answer is `Yes' we would be delighted to see you. Perhaps you will Ola Irukwu L6 be kind enough to make yourself known to us when you come? Here are the dates for your The Depth of Darkness diary.

You slumber peacefully as I watch you HOME GAMES And seem content in the lap of Morpheus Warm, oblivious to the drones and undulaOld Suttonian XV 10th September tions of "The Street"......

St. Lawrence 1 5th October Chatham House 5th November The light tranquillity of the room goes undisCranbrook School 12th November turbed King's Rochester 19th November We cannot hear the wild dog that is howling Kent College 26th November inside your soul FIXTURES AWAY My wolf! Aching to bound free on snowy Sir Roger Manwood's 17th September plains and icy hills.

Dover College 24th September Reeds 1st October It's started!

Hurstpierpoint 8th October That way you suddenly twitch, vellicate, Duke of York's (Dover) 12th October shudder with passion, 24th November Emmanuel Macabre, dark, terrifyingly lone, Sir Joseph Williamson 10th December Panting, pounding past the shouting black We look forward to seeing you at one of the trees. venues.

SKS We say, "Ah, she's just dreaming THE FRONT COVER Of chasing rabbits in fields."

ILLUSTRATION FOR THE SUTTONIAN 1994 The front cover of this edition is a detail from the mural which was produced for the SVS Theatre Workshop production of `Cabaret'.

The mural is the work of Holly Elicia Browne (V) 5A who is, at the age of 15, an accomplished artist. Holly took her GCSE in Art in the 4th Year with an A Grade.

The mural covered the entire cyclorama in the theatre. It is twelve feet high and eighteen wide. It derives from Holly's study of the German Expressionist school and was inspired by some of the finest exponents of that tradition. It is generally regarded as a most successful piece of work. The entire theatre area was converted into a cabaret. Food and drinks were served. Indi-

Thus she is contained, Sweet, less scary, untoothed....

Oh but I know, You are my wolf Born free, Born wild One with the silent, timeless secret of darkness.

Your jerking intensified, Your eyes almost burst through your eyelids.

And then you wake, Sit up and look around, disgusted with reality.

And sulk away behind the sofa.

We watch the telly.

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Rugby First XV Lost: 12 Played: 14 Won: 2 Points against: 327 Points for: 44 The season was never going to be easy, but after a very good training week there was an amount of optimism that this could be a moderately successful season. Unfortunately the perennial problem of running a 1st XV with only a small squad reared its ugly head. Three key players were injured : Tim Stileman, David Harvey and Philip Kunath. Both David and Tim returned before half-term. Further injuries during the term meant it was rarely possible to play with the same centres for more than one match on the trot.

Our first game was against a very powerful Skinner's side who easily won 3-74.

Realistically we could never have beaten them but nevertheless our performance was very poor.

The only player to come out with credit was Rick Hodson, who was to prove to be an outstanding player. The side recovered well to beat Dover College 7-0 in a close and very exciting game.

Gregoire Hambourg took a quick tap penalty under the posts to put Geoff Anderson over for a try. Any sensible Captain would have kicked the penalty but not a Frenchman. We were then treated to a very tense second half spent nearly entirely in our 22. In fact, with 1 minute left their No.8 broke free and was over the line but failed to ground the ball properly. The next match proved even more exciting and was to be our last victory, but it contained our best attacking rugby of the season. The forwards and the backs gave a superb display of running rugby.

The game was full of excellent handling movements and it was a delight to see the team willing to run the ball from their own 22. Alex Winter, the No.8, scored a spectacular try from their ten yard line.

From this point on the season began to slide. We were well beaten by Hurstpierpoint and Duke of York's. It was after this game that the team appeared to have learnt the habit of losing. We should have given them a much better game. We lost to St. Lawrence in a very close match which we should have won by half -46 -

time. Their forwards took control in the second half and kept us pinned in our half, except for a few forays. In one of these James Roberts scored a very good try from a tap penalty on their 22.

The score card tells the story of the rest of the season in terms of results, but it does not reflect the manner in which the side played. No matter what the score, the words "give up" were not in their vocabulary. They tackled and fought until the final whistle. Their maturity in defence improved tremendously and they were able to cope with long periods of pressure without conceding scores. The Bob Chance Trophy was a game of two halves in which the wind dominated both teams keeping then pinned in their own halves. The King's Rochester match was a very good game and closer than the score suggested. Kent College proved to be a very physical side and if they had concentrated on the Rugby rather than on a bruising forwards battle I think they could have won by a much larger margin.

I was full of trepidation before the OS game, but my fears proved to be groundless and the match was a very exciting affair. However, one was left to ponder what might have been when two of the tries were scored by ex-pupils who could still have been at the school. Let us hope that the Sports Scholarships put an end to the sports drain! The Emanuel match proved to be a fitting end to the season. In terrible conditions both sides played some very good rugby and the result was in doubt until the final whistle. It was nice to see Gregoire Hambourg score in his last match as Captain. James Roberts also scored with a spectacular try from the halfway line after a miss kick from Mark Critchley.

The individuals: Gregoire Hambourg proved to be a very good Captain both on and off the field. He played with great courage and conviction throughout the season and once he appreciated in which area of the pitch a Flanker should play he became a much better player.

Rick Hodson was outstanding as Fullback, never faltering under the high ball, tackling superbly and taking the crash ball with real conviction.

Alex Winter was a very good No.8, who also had a great turn of pace. Both his tackling and positional play were very good. Toni Kelly

He read the game very well in attack, frequently being the first to the breakdown point. His defensive reading of the game improved as the season progressed. David Hayman was a tireless workhorse and I hope next season that we will find some way of moving him into the backrow.

Graham Lloyd-Bennett has the potential to be a very good player as long as he can learn to retain possession once he has been given the ball. His mauling is outstanding. James Roberts could have been a potent asset to the side if we had won enough ball in attack to release his speed. He was one of the best tacklers in the side. Both David Harvey and Geoff Anderson never lived up to their full potential and only on occasions did they play their best rugby. I think they both could have been effective players. For the future Mark Critchley could prove to be a very good Flyhalf. He has excellent vision and is a gifted footballer. I only hope that he will learn to tackle next season.

I would like to thank all those who helped with Rugby this season. In particular Mark Curry our guest coach with the 1st XV, whose expertise and playing knowledge proved to be a great asset. Mr. Hendry for his help with Game I and the 2nd XV. Mr. Pickard and Dr. Sabine as wise young men who were always willing to give advice to a novice. Mr. Jones for helping with the tour. Mick Dodd and the groundsmen for keeping Stoney in such good condition.

The following represented the School: Rick Hodson*, James Roberts +, Tim Stileman, Geoff Anderson +, Chris Leggat, David Harvey+, Mark Critchley, Alex Winter*, Toni Kelly, Gregoire Hambourg*, Rory Slater+, Piers Yea, Graham Lloyd-Bennett, David Hayman, Noel Greaves, Neil French, Louis Katnpanis, Will Slater,Johnny Tse, Philip Kunath, Ben Woodcock, Greg Clifford, Ben Hodgson * Full colours + Half colours

Results Skinner's (a) Dover College(h) Sir Roger Manwood's(h) Hurstpierpoint College(h) Duke of York's School(h)

3-74 L 7-0 W 13-8 W 0-60L 0-28 L

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Giggfeswick (Tour match) (a) 0-221, Scarborough College(a) Chatham House(a) 0-29 1, Cranbrook (Bob Chance Trophy) (a) 0-10 1, King's, Rochester(a) 0-35 L Kent College(a) 6-36 L O. S. (Palmer Cup) (h) 0-17 L 10-17 L Emanuel (Abbot cup) (h)

House Matches Due to the decrease in the number of pupils in the Senior Houses it was not possible for any of them to compete for the Senior House Trophy. It was therefore reluctantly decided to have a Boarders v Day Boys match instead. This proved to be great success with the boys and was won by the Boarders. It was nice to see the Junior House Match Final being contested between the day houses with Founders winning the trophy. The Senior House Sevens was won by Westminster and the Junior House Sevens also by Westminster in a very thrilling Final against Lambes.

Tour 1993 The tour was to the exotic North of England. This may not sound very exciting but the team was looking forward to the tour with great excitement. The tour ties had been purchased and were a lovely maroon colour with a white frog emblem. The whole side looked very smart and a pre-tour photo was taken with only David Hayman without his tour tie. After a delightful journey up the Al and a scenic drive across the Yorkshire Moors we arrived at Giggleswick. We were very well looked after by our hosts and it was decided after seeing their Sixth Form Centre that a similar structure should be purchased for Sutton Valence.

The team were apprehensive before the match against Giggleswick, but so were the opposition. The first half was therefore a nervous, but evenly contested, affair. Giggleswick, after an early try , looked as though they were going to take control but a little coaching from the side by Mr Jones sorted out the marking by the three-quarters. Unfortunately with less than a minute to go in the first half Giggleswick scored a second try to go 12-0 up. This appeared to finish the contest. In the second half the -47-

opposition took control and went on to win easily 34-0; not that our team gave up. In the evening we went to one of the local pubs and on the journey I was introduced to a little of the famous Yorkshire hospitality and their own particular vocabulary when I forgot to dip my headlights.

The next day we moved onto York Youth Hostel. We stayed one night at the hostel before moving onto Scarborough. During our stay we went for a very enjoyable meal at an Italian restaurant where the wine and beer flowed freely with the pasta and pizzas. We arrived at Scarborough and enjoyed a nice afternoon in the town.

The match against Scarborough College was a very tense game with only 3 points separating the sides till the last ten minutes. The match could have gone either way. Unfortunately for us they scored an interception try after we had applied most of the pressure in the second half. They then went on to score two soft tries to run out as 22-0 winners.

Even though we lost both games, the tour was enjoyed by all. However, my lasting memory of the tour will not be from the rugby pitch but will be of Graham Lloyd-Bennett, our 16 stone prop, helping an old lady with 6 bags of shopping up a steep hill at Scarborough seafront. I think that says a lot for an education at Sutton Valence.

SKS

2nd XV Rugby 1993 Lost: 10 Played: 10 Won: 0 Points against 403 Points for: 19 It is never the lot of a Second XV to have the most stable of sides. Injuries and illness in the 1st XV inevitably draw on the resources of the Second XV as do its own injury problems, leaving the side that appears on a Saturday seldom to resemble the one envisaged on Tuesday and Thursday.

This is certainly true of the 1993 side which was never the same two Saturdays running.

This season was also a period of transition with several untried VIth Form players,a number of newcomers from foreign parts and many Vth Form players who show great promise yet lack experience. There was a willingness to work and play in training and certainly much progress sm

was made - sadly not reflected in results! Games were played with a unique combination of determination and lethargy with often the only difference between S.V.S and the opposition being our prodigious and now almost legendary unwillingness to make the determining tackle.

The old cliche "games of two halves" often sprang to mind as we lost try after try in the first half and would then turn around to play competent and respectable rugby in the second. Or vice versa. It was a disappointing and frustrating season for all concerned - players, coaches and parents alike - as we knew the ability to be there, saw the occasional flash of talent and sometimes even admired the team-work.

My thanks go to Mark Wood for his unstinting help and support in the face of biting winds, to M.D.W. for his refereeing and, most of all, to the Second XV squad who never lost their will to play rugby nor their sense of humour.

Numbers will come their way.

ISH Players: Woodcock, Lazarevic, Foet, Clarke, Tse, Clifford, Hemingway M. & G., Cavill, Catt, French, Kutschmann, Copland, Elliott, Antony (Capt.) Dickins, Evans, Wootton D., Kampanis, Slater, Milsted, Field and Griffin.

Results: Skinner's A 0-84 L H Dover College 5-26 L Sir Roger Manwood's H 0-26 L Hurstpierpoint College H 6-27 L Duke of York's School H 0-65 L St. Lawrence College A 3-40 L Chatham House A 0-31 L Cranbrook A 0-39 L King's, Rochester A 0-48 L St. Augustine's 1st XV A 5-17 L

Rugby Report 3rd XV P8 W2 DO L6 F61 A277 Another year where our 3rd team standard, players came up across U16 squads or bigger 6th Form players, did not help the moral of the A disastrous beginning, nevertheless team.

turned around, to some fighting defeats with a consistently courageous and technically corcouple of well earned victories. Tackling as rect; ' without him losing margins would have usual was the main point on which games been far greater. Sisley also played well at flyhinged; several heavy defeats could have been half; both his running and his tackling were restricted and some matches won, if the convic- hard and direct and he scored a good many of tion of our players that `the harder they tackle our tries. He also led the team well under the less it will hurt me' syndrome could be put difficult circumstances. Johnson was the other in place. The Pack played well throughout the outstanding player; he continued to show great season and by the middle the backs were giving promise as a back-row forward who is almost good support. The team was well led by James always up with the play.

BENSON and in the Pack, Jeremy FIELD and Tini Amongst the younger players Knowles FIELD, Tom KELLY and David ANTHONY did and Richardson showed promise in the forwards well. Several players were lost to other teams while Fraser showed pace and determination in because of injury. The threequarters had a fair the centre. season with Kyle HENDERSON being aggressive Edmundson lacked technique in the set as ever and Clive HARRIS and Scott BAKER scrum but produced some good support play i joining late to assist the attacking flair. LEGGAT the loose, especially against the Duke of York'-. at fullback played well in most matches and was Day and Parrett were very effective at times bti t the busiest player on the field. Overall a fair lacked a little in consistency while Colgan at season for what we had. scrum-half provided excellent service for Sislev but needs to show a little more determination and ability to read the game. In the centre Lost 0 - 104 RESULTS: Skinners Shepherd, though a little lacking in pace and Dover College Won 35 - 0 size, learned to time his passing very effectively Hierstpierpoint Lost 0 - 15 and showedgreat enthusiasm. Cleghorn hooked Duke of York's Lost 0 - 65 well while Applin, Iles and Walker all showed Lost 0 - 42 Cranbrook Valuable contributions were also promise. make by Chantry and Parr in the backs and, in King's, Rochester Lost 5 - 27 the forwards by Baillie and, especially, Santo Won 21 - 0 Kent College who, though small for a lock forward, achieved Lost 0 - 24 Caterham a great deal thanks to his newly formed enthuDebens looked very siasm for the game.

SQUAD: Leggat, Imberg, Opanubi, promising but was dogged by injury. Abbott, Hemingway, Harris, Baker, French, Field T., Stiff, Patel and Coveney also made appearances Benson, Field J., Dickins, Griffin, Yea, Kelly, for the side.

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U13 XV RUGBY Played: 5 Won: 0 Lost: 5 Points for: 30 Points against: 210 After a promising performance against Chatham House (three of Chatham House's four tries were scored by one large boy) the team did not quite develop as one might have hoped. Too many of the senior players failed to show quite the spirit which they had shown in 1992 and far too few players failed to tackle not only opponents who were larger than themselves but also smaller players.

There were, nevertheless, some honourable exceptions to this rather sad trend, most notably Holmes at full-back. His tackling was

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Sutton Valence- 1993 Under 14 XV Played 11

Won 7

Points For 205

Lost 4

Points Against 105

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The under fourteen team have had a good season. The first match against Skinner's is always a difficult one when trying to mould together a new team against one which has already played together for two seasons. Possession was difficult to gain and some strong running centres exposed our weak defence in the middle of the field. However the team learnt much from this encounter and remained very competitive throughout its remaining matches. We lost also to Hurstpierpoint College whose forwards were the only other side to gain the upper hand, exposing our weakness in driving rucks and defending against close running supporting forwards. St Lawrence college had some large, fast threequarters whom we contained well for most of the match but who eventually managed a couple of breakaway scores and similarly Duke of York's had one large centre who broke through.

Our successes in the remaining matches were largely built around the forward pack who mauled superbly and who supported each other when the movement stopped. They all handled the ball well and could pick up the scrappy ball on the floor and turn it into quality ball for our team. The line out was a fruitful source of possession where we were often outsized but won ball by intelligent body positioning and jumping in front of the opponent. The scrum was less good; ball was won by forward momentum rather than a clean strike and at times we failed to halt the forward movement in line with the requirements of the laws at this level! The three-quarter line were all quick but showed little real penetration and we relied too heavily on one or two players running around opposition rather than trying to outwit them, this will be a less successful tactic as the team moves up through the school. We did suffer from injury problems in the centres which did not help continuity but all their handling skills must improve. At scrumhalf M.Wooderson was a lively link who kept everyone aware of the possibilities available.

M.Slattery captained the side well from No. 8; he is a very capable player with fine allround skills who breaks down defences well and provides immediate support. This was also G.Horton's major asset, he was always in the right spot to continue a passage of play which had broken down. Amongst the other forwards M.Groom must be commended for his lineout -50 -

work and P.Posnette for his tackling. W. Hodson scored many points for the side with both his running in of tries and his kicking but must learn to use all his fellow backs more often.

S.Machale and B.Shahrad both showed potential as centres despite their limited stature but never both played in the same team.

The team and I were very grateful for the coaching help given by Mr. Stuart Smith throughout the season.

The following represented the team; K.Boon.* R.Williams, T.Janes. D.Stiff,* M.Groom,* P.Posnette,* M.Slattery,* G.Horton,* M.Wooderson, S.Harris, S.MacHale, B.Shahrad, J.Hau, T.Jordan, W.Hodson,* A. O'Donovan, P.Brown, M.Walker, S.Collins, A.McNaughton, J.Bourne.

RESULTS: Skinners (h) 0-41 L Dover College (a) 54-0 W Sir Roger Manwoods (a) 32-0 W Hurstpierpoint College (a) 0-33 W Duke Of Yorks (a) 3-12 L St. Lawrence (h) 3-19 L Chatham House (h) 10-0 W Cranbrook (h) 13-0 W Kings Rochester (h) 31-0 W Kent College (h) 12-0 W Chatham Grammar (h) 47-0 W

Rugby U 15XV - 1993 Played: 12 Won : 3 Lost : 9 Points : For 67; Against 302 A season which has had as many losses as this can hardly be called successful. However, there was much to enthuse about. We were particularly happy with the willingness to learn and with the happy spirit of the squad. We were delighted that they should finish on a high note, winning their last match with (probably) their finest display. Our loyal band of knowledgeable supporters testified to the large measure of progress made through the season by the players in skill and understanding of the game.

5 points for a try usually means that margins of victory or defeat are bigger than before, but there is no hiding the fact that we were overwhelmed by a very good Skinner's side. The Dover game was close fought until a couple of

break-away tries put their score beyond reach.

We were well controlled in a tight match against Sir Roger Manwoods, where it was our good fortune to escape good defence a couple of times to snatch the win. We were never in the games against Hurstpierpoint or The Duke of York's except that we did manage to play well for a half in each case - keeping the points differential to very low figures. Unfortunately we could not sustain the effort for a full match. We were fit enough but not really able to concentrate enough or follow, with a cool head, the plan, when pressure mounted. After half term we lost a string of matches, but all narrowly, once we had disposed of St. Lawrence. Here, we did manage to play well for a full game, and we needed to, for they fought back strongly in the second half, urged on by loud and persistent cries from the touch-line. The improvement was beginning to be seen, now and we were genuinely disappointed to lose matches where we had contributed much of the skill ,enthusiasm and determination.

Chatham House, and a weakened Cranbrook were never going to be easy to beat, and the new fixture against Maidstone Grammar could have gone either way. Despite these set-backs the side was clearly not going to give up until they had played the last match. They troubled King's Rochester and might have won, found St. Augustine's too strong, but geared themselves up for a grandstand finish in front of their loyal supporters. Funnily enough, in this match they lost some of their quality in being able to retain possession of a won ball but the nature of their support play was so strong that they always seemed to take the ball through the gain line and the strong running backs were unlucky not to score 3 or 4 more tries. The defence, not strong enough in earlier matches, came to the fore in this game. Losing possession meant that we needed to prevent the opposition from using their ownership of the ball and good tackling (with superb support) ensured that we hardly ever looked in danger of conceding a try.

If they can begin next season in the way they finished this one....

The following represented the team.

Debney, Saunders, Bunyan, Livingstone, O}nu, Standing, Walshaw, Sabine, Reynolds, Homewood, Cook, Ferris*, Harrison, Goddard, Harper, Shahrad, Byrnes, Jones, Murphy, Thomson, Kelly* (Captain) . *U15 colours

Results: Skinners' (a) 0 Dover College (a) 10 Sir Roger Manwood's (h) 12 Hurstpierpoint College (a) 0 Duke of York's School (a) 0 St. Lawrence College (h) 12 Chatham House Grammar (h)8 Cranbrook School (h) 0 Maidstone Grammar (h) 5 King's School, Rochester (a) 0 St. Augustine's School (h) 0 Chatham Grammar School (h)20

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Netball Encouraged by last seasons successes the teams combined their experience and enthusiasm to achieve even better results.

The First VII under the captaincy of Tara Hannaway played an impressive season's netball. There were two additions to the side: Madeleine Gear (WD) who, after a nervous start worked hard throughout the season and Laura Harris who had played for the seconds for a season came as WA and her terrier-like qualities were an asset. Clare Wilkinson (GS) and Rebecca Gear (GA) played consistently throughout the season and attained good shooting averages.

The goal defences Elizabeth Harrison and Phillipa Worsfold kept up constant pressure in the circle and worked very well together.

The current season began encouragingly with an easy win over Dover College (19-11), followed by a hard fought match against Sevenoaks. Everyone played to their full potential with a resulting win of 20-19. Against St Edmunds we won 31-8.

Our only loss of the season was to Kent College, Canterbury who still have two Kent players in their midst. The result was 32-24.

The next fixture was King's Canterbury and despite an erratic start, play calmed down and resulted in a win by 3 goals: 23-20.

The team excelled themselves against Cranbrook with fine displays of netball and song quite convincingly by 17 goals to 13.

The final; game of the season was against St. Lawrence, Ramsgate which ended in a draw.

The second VII had an equal number of wins and losses, losing five and winning five.

Overall the team played well and we saw some outstanding interceptions and good defensive play by Georgina Pares who has improved greatly this season. We would all like to thank Margaret Jones for her help and particularly for umpiring. In the Under 15s, the results were not impressive, even though the side contained plenty of promising players. We just could not score goals: Won - 3. Lost - 7. The Under 14s enjoyed better success. They won four matches, lost one and drew one. This promises to be a very good team.

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Netball U14 P9 W3 L5 D1 This is a side with great potential and should have had a successful season. The 23-3 win over Dover College was encouraging but somehow in the next matches the seven players never really managed to combine well as a team. To be fair there were problems; the captain, Michelle Titcombe, an energetically skilful player and an excellent shooter was injured early on and missed most of the season. Netball is essentially a team game and set passes and team tactics all had to be changed as Katie Slaughter took over both the captaincy and the new position of Goal Attack and the reserve moved into Wing Attack. The Goal Attack was also changed three times. Hannah Taylor and Martine Davies both shoot accurately in practice but are less reliable in matches so in the end the U 13 shooter, Katie Simmonds, was brought in.

Only in the final match a 17-9 win over St. Lawrence did the team seem to show their earlier promise. Caroline Critchley is now a much more aggressive player and she works well with Elizabeth Bailey who has learned to hold the ball before passing and is now less prone to silly errors. Belinda Upton and Fiona Wight are determined reliable players who always give of their best.

Results Dover College W 23- 3 Cranbrook L 29- 6 King's Canterbury 19-20 L Kent College L 21- 2 Sevenoaks D 19-19 Tonbridge G.G.S. W 13-11 St. Edmund's L 10-15 St Lawrence W 17- 9 Benenden L 19-24 TEAM: Hannah Taylor, Martine Davies, Katie Slaughter, Michelle Titcombe, Victoria Day, Belinda Upton, Fiona Wight, Caroline Critchley, Elizabeth Bailey Colours: Katie Slaughter, Michelle Titcombe.

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PRIZES ON SPEECH DAY 1994 Form Prizes Form I

Year Prize for academic excellence: Junior Chapel Reading Prize:

S.G. Knowles S.G. Knowles

W. Richardson

Form II

Year Prize for academic excellence: Junior Current Affairs Prize: Junior Art Prize: Junior Reading Prize: Achievement Prizes: Effort Prizes:

A.E. Blest A.E. Blest R.H. Hukins S.K. Wyatt T.J. Debens C. Best K.L. Johnston J.E. Parrett

C.A.C. Santo

Year Prizes for academic excellence: Lower School Music Prize Junior Religious Studies Prize: Effort Prizes:

T.G. Jordan E.R. Doorey J.M. Woods K. Boon M.D. Groom B. Shahrad

J.M. Woods

Year Prize for academic excellence: Middle School Music Prize: Middle School Current Affairs Prize: Intermediate Reading Prize: Achievement Prize: Effort Prizes:

A. Mansfield E.C. Bailey R. Byrnes A. Mansfield D.J. Willdridge E.C. Bailey K.E. Evans J.C. Reynolds A.B. Wingham

A.G. Long F.A. Wight

Year Prizes for accademic excellence: Joyce Drayson Art Prize: GCSE Art Prize (baler Rowney): James Poole Prize (English): The Coles Prize: Effort Prizes:

H.E. BrownT.E. Wild J. Tse O.C. Piper H.E. Browne M J. Gear M.J. Gear C.N. Dearing S.M. Leadbetter F.I. I.viHc F.11. }'irlJ

Form III

Form IV

Form V

S.M.N. Wild S.M.N. Wild R.H. Hukins L.C.A. Nesfield S.K. Wyatt

J.L. de Trute K.D. Loft S.A. Watson

C.L. Critchley J. Nimmo K.L. Slaughter

Lo\vEE; SIXTI I ['RI/LS Bossom Prize (Chapel Reading): German: Biology: Mathematics:

J.O. Adana P. Barton K.L. Woods H.Y.A. Lee - 53 -

Home Economics: Economics: Chemistry: Physics: Design and Technology: History: English: French: Music: OSA Prize: Effort Prizes:

G.L. Pares P.E. Rubie A. Ruboczki Y.C.K. Lee J.W. Evans E J. Harrison E.J. Harrison E.J. Harrison E.J. Harrison E.J. Harrison K.L. Woods E.T. Daddow A.S. Duffell R.P. Sankey

C.S. Day Y.C.K. Lee J.W. Evans R.P. Sankey M.J. Sands

D.T.S. Hayman

SIXTH FORM PRIZES Effort Prizes:

K. Fischerova M.D. Hemingway S.C. West

Bloxham Prize (English) Home Economics Geography Prize Angell Prize (Maths) Biology Prize: Winstanley Prize (Chemistry) Wood Prize (Physics) Geography Project Prize Derrick Prize (English Verse Speaking) German Prize Economics Prize Shell Prize (Practical Science) Music Prize Garside Prize (History) MacDonald Prize (Current Affairs) Daler Rowney Art Prize Kitchener Prize (Maths) Design Prize Edward Craven Memorial Prize

R.E. Bourne A. Sabine S.C. West S.W.M. Wo S.D. Ellis T.P. Griffin T.F. Griffin R.E. Gear R.E. Gear K. Fischerova K. Fischerova P. Hartmanova D. Penfold D. Penfold D. Penfold Y.T.A. Lau Y.T.A. Lau Y.T.A. Lau R.E. Gear D.J. Harvey

Richard Horn Prize (Outstanding all round Performance in School Music or Drama) D. Penfold D. Penfold Clothworkers' Prize A. Winter Ricketts' Prize D.J. Harvey Headmaster's Prize J.P. Roberts

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P. Hartmanova H.Y.A. Lau

R.N. Slater

W.J. Slater P. Hartmanova

T.N. Hannaway

Y.T.A. Lau R.N. Slater K.A. Moon R.E. Bourne

House Reports St. Margaret's

Valence

St. Margaret's is now the smallest senior house in the school. It is also a caring community in which everyone has to undertake extra duties and responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of the house. We have enjoyed a successful year under the effective leadership of Alex Winter. We joined forces with our traditional rivals, Westminster, to rout the Day Boys at Rugby. Boys from our House make a major contribution to activities like School Drama and Chapel: individuals are always involved in every sporting activity.

Andrew Duffel! L6

The year began with the appointment of Ruth Bourne as Head of School and the arrival of the first male tutor of Valence: Dr. Ian Gray. A very successful tutor at that.

The Girls First XI Hockey team all came from our house and were brilliantly captained

by Rebecca Gear. Emily Ward gave outstanding performances in Woyzeck, Ross L.Shaw and Cabaret. Adella Brooks won the School Speaking Competition. On Remembrance Day Victoria Phillips was the first girl to carry the School Colours in Chapel.

The Valence House Sixth Form held a surprise dinner on the 14th May 1994 to say a fond farewell to our Housemistress, Mrs Stella Haywood who is leaving at the end of the academic year after ten years as Housemistress and Head of Girls'Games. We would all like to wish her good luck in the future.

Susan West U6

Lambe's The Autumn term began warily, with many unaccustomed to the prospect of hard work that lay before them. Since then, the physical and mental exertion has been surprisingly excellent.

Lambe's house teams have played to the best of their ability. James Evans and Neil French are good prospects for the Cross Country.

Academic standards have remained high.

Rowdiness has been kept to a minimum by Messrs Jones, Stanley and Dunn. Marie has been exceptionally helpful to us as our house cleaner.

Lambe's initiated the snowball fight on BM when a huge amount of fun was had by all.

Neil French L6

Founder's Despite Founder's legendary ineptitude in inter-house games, there has been something of a revolution: we won the Fives and the Junior Rugby! Our academic record was outstanding in GCSE and A Level.

Members of the House have made a tremendous impact in Drama; special mention must be made of Alex Mansfield as the Emm Cee in Cabaret and Cyrus Shahrad who was voted `Best Actor' in inter-house Drama by the Head of Voice at The Central School of Drama. Both have appeared in three school productions this year.

Noel Greaves L6

Cornwallis The house raised ÂŁ90 for Children in Need by the simple device of collecting at Chapel in the weekday mornings. Everyone was very generous.

Everyone in the House took part in the JUAM Play with an outstanding performance from Sarah Wyatt and some good designs from those who worked under the supervision of the great SVS designer Alex Lau! About 150 people came to the single performance which was most enjoyable.

The second year girls visited the Brake Brothers Lenham Depot. They saw raw materials go in the factory and come out as processed food ready to go to the shops.

The Cornwallis House year has been happy and successful.

Anna Blest 2A

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Christy Best at her baptism in School Chapel

Holdgate/Bennett We have had an active year. Mr. Bell arrived as House Tutor. We raised over a thousand pounds for the NSPCC in the sponsored walk. We took part in the successful production of Peer Gynt.

We were at the forefront of school sport despite the age of our members.

We all want to thank the cleaners for their generous contributions to the House charity efforts. Thanks also to all the house staff for looking after us.

Umang Patel 2A

Westminster As a Hungarian visitor to this country, I can say that Westminster, under the guidance of Mr. Parkinson and Rory Slater, is a lot better organised than its namesake in London. Everyone makes a daily, compulsory, contribution to running the House. Though our residents are too busy to stop to think about things that matter, the rush system keeps us fairly safe within the school.

Discipline is not expected for individuals but for the benefit of the House - to be better than the other houses! However, we have the most independent characters in the school, including a couple who miss breakfast from time to time, just to show that they don't care!

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moral and mental progress. Westminster is in the process of eliminating students' mutual hypocrisy in favour of unconditional honesty.

Attila Rubocki L6

Sutton I arrived slightly late on the 7th September and was struck by the silence and the fact that the school was so big. I walked into Sutton and saw the blue rug with the emblem on it and a neat row of shoes. I thought; "Yikes! They've brought me to a convent."

Bells kept going off and I did not know whether I was coming or going. But the girls were very helpful and after getting lost every five minutes, gradually began to find my way around.

Since then many worthwhile things have happened and all the members of the house have played a full part in the School, especially the Kit Kat Klub girls in Cabaret.

In the rain and sleet, sever members of the CCF with imitation rifles (hockey sticks) practised day in and day out for the Drill Competition.

They were led by Elisabeth Pope. Despite the catcalls of the opponents they kept going. Eventually their dedication paid off. Sutton came first in the CCF Drill Competition, much to the shock and horror of Westminster and to Major Parkinson's dismay.

Ola Irukwu L6

Confirmation Administered in the Chapel of Saint Peter Sutton Valence School by The Right Reverend David Say KCVO, DD on Sunday 1st May Anno Salutis 1994 The following were Confirmed by the laying on of hands and the annointing with oil of chrism, and received their first Holy Communion: James Abbott Christy Best Philip Brown James Edmundson Sally Wight

Elisabeth Bailey Catherine Bond Holly Browne Jane Wallis Mathew Woodersoti Bishop David Say and the I leadniaster after the Contirmation

GIRLS' SWIMMING REPORT 1993 Our first match was two weeks into the term against King's Canterbury. Help!

We had a lot of training to do and so little time.

King's Canterbury were verygood having trained all through the winter and, due to this, they won.

If you looked at the point score it looked as if we lost drastically but in the actual races we were not that far behind; personally, I'd blame the diving blocks!

Our next training session consisted of a postmatch session where we practiced dives, underwent "vigorous" training sessions and some of us even braved the early morning, 7.15 swinll I am glad to say it paid off in the end.

Our next match - St. Lawrence, I'm afraid was a repeat performance of King's Canterbury, but we still came very close in the races; we were just pipped at the post.

Following St. Lawrence was Cranbrook, a good match despite the rain, it must have been the weather!

Our last match - King's Rochester. From inside information our chances of winning a match were quite high. The day came and it was a thoroughly enjoyed match; we won with most of us coming first and second in our races.

This was, overall, a fair season despite the up's

and down's.

Thanks to WKF and SKS for their time and encouragement during the season.

TEAM: A. Pocock (Captain), A. Sabine, J. Mitson, A. Rhodes, V. Philips, R. Bourne, K. Fischerova, S. Winter, C. Pocock, C. Dearing, K. Frost, E. Bailey, J. Leggat, M. Durling Anna Sabine L6

ATHLETICS REPORT -- 1993 The end of ten years since I first came to Sutton Valence and the end of the school being at the top of the athletics tree, at least for a couple of years.

The Bickleys, the Congdons, the Sam Amoyes and now the Sowetnimo-Cokers, not to mention all the others who have not, luckily or unluckily, been here with athletic brothers. To give a list of those that have served the school so very well over these ten years, would be running the risk of leaving somebody out. This last year has seen the fixture list shrink a little, not because of a conscious move, but more because we have had a number of clashes of dates, which could not be resolved. However, we have still managed to compete against quite a number of schools and have, as such, been very successful.

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good Intermediates have competed at the older level, so weakening their own age group. This has been particularly true this year with Soti Sowemimo-Coker, Graham Lloyd-Bennett, B.J. Adu Bobie and Anthony Bell all moving up to Senior level.

Normally, I would have hoped that these superb 5th formers would have moved on into the 6th, so maintaining a strong core to the Seniors. Only Graham remains and so the problem can easily be imagined. The squad members also reduced from 50+ in 1992 to about 30 in 1993. At least the throws will be well represented by Graham, who this year set a new Intermediate school record with the shot, of 14.76, won the Independent Schools Championships U 17 Shot and will represent Kent at the English Schools in Blackpool.

We won the Duke of York's Cup for the seventh time in a row on a very exciting afternoon of athletics. We were lying last at one point behind a particularly strong team from King's, Canterbury, Duke of York and St. Lawrence. However, some super running by Jon Holroyd, doing the "Chance treble" (800, 2000 s/c, 1500) and finally winning the Kent Messenger Cup in the A1500, Soti in the 100 and 110 Hurdles, Anthony Bell in the 400 and 800 and 1000, Steve Walsh in the 100 and 200, (Steve. set two new school records of 10.9 in 100 and 22.3 in 200), saw us pulling back on the others. By the time the Javelin (Miles McLeod) and Shot (Nick Hodgson and Graham) had been added, we were 10 points ahead by the final relay. We won this and retained the trophy.

The relay team also won the Independent Schools Championships 4x100 final, to complete the days of athletics at Copthall Stadium, which saw all the top athletes reaching their final.

This is not to say that we have nobody left.

There are those that will be working very hard to try to keep us competing at the top. The throws look good with Ben Hodgson, Peter Kutschmann, Johnny Tse and Louis Kampanis.

We also have Greg Clifford and Alex Agar on the track. All of these are entering the 5th Form, and we have Tim Stileman, who is much improved over 400 and even steeplechase, but that's not many. There are some good Juniors (particularly James Ferris and Walshaw, Mitchel Onu and Harley Homewood) who will, I hope, join these in a couple of years time, and we will again

be quite strong, but that really is in the unplannable future. For next year, we'll just keep working hard and hoping for the best.

My great thanks to Stephen Walsh who has captained the club superbly and led by example : And to Mike Jillians and Don Clarke, Mark Wood and John McCormick for their time, help and patience.

School defeated at one level or another: Sevenoaks Cranbrook King's Rochester St. Edmunds King's Canterbury Seaford College St. Lawrence Dover College Worth Duke of York's Felsted Mill Hill Senior Inter House and Relays.

Lambe's Junior Inter House Holdgate/Bennett North team.

Represented Maidstone District at Kent School and set New School Records: Jon Holroyd Stephen Walsh U20: 100=10.9 200 = 22.3 Graham Lloyd-Bennett U 17 Shot = 14.76 Anthony Bell U17 800=2.03.6 Soti Sowemimo-Coker U 17 100 Hurdles = 14.4 Graham invited to English School Squad: Stephen Walsh (Capt.), Jon Holroyd, Soti Sowemimo-Coker, Graham Lloyd-Bennett, Ben Adu Bobie, Miles McLeod, Tim Stileman, Nick Hodgson, Bola Abudu, Owen Bellerby-Brown, James Ryan, Greg Clifford, Alex Agar, Johnny Tse, Louis Kamparnis, Peter Kutschmann, Ben Hodgson, Neil French, Ben Woodcock, Mark Critchley, Jatnes Ferris, Harley Homewood, James Walshaw, James Reynolds, James Sumner, Mitchel Onu, Peter Posnette, John Posnette.

BASKETBALL YEAR 11 League 1993-1994 [11 Maidstone G.S. [2] Holmesdale [3] Mailing [4] Oakwood Park [5] Astor of Hever [6] Swadelands [7] Aylesford [8] Mapleston Noakes

Lost 38-78 Won 52-30 Won 45-25 Won 59-34 Won 66-33 Won 52-40 Won 67-35 Won 63-47

[9] Wrotham [10] Cornwallis

Won 43-39 Won 55-44

SCORERS: J. Tse, 189; I. Lazarevic 182; L. Kampanis 56; P. Kutschmann 39; M. Koffka 38; G. Chan 18; J. Wong 8; J-P. France 6; C. Chiwan 4, M. Babayev 0.

Summary: Played 10 games. Won 9. Lost 1.

Points for 540, against 405.

After losing by forty points to Maidstone G.S. in the season opener it looked as if it was going to be a long season, but the S.V.S. side quickly turned things around by winning the next four consecutive matches with an average of 25 points. After the Christmas break the boys played their first home match versus Swadelands in from of a very supportive audience. It was an exciting game to watch as our boys were only leading by 2 points at the half-time. They got it together in the second half and managed to pull ahead to win by 12 points. After sailing past Aylesford and Maplesden Noakes with 32 and 16 point consecutively the S.V.S. boys lost a bit of wind defeating a strong and tall Wrotham side by just 4 points, the closest match of the season. Captain Johnny Tse was instrumental in all games proving to be an excellent team leader as well as topping all scorers with 189 points.

With his intensity and desire to win Ivan Lazarevic demonstrated that he deserved his junior colours by scoring 182 points, his best score being 29 versus Oakwood Park. The experience of Louis Kampanis and Peter Kutschmann was essential to the team's success.

Both players helped in scoring, rebounding and good team play. There were also many newcomers to the team this year all of whom showed great improvement in their ability as well as their confidence.

CL Congratulations to our Basketball coach, Mrs. Chrissy Lewis, for the birth of Kate.

PH

FIVES As at a number of schools, fives at Sutton Valence survives only somewhat precariously. Again this season there were barely a couple of dozen boys playing the game as their main Lent term sport but from them we were able to put out a 1st

1V that won all six of the matches they played, an occasional 2nd/Under 16 IV and two Under 15 IVs. Sadly there were no Under 14s playing the game this year.

Three of last season's 1st IV - Rory Slater (W), James Richardson (F) and Elton Daddow (F) - were still with us this year and although, on paper, there should have been fierce competition for the fourth place between Shaw Cavill (L) and Alex Winter (M), the latter's greater commitment and determination at the beginning of the season made him the obvious choice in the end. Nevertheless it was comforting to know that there was a very competent substitute available should the need ever have arisen for one and I have no doubt that Shaw will make a very useful contribution to the next season's 1st 1V in his final year in school. We are lucky that James and Elton will also be back again next year but, unlike this year, there are at the moment no obvious candidates for the number four spot and a bit of pre-season scouting and training in the Michaelmas terns will have to be done if we are to get off to a good start next January.

It was very encouraging to have virtually half of this year's squad in the Under 15 group; it meant that there was real competition for team places and we were lucky to find in Eastbourne College opponents who were also able to put out two teams at that level, thus enabling most of the squad to have at least one match.

Only two of our players had played the game competitively before this season so there was, and still is, a lot of catching up to be done. There are plenty of opportunities for this in the Sunimer and Michaelmas terms.

Without a replacement for Mike Sinclair, whose help in the courts, bringing on young players and teasing the older ones with his rather unconventional but very effective style of play, I had come to rely on, I was very lucky to have in Rory Slater such a good captain this year.

His commitment to the success of the game - not just of his own team - was a great boon and I am very grateful to him for all that he did to help me.

Although individually none of this year's 1st IV was outstanding, they were a very effective unit, each supporting and encouraging his partner when under pressure and it seemed obvious to me that, if any one of them deserved full colours, then they all did. I am glad to report that four full colours were awarded.

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In the internal competitions Founder's with significantly greater depth at the top than any of the other Houses won the inter-House competition, Rory Slater won the Open singles, Robert Miller (F) won the Under 16 singles and Andrew Kelly (L) won the Under 15 singles.

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GIGI: CHARACTER STUDY This character study was prepared for a theatre workshop conducted by Luke Dixon and associated with the production of Cabaret.

Gigi is one of the `Girls' in the Kit Kat Klub I sometimes long for the life I used to have at home in La Belle France. I'd throw wild parties, only invite the most intelligent men and toy with them one by one. I am the original femme fatale. You couldn't possibly mistake me for an Anglo-Saxon. I'm French from my hat to my...well, you know.

I enjoy French and German literature the latter less than the former because it is so methodical and restrained rather than flamboyant and sensual. My idol is a fictional character, though my life is far from hers. She is Zinaida a creation of Ivan Turgenev whose father once said: "Beware of the love of women; beware of that ecstasy, that slow poison". That's it. Men

never learn, do they? I only got this singing and dancing job after seducing the manager. I can't sing and I can't dance.. .who needs to?

I ended up at the Kit Kat Klub after leaving the university of Paris. Despite my extraordinary qualifications there was no suitable work in Paris. Berlin is worse. But I like the Klub. I know that I'm the classiest woman here. I never drink - except pink champagne. I never sleep with men who read trash. I have my standards.

My key word is HAUGHTY. I am invariably quite disdainful. You probably think that a failing. I don't. I admitted it, at least, and even love myself for it. The word `haughty' is derived from the French for `high'. I may be small in stature but believe me I'm way above all the people I've ever met - in intelligence, that is. I am, for example, above that Master of Ceremonies who sickens me with his perpetual smut.

Most women would agree with me.

Life is an experiment. The Kit Kat Klub is an experiment. I imagine that you think that I'm just the haughty ultra-intellectual Parisian girl but don't be put off: come up and see me some time. We could experiment together!

Eloise Doorey 3A

Cinderella and her sisters - Sixth Form Dinner Dance

THE SIXTH FORM DINNER-DANCE December 6th 1993: the Great Danes proved to be the ideal location and victim for the Sixth former to celebrate the imminent advent of the Christmas holiday. After eating a traditional English Christmas dinner the night had only just begun. It seemed that no one could stand the pressure and responsibility of taking to the dance floor first. Thanks and congratulations must go to John Adam and his partner who broke through the wall of fear and so eventually encouraged others to let their hair down. Congratulations to the organisers for surviving another year - and good luck for the next one!

Rebecca Gear U6

JUDO 1992-1993 Following a lull in the activity for some two teams owing to a decline in numbers, the sport picked up dramatically in the Christmas Term 1992. This was done in no small measure to the enthusiasm of the two senior players, James Hunt and David Hayman, as well as to the knowledgeable and friendly approach of the coach, Glen Simpson. Boys of all ages joined the Club and the membership soon totalled well over twenty. Some lively sessions took place, often in the presence of girl and boy spectators who looked down from the balcony with a mixture of curiosity, fascination and admiration.

Father Berhanu Biserat

SUMMER TERM VISITOR FROM ETHIOPIA A priest of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was resident in School for most of the Summer Term in 1993. He was Father Berhanu Biserat, a parish priest from the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa. Father Berhanu is married and the father of small children.

Father Berhanu contacted other Ethiopians living in the UK and invited them to join him to lead Morning Chapel. They sang in Amharic, the language of most people in Ethiopia, and in Ge'ez which is an ancient language now only used in the Liturgy of the Orthodox Church.

They all wore white liturgical vestments and created a powerful impression of dedication and seriousness. In addition to this event, Father Berhanu conducted Religious Studies lessons throughout the junior forms of the school and showed a remarkable video presentation of Ethiopian Church life.

Despite sonic inexperience among some of the newer and younger members of the club, a fixture was arranged against Frewing College Northiam. The junior team struggled, and despite an early win by the tigerish Peter Posnette, they lost 1-7. However, all was rectified by the Senior team who won by the comprehensive margin of 1-6, bringing the whole match to a highly satisfactory conclusion and to the verdict of a Draw (1-1). Wins came from Hunt (Captain), Loos, Painter (guest), Woodgate (a rapidly improving player), Kampanis and Hayman who put on the performance of the evening.

Later on in the Lent term, grading took place with the following outcome: UN Peter Cleghorn

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YELLOW 2 It was good to be given some insight into Daniel Stephens 5th Ko-Kyu the life of this ancient African Church. The EOC Billy Jones 5th Ko-Kyu YELLOW 2 was founded in the Third Century and, despite Spencer Murphy 6th Ko-Kyu YELLOW 3 some years of State Atheism under the Marxists, has survived into the twentieth century with increased membership. Father Berhanu im- Damon Loft 7th Ko-Kyu ORANGE 1 pressed everyone with his ready smile and Duncan Stiff 7th Ko-Kyu ORANGE 1 pleasant manner: he was a fine advertisement Matthew Cleghorn7th Ko-Kyu ORANGE 1 for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

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Jamie Edmunson 8th Ko-Kyu ORANGE 2 (The latter did especially well to win all his four fights in style.)

SENIORS: 7th Kyu Senior - Top Lewis Kampanis Orange Matthew Woodgate 6th Kyu Senior - Bottom Green 5th Kyu Senior - Top Frederik Loos Green David Hayman 5th Kyu Senior - Top Green James Hunt 3rd Kyu Senior - Top Blue (The latter two have added to their experience by taking part in the British Championships held at Cannock in April.)

Members of the Club not mentioned above are: James Ferris, Richard Wooderson, Mitchell Onu, Ben Hodgson The following have left the Club: A. Johnson, G. Walker, P. Kutschmann, S. Warren, J. Tse. RDC

MARGATE EASTER 1994 LOWER SIXTH GEOGRAPHY FIELDWORK This action-packed event took place during the final long weekend of the Easter holiday. Three teachers and seventeen pupils were based at the Ivyside hotel in Westgate-on-Sea. We were too busy to make more than occasional use of the facilities there which included the swimming pool and Jacuzzi.

We visited a number of nature reserves in the area, the disused Kentish coal field around Betteshanger, Richborough power station and the seaside resorts of the region. Our outward joinery was delayed when the clutch burnt out on one of the hired minibuses, but Mr. Dunn sorted this out in his usual calmly assured manner.

We would like to thank Mr. David Pickard, Mlle. Bimont and Mr. Dunn for giving up their holiday time for us and for such a thoroughly enjoyable and instructive experience.

James Evans and other L6 geographers.

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The Religious Studies trip to S.O.A.S in the University of London An exhibition called `A Glance at Monastic Egypt' was the reason for our visit to the School of Oriental and African Studies. The Sutton Valence School party travelled down to London on the evening of the 2nd of March for the opening of the presentation. We were to view some slides taken by Monica Rene, a Coptic Orthodox Christian and a research fellow at SOAS. On arrival, we were greeted by a small band, led by Monica Rene's husband, Dr. Stefan Rene is an Iconographer and a professor at the Prince of Wales's Institute. The band played a few Coptic chants whilst people arrived.

Many of the Copts were delighted to see Fr. John, as he is one of Britain's leading experts on their religion. He was greeted warmly, and, rather amusingly, referred to as "The heart of the Copts". Our A Level RS group were then introduced to David Alton, an M.P and a supporter of the Coptic church. I thought that he was very friendly and encouraging. Our conversation was broken by Fr. John's introductory speech to open the meeting and exhibition. We were invited to look at the pictures of Egypt. The pictures were mainly of monasteries, monks and the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church. It had taken a lot of trouble for Monica Rene to photograph Monastic Egypt, because she is female.

She was regarded with a lot of suspicion. It required many trips to Egypt to build this portfolio of photographs. But she succeeded brilliantly.

As students of religion, this trip was important for us. We have been studying the Islamic faith for A level, and so it was necessary for us to get a picture of other religions in the Middle East. Our trip proved to be both interesting and informative.

Stephen Buckler L6

THE BIRMINGHAM FOOD EXHIBITION Very early one morning in November the F&N 6th Form Set met in the quad for a trip to the NEC Good Food Exhibition. There were two mini-

buses, but half way there one windscreen wiper went missing. We finally arrived after a four hour journey, to find that we could hardly move for the crowds. Making it to the food stalls was hard, but there was enough for everyone to eat and see. Everything from free yogurts to alcohol.

During the day we saw two demonstrations by two top chefs; Ken Horn was exceptionally entertaining but Raymond Blanc arrogant and fairly boring.

Our feet felt as if they had walked for miles and were beginning to give upon us. But all the food kept us going! By the end of the day everyone was exhausted. It was a very worthwhile and very enjoyable experience.

intoned by Russian monks in a lifelike recording. A quiet and meditative environment was produced to help us to experience sacred art in a simulated milieu.

Icons are regarded as especially sacred images as they are the focus of prayer and devotion, creating a powerful and mystical atmosphere in the homesand churches of orthodox Christians.

Ola Irukwu L6

Claire Taylor and Catherine Day L6

ICONS IN LONDON In November 1993 a small group of staff and students went to the exhibition `The Gates of Mystery' at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Subtitled `the art of holy Russia', this was the greatest presentation of medieval Russian Art to come to the West in a very long time. The art work, taken from the state Russian museum, contains a wide variety of Russian art in the period between the eleventh up until the end of the seventeenth century. Such arts include the 15th century icon of St. George and the Dragon, which is the most famous article in the collection of the Russian State Museum.

These beautiful icons are painted wood panel images. They form an essential part of the life, spirituality and worship of Orthodox Christians and were central to the religious belief in Medieval Russia. They express the Holy Tradition of the Church and the renewed humanity which we share in Jesus Christ and the communion of saints.

The icon paintings are most commonly a portrait of Jesus, the Virgin, one of the saints or of an incident in a holy life. An example being the magnificent portrait of the Archangel Gabriel on display here in London but taken from the iconostasis of the church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in a monastery in North Russia.

The icons were presented in an interior which was not unlike a Russian church. The lighting was dim and the atmosphere heavy.

The music of the Orthodox liturgy was being

D of E drives Chris Thomson up the climbing wall at Keswick

Geography Fieldwork in the North Four minibuses in convoy, loaded with 50 pupils and staff, set out one rainy October day for the far North. We switched to canoe and dog sledge as the roads petered out North of Watford!

We visited Malham, Scarborough and York and all had a thoroughly enjoyable time. Nearly all the projects deriving from the trip have now been completed, illustrating the point that Geography coursework can also be fun.

THE CENTRAL LONDON MOSQUE AND THE ISLAMIC DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM The great metal dome of the Central London Mosque can be seen from the other end of Regents Park. It seems strangely out of place in that setting; the dome is so obviously oriental in style. It reminds us of the origins of Islam in -63-

Arabia.

We entered the mosque and the female member of our party was given a head-dress to cover up her beautiful braided hair. She went upstairs to the prayer hall for women. The men entered the main hall. It was nearly time for the Noon prayers.

The azure ceiling was decorated with golden stars, moons and suns. The turquoise carpet filled the entire floor of the enormous prayer hall and was divided by a repeated pattern, each section of which was the prayer space for one Muslim worshipper.

I was not impressed with the attitude of some of the young Muslims though their elders were constantly attentive and disciplined in the prayer time. I have studied Islam for GCSE but not visited a mosque before. Now that I am doing an A Level in Islamic Studies I thought that it was essential to see that there is a side to Islam which is far from theoretical. The men praying in this mosque were light years away from Islamic terrorism or from mere theory. For them it was a way of life.

The John Addis Islamic Gallery, in the British Museum, shows that Islam has been responsible for the production of an enormous variety of artistic and scientific objects. These are the work of Muslim artisans and doctors.

The exhibits range from medical implements and weapons to decorated ceramics and eating utensils. We examined architectural materials, wood, stucco and tilework from mosques, tombs and palaces.

The study day was successful in widening our appreciation of Islamic devotion and culture.

Stephen E. Buckler L6

skills at drill from the parade ground to the Chapel. For those taking part it was not simply a matter of procedure but an immense privilege to be representing all the School in this act of remembrance for people who had been here in the same chapel when they were alive and at school.

Colour Sergeant James Roberts and Sergeant Rory Slater accompanied Colour Sergeant Victoria Phillips, the bearer of the colours. As members of the Upper 6th, this was the first and last time we would have this duty. Indeed, Vicki was the first female member of the CCF to present the School Colours at the altar, adding something to an occasion which is always momentous in the school year. WO II Alex Winter, the senior NCO of the CCF, laid a wreath at the high altar during the singing of a traditional Remembrance hymn.

This must have been one of the proudest and most humbling moments of my CCF career at Sutton Valence: the reams of names of the Fallen read out by the Chaplain, the Last Post and the Silence, all these definitely produced the desired effect, even more so standing there in my Army uniform.

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As another school year drew to a close, twenty boys and sixteen girls were looking forward to travelling to Summer Camp at Wathgill in North Yorkshire.

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The modern buildings, set against the beautiful scenery, were to be our home for a week.

There was a large cafeteria where we enjoyed good food, and above this was the Naafi, in which we spent part of our evenings.

A hearty breakfast at 7a.m. prepared us for the day's activities. Camouflage made us all look so different and some people were fortunate enough to be flown to the training area by helicopter and not have to travel in the Bedford, with Mrs. Wilkie driving! Section attacks were practised and executed with enthusiasm, though sitting under bashers in the wet, was not every ones idea of fun, even if the tea was hot. We hope you enjoyed your birthday Ian (Harrison)!

The Signals exercise was made more interesting by another unit's attack and more frustrating by Geoffrey, who was always on his radio. We all had the chance to fire the L.S.W. and practice our shooting on the Range. This stood us in good stead for the March and Shoot Competition. We entered three teams, our best shots in the "A" team, which won the overall Competition, our "B" team came third and our all girls' team twelfth (the first all girls' team to enter the competition).

Our last day was spent caving, whitewater canoeing or rock-climbing. The caving was brilliant, it involved a pitch black hole, swimming in freezing water, climbing on slippery mud banks, and abseiling into the unknown.

Canoeing in white-waters involved capsizing and collisions and while Brian read his paper in the sun we were jamming and abseiling.

We all returned to Sutton Valence, tired but happy, and we would recommend it to everyone. Many thanks to Mr. Jones, Mr. Miller and Mrs. Wilkinson for a great week.

Emily Field 5A Amy Lovegrove 4B

TEAM: Oliver Hayzelden (Capt),Jessica Mitson (S), Alex Winter (M), Rory Slater (W), James Roberts (L), Piers Yea (L), Neil French (L).

This year's Patrols Team was difficult to select from the School's CCF. It is not a weekend job for the faint hearted. Physical and mental endurance are required. Nevertheless we managed to gather a mixed and merry bunch.

We arrived at Longmore Camp on Friday at 2000 hours to book into our wedge of grass in a large field, where we set up tents and cooking facilities for the week-end.

The first event was a Command Task at 0830 Saturday morning, where Rory Slater stepped on a landmine and was disqualified, but the remainder of the team finished on time.

Next the individual obstacle course despite bets made amongst the ruling officers against `little Neil's' agility, he completed all eight obstacles well within the time limit, along with Oily Hazelden, our team leader, setting a good example. Now the dreaded Assault Course - we had practiced hard for this particular event at School for many weeks. It certainly paid off and we achieved a very fast time and, in fact, won the Assault Course Shield simply by an excellent team effort. Piers Yea was over the wall first time, and well done James!

Alex Winter showed his skills in First Aid by giving a plastic dummy with no arms and legs mouth to mouth resuscitation for ten minutes and assuring it that it would be O.K., whilst 011y struggled to keep an insane shock victim under control, eventually resorting to a violent rugby tackle to suppress his active behaviour.

The .22 shooting did not go too soundly as Rory had forgotten about the idea of sights and shot the roof and floor to end-up with a washout. We completed our military skills with the Cadet G.P., hand signals and map reading while Mrs. Wilkinson learnt to ride a motor bike.

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for Piers and Alex who also performed an ostrich act by sticking his head in the sand. At least we had a good B.B.Q. to look forward to and Rory had already whistled the ants out of the tent.

Sunday morning and the worst event of all, the March and Shoot. Running five miles in the sun in full kit with webbing, rifle, waterbottles, magazines and cleaning kit, then firing the Cadet G.P. on the E.T.R. at 100, 200 and 300 metres. The run was taken at a steady but consistent pace and we finished fifth. Then the shooting where Rory found his sights and hit the most targets (an engineer beating the infantry).

The presentations went successfully and we collected our medals and shields from the Brigadier who was the first lady to be a brigade commander. Jessica Mitson (S) joins Guy Mitson (M) (1988) in winning a gold medal. They are the first brother and sister to achieve this distinction since the competition started.

Many thanks to Captain Brian Miller for his support, organisation and excellent wit along with Mrs. W. for her wonderful food including B.B.Q. and daily fry-up, much to the envy and admiration of other teams surviving on ration packs.

Rory Slater U6

The Sergison Trophy This competition took place on the 4th July which was a very hot day on the last weekend of the Summer term, It consisted of a team of teachers, a team of pupils and a team of parents all competing against each other. The pupils' team which was captained by Oliver Hazelden with Alison Brannan, Tim Thomson, Greg Clifford, Chris Thomson and me, won, of course, much to the parents' and teachers' disgust but then they hadn't had the advantage of Brian's coaching so what did they expect!

Many thanks to Mrs. Wilkinson for the wonderful food and thanks to Brian Miller for his organisation - it was an excellent day, and very much enjoyed by all.

Oliver Hayzelden U6

Oliver Ilayzclden with the Sergison Trophy

The South East District Target Rifle Competition We arrived at 6.30 am at the CCF hut and accompanied by Mr. Miller and Mrs. Wilkinson we travelled to Ash Ranges. We made our way to the 300m point and the first member of the team lay down; we had 40 minutes in which each team had to fire 2 sighters and 5 to count.

Empty cases were handed in and scores added up before we moved and completed the second round.

Sutton Valence had a successful day, the `A' team finishing 5th and the 'B'team 8th. Ben Hodgson was unfortunate in not winning a medal for the best individual U16 shot - missing it by one point.

Back in the minibus to clean our weapons and then return to school to put them in the armoury before joining the remainder of the Corps for Field Weekend at Pippingford Park in the Ashdown Forest. `A' team: J. Roberts, O. Hayzelden, J. Mitson, T. Thomson.

'B'team: B. Hodgson, A. Brannan, G. Clifford, C. Thomson

Visit to SVS from Sea King helicopter of 202 squadron (search and rescue) from RAF Manston

CCF - RAF Section report We are pleased to welcome a new recruit - Pilot Officer Kay Jackson - we hope that she has a happy time with the RAF Cadets.

We had an excellent Summer Camp at RAF St. Athan near to Cardiff. This was a very interesting station, and although there was not a lot of flying there was an enormous amount of work experience in different sections. We shared the camp with Cranbrook and Alleyne's Schools and everybody got on very well!

Jon Horn is to be congratulated on doing the Advanced gliding course. This is not something which you can apply for, the gliding school invites its best potential pilots to do the course. Not only did he pass the course but finished with a 5 hour solo flight - longer than his instructor had achieved! Eddy Copland also did a gliding course and a weeks work experience with the Hercules Training Squadron at RAF Lyneham on which he did a lot of flying.

We have had a good year but have unfortunately lost a lot of Chipmunk flying due to poor weather, nevertheless, by the end of the year most people will have flown twice. We also had two helicopter visits. The first was from a Search and Rescue Sea King from Manston, which unfortunately was unable to fly us. The second visit was from a Puma of 33 squadron at RAF Odiham. We had an excellent talk first and then the helicopter did an exercise which simu-

lated dropping off and picking up a group behind enemy lines. Half of the cadets went to one of Cranbrook School's fields and the other half took off from Sutton Valence. After half an hours flight and some tactical flying the two groups were swopped over. This was a great experience and was also useful training for the RAF. For the first Field Day we camped with the army section in Mereworth Woods and took part in the night exercise. We then visited the RAF museum at Hendon on the Monday after we heard that the gliding had been cancelled.

In March we visited the very interesting Experimental Aircraft Establishment at Boscombe Down in Wiltshire and also had a flight in their BAC 111 flown by the boss of the Empire Test Pilots School.

This term (summer) we shall be going to the "Fighter Meet" air display at North Weald and then to gliding at West Mailing.

Jon Horn and Tom Griffin have done well as senior cadets this year - I was pleased to recommend them both for the Air Officer Commanding's certificate of good service. They were awarded this in common with only 14 other cadets in the country.

We look forward to a good camp at RAF Odiham where there should be plenty of helicopter flying.

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Music SVS Musicians in Cremona SPRING 1994 Flustered and uncertain after a busy last week of term we escaped to Gatwick on Friday 25th March to catch our flight (late of course) to Italy.

I was a late addition to the small party and had not had time to get really excited about the trip, but I soon began to like the idea , after being separated from the group whilst on the aeroplane and seated between two rather good-looking Italian men. They taught me some useful phrases ( Are you involved in a steady relationship? Do you come here often? Do you have a brother? Is your brother a heavyweight wrestler? & etc.). We arrived at Verona airport in high spirits.

After having had my first taste of the local talent, I pondered; may be it was just a lucky fluke? But I was wrong, as all of the girls were soon to discover upon meeting the young man who was doomed to drive us to the school in Cremona. There was not enough room for all of us in the back, and there was quite a skirmish when the driver invited one of us to share the front seat with him!

At Cremona we met our host families. We were surprised to discover that most of the girls had been linked with male hosts, an arrangement that worked well!

The first noticeable point about our Italian hosts was their love of food . The meal served to me by my host family on the first night shocked me with its size and content. The first course was huge, to say the very least, and, ignorant of the old `antipasti' routine, I happily ate through the whole dish, hungry after my long journey. Leaning back after the delicious meal, I was suddenly waved at frantically by the mother of the house.

She rushed into the kitchen and emerged with the second course, which I then had to consume in the critical view of the entire family. Feigning noises of appreciation I dug in. They seemed satisfied though I had to retire early to recover.

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Italian pupils, the most ill-disciplined I have ever seen, and being confronted with such taxing questions as `Ow many years ave you?', `What you do in the weekend?' and from some boys in the corner `You like to go with us for a disco?' No, thank you very much! A couple of hours into our first day at school in Cremona, we made what was perhaps our most important discovery of the entire holiday - the 'Bonis' coffee bar. Much is owed to its stunning cappuccinos and I will dedicate this paragraph to the every cheerful soul behind the bar - I hope that he is still there when we return in October.

Sunday saw our first public appearance at a regular Sunday service - except that it was in Italian! We sang English music as part of the liturgy including S.S.Wesley's "0 Lord, my God".

After the service, we were treated to lunch by the parish.

The only commitments for the next three days were brief rehearsals with the Italian choir for the end-of-term service on Wednesday and visits to the `Bonis' coffee bar. We sang hymns in French, German, Italian and, of course, English!

The remainder of the time was spent in sightseeing in Cremona, a beautiful old town.

The Wednesday service went well, apart from the unrehearsed applause given to us before we had even started processing into the church. We were joined the next day by Ruth and Jenny from St. Helen's a girls school. We hope that they will return to Cremona with us.

Cremona cathedral boasts the tallest brick tower in Europe. Here we gave our finest and most organised performance of the trip.

The next day at Vernoa airport there was barely a dry eye. Everyone was sad about leaving beautiful Cremona and the many friends we had made.

I conclude by thanking Kathryn Hannah for acting as female member of staff and to Philip Horley, David Bray of St. Helen's and Mrs Palmer for organising the visit. We look forward to being back in Cremona in October.

Ellie Doorey 3A

Sutton Valence Music Society Sutton Valence Music Society remained an integral part of the School's musical and artistic life, bringing a very high standard of professional performance into the village and school. It has been a busy year again and six superb concerts have been heard.

The season began with a return visit from the Pasedena Roof Orchestra on 24th September 1993. This distinguished and, dare one say, trendy orchestra brought the refectory alive with their special programme of easily accessible music. The evening was fun and well received by all age groups.

The second concert of the season, on Friday 15th October, wasgiven by Frederick Kempf, the young pianist who won the BBC's Young Musician of the Year award in 1992. Kempf is technically brilliant and noted already for his great sensitivity in interpreting the music of the late nineteenth century. His concert was extremely popular with discerning members of the audience.

"Les Trois" were supposed to give the third concert on 26th November, but unfortunately, because of sickness, they became "Les Deux".

Nevertheless, they gave an entertaining evening of harp and flute music. Despite the absence of the viola player, the programme was a great success with the public.

After Christmas, on January 14th 1994, came "Tapestry" an ensemble of soprano, clarinet and piano. They are especially involved in the performance of the works of living composers and have introduced many audiences to new music. This was a demanding but enjoyable evening's listening.

Following "Tapestry" were Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake on February 4th. They gave an evening of music for oboe and piano. Daniel is another former BBC Musician of the Year. The performances, covering a wide range of musical periods and styles, were sharp and intellectually considered.

The Coull String Quartet finished the season on March 4th 1994 with their lively concert which included a ravishing performance of the romantic String Quartet No.1 in D Major, opus 11 by Tchaikowsky. This dramatic and lavishly scored work was given to mark the centenary of the composer's death.

We have enjoyed another educational and inspirafional season of music.

Katherine Moon U6

Friday 25th February 1994: The Music Scholars Evening The entertainment was, once again, of the highest standard at the music scholars' concert. The careful preparation was evident in every performance.

Elizabeth Bailey, a technically competent and poetically gifted artist who is musically mature beyond her age, opened the evening with a careful interpretation of a 17th Century Amoroso and Allegro. She brought dignity and delicacy to the piece. From this excellent opening performance we moved at great speed through a kaleidoscope of styles and performances; highlights were Anna Rhodes' reading of Barthe's "Coure Feu" and the "Sausage Song" by the Sixth Form Chorus: the latter added good humour to an event which is often seen as one of the more serious moments in the musical calendar.

The variety of musical styles, but uniformly high skills, was again evident in the second half, ranging from a spirited performance of Bach's Prelude and Fugue No.21 by James Roberts to two more light hearted vocal pieces in the shape of duets by Fiona Wight and Elizabeth Bailey who gave us "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and Elizabeth Harrison and Anna Rhodes with Steinmann's "Total Eclipse of the Heart". The evening ended with the customary `Animals Counterpoint' performed by the entire chorus of scholars.

The concert was a satisfactory mixture arranged from the serious and studied to the carefree and amusing. Teachers and performers are to be warmly congratulated.

Katie Harper L6

Life at The Top September, and as I walked through the doors of the Music School a feeling of power came over me, I was `in charge' (if only for a term).

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under eleven years of age singing wonderful music. For the Chapel Choir a visit to the very large Ballroom of Grovesnor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. This was not "serious music" (it included Auld Lang Syne) but singing to one thousand business men who were slightly the worse for wear was fun. The Choir performed professionally and we have been invited back next December (however, the food supplied was disappointing so we will probably take our own next time!).

And, finally, to the Carol Service. It was very nerve-racking standing there in front of everyone but exciting as well. Indeed, so much so that directly after conducting "This Little

Babe" by Britten my heart rate had risen to over 135 per minute!

Music should be fun and I have so many happy memories of my term `in charge', - watching hot wax being dripped down someone's neck at Grovesnor House, the Adults processing at Headcorn, picking up staging in London in a lorry with two U6 formers, driving Minibuses into Multi storeys...............

Thanks to the C.R. for being very forgiving over my mistakes (and my jokes). To Helen Pollock my saviour and guide (and Boss). To all the peris who all worked exceedingly hard, especially Eileen, Tara and Alan.

Philip Honey

The Art Department - 1993/94 September The autumn term opened without an Artist-inResidence, but with the news that all our last year's Upper Sixth achieved A grades at Art and Design and that Kathryn Hannah had been accepted at Newcastle University to read Fine Art. We welcome two new Art Scholars: Paul Rubie from Form V to study photography in the Sixth Form and Megan Russell in the Third Year from Dulwich College Preparatory School.

Our new First Year spent an active day at the Natural History Museum looking at `Creepy Crawlies' prior to embarking on a sculpture project and half of the Third Year photographed bemused occupants of our local old peoples' home.

Salvador Dali It was cold and rainy outside but in the assembly hall the air was thick and humid. No-one knew what to expect but waited in anticipation.

Anthony Slinn's last few visits had been great successes. He had talked about Van Gogh and Picasso but now the spotlight was on Salvador Dali. Nobody expected him to enter with a huge cross around his neck, crutches and a piece of driftwood in his hand. An even greater surprise was to discover that he disliked Dali's work. The initial tension in the hall lifted as Anthony

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Slinn's humour affected us all. Through a series of images that linked much of Dali's surreal work to scenes from the area where he lived, Anthony Slinn helped us to relate to many of Salvador Dali's extraordinary paintings.

Sunday Times/ISIS Art competition 8-10 October.

Congratulations to last year's First Year who won a Bronze medal in the Sunday Times/ISIS art competition for a group piece of sculpture based on their visit in September 1992 to the Museum of Mankind's exhibition of the Mexican Day of the Dead.

Madrid 21-25 October Just before the heavens opened up in Spain and Madrid became very wet, Mr. & Mrs. Willdridge and five Sixth formers (Alex Lau, Katherine Moon, Geoffrey Anderson, Sam Miller and Paul Rubie) visited that city for four days. The highlight was probably seeing Picasso's `Guernica' but other works of art and galleries were exceptional, especially the ThysenBornimiza collection. Those foolish enough went to a bull-fight because it seemed a good thing to do at the time.

Preparatory and Primary Art Open Day 13 November.

For the second year we held an Art Open Day for

Prep and Primary schools. We arranged an all- with even more and varied work than last year. day Art workshop. Thirty two children aged `Cabaret' Murals 10-12 from sixteen schools attended and tried Holly Browne painted two expressive and suctheir hand at drawing, painting and a little cessful murals for the musical `Cabaret', both origami. The day was enormously successful also designed to hang in the school's dining and greatly helped by the art scholars. An room. exhibition of the day's work was held at tea-time for the parents. It included a seven minutes Joyce Drayson Art Competition (judged by video of the day's events, taken and edited by Amanda Randall, Sculptor) This year's winner, with photographs of urban Daniel Willdridge.

Wendy Sabine/Sally Musker Exhibition 20 loneliness, was Johnny Tse. Johnny took a GCSE in Photography this year.

November Also, for the second year, Wendy Sabine and Prizes.

Sally Musker held a pre-Christmas exhibition of Congratulations to Alex Lau on winning the Senior Art Prize (Daler Rowney) and congratutheir paintings and ceramics. lations to him on all his creative work in the Visits autumn term's dramatic productions and to The Fourth Year pupils visited the British MuOlivia Piper on winning the GCSE Art Prize seum on the 19 November and the Fifth and (Daler Rowney). Also well done to Su Ming Sixth Year went to the Courtauld on the 10 Wild and Romy Hukins who shared the Junior December.

Art Prize.

Sculpture Workshop 6-7 March Further Education Amanda Randall, a Canterbury based sculptor Alex Lau has been accepted for a Foundation spent two days with about fifteen GCSE and A Course at Central St Martins and Geoffrey level pupils helping them to create sculptural Anderson for a similar course at Kingston. images of themselves. The results were most Katherine Moon has had several offers to study revealing and the two days worthwhile just for for a B.Ed, specialising in Art. Good luck to them the creative experience. and to Natalie Marsh and Sam Miller who also Art Scholars' and Leavers' Exhibition 18-25 leave us.

March Our second such exhibition was a great success MDW

Lonely by Johny Tse Winner of the Joyce Drayson Prize

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PUBLIC FIRST AID COURSE

FISHING

Every Wednesday and Friday of the Lent Term 1994 it seemed that disaster had struck in Sutton Valence School. Bodies were strewn across the floors of Lambe's building. One body had a strange pallor and hideously distorted limbs. A stretcher was called for. Piles of bandages were stacked on tables and the injuries were studied.

It was, of course, the weekly meeting of our First Aid course and we were practising on each other and the dummy.

Our thanks go to Mr. Len Bond, our instructor, who prepared us well for the examination and inspired our interest. All sixteen pupils and two staff who took the course were awarded the St. John's Ambulance Public First Aid Certificate as a result of the March examinations with Dr. Porter. Pupils who participated were able to count this course towards the Duke of Edinburgh's Award (Silver).

MPD

Fishermen, or fishing-persons, have visited the Medway at Teston twice this year. A fine collection of tiddlers was caught on both occasions.

The heavy sea tackle and lug worms employed by the less experienced anglers, did not go down well with the river fish, in fact, it didn't go down at all.

It's the club we are herring about and there's a plaice in it for you - if our next outing is to the sea!

CONSERVATION: THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD Elizabeth Bailey, Caroline Critchley and Katherine Evans have completed the service section for the Duke of Edinburgh's award ( Bronze ). Although we made fewer trips this year , because of the work for the Bronze award which had to be undertaken in school, all three girls were able to make two important expeditions, the first to Darland Banks and the second to Queendown Warren.

SVS Fishing Club

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DUKE OF EDINBUGH'S SILVER PRACTICE EXPEDITION SNOWDONIA We arrived on Sunday 19 April and planned the route for the small (?) walk up Snowdon that we were to do the next day.

This walk started with most of us feeling energetic. This, however, was not to last and it soon became clear who was the most unfit of the party - so I promptly got shoved to the front to `set the pace'. Halfway up Snowdon, due to Sian's fear of heights, we lost three members of our party as well as `Annie', the group's mascot - Dr. Gray's dog. The view from the top of Snowdon was not too good as we literally had our head in the clouds. Having reached the top, however, we felt a sense of achievement that we had made it as well as relief that we could then go back down again.

To recover from Monday's little excursion, on Tuesday we were taken to an RSPB reserve (South Stacks). Dr. Gray told us that we might be lucky enough to see a Chough. As well as the Common Herring Gull, we saw other sea birds such as Puffins with their red feet and odd shaped bills, Razorbills and Guillemots. Dr. Gray, of course, was lucky and claims to have seen a Chough. The rest of the day was spent preparing for the expedition.

On Wednesday we said good-bye to the cosy mountain centre that was our base and ventured out to spend three days and two nights in the wild lands of North Wales. We came to a hill and walked up it, down it and back up it again whilst all looking studiously at the map and trying to figure out how we had managed to get lost only two kilometres from base. We decided that up was the way to go and it was

along this path that we encountered our first sheep in distress. This ewe was caught in brambles and Peter Barton, Leslie Bond and Dot Leggat together helped to free her. Then we were off again, through fields and fields of sheep - and more sheep. At some point there was a change of livestock - cows with horns. Dr. Gray looked concerned........ for'Annie's' sake of course.

Up and down a few more hills and then we met our second sheep in distress. This ewe would certainly have died had we not set her free. Les' blade was christened `the sheep knife'. More hills, boggy ground, more sheep and finally we were at the campsite. Although no four star establishment, it was better than we expected.

After a good night's sleep, we started off early for the longest of our three days. Mr. Willdridge caught up with us early on and walked the rest of the day because he `fancied a bit of a stroll'. It was a steep ascent through the slate mines but then we found the correct route and learnt to 'zig-zag' our way up the steeper hills. We did really well for the majority of the day until the rain got the better of us. We were tired, feet wet (except for Les) from walking along paths I could have sworn were small rivers. Then we came to a bridge over a particular river we were walking through and we were feeling pretty demoralised - with the exception of Peter Barton who seemed to have never-ending stores of energy. When, at this point, I was given the map and told to take over the navigating, I fell into a state of mild depres-

sion. The thought of Brown Silo', our next and final 'check point where we were to meet the mini-bus was the only thing that kept me going.

It's amazing really but when you're sitting in the middle of a marsh with water flowing over the top of your boots and you're thoroughly demoralised, the mini-bus seems like the height of luxury. Luckily the `Brown Silo' was next to a barn in which we waited for hours for the minibus to arrive. Later we made supper and waited some more and then finally whipped out our sleeping bags and fell asleep. The mini-bus did eventually arrive and took away Mr. Willdridge but we were allowed to remain in the barn and had a thoroughly good night's sleep.

Having been warmed by never ending mugs of hot chocolate and beans `n' sausages, we set off on our third and final day filled with determination to reach our destination..... the mini-bus again. Whilst walking through one of the many farms we came across our third sheep in distress. Despite being behind on our walking schedule we spent some time rescuing a lamb that had become separated from its mother due to a swollen river. The third day only involved doing what we should have done after the barn yesterday had we not been so late making that check point. Jo Leggat showed its all the quick route down a hill and all appeared to be going well until we came across a forest which seemed to have no way in and, when in, no way through. When we finally made the finish point we were all so relieved to see the mini-bus that, despite aching limbs and sore feet, we all managed to run the last part. So ended our three day walk - sorry Peter. We then finished off with a visit to a small but waterfall idyllic where we scrambled down a steep bank and dunked our heads into the freezing water.

At 8.00pm that night, the whole party was taken out to dinner thank you.

Snowdonia April 1994 From L to K:Vicky Burr 5A

Sian Leadbeter - Olivia Piper - Peter Kutschmann - Antony Kennedy, Johny Tse At the start of the expedition'

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A MESSAGE TO SUTTONIANS OF 1952 The first English Speaking Union scholar to be sent to Sutton Valence came in 1952. He is now the distinguished Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts.

Dr. J. Allan Hobson has asked the Suttonian to include the following message in our 1994 edition: Long Lost Suttonians, Have you seen 'Shadowlands'? It is the bio. pic. about Professor C.S. Lewis (played by Sir Antony Hopkins) and his American love, Joy Davidman (played by Debra Winger).

The movie is set in the year of our Lord 1952: the year we were together at Sutton Valence.

As I watched the glorious images of long lost Oxford, long lost Chapel services, long lost boys' choirs, long lost English wit, long lost stiff upper lips - and all those long lost precious details that defined out life together - I cried. I cried a lot. It felt good.

The message is: life is short. Don't die without saying `I love you' (if you do). I do.

I write to invite you to come to visit me in Boston.

And to urge you - if it is easier - to meet me in London some time this year. I would happily come to an OS Dinner and raise a glass to Tubby and to all of you.

1992 was forty years on for us. 2002 will be fifty. I think that it is risky to wait that long. But I'll come then, too, if I am and alive and if you invite me!

Love.

Allan Hobson.

J. Allan Hobson MD can be contacted by Telephone, Fax or letter. Here is his address and the relevant numbers: Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Laboratory of Neurophysiology Massachusetts Mental Health Centre 74 Fenwood Road Boston Massachusetts 02115 USA Telephone (USA) 617 734 9645 FAX 617 734 7851

A NEW TROPHY FOR GIRLS HOCKEY For about thirty years the boys have had the Frank Mason Tournament. It has been hosted by Kent College at Canterbury. Sutton Valence won this competition in '92 and '93 and John Posnette had the idea that a similar competition was needed for girls. Cranbrook School joined with Sutton Valence to get the new contest off the ground.

Ten schools participated in the preliminary rounds held on the new sand-filled pitches of Cranbrook and Sutton Valence. The eventual winners were Sir Roger Manwoods (Sandwich). St. Lawrence (Ramsgate) won the plate competition, beating our girls in the final after the dreaded strokes.

The main trophy was presented by John Taylor who is a governor at Sutton Valence. He has the distinction of being an old boy of both Sutton Valence and Cranbrook. The Kent County Umpires Association provided the umpires for the tournament.

It is hoped that the event will be as successful in the future and that it will grow.

Andrew Duffell L6

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From the studios of Gulland Hall (5)

SCREENPRINT by Ryoko Kita 3B

CERAMIC PIECE by Nick Bunyan 4B

STILL LIFE by Simon Warren 5A

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Top . Alex Lau UG

I Centre - Working on the mural in the Refectory Bottom left - The Artist on the scaffold Bottom right Still Life The Refectory mural

by Alex Lau

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Alex Lau Artist and Theatre Designer at SVS Alex Lau (Westminster) was born in I long long in 1975. When he was still a small child, he loved to draw and `design' with Lego: "My creative mind started to build up from there". At primary school he had the chance to try some different media; water-colour, crayons, postercolour and clay. He preferred to work more on three dimensional forms. His parents took him to exhibitions: "As a child, seeing these pictures and sculptures made the realise how amazing some people were. I always looked closely at the sculptures and tried to remember how they were made, especially those made from rubbish.

I would then try to make up my own."

When he was twelve years old Alex moved on to secondary education. The educational system did not favour Art and Alex did nothing about his art for two years: "Luckily, my parents decided to send me to Sutton Valence School where I took art as one of my GCSE subjects." He went through the programme of screen printing, lino printing, colour pencil work, oil painting and photography. In the second year he worked in his chosen media, was awarded an Art scholarship,got an A in GCSE and moved on the A Level.

He has painted a huge mural in the Refectory.

This is an extraordinary still-life, incorporating images of music, death, the natural world and religion. The religious dimension is provided by a silver Orthodox priest's hand-cross: I wonder where the artist got that from ?I The magnificent mural, which every visitor to the school should see, is painted in oil on board.

For the past two years Alex Lau has distinguished himself as a theatre designer with SVS Theatre Workshops. His magnificent sculptures in scrap cardboard have been a feature of many productions: "I look back on the cheerfulness and success that has come, from `Waiting for Godot' to `Peer Gynt'. The things I explored were numerous. I can still remember the tree I made for the Samuel Beckett play - out of toilet rolls! `Woyzeck' involved the horse's head and the monkey's head and the Ibsen meant a lot of work in masks, a cardboard copy of Rodin's Thinker and the Statue of Liberty."

Alex Lau goes to Central Saint Martin's in October 1994.

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Masks for Peer Gynt

The ,A1onkey',s Ile:ad

The horse in rehearsals for Woyzeck

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Double Jeopardy In the house she sharpened the knife and then stared at the door of the living room from which erupted shrill laughter. She frowned and muttered furiously at the sound of the laughter.

The room was in a state of disarray and the only place which looked neatly kept was the dressing table which contained several bottles of pills and capsules, big and small, round and oval, different shapes, sizes and colours.

In the other room from which the laughter erupted, sat a young couple entwined in each others arms. A slow, melodious jazz tune was playing on the turn-table next to the sofa. The room was neatly arranged and appeared very homely. `Jane,' the boy called. `Yes,' answered the girl. `I'm glad we met,' the boy said. `I feel the same way,' the girl said.

A noise came from the other room and the boy and girl began to complain. `Let's go out somewhere,' he said. `No, I want to stay here,' she said, `If we go out we won't be by ourselves.' `We are not by ourselves now, anyway,' he said, `anyway I want to see other people as well.' `Are you saying my company is not good enough for you, well if you feel that way........' she said.

She stormed out of the room angrily. `Jane, I'm sorry,' he called, but no one answered.

A few minutes later she came into the room, walked straight towards him with a radiant smile on her face and kissed him. `I guess I'm forgiven then,' he said. `You guessed right,' she said.

A song began to play on the turn-table. `I love this song, let's dance,' she said.

He looked at her for a minute because he thought her behaviour seemed a little strange. `You never used to dance before,' he said. `Well, I've changed a lot since you last saw me,' she said. `Are you okay, you're acting a bit strange.' he asked. `Ohl I'm just happy, I'm finally alone with you,' she said. `Has your sister gone out then?' he asked. `Yes, and I don't think she'll be coming back,' she said and smiled. `Come on, let's dance,' she said.

So he took her in his arms and they began to move slowly to the beat of the music. She had the same radiant smile on her face.

Weeks later, she said: `He was my sister's fiance. I liked him very much and I did not see why she had to have him all to herself as sisters are meant to share everything.' `But he got very suspicious and kept on asking me questions, some of which I could not answer, so.............' She smiled to herself.

She stood up and was led out of the room. She turned round one last time to look at the knife on the table, then she smiled.

Ola Irukwu L6

Euro-Conference 1993 by our Moldavian Correspondent Monday 22nd November might seem like an ordinary beginning of a new week. But on this day the polished black shoes of our pupils touched the ground more softly, isolated by miraculous layers of billions of tiny silver stars which had fallen by night. The young greeted the snow with delight but the more serious adults were anxious about the performance of their fourwheeled pets: some might even have thought that they had lost their way and that they were on an ice-rink.

But our group sitting in the school transport knew that, despite the snow, we had to go to Ardingly College. At the end of our adventurous journey we should be greeted by four highly-placed gentlemen who were coming to the Euro-Conference to speak to us.

Ernest Wistrich CBE, Chairman of the European Movement gave the first talk on `The State of the European Community Today'. He reviewed the history of European co-operation up to the present. He also looked into the future with the possibility of enlarging the Community. Although his speech lacked depth it was delivered with great style.

The Chief Expert on Russian Affairs from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst spoke

about recent developments in Russia. James Shefr was also an excellent speaker. Although I was brought up in the Russo-philic manner, having been born in `the Soviet satellite of Czechoslovakia', and thus being supposedly well educated about Soviet affairs, I learnt many things for the first time.

I intend no offence against A.L. Williams who was down to speak about `The Impact of Changes in Europe on British Domestic Politics', but, to be quite sincere, I did not learn what the impact was. I agree with Mr. Jillians when he said that the talk was about something else. As a result, most people left at this point. That was a pity because the last speech was important.

Bram Triestram presented an extremely informative speech on the present state of NATO and the Defence of Europe. The structure of the talk was similar to the first one, an historical survey. In the discussion period, Mr. Jillians was very interested in the question of NATO's future budget and size. Suddenly the skilled speaker in front of us began to stammer. His answers became vague. We were told continitally togo and look for the answer `in any library'.

Mr. Jillians desire to know the answers to his questions was not as great as his need to get us back to school. So we left Ardingly. But was Mr. Jillians so lacking in curiosity? I wonder why, on our return, that he so urgently wanted to find Mrs. Knowles........

Peter Barton L6

Lifc Drawing by Jane Ludford 5A

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EUROYOUTH CONFERENCE 1993 Bonn - Germany On hearing the news that we had been invited to attend a Euroyouth conference in Germany we did not know what to expect. Our party consisted of Katerina Fischerova, Natalie Marsh, Philip Kunath and me. We had all prepared speeches and points for discussion in our allocated committees. On September 16th we set out for Heathrow Airport to fly to Bonn.

We were to spend four days at a youth hostel on a university campus. As soon as we arrived we were greeted by the students who were in charge of the entire conference. We all split up to attend our first committee meeting. I would be on the committee concerning the Citizens of Europe. Natalie and Philip were on the committee for Political and Social Affairs.

Katerina Fischerova, our Czech student and the finest linguist in our group, was on the committee for Economic and Monetary Union. In each of the six committees there were approximately twenty-five students between 17 and 19 years old. They came from many European Community countries and others including: Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland.

We all had to prepare a resolution which we presented to our committee. Then we worked for three days on building up ideas that we all agreed upon, and preparing an agreed group resolution to be presented to the Plenum on Sunday. As well as debating sessions, we had lectures from prominent members of the European Parliament. These gave us an insight into the way in which European politics work.

On Saturday we had a lively farewell disco which was a reward for our hard work. After many heated debates, all of the committees, comprising a total of about 200 students descended on one of the best hotels in Bonn for a final Plenum. Each committee gave a five minute presentation on the points they had agreed upon. The rest of the plenum were then given the opportunity to make suggestions or seek clarifications. Business here, as in the committees, was conducted in English.

When all resolutions had been presented and discussed we left the hotel to go to the airport and fly back to England having made many friends across Europe and formulated

new views on European affairs.

If Sutton Valence School is invited to send delegates to future conferences I warmly recommend the conference to any pupils who are fortunate enough to be invited.

Alison Boler U6

Hamster (After D.H. Lawrence) Why do you hide your tiny body?

Is it to hide yourself, The cold outside.

Warmth.

The snout poking out, Dead but strangely alive, Twitching the saw-dust, Freshly fallen snow.

Waking from this careless stupor, Opening one eye, Semi-conscious.

Wandering through your protected domain, Boredom Relieves your nocturnal duty.

Slow.

Light dazzles.

You retreat.

But soon your are back.

Surveillance.

Water, Your dryness is at last gone, Exeunt, Dying fast.

Finding your wheel.

Still as still allows.

It moves, Trotting on, As the circle gets quicker.

Stop.

The end.

A few more paces, For you, Tiny, furry bubble.

Matthew Sabine 4A

She's so pretty A quick crack. They took a short but deep breath. It looked like broken ice on a frozen pond, glistening in the morning sun. A stone had struck the glass.

The car pulled over onto the hard shoulder and stopped. `Don't blame me!' said her husband.

They sat in silence for a few seconds, admiring the windscreen. Her husband rose from his car seat and stood outside the car, hands on hips. He leaned over into the car door. `I'm going to find a phone box, okay?' his breath like a fine misty spray in the cold, damp air.

Five minutes later; he had already returned. The car door flew open. `Qu...er, ...help....er.....come with......me!' he frantically waved his hand in the air as the words staggered out of his mouth. She knew something was wrong: she knew because nineteen years of union told her so.

'Three...four...five' he counted, lips shuddering.

Ann sealed her lips around the cold lips of the white, dormant face. She blew two breaths.

Two notes squealed out of the girl's abandoned body, as if she was blowing into a harmonica.

`The Winter's Tale' Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican Centre After reading `The Winter's Tale' as an A level set text, many of us did not know what to expect from the theatrical interpretation. John Nettles took the leading role of the tragic King of Sicilia.

His emotional potrayal of a man overwhelmed by sadness and guilt over the death of his wife, filtered into the emotions of the audience.

As a sharp contrast, the pastoral scenes took the audience to another emotional extreme, one of laughter and happiness. The simple scenery was used expertly to create the feeling of far off places. On many occasions the play would interact with the audience but still keeping the realism of the play.

In the final scene of this three hour play, our attention was firmly fixed as a happy ending loomed on the horizon. In the space of ten minutes we were saddened with the Drama and then crying as the characters finally re-united.

The entire performance was overwhelming from beginning to end with performances from the actors which will be hat'd to forget.

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`Come on,' he said, `Come on!' he shouted.

Time, at first, whizzed past in the chaotic confusion, but now it was an earthworm sliding slowly, slipping away, slow, like the death of a withering flower. `She's so pretty,' said Anne, `so...so...pretty.'

He could feel his heart pounding. He continued chest compressions on the girl. He felt for the girl's pulse. He could feel his heart pounding; he couldn't feel the girl's.

Time started accelerating. Anne started receiving sudden flash backs, the flashing blue, the whirring sirens, the hospital, the doctors' faces, the redness, the chaos, the doctors' faces, the gravestone, the flowers. `Five' he counted, remembering his first aid, remembering his own child's face three years ago.

Anne blew two wheezy breaths. He could feel his heart pounding as time ebbed away.

In the chilling, misty veil, flashing blue could be seen in the distance, there was a whirring sound.

Martin Sands L6

The Grass is greener CCF Summer Camp

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OS News MARRIAGES MARSHALLOn 24th August 1991, Nick MARSHALL (1980 C) to Zena Wright. Jith SEN (1980 L) was the Best Man and Simon THOMAS (1980 W), Stan TAYLOR (1980 C) and Guy BECKETT (1980 W) were Ushers BIRTHS HUGHES On 5th May 1994 to Anne (nee DIDIER - Staff 1985-90) and Richard HUGHES (1978 F), a son, Jonathan.

MARSHALLOn 22nd August 1993 to Zena (nee Wright) and Nick MARSHALL (1980 C) a daughter, Pia Elizabeth Grace.

DEATHS BASDEN-SMITH On 1st March 1991, Theodore Francis BASDEN-SMITH (1925 M) aged 83, father of Howard BASDEN-SMITH (1960 M).

GROVES On 20th June 1992, as the result of a stroke, Sir Charles Barnard GROVES (1932 W) aged 77. Sir Charles was one of our most distinguished old pupils and had taken a close interest in the school over the years. He was an unassuming, kindly man who had come to Sutton Valence from St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School where he was chorister. It is worth recording that he was a prop forward in the 1st VX during his last year at school.

He showed his musical ability at school in concerts and recitals and it was no surprise when he went to the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano and organ. He worked for the BBC in a number of posts, as chorus master of the music productions unit, assistant conductor of the BBC Theatre Orchestra and then conductor of the BBC Revue Orchestra. In 1944 he became conductor of the BBC Northern Orchestra in Manchester and all this experience of broadcasting gave him a wide repertoire

which stood him in good stead later.

In 1951 he took over as Conductor of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra with whom he worked for ten years. During that time he gained experience abroad working in Australia and South Africa. From 1961 to 1963 he was Musical Director of the Welsh National Opera before moving north to become the Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed until 1977. During that period he developed his love for English music, conducting the first performances of works by Peter Maxwell Davies and John Taverner. He also devoted some time to choral works by Delius and Elgar.

In 1967 he became Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, combining this post with his work in Liverpool.

In 1978 he had a short spell as Musical Director of the English National Opera. It was during the 1970's that he conducted the Last Night of the Proms on several occasions and endeared himself to many with his gentle fun, but also his dignity. He was twice nominated as Conductor of the Year by the Composers' Guild. He was kept very busy during the 1980's, often working overseas and always in demand.

He was appointed OBE in 1958, CBE in 1968 and knighted in 1973. A religious and sensitive man he worked unstintingly to preserve high musical standards in whatever he did. He had a great love of cricket, which gave him the opportunity to relax.

Despite his apparently quiet and unobtrusive nature on the podium, he was not always as confident as he appeared. He will be sorely missed in the musical world.

Sir Charles had visited Sutton Valence on a number of occasions over the past few years, notably when he gave the address at the Memorial Service for Edward Craven. He also took a keen interest in the music at the school and was delighted to give his name to the Hall in the

Music School. It was fitting that the Orchestral and Choral Concert held at the school at the end of June should be dedicated to his memory.

COOPER On 19th December 1992, Cyril COOPER (1933 F) aged 76.

ELLIS On 15th January 1992, Peter ELLIS (1933 W). After leaving Sutton Valence, Peter went to New College, Oxford. His friend Tom Debenham, writes: The Dental Profession has lost one of its more colourful characters by the death of Peter Ellis, at the age of 77.

Son of an Oxford bank manager, he entered Guy's with me in 1932 and our careers were to be closely linked until the outbreak of World War II. A formidable second-row forward and no mean golfer, he was also an excellent clinician and won second and third year prizes.

As a young man Peter was always forthright, indeed somewhat abrasive, but his loyalty and puckish sense of humour endeared him to us all.

After qualifying and house appointments, he proceeded to North Western University, Chicago, to get his D.D.S.. I joined him there in 1938, having fortuitously been awarded the Montgomery Ward Scholarship; this should have been given to Peter but he was completely without rancour and we remained firm friends.

After graduation we drove an old banger across the U.S.A. - our accommodation being the car and two sleeping bags. Selling the car in a street market in Seattle, we took ship, steerage class, from Vancouver to New Zealand for further adventures and to look for work. This odyssey was cut short by the declaration of war just as we had landed in the South Island. Two jobs then came up - one in Nelson and the other in Singapore. Peter took a coin from his pocket and asked me to call. It was to be heads for Singapore (Peter) and tails for me (Nelson). I won the toss and the rest is history. He was, of course, captured by the Japanese and was at the time acting as an anaesthetist in the Malayan Defence Medical Service. The next three and a

half years he spent as a prisoner in the notorious and°dreaded Changi goal. It says much for Ilk resilience of character that he survived with spirit unscathed - but Peter was never lacking in courage. Nevertheless he suffered damage to his health from which I think he never really recovered..

After the war he went back to his roots in Oxford and joined Mr. Taylor in Keble Road and later establishing his practice in Moreton Road where he was until his retirement.

Peter Ellis was a meticulous operator, a perfectionist, never content with less than the best. He was a member (and past President) of the Oxford Branch of the B.D.A. for forty-three years and took a leading part in its activities. He was a member of The American Dental Society of London and was elected President in 1984-5.

He was blessed with a very happy family life and was a wise and gentle father. We shall all miss him and we extend our heartfelt sympathy to Lyn and children Gillian, Robin and Simon.

DAVISON On 9th April 1992. Suddenly, Canon Paul DAVISON (1934 W), aged 77. After leaving Sutton Valence, Paul went to Exeter College, Oxford where he studied English. After graduating he went to Ripon Hall at Oxford where he took Holy Orders.

He worked as an Assistant Curate at St. Paulinus in Crayford and at St. Albans in Dartford, before becoming Chaplain at the Royal Merchant Navy School at Bearwood in Berkshire (now Bearwood College). From 1955 till 1964 he was Rector of Hawkedon and Standfield in Suffolk, a county in which he spent the rest of his life. From 1964 till his death, Paul lived in Needham Market where he was Vicar of Needham Market with Badley and later also Rural Dean of Bosmere until his retirement a year or so ago.

GEAKE On 22nd July 1992, after a long and gallant fight against cancer, Richard Astill GEAKE (1935 M).

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His widow, Joan, writes: `Before the last war Richard went to Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was then called, to learn tobacco growing. On the day war was declared he joined up and, after training, was sent to the Middle East where he fought for eighteen months in the Western Desert before being commissioned in Cairo into the Worcestershire Regiment. Soon after this he was seconded to the Sudan Defence Force.

After the war he joined the Sudan Political Service as an Assistant District Commissioner and later became a District Commissioner.

However, in 1951 he resigned from the Political Service and went back to farming in Rhodesia where he subsequently owned two farms, grew 150 acres of tobacco and ran a herd of 600 Hereford cattle.

Dick Geake was Chairman of Machete Intensive Conservation Area Committee for twenty-four years and did all he could for the natural resources of the country. He was also Vice-Chairman of Marandellas Rural Council which devoted a lot of time to the education and health of African children. He was Senior Section Leader of the Marandellas Police Reserve for twenty years, was awarded the Police Reserve Long Service Medal and had some exciting times protecting the farms in the area against terrorism, narrowly missing a land mine on one occasion.

In 1975 he returned to the family home in Cornwall where his family had lived for several hundred years. He became Chairman, and later President, of the Landrake Conservation Committee.

He is survived by his widow, Joan, his daughter Jocelyn, who flew from Melbourne for the funeral, and three grandsons.

OFFEN On 1st June 1992, suddenly, William John OFFEN (1939 M), aged 67. William started work in the family butcher's shop in Staplehurst and on the family farm. On his marriage in 1946, he went to live at Lake Farm, near Gladwish Turning, where he farmed for the rest of his life.

In 1964 he bought the minerals firm Pope's and a year later, Hayward's of Maidstone. The new firm of Pope and Hayward's thrived and is well-known locally. He retired from the firm in 1986. A great lover of cricket, Bill Offen played for Headcorn for several years. He was a great lover of the countryside and interested especially in birds. He was also a good and kind family man who is much missed by his widow and children.

HANCOCK In the autumn of 1990, suddenly at his home in New Hamburg, New York, Theodore Ivell Ashton HANCOCK (1942 M), aged 67.

Mrs. Ann Vernon-Smith (daughter of N.P.BENTLEY, Master 1921-1964, and sister of F.W.P.BENTLEY 1950 W) writes: `A talented artist, Theo emigrated to the U.S.A. after the Second World War and became successful as a painter and art teacher in New York City and in the Upper Hudson Valley where he made his home for the last fifteen years of his life. Many of his wartime paintings of Sutton Valence survive and will eventually find their way to the School archives.'

BROCKWELL On 28th June 1992, in Argentina, after a courageous fight against cancer, John Bertram BROCKWELL (1944 W), aged 66. Colin SLOAN (1944 W) writes: `John spent his life in the Argentine where his father had been Chief Accountant for the railways. John was already bilingual in Spanish when he came to Sutton Valence and made a name for himself at rugby as a fast and fearless wing forward and captain of the XV. After leaving school he joined the Royal Navy through the university short-course scheme at Cardiff and played rugby for the university and on one occasion for Cardiff.

In 1947 he reluctantly returned to the Argentine to support his father. He had successful careers with Agar Cross, then Chrysler as Regional Sales manager, covering an enormous mileage. Always a cheerful extrovert, he did not allow health and financial problems to cloud his life.

In 1980 he married Beatrice, a charming Argentine school teacher (of English) and they

had a very happy married life, keeping their heads down during the Falklands episode. John visited England occasionally (twice with his wife) and enjoyed nothing more than a quiet evening in an English pub. He maintained a great interest in school activities and watched a rugby match there on his last visit in October 1991. He died on his twelfth wedding anniversary, waking from a coma to say goodbye to his wife Bea.' NATION In May 1992, suddenly after a heart attack, Richard Antony NATION (1947 M), aged 64. After National Service in the R.A.F., Richard went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read French and Spanish. In 1952 he started working as an Insurance Broker at Lloyds' for the firm of Edward Lumley and Sons. In 1955 he went to Australia to work for the Sydney branch of the same firm, becoming a Director in 1968.

Later in his life he took up flying, holding an unrestricted Private Pilot's licence. He was an active member of the Gordon Hockey club right up to the time of his death.

SMITH On 12th October 1992, whilst at work, Edgar SMITH (1927 W), aged 61. He worked in the family business, which was Transport and Warehousing.

MONTGOMERIE On 9th June 1991, after a long battle against cancer, William Stevenson MONTGOMERIE (1948 M), aged 60. Peter Fairley writes, `Bill Montgonierie -Monty to many- left SVS with no farming experience but grew to become one of the biggest dairy farmers in Kent. The son of a distinguished vet., he started with twelve Ayrshire cows at Otford and, by sheer hard work, built up his herd to three hundred and twenty milking Ayrshires and Friesians further along the Darent valley at Shoreham. He became a leading figure in the NFU and devoted much of his spare time to Young Farmers Clubs.

He was proud enough of Sutton Valence to send his son Andrew (1976 M), to the school.

Those who shared his own schooldays will remember him as a gentle Scot with an unfailing sense of humour, a firm but fair disciplinarian and a devotee of Stephen Potter, practising 'one-

upmanship' in all one-to-one contests, especially on the tennis court where he perfected the sky-high lob. First in and frequently last out as a batsman, rugged as a front-row forward, he finally turned to golf, winning a rare membership of St. George's and the captaincy of the Sevenoaks Wilderness, with a final handicap of 11.

He asked his wife Shirley not for a funeral but for a party. Like him, it proved to be one of the best.

COTTLE In February 1992, after a long illness at his home in California, Graham David COTTLE (1958 W), aged 52.

SERGISON On 1st June 1992, after a short illness, James Arthur Leopold SERGISON (CCFQM 195174), aged 82. Jim (or Jack as he was known to many) Sergison was a dearly-loved figure at Sutton Valence over a number of years. He came to Sutton Valence after a career in the Army in the Royal West Kent Regiment and the Royal Military Police, from which he retired as a W.O.I.. He had served in India for much of the time and later in Egypt.

He was a firm disciplinarian, but eminently fair in all his dealings and was a person to whom boys could turn for advice and help, knowing that he would keep their confidence.

He helped with the shooting team for all his time at Sutton and gave good advice to many shooters especially during the 1950's and 1960's when the school had so many successes at Bisley.

Jim was responsible for starting the Corps of Drums which continued until his retirement.

The CCF was always smartly turned out under Jim's watchful eye; he himself was always immaculately dressed. After his retirement Jim visited the school from time to time from his home in Loose to keep up his interest in the school and his friendships with the staff, several of whom were close friends. Jim loved gardening and reading; though he was not able to spend much time gardening because of illhealth in his last years.

BURNETT On 24th July 1992, peacefully at home after a long illness, Jonathan Ernest BURNETT (1977 F), aged 32. Jonathan went to York University where he read Politics and Philosophy. Whilst at York he became interested in drama and produced and acted in a play which was part of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. His interest in music - he played piano and bassoon - was continued throughout his life. After leaving York, he worked as a manager in the leisure division of Virgin, before taking up articles to become a Chartered Accountant.

During his last few months, he loved to walk on BM with his dog, Rosie.

RIPPER In July 1992, tragically as the result of a car accident in New Zealand, Hamish Ashley RIPPER (1982 M), aged 26. Hamish was the son of Ashley RIPPER (1946 M). After leaving school Hamish joined the Merchant Navy Training College at Greenhythe. He worked on several ships around the United Kingdom, cable-laying amongst other things. His first ship as a qualified officer was the MV Al Zohal, a refrigerated fruit ship operating between Saudi Arabia and South America.

In 1988 he joined the sailing ship Bounty as Second Engineer and circumnavigated Australia before paying off in Auckland, New Zealand, in order to see his family. He decided to stay in New Zealand and worked first for Divers Service Ltd. as a shore manager; he had worked previously on a diving ship in the Red Sea. He then worked as Deputy Maintenance Manager of New Zealand Steel's iron ore mine until his death; as a mark of respect the mine shut down on the day of his funeral, an unusual step and one that reflects his standing.

It was hoped that he would one day take over his father's company, building Sports/ Racing Cars; he was already partially involved and would have driven a Works car in due course.

A short memorial service was held in the School Chapel on 6th September, 1992, organised by Jonathan RICHARDS (1982 M). The readings were given by Bob CHANCE (Master since 1961), Hamish's Housemaster, and the

Headmaster. After the service an oak tree was planted in his memory in the South-East corner of Lower by Hamish's aunt, Mary Ripper.

KRUGER On 8th February 1993, as the result of a motor-cycle accident, Kevin Garry Giles KRUGER (1986 F). Kevin had been Head of Founders in his last year and he was doing well in a managerial position in insurance. We extend our sympathy to his parents and his sister, Naomi (1992 V).

HOLMES In October 1992, in a motor-cycle accident in Cyprus, Jonathan Edward HOLMES (1988 W). Jonathan had been working as an actor since he left school and was visiting his parents in Cyprus at the time of the accident.

BOURNER On 13th January 1993, George Ernest BOURNER (Lambe's porter 1966-1981).

George had worked for many years as a shepherd and as a cattleman on the Marshes before coming to the school. After his retirement, he continued to help out at meetings with his wife, Molly, to whom we send our deepest sympathy.

DIAMOND On 31st August 1992, suddenly in Glasgow, Canon David John Diamond, aged 57.

David Diamond was not an Old Suttonian, but he was known to many Suttonians over the last few years. The produce collected at Harvest Festival, notably tins of baked beans, was taken to the parish of St. Paul's Church, Deptford where David Diamond was Rector for nearly twenty-five years. The produce was distributed amongst the poor and needy of the parish.

He was a remarkable man who was much loved in his parish and by all who met him; he preached in Chapel in school on several occasions and pupils visited Deptford to help him.

He will be sadly missed.

MOULTON On 21st November, Major-General James Louis MOULTON, Royal Marines, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., (1924 W), aged 87. Jim' Moulton was one of our most distinguished former pupils. He joined the Royal Marines on leaving school, serving on the battleships, H.M.S. Rodney and H.M.S. Revenge, but later volunteered for

the Fleet Air Arm when he served on the carriers H.M.S. Glorious and H.M.S. Eagle. In 1936 he passed the Camberley Staff College entrance examination.

At the start of the Second World War he was GSO3 in the operations section of the British Expeditionary Force in France, playing a prominent part in the evacuation at Dunkirk. After occupying Madagascar in 1942, he later formed 48 Commando at Deal in preparation for the DDay landings. It was thanks to his leadership that the 48 Commando's landing was not a disaster as it came under heavy fire. He was later awarded the D.S.O. during the campaign in Northern France.

After the war he pioneered marine training in mountain and Arctic warfare. He was on the staff of the Commandant General Royal Marines and was appointed O.B.E. in 1950. In Malta he commanded the 3rd Commando Brigade and became aware that improvements were necessary in the role of the commandos. As Major General commanding Portsmouth Group Royal Marines he realised the significance of helicopters and developed the landing of commandos from these aircraft. This happened for the first time during the Suez campaign of 1956. He was made C.B. the same year.

From 1957 to 1961 he was Chief of Amphibious Warfare and devised new strategies for landing both men and armoured vehicles. It was from this initiative that Landing ships such as H.M.S. Fearless and H.M.S. Sir Galahad evolved to play a vital part in the Falklands campaign. He retired from the Royal Marines in 1961 and wrote a numbers of books on military matters as well as becoming editor of 'Brasseys Annual'.

Despite this busy life, he never forgot the school and served as a Governor for a number of years in the 1960s and 70s. He enjoyed the outdoor life and spent a good deal of time walking in the mountains.

GUNDRY On 26th October 1993, Richard Sheldon Cradock GUNDRY (1928 W), aged 84.

After leaving school where he "fagged" for the late Tubby CRAVEN (1924 W), Dick Gundry went to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he read the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. He then spent a couple of years working for A.E.I. in Manchester before joining the B.B.C. as an engineer in 1934. He remained with the corporation

until his retirement in 1971. Amongst his main hobbies was music, especially choral music.

MOORE On an unknown date Herbert Ramsay MOORE (1928 M), aged 80.

NEWMAN On 18th March 1994 John Richard NEWMAN (1928 M), aged 83.

DEVONSHIRE On 31st January 1994 Basil Warrick DEVONSHIRE (1930 M), aged 79. He spent his career working for Barclays Bank from 1932 to 1974, in Pulborough, Ryde, Southampton, Winchester, Bournemouth, London and Peterborough before retiring as a Local Director of the Bank in Norwich.

During the Second World War he served in the R.N.V.R., firstly based in Freetown, West Africa, being awarded the M.B.E. and then on the staff of the C. in C. Portsmouth.

His brother, John W. DEVONSHIRE (1930 M) writes that Basil was a cheerful personality who enjoyed life and golf in particular. Although he never married he was a popular and generous uncle to his nieces and their children. He enjoyed beer and entertaining at his cottage. His only known `sin' was to be fined four pounds at Peterborough for going north on a southbound carriageway!

OLIVER In February 1994 John OLIVER (1930 F). John was the father of Frank OLIVER who has been the Leader of the Industrial Week for the last fifteen years and is known to many O.S. and staff, and father-in-law to Mrs. Glynis OLIVER, who has been a Laboratory Technician at the school for the last six years.

John worked for Foster Clark in Maidstone for a number of years and later for A.E.I. Cables. His brother, Ronald OLIVER (1932 F) was also at Sutton Valence.

SMITH On 11th December 1993, peacefully in hospital, Eric John Wills SMITH (1934 M), father of Anthony S.W.V. SMITH (1961 L).

After leaving school, John Smith was articled to his father, a solicitor, to study law. During the Second World War, he was in the 8th Battalion of The Suffolk Regiment, rising to the rank of Major.

After the war he became a Partner and Manager of William Rogers (Builders and Decorators) in Colchester where he remained until 1969. For three years he was the Assistant Secretary of Colchester Garrison Officers' Club before becoming the Secretary of Stowmarket Golf Club for fifteen years until his retirement in 1987.

After that he worked part time at Gog Magog Golf Club outside Cambridge.

KNIGHT In December 1992 Robert Henry KNIGHT (1939 M), aged 70, brother of Stephen F. KNIGHT (1937 M) and uncle of Stephen A. KNIGHT (1987 C). Robert was in farming BARBER In December 1993 Richard James BARBER (1956 W), aged 55. Richard served in Cyprus during National Service, before qualifying in Electrical Engineering. He worked for G.E.C., A.E.I. and later the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co. The later part of his life was spent living in Yorkshire where he enjoyed walking in the Dales.

WELCH In 1992 Christopher Robin Alexander WELCH (1960 L), aged 51. Christopher went out to South Africa in 1974 and spent the rest of his life in that country. He suffered a stroke in the early eighties and did not enjoy good health after that.

NEWS of O.S. Although now in his late eighties Terence CUNEO (1924 M) continues to practise his skills as an artist. Some may have seen his pictures in connection with the Channel Tunnel.

As one might expect there has been a great deal of correspondence as a result of the Appeal for the Astroturf. Amongst the letters was a generous donation specifically for Shooting in the school from Tony HARMAN (1932 M) who lives in Australia. He recalls shooting while at school and later with the London Rifle Brigade before going to work in Hong Kong for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. When war broke out he was in Tientsin, but was able to escape from China to join the Indian Army in Calcutta.

After the war Tony returned to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for a further twenty-five years.

We are grateful to Alan JAMES (1943 W) for sending us cuttings of the successful run of the 1943 Rugger Seven in the Public Schools Sevens. Sutton Valence reached the semi-final and lost to Bedford, the winners for the two previous years, only after extra time and having almost scored twice in actual time. Also included was a cutting about the North V South schools game in which the same season Sutton had three representatives; Alan himself was one of these along with Peter MACCORKINDALE (1942 M) and Richard WYLIE (1943 W). He was moved to send these by reports of the successful season in 1992/93.

John TERRY (1947 M) has written giving news of his sons. William TERRY (1972 L) is farming in France, whilst Charles TERRY (1975 L) is a fashion buyer in Italy.

In the Spring 1994 edition of Homes and Savings, the Halifax Customer magazine, there was an article on `The Sound of Music', the home of Michael CANDY (1952 W) in Hemel Hempstead. Michael has a WurliTzer pipe-organ in his home and the article gives details of its reconstruction after it was rescued from a Cambridgeshire cowshed. As a member of the Magic Circle, Michael keeps in touch with other who have an interest in magic, amongst them George HARVEY (1952 W) and Michael HOLFORD (1954 M).

John JOHNSON (1956 W) is one of several who remembers the early days of hockey at Sutton Valence. He recalls how a Dr Stewart, a Scottish international goalkeeper used to train the embryo goalies of that time. Joe Stewart retired from his local practice a few years ago and is living in Hastings. His two sons, Robert STEWART (1975F) and Charles STEWART (1980 F) are both in H.M. Forces, the former in the Royal Navy and the latter in the R.A.F. Another with fond memories of early hockey is Paul SELFE (1958 F) who can remember the 1958 team in detail, with amusing

comments about some of the players. A full account of Paul's reminiscences will appear in the next Newsletter.

Andrew PACEY (1965 W) writes to tell us that he has moved within the Watford area. He married in 1972 and his two sons are now aged 18 and 15. He is involved with sales in the building industry and is currently working for a brick manufacturer.

A former Secretary of the O.S.A., David CLEAVE (1974 F), has recently moved to Budapest as Assistant Managing Director for the Internationale Nederlanden Bank's subsidiary in Hungary. Previously David had been in Pakistan and Amsterdam.

Neville MILES (1979 C) says that he often sees Ian MARTIN (Master 1972-78). Neville himself keeps in contact with a large number of his contemporaries: Michael DARLING (1979 L), Richard NICHOLS (1978 L), Julian ALLISON (1979 C), David TISSIMAN (1980 L), Stephen CRANMER (1979 C) and Philip RUSSELL-VICK (1976 C) amongst them.

Nick MARSHALL (1980 C) has written to give notice of his marriage and the birth of his daughter (See Marriages and Births). Nick is working as a Director of his own company arranging commercial mortgages. He has also given us news of Jith SEN (1980 L) who works in the Video and Film editing business and has produced films for charities such as Compassion in World Farming as he has very strong feelings about cruelty to animals. Paul CORBALLIS (1980 L) is managing property in San Francisco.

Simon CATTELL (1982 W) is playing cricket regularly and in June played on Upper for the Sussex Martlets against the Band of Brothers.

We have heard from Chris KING (Master 1979-83) about his forthcoming move from Rendcomb College where he is a Housemaster and Head of Geography, to Kimbolton School where he is to be Deputy Head from September 1994. Chris is President of the Common Room

at Rendcomb and runs the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme as well as taking 1st XV Rugger and 2nd XI Cricket. He and his wife Liz now have three sons, James (9) Andrew (6) and Henry (3).

Tim EVANS (1985 W) climbed Annapurna in Nepal on his way to Hong Kong to join the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank a year ago. Now he has been transferred as Manager of the British Bank of the Middle East in Ras al Khaimah in the U.A.E. With no alcohol and no cinemas life sounds austere, but Satellite TV keeps him in touch with sport and there is some activity in the form of sailing and "Wadi Bashing" - either on foot in winter or in 4-wheel drive vehicles in summer.

Andrew POUND (1986 C) graduated from Stirling University two years ago and started working for a public relations consultancy, Charles Baker, in London. He has now joined CPC, the American food multinational and is a brand manager on Bovril, Marmite and Frank Cooper marmalade, based in Esher.

We congratulate Trevor WHITE (Master 1983-89) on his appointment as Head of Chemistry at Whitgift School.

Trevor has been working at Epson College for the past three years.

Russell BLANCHARD (1990 F) is studying Dentistry at King's College Hospital in London and has spent some time in Accident and Emergency. He plays hockey for the university, but has given up rugger and cricket because he no longer has the time. He shares a flat with Murray POOLE-CONNOR (1990 C) and Glen PENMAN (1991 M).

Neil DAVIS (1990 M) is at the University of Portsmouth studying for an HND in Software Engineering; he hopes to transfer to the final year of the Informatics degree in October.

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Barghi M.A. 1986 H & W; GCSE & A; Distinction Prize. (Goes to London School of Economics to read Management).

Summer 1993 AbuduA.O. 1986 H & M; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes, Economics Prize; School Prefect; 1st XV Rugger, Half Colours; 1st XI Hockey, Full Colours; 1st XI Cricket; Senior Basketball; Senior Athletics; Junior Squash; C.C.F.; Junior Play, Choir, (Goes to Manchester University to read Economics).

Adu-Bobie B. 1990 W; GCSE; U/ 15 XV Rugger; U/ 15 XI Hockey; Intermediate Athletics. (Goes to college in London).

Amissah L. 1987 H & M; GCSE & A; 2nd XV Rugger; Junior Athletics; Junior Cross-Country; Judo; C.C.F. (Gap year travelling, then European Business School, London).

Bianca Armstrong 1989 S; GCSE & AS; 1st Girls' Hockey; 1st Netball, Half Colours; 2nd Girls' Tennis; C.C.F. Cpl. (Goes to college in Australia).

Arroyo-Ortega A. 1991 M; A; 2nd XV Rugger; 4th XI Hockey; Hunting Society.

(Goes to college).

Asar T. 1991 M; A; 1st XV Rugger; Vice -Captain of Hockey, Full Colours, Kent U/18 Hockey; Senior Basketball. (Goes to Brunel University to read Politics & Economics).

Au T.S.E. 1991 M; A; 2nd Badminton. (Goes to college).

Baker S.R. 1988 L; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes, GCSE Prize; House Prefect; 3rd XV Rugger; 2nd XI Hockey; U/ 15 Cricket; (Goes to C.C.F. S/Sgt; Hunting Society.

Shuttleworth College for Agriculture).

Laura Barber 1991 S; GCSE; C.C.F. (RAF). (Goes to Bexhill College).

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Barr A.R. 1988 W; GCSE & A; Distinction Prize; 2nd XV Rugger; 2nd XI Hockey; Captain of Cricket, Full Colours, Kent U/19 Cricket. (Gap year in Australia, then goes to Newcastle University to read Rural Resource Management).

Bell A.C.G. 1988 B & L; GCSE; Intermediate Athletics: Intermediate Cross-Country.

(Goes to Maidstone G.S.).

Benson J.A 1990 W; GCSE; 3rd XV Rugger; U/ 15 XI Cricket, C.C.F. (Goes to Skinners' School).

Pharmacy) .

Collins I.J.W. 1986 B & F; GCSE & A; Scholar, Distinction Prizes, Form Prizes, L6 Maths Prize, L6 Economics Prize, Kitchener Prize for Maths, Wood Prize for Physics, House Prefect; 3rd XI Hockey; U/ 15 XI Cricket; C.C.F. (RAF) W02; Orchestra, Choir. (Goes to Imperial College, London to read Electrical Engineering).

Cowell R.S. 1986 B, L /& M; GCSE & A; House Prefect; 2nd XV Rugger; 1st XI Hockey; Senior Athletics, C.C.F. (Goes to Nottingham Trent University to read Biological Sciences).

Cresswell G.J. 1989 F; GCSE & A; Senior Play.

(Goes to College).

Drury J.W.R. 1988 C & M; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes, Geography Project Prize; Chapel Prefect; School Prefect; U/ 15 XV Rugger; Senior Cross-Country, Half Colours; 1st Squash; 1st Shooting VIII; C.C.F. (RAF) F/Sgt, D of E Silver Award; Senior Play, Hunting Society. (Gap year in Canada, then goes to Aberdeen University to read Agricultural Science).

Marie Durling 1992 C. (Goes to Maidstone Girls' G.S.).

university) .

Feger J. 1992 W; GCSE & A; 3rd XI Hockey; Ist VI Tennis; C.C.F. (Goes to Gymnasium in Germany) .

Field J.M.D. 1988 M; GCSE & A; GCSE Prize; 3rd XV Rugger; 1st IV Fives; Captain of Golf; C.C.F. Sgt. (Goes to Sunderland University to read Physiology) .

Fox L.S. 1988 C & M; GCSE & A; 3rd XV Rugger; 1st XI Hockey;1st VI Tennis;1st V Squash; C.C.F., D of E Bronze Award. (Goes to University of Coventry to read French and German).

Hayzelden O.E. 1988 L; GCSE & A; House Prefect; U/ 15 XV Rugger; Ist IV Fives; Intermediate Athletics; Captain of Shooting, Half Colours; C.C.F. C/Sgt. Gap year with Project Trust in southern Africa, the goes to Greenwich University to read Business Studies).

Henderson K.W.J. 1990 F; GCSE 3rd XI Hockey. (Goes to Maidstone G.S.).

Prisca Hesse 1991 S; GCSE & A; House Prefect; 1st Girls' Tennis; (Goes to College in Paris for Hotel Management).

Grabham N.R. 1988 W; GCSE & A; House Prefect; 2nd XV Rugger; 3rd XI Hockey; U/ 16 Tennis; Stage Lighting. (Gap year in Australia, then goes to Birmingham College of Higher Education for Leisure Management).

Hakimnejad N. 1991 M; GCSE; (Goes to Bosworth College, Northampton).

Kathryn Hannah 1986 V; GCSE & A; Scholar, Music Scholar, Distinction Prizes, L6th Biology Prize, L6th Music Prize, O.S.A. Prize, Richard Horn Prize for Drama and Music, Daler-Rowney Art Prize, Music Prize, Clothworkers' Prize; School Prefect; 1st Girls' Hockey; 2nd Netball; D of E Bronze Award; Senior Play, Orchestra, Choir. (Gap year studying Italian and Music, then goes to Newcastle University to read Fine Arts) .

Harris C.J.A.H. 1986 B & L; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes; House Prefect; 3rd XV Rugger; 2nd XI Hockey; U/ 16 XI Cricket; C.C.F. (RAF) F/ Sgt. (Goes to Newcastle University to read Mechanical Engineering).

Demelza Harris 1988 V; GCSE. (Goes to Mid Kent College).

Haywood O.G. 1986 B & F; GCSE & A; House Prefect;1st XV Rugger, Half Colours; Captain of Fives, Full Colours; Ist VI Tennis, Half Colours; 1st V Squash; Senior Play, Hunting Society. (Gap year as Tutor in Australian school, then goes to

Hockaday N.E.I.L. 1992 H/B. (Goes to school in California, U.S.A.).

Sara Hockaday 1992 S; Junior Play. (Goes to school in California, U.S.A.).

Hodgson N.P.S. 1989 M; GCSE & A; House Prefect; Vice Captain of Rugger, Full Colours; 2nd XI Hockey; Senior Athletics; Intermediate Swimming. (Goes to Southampton University to read Civil Engineering).

Holroyd J.E.J. 1988 L; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes; Ricketts Prize; School Prefect; 1st XV Rugger; Captain of Cross-Country, Full Colours, U/ 19 Kent County Cross-Country; Senior Athletics, Full Colours; C.C.F. Sgt. (Goes to Bradford University to read Chemistry).

Jennifer Howells 1989 S; GCSE & A; DalerRowney Art Prize; Head of House, School Prefect; 1st Girls' Hockey, Half Colours; Captain of Netball, Full Colours; 2nd Girls' Tennis; Girls' Athletics; Girls' Cross-Country; Senior Play, Orchestra, Hunting Society. (Goes to Loughborough University to read Psychology).

HuntJ.H. 1988 C & M; GCSE & A; Distinction Prize; House Prefect; 1st XV Rugger, Half Colours; 1st XI Hockey, Full Colours; Intermediate Swimming; U/ 15 Cricket XI; Captain of Judo; D of E Silver Award; Orchestra. (Goes to Edinburgh University to read Biology).

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Imberg L. 1988 B & L; GCSE; Distinction Prizes; 3rd XV Rugger; 1st XI Hockey; U/ 14 Cricket XI; 1st Tennis. (Goes to school in Holland).

Majella Imberg 1988 V; GCSE & A; Distinction Prize, L6th German Prize; School Prefect; 1st Girls' Hockey; 1st Girls' Tennis. (Gap year in Germany, then goes to university to read Languages) .

Jones T.E.R. 1991 B; Distinction Prize. (Goes to Cranbrook School).

Kobayashi Y. 1991 M; GCSE; (Goes to King's School, Taunton).

Claudia Latham 1986 V; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes, Bloxham Prize for English; House Prefect; 1st Girls' Hockey, Half Colours; 1st Girls' Tennis, 2nd Netball; C.C.F.; Junior Play. (Goes to University of Kent to read French and Business Studies).

Elene Lee 1991 S; A; Distinction Prize, House Prefect; Orchestra. (Goes to Manchester University to read Electrical Engineering).

Lee M.M.H. 1991 W; GCSE; Distinction Prize; U/ 16 Tennis. (Goes to Tonbridge School).

Vivian Leung 1991 S; GCSE (Goes to school in Canada) .

Emma Lloyd 1987 V; GCSE & A; Distinction Prize; House Prefect; Captain of Girls' Hockey; Full Colours; 1st Girls' Tennis; 1st Netball; Junior Play; Hunting Society. (Goes to Lancaster University to read Business Studies).

Loos C.F. 1992 W; A; L6th History Prize; Judo; C.C.F. (Goes to Gymnasium in Germany).

Fiona MacDonald 1987 V; GCSE & A; Scholar, Distinction Prizes; Senior Girls' Swimming, D of E Bronze Award; Senior Play, Choir. (Goes to Sheffield University to read Psychology).

McLeod M.D. 1987 H & M; GCSE & A; Head of House, School Prefect; Captain of Rugger, Full Colours; 1st XI Hockey, Half Colours; Senior Athletics, Full Colours; U/ 13 XI Cricket; C.C.F.; Choir. (Goes to London Guildhall University to read Business Management and Law).

Merrifield P. 1988 B, L & M; GCSE. (Goes to Canterbury College).

Midwood G.P. 1988 B & L; GCSE; Exhibitioner.

(Goes to the Judd School, Tonbridge).

Midwood L.J. 1988 M & L; GCSE & A; (Goes to Greenwich University to read International Business).

Miles R.I. 1986 B & F; GCSE & A; Fry Prize for Computing; House Prefect. (Goes to Kingston University to read Law and Accountancy).

Mills S.J.D. 1988 C & W; GCSE & A; GCSE Prize, Derrick Prize for Verse Speaking, Clothworkers' Prize; House Prefect; 1st XI Cricket; Senior Cross-Country, Half Colours; 1st V Squash; C.C.F. Sgt; Senior Play, Choir, Hunting Society.

(Goes to Reading University to read Botany and Zoology) .

Jessica Mitson 1991 S; A; House Prefect; Girls' Cross-Country, Half Colours; 1st Shooting VIII; Girls' Swimming; C.C.F. Sgt; Hunting Society.

(Goes to Buckingham College of Higher Education for a Nursing Degree).

Victoria Moon 1986 V; GCSE & A; Distinction Prize, L6th Music Prize, Derrick Prize for Verse Speaking, Music Prize; School Prefect; U/ 14 Girls' Hockey; U/14 Netball; Senior Play, Orchestra, Choir, Hunting Society. (Goes to Birmingham Conservatoire to read Music).

Morrison S.P. 1991 B. (Goes to Oakwood Park G.S.).

Raniya Naseem 1991 S; GCSE; (Goes to college in London).

Katherine New 1991 V; A; Music Scholar,

Distinction Prize, Shell Prize for Biology, Angell Prize for Maths; 1st Girls' Hockey, Full Colours; 2nd Girls' Tennis; D of E Silver Award; Senior Play, Orchestra, Choir, (Goes to University of York to read Ecology).

Ng H.H.C. 1986 H & M; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes; Angell Prize for Maths; Senior Basketball, Captain of Badminton; C.C.F. L/Cpl. (Goes to Sheffield University to read Architecture).

Opanubi O.E. 1991 M; A; House Prefect; 2nd XV Rugger; Senior Athletics; Senior Play, Hunting Society. (Goes to Luton University to read Law) .

Painter B.E. 1988 H & W; GCSE & A; Head of House, School Prefect; 1st XV Rugger, Full Colours; 1st XI Hockey, Full Colours; 1st XI Cricket, Full Colours, Kent U/ 19 Cricket; Senior Swimming; Captain of Basketball, Full Colours; Judo; Golf. (Goes to De Montfort University, Leicester to read Mechanical Engineering).

Perry D.Z. 1990 W; GCSE; 4th X1 Hockey; U/ 14 XI Cricket;1st Squash. (Goes to Westminster College for Catering).

Phillips K.C. 1988 F; GCSE & A; Scholar, Garside Prize for History, Ricketts Prize; Head of House, School Prefect; 3rd XV Rugger; 3rd XI Hockey; 2nd IV Fives; Senior Play; (Goes to Manchester University to read Law).

Piper R.G. 1991 B; (Goes to Cranbrook School) Alex Pocock 1988 V; GCSE & A; Home Economics Prize; House Prefect; Girls' Athletics; Girls' Swimming. (Goes to Kingston University to read Business Studies).

Corinna Reynolds 1986 V; GCSE & A; Kingdon Prize for Classics. (Goes to Northumbria University to read History of Art).

Richardson B.J. 1991 F; A. (Goes to Brighton University to read Engineering).

Robertson L.T. 1986 B & L; GCSE; 2nd XV Rugger; 1st XI Hockey, Full Colours, 1st XI Cricket. (Goes to Carlisle College for Leisure Management).

Ryan J.T.P. 1991 M; A; Winstanley Prize for Chemistry; 2nd XV Rugger, Senior CrossCountry, Half Colours; Senior Athletics, Halt' Colours; Fencing; D of E Silver Award; Orchestra. (Goes to St. Andrew's University to read Biochemistry and Physiology).

Sandom J.A. 1988 C & W; GCSE & A; Ward Prize for Religious Studies; House Prefect; 3rd XV Rugger; 3rd XI Hockey; 1st XI Cricket; 1st Squash V; Choir. (Goes to Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education to read Media Studies).

Schmidt M.S. 1991 W; A; Grizelle Prize for History (twice), Wheeler Prize for French, Economics Prize, Ricketts Prize; House Prefect; 2nd XV Rugger; 4th XI Hockey; Senior Basketball, Half Colours; Senior Cross-Country, Half Colours; Senior Athletics; 2nd IV Fives; D of E Silver Award; Orchestra, Hunting Society. (Goes to University of York to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics).

Schofield P.W. 1991 B. (Goes to Oakwood Park G.S.).

Power E.T. 1991 B. (Goes to Norton Knatchbull School, Ashford).

Franziska Scholl 1992 S; GCSE; 1st Girls' Tennis; 2nd Netball. (Goes to Gymnasium in Germany).

Raisbeck O.J. 1988 C & W; GCSE & A; House Prefect; 1st XV Rugger; 1st XI Hockey, Full Colours; 1st XI Cricket. (Gap year as Tutor in Australian School, then goes to Brunel University to read Applied Biology).

Scott C.P.G. 1988 C & M; GCSE & A; Scholar, Distinction Prizes, L6th Geography Prize, Geography Prize; House Prefect; Senior Cross-County; Squash V; Shooting VIII; C.C.F. C/Sgt; Senior Play, Hunting Society. (Gap year in South - 95 -

America, then goes to Hatfield College, Durham Sgt; D of E Silver Award; Senior Play, Orchestra, to read Geography).

Choir, Hunting Society. (Gap year in France and Australia, then goes to St. David's, Lampeter to dIi st oryanti an rc aeo h 1ogy) .

Shaw R.C. 1991 W; A; 1st VI Tennis, 2nd IV rea Fives. (Goes to Nottingham Trent University to read Spanish and European Studies).

Shum H.S.K. 1989 M; GCSE & A; Senior Basketball, Half Colours. (Goes to Westminster University to read Civil Engineering).

Sowemimo-Coker S.O. 1988 H, M & F; GCSE; Ist XV Rugger; 1st XI Hockey; Senior Athletics.

(Goes to college in London).

Ghillie Studd 1986 V; GCSE &A; House Prefect; Senior Play. (Gap year in Australia, then goes to Roehampton College for Teacher Training).

Amber Styles 1992 V; A. (Goes to Italia Conti School, London for Drama).

Thomson T.R. 1990 F; GCSE; 1st XI Hockey; Shooting. VIII. (Goes to Sparsholt College for Game Conservancy).

Walsh S. 1986 B & L; GCSE & A; Distinction Prizes; House Prefect; 1st XV Rugger; 1st XI Hockey, Half Colours; Captain of Athletics, Full Colours, Intermediate Kent Schools Athletics; C.C.F. (RAF) F/Sgt. (Goes to Warwick University to read Physics and Business Studies).

Waters W.G. 1988 L; GCSE & A; Edward Craven Prize; Head of House, School Prefect; 1st XV Rugger, Full Colours; Captain of Hockey, Full Colours, U/ 18 Kent, South East and England Hockey; 1st XI Cricket, Full Colours; C.C.F. Sgt. (Gap year Tutor at Underhill School, then goes to college).

Jean Wong 1991 S; GCSE; Girls' Swimming.

(Goes to University of San Francisco, California to read Natural Sciences).

Wooderson R.T.A. 1988 W; GCSE & A; Derrick Prize for Verse Speaking; House Prefect; 2nd XV Rugger; 2nd XI Cricket; Senior Cross-Country, Half Colours; Captain of Fencing; Judo; C.C.F.

Woodgate M J. 1986 B, F & M; GCSE & A. Distinction Prize, GCSE Prize, Clothworkers' Prize; School Prefect; 1st XV Rugger, Half Colours; 1st XI Hockey, Full Colours; Captain of Tennis, Full Colours; 1st V Squash; Judo; C.C.F. W02. (Goes to University of Coventry to read Business Studies).

Worthington R.A. 1988 B & F; GCSE. (Goes to West Kent College).

Frances Yonge 1989 S; GCSE & A; Music Exhibitioner, Distinction Prize, Headmaster's Prize; Head of School, School Prefect; 2nd Girls' Hockey; Girls' Cross-Country; Senior Play, Orchestra, Choir, Hunting Society. (Goes to Bournemouth University to read Media Studies).

Autumn 1993 Coveney D.P. 1992 B/H (Goes to Cornwallis School).

Harris S. 1993 F (Goes to Cranbrook School).

Hodgson R.B. 1989 H & M; U/ 15 Rugger (Goes to school).

Sirah Latief 1993 C. (Goes to school).

McHale S.J. 1993 L. (Goes to Cranbrook School).

Melanie Vathauer 1993 S. (Goes to Gymnasium in Germany).

Kristina von Petersdorff 1993 S. (Goes to Gymnasium in Germany).

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