Hebron highlights 1981 by Ken Pullen

EBIOM IGBLIGHTS 1981 .

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School Roll

Reports

Orbituaries

Exam Results

School Diary

School Activities

Creative writing

Sports Section

Former Hebronites

ACKNOWLEOGl:MENTS : The editor wishes to thank the Ladies of the School office, Mrs. Mobley and her typing class who prepared the manuscript and Mr. Pill who did most of the photography.

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This year

" Hebron

Highlights â&#x20AC;˘' was not released

end of April-as has hitherto been the case.

the

Instead, because

our new two-semester system, we decided to coincide the Magazine's issue with the conclusion of the

school

contents of the magazine represent

year.

the

Consequently

last fourteen

the

months

Hebron life: the earliest recorded activity being the 1980 Parents ' Day production of ''The Mikado'' and the

most recent

being

the

school camps which took place during the mid-term break. Only a matter of days after

the

magazine's

issue,

say

As we

thank

them for their participation in school l ife over the past few

years

"Good bye" to the leavers of Standards 11 and 13.

we wish them God Speed with the words of Psalm 86:11 "Teach me Thy way, 0 Lord, that I .May walk in Thy truth ...... "

A. K.

HEBRON STAFF SENIOR SCHOOL:

TEACHING STAFF

Miss Miss Miss

J. S. Adams A. D. Bateman M. Barton

Cert. Ed. Cert. of Tchg. B.Sc., (Hons), Dip. Ed. Stud., Dip. Tchg. B. Sc. (Hons) P G. C. E. Tchrs. Cert. B. Ed. (Hons)

Mr. Mrs. Mr. Mr. Miss Mr. Mr. Mr Mrs. Mr.

T. J.E. Bromley D. A. Bromley A. Cardy Enos L. Fletcher J.C. lngleby W. James P. S. Jenkins H. E. Jar.kins A. King

Dr. Mr. Miss Mr. Mr. Mr. Mrs. Mr. Miss Mrs.

D.J Mobley P. G. Morgan P.H. Osborn S, Pattemore B. Pill A. J. Taylor B. M. Taylor J. D. Twynam-Perkins D. Wagla11d J. Richards

M.A. M. A. (Oxen), Dip. Ed. B. A .. B. Ed. B. A. (Hons., Oxen) B. A. (Hons., Oxen) B. Ed., Cert Ed., D. C. G•• B. A. Ph.D. Tchrs. Cert., B. A. S. R. D., H. N. D. I. M. M.Sc. (Hons), Dip. Tchg. B. Ed. B. A., Cert. Ed.

Vice-Principal

Principal

B. Ed. Cert Ed. B. A. (Hons), P.. G. C, E. B.Sc.

MEDICAL STAFF Dr. Dr. Miss Miss

V. Mahadevan Lt. Col. Chhabra R. E. Scanlan K. McGuire

JUNIOR SCHOOL: Mr. Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Mr. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs.

I. Thomson S. Baxter M. Harris D. Grimes S. Williams D. Sloman P. G. Morgan J. Richards J. Cardy V. Thomson

M. B., B. S. B. D.S. S. R. N., S. C. M. S. R. N., S. R. M;, S. R. M. and C. H.

School Doctor School Dentist School Nurse School Nurse·

TEACHING STAFF B. A., Cert. Ed. Cert. Ed. B. Ed. (Hons. Cantab) Cert. Ed. B. A. (Hons), P. G. C. E. Dip. Tchg. Tchrs. Cert., B. A. B.Sc. B. Ed. (Hons) Cert. Ed.

Std VI Std V Std IV Std 111 Std I.I Std I Music Music Remedial Remedial

BOARDING STAFF Mrs. Mr. Mrs. Mr. Miss

S. F. lngleby P. Davies C. Davies M. Hawkes R. Wilkins

S. R. N., S. C. M. Cert. Ed. D. B. 0. B. Sc~

General Supervisor Business Manager

Transport Manager Lushington House~' keeper Mr. J. Xavier Assistant Supervisor Mr. P. G. Morgan Tchrs Cert, B. A. A Level Girls Mrs. M •. Morgan H. N. C•. A Level. Girls M. Sc. (Hons), DIP Tchg. A Level Boys Mr. S. Pattemore Mrs. R. Pattemore B. A. A Level Boys ,R. N. C. Miss C. G. Gibbard Selborne House keeper D. Mobley Phd. Senior Boys Dr. Senior Boys Mrs. · L. Mobley Cert of R. C. C. Mr. B. Pill B. Ed; Sen io.r G fr ls S. R. O. T. Senior Girls Mrs. P. Pill M, Maclennan Inter Girls Mrs. Mr. Inter Boys J. D. Twynam-Perkins B. Ed., C~rt Ed. Mrs. L. Twynam-Perkins Inter Boys DIP PRIM. Ed Mr. Silverdale B. A., B. Ed W. James Mrs. F. C. James S. R. N., S. C. M. Silverdale Miss P. Verhaeren N. N. E. B., C. N. Treetops P. Popplestone Gardens Miss S. R. N., S. C. M. Sunshine Miss J. Elliot

OFFICE ·STAFF Miss Mrs. Mr. Mr.

F. R. Allen U. Bhasme J, Thomas Nan ju

B.Sc.

ON FURLOUGH Mr. Mrs.

R.R. Wallis

Miss Miss

J, J. Gilbert

G A. Wall is M. Jackson

8. Sc., Dip,, Dip. Tcf1g. M.A. (Hons) Dip. Ed., Dip. Tchg. Dip. Coll. Ed. B. Ed.,

Secretary. Assistant Secretary Accountant Asst. Accountant

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~ebron JUNIOR SCHOOL STANDARD I Ingleby David Lewis I.,iao Kiong Sen Mobley Duncan Philip

STANDARD II Cardy Sarah Jane Daniel Lydia Desai Akil Yogendra Devaraj Thomas Jonathan Doreswamy Lakshmi {Amu) Hawthorne Barry Patrick Heldt Patricia Rose Ironside Deborah Joy James Jackson Lewis MacDonald Christine Jenmfer Milne Vanessa Joy Morgan Helen Elizabeth Popplestone Anita Maree Richards Fiona Elizabeth Saunders Stephen John S 11ith Bronwyn Joy Staehelin Cornelia Johanna Webb John Fredrick White Stephen George

School Roll :Jebruarv 19&1 Hawthorne Kathleen Annette Jacob Sam Vilanilathu Jenkins Micheal Alexander Jifri Farah Kowski Stefanie Zoyanka Lappin Graham Michael Parsons Latham Michelle Dawn Main Cameron Mark Marsh Eric Peter Ashok Milne Judson Ross Moosakutty Pervaz Popplestone David Mervyn Richards Jeremy David Yelland Staehel1n Matthias Jakob Thomas Lisa Thomas Sarah Thomson Jonathan Hiroshi Stewart Timm Angela Waltraut Watson Janine Frances White Lucinda Jane Wyatt Kelvin John

STANDARD VI

Christmas Philip Coltart Rosemary Anne Dalzell Emma Jane Fernandez Lisa Allanah Gifford Roger Hamilton Hart Sylvia Ann Hawthorne Sharon Melvill Hullah Candice Nona Ironside Bethanne Colleen

STANDARD I Jenkins Stephen Wesley

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE Devaraj Mark Jifri Tehmina Rao Subali Nallama1a

Kemp Tony Peter Main JonatlianJames Mcloughlin James Moss Simon Ewart William

STANDARD Ill Christmas Anita Clare Coltart Alistair David Thomas Devaraj Simon Devaraj Stephen Doreswamy Dhakshinamurthy Houston Ann Karuna Ingleby Katherine Jane Kemp Susan Janet Liao Choy Sen Mukadam Ali Reza Brazandeh Ray Andrew Robert Reid Thomas Basil John Vadera Sonali Rasik

STANDARD IV Brodie Helen Joyce Desai Chirag Yogendra

Mughogho Dangalira Kajera Ramachandran Pravin Ray David Murray

STANDARD V Sankar Viswa Raj Balasingam Vijain Dalzell Liam John Doreswamy Jyothy Parvathy Jamos Katherine Muriel Khemka Sidbarth MacDonald Colin Alasdair Macfarlane McKenzie John Murchison Milne Clifford Stuart Mughogo Malango Atupele Philip Suresh Andrew Ramanathan Rekha Saunders Paul George Scott Mark George Sitaraman Smith Joanne Emma Thomas Priti Susanne Wheeler Rachel Elizabeth

Scott Nicholas Stephen 路 Smith Caroline Lisa Thomson Sarah Masako Stewart Wainwright Andrew John Watson Peter David Watson Timothy William Webb Meliada

STANDARD VII

ARCHER Nicolas James CHALLEN Myra Anne CHRISTMAS David Bryan COLTART Andrew Gavin ELDER Keith John Duke HOUSTON David Christie JACOB John JACOB Rebecca McKENZIE lain Alastair McLOUGHLIN Sarah Louise PENNY Heide Mary Ann RATOS Ari REID-THOMAS Alistair Martin RICHARDS Timothy John Yelland STAEHELIN Annakatharina TIMM Christine Ruth WALLIS Robert Tereora WAINWRIGHT David Charles WATSON Pamela Jean WHEELER Graham Paul WYATT Lydia Sharon ZACHARIAH Kuruvilla John

14-12-1968 28- 4-1969 25- 路8-1968 20- 5-1968 29-11-1967 4- 3-1969 23- 3-1969 18- 3-1969 4- 9-1969 18-11-1968 18- 1-1969 23- 5-1968 8- 8-1969 27- 2-1969 (Day) 9- 7-1969 22- 9-1969 1- 3-1969 (Day) . 17- 1-1968 18- 4-1969 18- 3-1969 25- 5-1969 13- 1-1969

STANDARD VIII

AROKIASAMY Nirmala Yolanda DORESWAMY Shanmugam GIFFORD Anna Hamilton GILLETTE Daniel Ernest HART Lucy Joy HULLAH Brett Keith. JOSEPH Shirin Susan KHEMKA. Seema LOCKE Justin McCABE Jan Andrew McKENZIE Bru1:1e Allan. MOSS Penelope J.ane SAUNDERS David Allen

9- 2-1967 6- 6-1968 5- 1-1968 5- 4-1967 18- 9-1968 7-12-1966 a- a.;.1957 11- 2-1968 11-10-1966 14-11-1967 3-12-1967 28- 8-1968 3- 7.;1968

SIVARAJASINGAM Pakce路rathan WATSON Anne-Marie WILLEY Stuart James

21-3-1969 6-1-1968 13-3-1968

STANDARD IX

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ARCHER Francis John BUSAIDY Adil DANIEL James de SILVA John Rohan Roncalli FERNANDO Kamini Anne IRONSIDE Cathryn Grace JACOB Ann JACOB Elizabeth JOHN Benjamin Varghese JOSEPH Jasmine Elizabeth LARSEN Naomi Frances MAIN Elizabeth Kay MARIKAR Bashr NADARAJAH Lakshmi PATEREK JaceY. RAMANATHAN Radha RAMANATHAN Rathi RATOS Anthea Francesca RAY Stewart-James REID THOMAS Janet Elizabeth SPIKIN Harvey Wayne VARUGHESE Anita Bincy WHEELER Julian David WITCHALLS Jeremy Brian WYATT Andrew Kenneth John

5-10-1966 8- 7-1966 16- 8-1967 14- 4-1966 25-11-1967 2- 5-1967 11-2-1967 7- 9-1966 11-11-1966 25- 3-1966 17- 9-1967 28- 8-1967 31- 8-1964 12-2-1966 3-10-1965 9- 4-1967 9. 4-1967 19-12-1966 21- 3-1967 31- 1-1967 22- 1-1967 14- 1-1967 7- 4-1967 3-12-1966 20-10-1966

STANDARD X

BENNETT Douglas Prasad BLACKMORE David James FERRY Fiona Catherine JACOB Michaeline Veena 路 JOSHI Ashwin MAIN Jennifer Jean

13-8-1966 18-6-1966 2-12-1965 22-4-1964 21-4-1966 24-9-1965 5

MARSH David Richard MOSS Rachel Nancy OWEN Jayandh Mayo路路路 PAUL Ann-Sher.een

26-10-1965 28- 1-1966 20- 4-1965 9-12-1965

RATOS Anthuan RAY Stephen Eric REES Ian SKIRROW John SOMERS Johnny Francisc~s

31- 7-1965 24- 4-1965 6-10-1966 16- 2-1966 7- 8-1964 4- 7-1966 1- 8-1964 4- 7-1966 12- 8-1965 13- 9-1965

TURAKHIA Keran Julian TYMAN Sarah Louise WATSON Paul Robert WHITE Dorothy Janet Rund le WILLEY Neil James

STANDARD XII AMBALAVANAR DevadarshanNiranjan KUKA THAS Uma Ranee MITRA Bibek NAIK Raoul Nadhav WEESNER Jonathan ZAKI Mujahid

14-10-1964 25- 6-1964 17-11-1963 11- 1-1965 2- 3-1964 3- 8-1"962

. STANDARD XIII

DANIEL Vijendra FERRY Alasdair Tay KUKATHAS Jothi MARSH Elizabeth Susan Clare SMITH Hazel Joy WHITE William Barry

21- 2-1962 19-11-1962 29-11-1962 20- 3-1963 29- 4-1963 1-12-1962

PRINCIPAL'S REPORT 1981 Mrs. Smith, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome and thank you very much for your attendance at this Parents' meeting. As I have been absent on furlough for a large part of the year covered by this annual review. I asked the Vice-Principal, Miss Barton. to write this report for me (you know those books which have ghost authors: Mary Barton as told to Jonathan lngleby). Unfortunately, she declined. so you must forgive me if the account is not always an eye-witness one. Mrs. Smith, the Chairman of our School Council, will, alas be going on furlough this year and I am sure we all want to express our warm appreciation of the service she has rendered to the school. Mrs. Ironside has returned from furlough and we have recently appointed three new members of the Council - Mr. John Saunders, Mr. Hawthorne and Mr. Kawski so that numbers are being maintained• Staff numbers have also kept up well. though we expect a drop in overall strength in the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson, and Rachel who was born in Bangalore in July return to the U. K. at the end of term and Miss Jackson resumes the duties of Head of Junior School so ably performed by Mr. Thomson in her absence. The Morgan family, Miss Osborn. Miss Harris, Mr. King, and Miss Verhaeren are also due to leave the school and Miss Gilbert has promised to return to teach music. We are still negotiating for some replacements, and this process is going well. Some of the folk introd•Jced to you may be new to you; please do make the effort to get to know them as opportunity presents itself. Oi1e other piece of staff news: the Wall ises have been regularly in touch since' reaching New Zealand and seem to be settling in well. Mr. Wallis's health is much improved. Off stage, as it were, we have had cause to rejoice and to sorrow as well. The happy news concerns the five Hebron marriages. Miss Peters became Mrs. Bhasme last May. Miss Eves departed for furlough and came back as Mrs. Bromley; our warm thanks to Mr. Bromley for his services to Jhe school. Miss. Marshall. and Miss Dawson were also married upon returning to their home countries and so were Mr. Kemp and Miss Taylor, the only difference being that they married each other! We wish them all great joy in their experience of married life. Sorrowfully we have to report the death of two old friends of the school. Brian Wood who put in years of ·faithful and effective service here at Hebron, died in a climbing accident in Nepal in October of last year. Bill Nelson. greatly beloved by all who knew him, and for many years tha Chairman of the School Council also died last year. Both these demonstrated in different ways, the singleminded purpose of men dedicated to the service of God and to the service of others, and we. here at school richly reeped the benefit which accrued from their sacrificial lives.

We must turn now to the life of the schoo I over the past year and it would be well, perhaps, to begin with a ~onsideration of things academic. In this the tendency is to concentrate on the senior school because we hav~. in the ~enior part of ttie school, yardsticks by which to measure academic success. May I suggest that this is a mistake. The most important educational work is done in the Junior School. Following, as I am, the academic progress of my 7 year old daughter with great interest, I am amazed at the difficulty of the tasks that 7 years olds have to tackle. Tasks, may I say, far more difficult if we allow for the age difference than passsing 0 or A levels. Of course not all children master these basic skills and when theY do not it is impossible for them to build adequately on shaky foundations. So the first years of education are crucial, and in some ways a school should put its best materials into these foundational structures. Without an elaborate system of assessment - rightly frowned upon in British education there is of course no obvious way of measuring the succes of these early years of education. In the senior school, too, we do well to place weight on Standards 7 and 8 so that the school's emphasis is not unbalanced by the demands of the examination years. Exam results, since we must eventually turn to them, were quite good this year, or atleast this is certainly true of the 0 levels. The expertise of the teachers concerned was proved again by the accuracy of their forecasts, . in itself an encouragement:because, in my experience, teachers tend to estimate a little 'high' in order to encourage their students. The A level results might be best described as a 'mixed bag'. There were some startling successes for example Jacob John's 3 As, a result shared by very few of his contemporaries anywhere in the world - after all you can get into some British universities nowadays with two Os and an E. On the other hand there were also some disappointments. I think this throws a doubt not so much on the validity of the courses, but on our expertise in selecting candidates for them. In retrospect we have decided that we need to apply tougher criteria for admission to A level courses.路 Some concern has been expressed recently at the pressure on students in the examination on years as they seek to prepare for exams in the midst of a very full school programme. We have taken notice of this concern and have, to quote one example, returned to our more rigorous exclusion of exam candidates from the drama production you saw last night .. Equally we have curtailed the sports programme where it has clashed with teaching time. This does not mean that we think extra-curricular activities are not importnant. They certainly are, only they must be kept in their place. Sport continues to head the list as far as leisure time is concerned. A member of Staff who is also a past student of the school remarked to me recently how impressed he was at the variety of sports available since his days as a schoolboy. He is quite right. It is a credit to our Sports department. Jn addition to taking part in a wide variety of sports, the school has done

well in inter-school competion. The Super-Senior boys reached their first ever soccer final and the.Junior Girls and Super-Senior. girls w,on both the hockey and basketball championships - four trophies in ail. Perhaps the most magical moment of all however was Krishan George breaking the school high jump record at our own school sports, a record which has stood since 1966. went on to improve it by 4 inches. Second to sport, not necessarily in order of importance, but in order of time allocated, comes music. In a sense this is a much more serious business, particularly when music exams come round. There were some good passes this year in the lower exam grades for all instruments but rather less success in the higher grades whieh are naturally more exacting. Other cultural activities have flourished. The Drama Festival, organised this year on an inter-class competition basis was much appreciated by everybody and so was 'the Witness' performed at Union Church. The musical talent of the Junior School also carried off prizes in local competitions for the second year in succession. Music and drama have also played an important part in the school's contribution to the worship of local churches, especially Union Church. This is, perhaps the point to emphasise that the most impotent out-ofschool activities in which the school participates is the regular attendance .at church. Pastor Barry Jenkins and his wife. Maureen have been constantly at work in many capacities enriching the spiritual life of the school and to their names we must add those of Rev. John and Frances White at St. Stephen's and the leaders of the fellowship at Bethel Chapel. Last year, I put spec.ial emphasis on the school in the community and emphasised the value of our students being involved, at a proper level, in the locality. Alas. this impetus has been difficult to maintain. However, on campus, we ha\te had two welcome developments in the spiritual life of the school: a regular prayer breakfast on Friday morning and a Youth Fellowship on Sunday evenings, both voluntary and both encouragingly well attended. We continue to be deeply encourged by the good attitude of our senior students. I often say - I think I said it at this time last year-that the introduction of the A level courses- has been a great help to the school in providing a more mature student leadership. Under their guidance the Student Council has continued to work well. for example. Many of these students are already exhibiting a mature Christian conviction as witness the six baptisms on Sunday last路 Others have come forward for confirmation.

All these developmets and achievements lie within the day-to-day of the school. Perhaps we should, in conclusion, stand back and ask ourselves two questions. 'Firstly, what's new? What did the past year bring with it? Well, first of all a slightly smaller school-the present roll is 220, but with a higher percentage of children from the families of Christian workers than has recently been the case. Our corespondence ~courses for ~ctivities

Standard I began to run successfull y and themselves account for a smaller intake this year in Standard 1. We have some lovely new buildings, especially the joint common room and the day-room for girls, but also some new staff cottages up in "The Toda Exte.n sion". We have a new mini-bus. We also have a fish pond and to the delight of most of the boys, some of the girls and a few of the staff, a piggery. For your information the names of the pig s are:- James the first. Buckingham, Jane, Gill, Georgina and Henrietta. A big innovation of course is the introduction of two terms for three, but perhaps it is early days to assess that. We should be very interested in your impressions of how that is working out in practice . The · second question is 'What of the future? I not ice that Mr. Perkins has been asked to give a pape r at the Advisory Council entitled •·The future of the school" so perhap s I can get some guidanc e from that sourc e. Basically the Principal is looking forward to a quiet year: without any buildings, emergencies, accidents, cyclones, strikes. complaints, or disasters. He almost certainly won't get what he wants! More se ri ously, and more positively we can have great confidence in 'h e future because we know that we are all, and that includes the school as a whole. in God's hands and there i s no better place to be. had a letter recently fr om an ex-Chairman of the Hebron Council Mr. John Martin. Part of the letter was about the success of his sons-his eldest boy Paul has ju st won an Exhibition to Trinity, Cambridge, a feather in the cap of the family, and of this school too. He ends up his letter by saying 'how~we thank God for Hebron - keep Quality Caring as number one priority'. A very high aim, and one we can only achieve as God helps us: May we all be faithful to Him i n these day s. J.C. I.

JUNIOR SCHOOL REPORT 1981 Mrs. Smith, ladies and gentlemen. It is encouraging to see so many of you supporting this 1981 Parents' Day Performance. We want to welcome you, and trust that today's entertainment will make your arduous journey the more worthwhile. We want to keep you up to date, and preferably keep you awake, with the academic, social, and sporting progress of the Junior School. Also another important function of this report is to enable the children who are in the first item to get themselves ready. So if I see someone moving the curtain I'll certainly cut it short. We would like to take this opportunity to officially welcome Miss Williams and Miss Popplestone, and welcome back Miss Baxter, .and Mrs. Bromley. We have appreciated the help of Mr. King and Mr. Patan who helped the German children write some of their letters in their native language. We are also very pleased to have Mr. and Mrs. James take over responsibility for Silverdale Dormitory. We bid farewell at the end of this school year, to four members of the Junior School team Miss Harris, Miss Verhaeren, Mr. Morgan, and myself. The term had barely started when both Miss Baxter and Mr. Morgan returned with Y. M. C. A. trophies. They were ably assisted by Standard 5, 6 and 7 girls who won first place in the girls' section and 5, 6 and 7 boys who came second in their section. On the Sportsfield I am afraid to say that instead of the results being outstanding, it has been more a case of our teams simply being left out stand路 ing in their field or appropriate pitch. We sent a team to the Inter-School Sports at Wellington but the surprise was that some teachers from Hebron, and not the children won the Relay Race, probably the race to the Tea tent. The Junior School 1st Football and Cricket eleven have played games with Lawrence and the Nilgiris School, and the Girls' Basket Ball team have won one match against Breeks School. I want to thank Miss Sloman for yet another smoothly run Swimming Sports, where, after great excitement, Blues retained the Cup; Other highlights of this academic year were the respective Camps at Kalhatti for Sifverdale and Treetops, and Brooklands Cottages for Gardens and Sunshine.

We must not forget the C~r!s.tmas .Par~ies an~_ a yery e_nJoyable Carol performance where the children presented "I Believe He is the Son of God" by Frank G. Wilson. As parents you can have quite different views of what happens in the classrooms during the year. If a child is progressing exceptionally well, it is said that he has his father's or mother's brains. If he is not doing too well it is sometimes concluded that it is the school's fault. Now if you ask us to teach your children to do their sums, ,read, and write clearly and be generally well mannered, are you asking enough ? Hebron offers a fine balance between the traditional and more progressive methods of teaching, yet more importantly we try to care for your child as a person and not as a possible pass or fail in the end of year examinations; The result I find is a very happy place where a child may come with confidence with a problem or difficulty and find one who will listen. On the academic front, we could well adopt the attitude of the Scotsman who always cut himself while shaving because he nevar changed his shaving blade. "If it was good enough for my grandfather and father" he reasoned, "it is good enough for me", J find it encouraging to see in Hebron a gradual rather than a radical change in the methods and materials used to teach your children. We are increasing the use of the SRA Reading Laboratory, which provides a systematic and individual approach to teaching Reading Skills. We have five music teachers who offer specialist help to promising. musicians. We offer a comprehensive correspondence Course for Standard 1 Children. We provide extra help with Reading and Mathematics for some children who for a variety of reasons find the work difficult, so that they are never put at a serious disadvantage. The class numbers are also kept small to give the teacher more time to talk to the children in such a way as to stimulate and provoke thought. We hope that each child wil I make the best use of their time spent at Hebron, for time goes whether we use it or not. We trust that they will be successful in the future, but much more importantly we hope that they will realize the importance of developing true Christian character, and becorriing men and women whom Gad can use for His service in a very needy world.

I. T.

MEDICAL REPORT 1980 / 81 The health of the school students, staff, and local staff and their tamil.ies during the year has generally bean good. For the first time in some years w~ .had no infantile inJectious diseases. Earlier路 this year about of Gas.tric. flu caused some concern but. as kids usua.lly do, they bounced back to health with.no iU effects. We are specially grateful to our Lord for His care and protection of a number of staff members. among whom are the Thomson and Wallis families. In July last year we welcomed a special little lady into路 the world. Rachel Thomson arrived we:ll and happy in 5pite of the trouble she managed to cause her 路mum'. In December, Dr. Claire Joseph resigned her position as School Medical Officer before returning to England with her family. We are very grateful for the time she gave in tending our medical needs. In February Dr. D. Mahadevan M. B. B. S. was appointed as School Medical Officer, and as well as conducting regular clinics each week is on call when problems arise. I specially am grateful to Sister Kay Mcguire who has joined Hebron staff as nursing sister. for a period of 6 months. This has enabled me to take further time for ful-time Tamil language study in a village area in.Tirunelvelli District. A knowledge of the local language has helped immensely in the Medical Care of the local staff and their families-hence my desire to improve my Tamil knowledge. The veterinary aspect of the nurse's work has increased cons.iderably since our own four young ladies and two young gentlemen arrived in.sty-le in April, the sisters basic clinic equipment now includes a pair of gum-boots!

R. E. SCANLAN

STUDENT COUNCIL The 路members of the student council. representatives from each of the senior classes. have met fairly frequently to discuss the ''immediate needs .. of the school and students.路 The members of the student council for this last term and a half have , been :

Standard

Reeba Jacob, Nicolas Archer

Standard

Penny Moss, Chandu Doreswamy

Standard

Ann Jacob, Julian Wheeler

Standard

Sarah Tyman, Jayandh Owen

Standard

Kathryn Willey, Timothy Archer

Sixth Form

Jo Kukathas. Vijendra Daniel

Staff

Mr. Twynam-Perkins

President

Jo Kukathas

Vice President

Sarah Tyman

Treasurer

Timothy Archer

Secretary

Kathryn Willey

Kathryn Willey, Secretary of the Council

BRIAN WOOD It is difficult to do justice to the memory of Brian Wood. I remember remarking to someone once that Brian was leaving the school and that we were looking for three men to replace him ! Brian gave more of his service overseas to Hebron than to any other work and he gave himself unstintingly. Early to rise, always on the move and with a dynamo inside him which seemed to give him boundless energy. he filled his day with serving others. He had both tremendous capacity and energy and sometimes simply left us all standing. At the same time he was an authentic Hebron 'character' his I ife and style enshrined in numerous legendary exploits. Past students visiting Hebron who were studying in the 'Brian Wood era' invariably have vivid memories of his contribution to the school. Exploits included famous expeditions-Brian was an ethusiastic climber, hiker and camper with virtuoso performances on the sports field and on the piano and a willingness to tackle difficult theological subjects and make them real to a young audience. Brian was a fine teacher and in this alone he was immensely versatileEnglish. Latin, Mathematics. French were all subjects which he taught from time to time and with great success. 路 He was the finest sportsman the school has ever seen and greatly enjoyed disseminating this enthusiasm to anyone who would receive it. He raised school sports from an amiable pastime to something much more serious a science and a discipline to be pursued with passion and devotion. He was also a very fine musician and equally keen to share his musical skill and appreciation with others. All sorts of music flourished under his benevolent baton. The school choir became famous for miles around路 Individual music students attempted feats of musical expression they had never dreamt possible before and the school itself attempted more .and more ambitious musical production under his direction. Above all, Brian was a man of tremendous Christian conviction and character. He served God in that wholehearted way that characterised all of his dealings. Many, many peopl~-staff. students, people in the local community-can still bear testimony to the blessing which he brought into their lives, and the challenge that his I ife represented. That challenge is still present. Brian has become one of the great May 'cloud of witnesses" which are a continuing encouragement to faith. our memories of him spur us on .to be as faithful as he was.

REV..

BILL

NELSON -

Bill Nelson's name has been linked with Hebron's by many strands since the 1950's when his children, Billy and Lois, were at school there. Even at that time, Mr. Nelson's role was a cen t ral one as he was a member of the Hebron School council; Billy became a doctor and Lois a doctor ' s wife and both settled well nto life in Ireland , but ho me for Mr. Nelson remained India. In the 1970's his long association with the school and Ooty Union Church culminated in his appoi n tment as pastor of the church and thus as ex officio pastor of the Hebron staff <1nd students, his last appointment in nearly 50 years of missionary service in India. Many of us will have memories of these days of Bill sitting playing ludo in the 'hos' with some small patient; of Bill out rowing on Ooty lake with some senior student going through an emotional or spiritual upheaval. Mr. Nelson ' s nickname at that tim e was Happy Harry, in recognition that close behind the so mewhat lugubrious exterior, lay a wide smile and a hearty shout of lau ghter . As pastor, Mr. Ne l son was wise , discreet and gentle, qualities remem bered with gratitude by people in many sections of the community . Those who knew him as a committ ee member speak with respect of his wisdom and especially of his ability to cut through surrounding impediments to the central underlying cor e of a pro b lem. The co smo politan community at Hebron was a natural home for Mr. Nelson, a widely travelled Irishman, who studied in North America before joining the C. I. G. M. (now I . C F.) an in terna t ion al and in terdenomi nation a I mission. Later as field superin t endent, he frequently travelled to. the U. K., Australia. New Zealand, Canada and U . S.A. on deputation. For most of his life, Bill Nel son wor ked as a missionary amongst t he Moslem people. His g ift for relating to p eople and readily establishing rapport with them is impressive enough to be lege.ndary among his co 11 eag ues. After being a widower for about twenty years, Bill .defighted -his Union Church congregation by wedding a missionary nurse and thus providing us. with a warm and hospitable 'lady of the manse'. At the time of publication of this magazine, Mrs Ethel Nelson is due to return to India to .resume for a time her work in Maharashtra. This time she will be alone . After seeing the particularly happy way Mr and Mrs Nelson worked togeth er, we wish to pay tribute to Mrs Nelson's courage and loyalty, and pray for speci a l blessing on her. We hope too that there will be opportunities for he r to renew fellowship with the school and church here in Ooty.

R .W.

REV.

"BILL'' ,NELSON

When I first became Principal of Hebron School, I had the great good fortune to have Bill Nelson as the Chairman of the School Council. No young and inexperienced Principal could have asked for a better man to keep a fatherly eye on him. Bill Nelson had a long and close association with Hebron School, that is to say with Hebron High School in Coonoor, the Lushington Boys School in Ootacamund and the combined school after 1974. For many years he was Chairman of the School Council, and during his last years in India he was Pastor of Union Church, Ootacamund, which ~brought him into even closer touch with the School. He had decades of experience in India and was, of course, an experienced mission leader, but I like to think that among his many cares and responsibilities he always maintained a special regard for Hebron and a keen interest in its doings.

As someone to work with, Bill was exemplary. He was just, efficient calm, perceptive and wise. However. there was more than that. He was deeply concerned about people. For example, if he visited the school he always took time to visit the children in hospital, however important his other tasks might be. He was immensely approachable and hospitable and saw to it that people felt important and valued. He was somebody you were always pleased to see and he took pains to be at everybody's disposal.

What perhaps I have failed to capture is the style of the man. He was a 'Godly optimist' for example. His favourite verse was Romans 8:28. This by no means meant that he indulged in a sort of facile Christian fatalism. He was extremely alert and perceptive, one might almost say shrewd and the Irish sense of the absurd and the Irish wit were 路never far from the surface. He was a great walker and talker and famous tea-drinker. Altogether a man to be reckoned with. All this and more stemmed from Bill Nelson's life of deep devotion to his Saviour. It is impossible to compute the effect of such a I ife, and Hebron School has a debt which will never be repayed. But Bill Nelson was not a man to reckon up credit and debit. He would have been satisfied for us to remember him with affection and gratitude. The glory he would have given to God.

c. I.

COLIN TILSLEY Colin Tilsley boarded in Lushington Hall when as a boy he attended Breaks School. He has become well known, firstly as the founder of G. L. o. (Gospel Literature Outreach, an international Christian Organisation offering training and opportunities for service and witness, to young people, in many parts of the world). and secondly as the author of "Through the Furnace." In his book Colin mentions his time in Ootacamund and says "I greatly enjoyed those years." Many of us remember his visit to Lushington about five years ago. We were impressed by his energy and challenged as he shared spiritually with us. Not long after his visit doctors found that Colin was suffering from a chronic and progressively disabling disease for which there is no known cure. and which led to his death on March 23rd this year. His book telHng of his deep faith in G_od which enabled him to face triumphantly the trials confronting him as he realised the seriousness of the implications of the doctor's diagnosis and as he coped with increasing physical weakness. has been a challenge to many. His very real trust and confidence in God are clearly seen in the following extract taken from his book. "I have been through the valley of weeping, The valley of sorrow and pain; But the 'God of all comfort' was with me At hand to uphold and sustain. As the earth needs the clouds and the sunshine. Our souls need both sorrow and joy; So He places us oft in the furnace, The dross from the gold to destroy.'' May G_od encourage us by the life and witness of Colin Ti Isley.

D. Râ&#x20AC;˘.

G. C. E. OR01NAR.Y LEVEL RESULTS STANDARD ELEVEN 1980

Darshan Ambalavanar

Biology (E), Chemistry \D). Language (C), Literature (C), History (8) · 1979 passes : B,B

Audrey Arokiasamy

Harold Benham

Biology (A), Chemistry (A}, Language (A), · Literature (B), French (C), Geography {A), Physics (A} 1979 passes : A,B

Paul Bhaskare

Biology (E), Language (E), Literature (E), Physics (C), 1979 passes : C. D ·

Hafidh Busaidy

Biology (D), Language (C), Literature (B), Geography (C), Physics (C), Mathematics (E), 1979 pass : C ·

Graeme Growden

Language (E). Art (E) 1979 pass : E

Rachel Gillette

Biology (C), Language (B), Literature (C) Geography (B), Mathematics (0) 1979 pass: C

Daryl Growden

Chemistry (E), Language (E), Litereture ·(C), Geography (0), Physisc (E), Mathematics (B) 1979 pass: B

Stephen Greenwood

Literature (D), Geography (C), Mathematics (E) · 1979 pass: C

Sharan Jeet-Kaur

Language (C), Literature (C). Geography "{E), Mathematics (E), 1979 pass: B

Urha Kukathas

Biologp (E), Language (B), Literature (C), History (B) 1979 passes : B,B

Susan Varughese

Biology (E), Languag~ (D), Literature (0) 1979 pass: D

Mercedes Webb

Jonathan Weesner

Biology (0), Che_mistry (C). Language (C), . Geography (C). Physics (C), Mathematics (B) 1979 pass; C

He Ian White

Rosemary Martin

Biology (B), Language (A), Literature (B). French CB), Geography (C), German (C}, History( (B), 1979 passes : A,B

Dorothea Polster

Rhea Singh _

Biology (E), Language (C) Literature (0), Mathematics (0) 1979 pass : C

Elke Timm

Thirukumar Nadarasa

Language (A), Literature (C), French (E), Geography (B), Physics (B) 路 1979 passes: B,C

Shobana Nettur

Biology (E), Language (B), Literature (C), Geography (C), History (B) 1979 passes : E. C

Catherine Ray

GRADE TWELVE 1980 Darshan Ambalavanar

French

(D)

Hafidh Busaidy

Biology

(C)

Uma Kukathas

French

(C)

Rhea Singh

Biology

(C)

Susan Varughese

Language

(C)

Jonathan Weesner

Biology

(B)

Helen White

Litera1ure (A)

Maths.

(C)

Literature (C)

SCHOOL DIARY 1980 - 1 981 Term 2 1980 28

May

A staff party is held for missionary friends and others from the community â&#x20AC;˘

June

. The A Level banquet is held at Lushing ton fol lowingÂˇ the theme of .. The Mikado''

June

Standard 10 and 11 .banquet is held at Selborne for the Leavers

13-19 June

A Sports Tournament is hel"d for the Leavers to give Harold Benham and Stephen Greenwood, Sadie Webb and Elke Timm their final opportunities to gain new school records. Harold breaks two.

20-22 June

A Level students have a weekend outing to Kalhatti. Standard 8 have a farewell weekend outing prior to leaving Inters and becoming Seniors at Cypress Court.

June

Standards 9-11 are promoted to Standards 10-12.

July

We receive news that Rev. W.G. Nelson has died in Ireland.

July

A Level students' new courses start.

July

.Junior Athletic Sports

July

Senior Athletic Sports,

July

Junior Fancy Dress party.

July

Senior parties organised on (dormitory) basis of Inters and Seniors (in Gym and Dining Hall respectively)

July

Drama Festival Best Play Best Junior Actress Actor Best Senior Actress Actor Best Producer

July

School year ends. Mr. Marty Kemp and engagement.

Golds won the cup.

Standard X boys ("Wife Required'') Anna Gifford Daniel Gillette Jo Kukathas Ian Rees John Skirrow A Levels ("The Chic of the Desert")

Miss Kath Taylor announce

their

July

Misses Joy Gilbert, Vaierie Moss, and Moira Jackson leave on furlough

July

Term I

Baby Rachel. with her parents, Vanessa and Ian Thomson return to Ooty from Bangalore

1980-1981 School Year.

Staff New Arrivals Miss Shirley Williams to teach Standard One Miss Sylvia Baxter (from furlough) to resume teaching Standard. Five Miss Linden Fletcher to teach Music Miss Popplestone to replace Miss Moss in Gardens Dormitory Mr and Mrs. Pill (Bryan to teach Ch'3mistry. 'Tricia to help at Selborne). 20

August

Term starts

August

•·Logan's Run", a Science Fiction Selborne for Standar c s 9-13.

August

Hebron students take part, and the girls win First Prize for their choral singing. in the Y.M.C.A. Music Programme at Anna Stadium.

September

About seventy visitors enjoy a "Hymn Sing'• night in our new enlarged staff room.

September

A Levels Debate "That vegetarianism should be developed countries" : Jyoti Kukathas Best Debater.

Film is screened

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in under-

September

Inter school Sports at Wellington While neither our boys nor girls did particularly well as a whole, Sharon Larsen broke three Inter.school Records but missed championships. Janet White was -Inter Champion, setting two new records.

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October

Camps are held over Mahatma Gandhi weekend.

October

The Rotary Music Competition is held at Breaks. Timothy Richards (soloist) wins third prize Orchestra, secpnd prize.

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0.ctober

Brian wood di.es.while mountain climbing in the Annapurnas, as we hear on ~2nd.

October

Debate-Standards 10 and 11 · "That there wil I be nuclear war in the 1980" s. A very I ively contribution from the floor. Winner: Neil Willey.

October

Servants' Retreat at Ananda~iri Y. W. er- A. is· a happy and sunny day; (The stude_nts do the servants' work here). Speakers : Pastor Vincent, Tiruchi. Lily Pushpam, C.M.S.; Coonoor.

October

·Phone call from New Delhi, N. Z- High Commission to notify the school of Brian Wood's death. (Memorial service, Union Church 26th October)

October

Staff Party to welcome new staff is held at Selborne.

October

Karen Wood flies to Pokhara, reaching there with her grandfather on 31st,

November

Miss Ruth Wilkins flies to New Zealand on sick leave. Ian Thomson who has hepatitis, rushed to Holdsworth Hospital, Mysore, with what is discovered to be an allergic reaction to a drug he is on.

November

Union Church Thanksgiving Service. Treetops girls distributed the produce to elderly and poor folk in the afternoon.

November

Variety Concert.

November

Another "Hymn. Sing" for our Ooty Friends.

Novemer

School Examinations begin.

November

Martyn Kemp and Kath Taylor are married in Canada.

Novembe.r

School Examinations end.

November

Debate • Standards 7-9 · "That School Uniforms should be abolished". The Cross Country Results Senior Boys Jonathan Weesner Junior Boys Paul Watson Senior Girls Janet White (record broken) Junior · G iris Janet Reid Thomas Sub Junior Boys Stephen Jenkins Golds win overall.·

December

Christmas Parties

December

Senior Carol Service, Un ion Church

December. Junior Carol Service, 2 p, m.

December

End of Term Christmas Assembly 9路11 a, m. Mandapam Field Trip begins. Thus ends what must be the longest term in Hebron history I This term a number of friends and close associates of the school, died, apart from Mr. B. Wood. Mr. Farrar - piano tuner William .. the night watchman - Selborne Cook Nathan Mrs. Thrower {Senior) of Kotagiri

Term 2

1981

February

First staff meeting of term. lnglebys welcomed back from furlough. Also walcomed - former puril, Peter Jenkins and wife, Hilary. Both have coma to teach English.

February

Staff Retreat at Aanandagiri.

February

Return of Boarders.

February

Classes begin.

February

Appointment of Joanna Young as prefect.

16-23 February

Exhibition of German Childern's books in Modern Languages Room.

February

Sixth Form students leave to travel overnight to Kodai to attend a 路'Spiritual Emphasis Week" (Leave Weekend).

March

Kodai trip returns.

March

Badminton tournament at Anna Stadium.

March

Evening sing-song for visitors.

March

Staff-student cricket match.

March

S. U. Rally.

27-30 March

Leave Weekend

April

Departure of Alan and Beverly Taylor.

April

Junior Swimming Sports (Blue House winners)

April

Senior Swimming Sports (Blue House winners)

April

Visitors' Per~ormance of "Twelfth Night"路 and Junior programme.

April

Parents' Performance o( "Twelfth Night" and Junior Performance. Parents' Performance of "Twelfth Night" and Junior Programme. Parents/Staff v. students football match score 2:2. C.S.C. Exams begin today.

April

Parents' Meeting. Mid-term holiday begins. Most students with parents in the Hills: the others to camp.

May

After a three-week long visit, Tai Brooke leaves Hebron. During his stay he contributed in different ways, particularly .in the area of Asian Studies.

May

End of mid-term break and Parents' Advisory Council at Se I borne.

May

Annual Missionary Picnic is held at Hebron. Unseasonal rain sends the party into the school assembly hall.

May

Annual Missionary Sale at Anandagiri at which several staff members have responsibilities. School magazine goes to print.

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which was performed . } { at Parents Day~ 1981

Act One Scene : Courtyard of the Palace of Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner of Titipu, in Japan. Nanki-Poo, son of the Emperor (Mikado), is disguised as a wandering ministrel, in order to seek his sweetheart Yum-Yum. Having heard that Ko-Ko (to whom Yum-Yum was betrothed) has been condemned to death for flirting he returns to pursue his suit. However, instead, he finds Ko.Ko not only reprieved but appointed Lord High Executioner, the 'logical Mikado' having decreed that 'every criminal be his own executioner'. Yum-Yum is to wed Ko-Ko today, Pooh-Bah adds. Ko-Ko appears, with his little list of people 'who will none of 'em be missed', and then the three little maids Yum-Yum, Pitti-Singh and Peep Bo, his wards arrive . When Nanki-Po and Yum-Yum, can be alone, he tells _her that he is really the Mikado's son, who has fled his father's court rather than marry the elderly Katisha. Ko-Ko receives notification from the Mikado that somebody is to be beheaded within the next month or his own I ife is in danger. Luckily, he discovers Nanki-Poo intent on putting an end to his existence . The two strike a bargain. Nanki-Poo is to marry Yum-Yum the followin;J day and be beheaded uy the Lord Chief Executioner in a month's time, That wil I leave Yum-Yum free to marry Ko-Ko. This plan is disturbed by the sudden appearance of Katisha , claiming her perjured lover, Nanki-Poo . She tries to tell the crowd that Nanki-Poo is the Mikado's son, but they will not hear her and she rushes off to have her revenge by informing the Mikado of his son's whereabouts. ,

Act two Scene :

Ko-Ko's Garden, Titipu .

Yum- Yum is preparing for her marriage. The lovers try to forget that they have only a month of wedded bliss. Ko-Ko makes things even worse by informing them that he has discover~d an ancient regulation that when a married man is beheaded, his wif~ ha~ to be burried alive.

On this news, Nanki-Poo threatu~s .to kill himself frr;iinediately. To avoid that, Ko-Ko persuades Pooh Bah to make a false affidavit that Nanki-Poo has in order to. get him out been executed, but ac:tually to marri{hjm to Yum-Yum . of the way. The Mikado makes a grand entry with his daughter-in-law elect, Katisha and Ko-Ko is relieved to be ab.le to present to him an affidavit of exacut ion. His relief is short-lived. The Mikado, though 'not a bit angry', orders that the punishment for 'compassing the death of the Heir Apparent' shall be carried out. (There is nothing in the law about killing the son of the Mikado accidentally). The only hope is to bring Nanki-Poo to fife again. By now he has married Yum-Yum and so cannot marry Katisha who will certainly demand horrible vengeance, Ko-Ko solves the problem by offering his hand to Katisha who accepts him; and the end comes with revelation to the Mikado of his son's . being alive and well.

MAHATMA GANDHI WEEKEND "Theppakadu I I I I", oh no. they can't do that to us I" This was how most of us Standard eleven boys reacted to the news. We also had a good reason to react in this way for we had been to Theppakadu for last year's camp and the year before and we musn't forget the year before that year. Not to mention the leave week路 ends when we had been there. As a total we had been to "Theppakadu" a record-breaking six times. So we all got prepared for a very boring week - end. ''What are you taking Peter?" My Gerald Durre! Book, my swimming togs, my checker set, my biology books. What are you taking Senthil?" "Not much really, my Gerald Durrell book. my swimming togs and my Bio and oh ya my cards." Cherian travelled light, he only took his sleeping bag which as we found out later was the only thing he used all day. That night everyone slept restlessly dreaming about the oncoming day of elephants and watersnakes and hitting submerged logs in the river, not to mention the oncoming night of bugs crawling up your backs and mosquitos continuously buzzing around your ear and biting you so much you seriously wondered if you would even have half a pint of blood in your body next morning. Next morning was D. day. We all woke up to hear the large buddaga buses roaring up the drive to cart everyone to their destinations. After breakfast the usual things happened to our bus, or so we thought, came and parked in front of seniors. We thought we were lucky to get the first bus. Everyone had one thought in their head which was that seniors should be the first to leave. Mr. Mobley was there determined that there shouJ d be no chaos. So under his strict orders everything was pushed in a neat pile. After he was satisfied he went back to his house to get something. Everyone was seated in their places when the bad news came that we were in the wrong bus. So we all piled out and made chain to the right bus. It was chaos in the bus after we had finished packing it. Anthuan was lost amongst the sleeping bag, the food was half finished, everything was in the wrong order and so on. Mr. Mobley couldn't believe his ayes when he came out of the house in time. I would not like to describe his reaction but he was very, very angry. So, after two hours of continual packing we were off, the last to leave as usual. We got to Theppakadu and eventually got unpacked. The bus was sent back and the driver told to return ~t 12 o'clock on Sunday. Cherian unfolded his sleeping bag and promptly went to sleep. Everyone else went for a swim路 cautiously entering the river and retreating out pf the river very fast when they' found out it was very cold. So we all trooped back to the hut and made our supper and ate. We then went to the elephant camp. We found it very boring and finally I saw this elephant track so I wondered how far I would

get before I had to stop. It was -a'll uphill and finally I turned· and hurtled down the track: towards the elephants: It was three quarters of the way down that I realised the bike had no brakes. So screaming "Gang - Way" down the track I managed to avoid crashing into people. but unfortunately elephants don't know English so my luck ran ou.t and I rammed an elephant. Bi.cycling was then banned by Mr. Mobley in Theppakadu. Next morning to Mr. Mobley's surprise everyone was reading Gerald Durrell books and at night playing checkers. This was repeated for 3 days. After a terrifying week-end (for Mr. Mobley) it was a very relieved and strained M'r. Mobley who returned to school. Sent hi 1· Nadaras.a Standard E.leven

SERVANTS' RETREAT 'Lets have a Servants' Retreat' said Mr. Wall is one staff meeting. shuddered. 'Now just what is he thinking?' We were all soon to find out. Give all the servants a day off and staff and students can do all the everyday .;,undane work that has to be done: preparing meals; washing clothes; chopping wood and getting the boiler water hot for baths and washing the dishes. The day was fixed: a Saturday, and everyone was organized, some comments are worth noting. "You can't chop wood with an axe like this, it wouldn't even trim my big toe nail''. Well that's what the wood boy uses everyday. "There's no hot water, the boiler's gone out.'' '·Wei I have a bath tomorrow." For our 60 servants it was a real treat, they were invited to bring their families to YWCA Anandagiri, and· be there for morning tea at 9-30 am. The 80 children then went off in the bus to the lake, boats were hired and with the help of some staff and students each child was given a ride, which they thought was really great. A ·combined parents meeting was held during this time when Paste>r Vincent from Trichi gave his testimony and a gospel message. Then it was lunch time. I was gratf;jful for the help of a previous cook. at Lushington, Sosai and his daughter, in preparing and cooking a lovely vegetable pilau. "Everyone sat down together: there was no difference made, "this was a comment of one servant who's been with us some years. We had reckoned on 175 people but found we had served lunch to 250 people. 30

It was a chall en o in g thought to me. that we are responsible for these people as they serve us. What does Christ mean to them? How much have they learnt of him in their time with us? Do their families know of Christ whom wa serve? Not just for one day in the year but everyday. Separate meetings were held in the afternoon, Pastor Vincent spoke to the men. Lilli Pushpama gave a message for the ladies, and we were grateful for the help of the CMS team from Coonoor who did a great work with the children. To end the afternoon there was fun and games for everyone together . Afternoon tea was served at 4 pm, and as each family left, they were given a packet of Bible Stories to take home. The day was enjoyed by all, and we certainly appreciate how much our servants do for us each day . Now 8 months later how much is remembered,? There's one 4 year old who still t alks about the boat

ride~

Other faces light up , "When's the next treat going to be?" Grace Gibberd

Enthusiasm showed itself in many forms -

e.g.

Dear Miss Barton, The minute wanted the jobs . to ring the rising rising bell. And

I'd finished supper I wrote this because I so desperately I had spec of everything to get me first finished. I want bell for outside. And Annekheti wants to ring the inside Sarai aod Tina want to ring 'A' Level rising bell outside.

I would like to help cook breakfast and supper. would like to help wash dishes and put the pills on the plate in the morning I will help sweep . I will also help with the table-tuck. Love from Karen Wood. P. S, I do not need al I these jops but I would like to cooking and the rising bell.

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TWELFTH NIGHT BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Synopsis Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian are parted in a shipwreck, and find themselves cast separately on the coast of lllyria. Dressed as a boy, Viola goes to the court of the Duke Orsino, and becomes his page, Cesario. He sends her to woo the Lady he loves, Lady Olivia, who refuses to see him because she is in mourning for her father and brother. However, seeingâ&#x20AC;˘ Cesario, she falls in love with her. Meanwhile Olivia's cousin, Sir Toby and his friends, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Festa. the jester are celebrating Twelfth Night. One drunken party is interrupted by Malvolio, Olivia's steward. In revenge, with Maria's. help, they prepare a plan. A letter will be left for MalvoHo, purporting to be a declaration of love from Olivia. In it she asks him to wear yellow stockings, cross gartered. Al I goes as planned, and Malvol io is imprisoned for suspected madness. Sir Andrew, led on by Sir Toby to fancy himself as Olivia's wooer. cha I lenges Cesario to a duel. This farce is broken by Antonio, Sebastian's friend who mistakes Cesario for Sebastian. He is arrested by the Duke's men, and is puzzled by Cesario's lack of recognition. The duel continues when Sir Andrew mistakes Sebastian for Viola. Olivia too is confused and asks a bewildered Sebastian to marry her. He does. Finally Sebastian and Viola meet and recognise each other. The duke asks Viola to marry him, who has loved her secretly for three months.

~'TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL'' AN INSIDE STORY We commenced practice after auditioning, which was very soon after the beginning of term. The characters were very well chosen I think. I assume yol.I all know who we were, having studied the play in English. The line which I remembered best was not mine but Malvolio's; ''Some are born with greatness, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.'' We really did acquire some knowledge. Jn those early days. practising was very tedious. The things we learned have however been a great help to both cast and congregation. Once we knew most of our lines it became real good fun and I think it would be truthful to say that even Mr. Jenkins enjoyed it too, it was not all fun and games, one had to yield all the acting one could yield. To me learning the lines was the worst, some people didn't have much problem but some did, many I ines, even though they were blank verse. did not impress us at all.

The days wore on anr:I we learned more and understood ·it better, ultimatly it became something that made sense to us, and the rest of the crew, I'm glad the audience did not attend any practices I Much of our enlightenment c_ame from the director, who devoted the past nine weeks to those conclusive performances. Everyone had worked hard towards one goal which we all had in. co_mmon, the harvest was yet to come .......•.. You may,_say ''Why do all that just to perform for two and a half hours. is it really worth it ?" Yes it was worth it. A hundred percent. Everyone in the cast learned from it and enjoyed it absolutely and I think the, audience did too . . Not to be forgotten are those who helped in great and small ways, and they were many. We could not possibly have produced this on our own without Mr. & Mrs. Jenkins, every thing reflects the hard work. they put into the production. "This is the weather the cuckoo likes and so do I." (Re~llY?:-Ed.) They rubbed knowledge off onto us to benefit everyone, after al I. "Is it a world to hide virtues in?" By : Johnny Somer~ Std. X

TWELFTH N.IGHT School was finished. talking to ourselves.

The weekend ahead of us. We burst out of class

"He's crazy expecting us to auditio11 for ......... " "I'm not going in it ..... " ''Not a chance •• : ... " "Hey Liz, aren't you going in it? I thought you were the type.'' You gotta be kidding I Mikado was bad enough" . "What kind of suckers would audition for •.... .'' Little did I suspect that I was to be Viola in the play. I laughed when anyone even mentioned me in co.nnection with the production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" or "What You will". · However on Monday I was auditioned along with a number of other girls. Jenni Main, Rachel Moss and myself were told to come back. We auditioned heaps of times and'Jinal"ly Jenni was given the part of" Olivia and I was given Viola. I wasn't really bothered.

All the cast were given Act One scripts ai~d told to learn our I ines by next Tuesday. Every Tuesday we had a full act practice C!fter school. When we got to Act IV I_ went into hospital for 11 days. Mr. Jenkins kept popping in to find when I'd be out. He gave me an Acts IV and V scripts and told me to learn them. I didn't I However, Lisa Jacob drummed them into me till I couldn't forget them. So I got out of hospital {much to the relief of Mr. Jenkins) and got Kamini to test me. Together we evacuated her room! Well they left. I don't think ~hey appreciated Shakespeare. We then abolished the scripts and got down to acting. · Miss Bateman started calling in on practices. Every so often a great ''LOUDER'' or "CLEARER'' would sound out. Then one Saturday, we had to do it for Mr. lngelby. Mats, belts, swords and veils were used without the costumes. Dungarees with a veil really looked good on Jenni. Then came the dress rehearsal. That was a lousy flop. Everything went wrong. Our performance for the schools went okay. On the Friday night we did a performance for our own school. There was a drastic mistake there (I won't tell what) which was quickly righted. On the visiiors' night nothing too bad went wrong, Catastrophe ! On the final night the ring which Malvolio throws at my feet started rolling round in circles. Round and round. I cauJht my breath. How in the world was 1 goin.g to pick it up if it rolled off stage? It almost did but it stopped in time. I got the giggles and almost bungled an important long speech but I stopped in time. The rest went okay (I think} Over all •·Twelfth Night" wasn't too bad.

In fact it was quite fun! Liz Main Grade Nine

'A' LEVEL TRIP TO KODAI Have you ever stood and watched the sun setting over a range of mountains? It's a unique sight and in restrospect the unforgettable are the golden peaks that stand out clear to make the rest seem insignificant. So, in remembering the weekend the 'A' levels. with Mr Cardy and the Taylors, spent , at Kodai; the whole was good but some parts stand out as special. Take, for instance ... two a.m. at Palani: a borrowed carrier cycle pedalled by Barry with Alasdair balanced precariously on the side of the dilapidated carrier-box ...... Time which is spent on punts and boats on Kodai lake, which is vastly bigger than Ooty's little water hole... A meander along Coaker's Walk passed the country vicarage {transplanted from Olde Englande) and the breathtaking sweep down the mountain side to the plains far below.

The camp itself __:_ a co nglo.morate of fun. food, recreation, new friends discussions, skits and music, set to the background of woods, lake and campfire. The speaker, Mark, took his theme for his four small talks "knowing God", The highlight was the communion service on Sunday morning; a clearing in the woods high on a hill with a v路iew right down the Jake, sparkling in the early morning sunlight far below . A big stone altar and a wooden- cross, old friends and new - all together to worship the God of creation, the God of love, who has given us each other and has given us life . Thanks to Mr Cardy for taking us and Mark for driving, and for Kodai school for being so friendly and giving us tha opportunity to have a really great time . .. . .... ... and mercy even for Maio who so slept in the bus that others found difficulty in sleeping. Hazel Smith

DANGER AT AVALANCHI We all packed into the school bus at 1 p. m . on Wednesday 29th 1981 . We were all raring to go on camp to Avalanche. 17 boys from stds 9-11 were going on this camp with the Mobleys and the Bromleys. We arrived at the hut at half-past two. soon after setting in we went off on an exploration to the dried - up lake . . The lake you see had all dried up and there was only a small river at the bottom. We f ound quic k-s and and mud and a waterfall. The next day Jayandh and I w.er1t up-stream and we found a man-made tunnel which had water flowing into the stream . The tunnel was realy dark and not many had the courage t o go up it. Wa realised that it was water from the sluices of a Jake about 8 mile s 路 away. Some people were scared that the sluices would l~t a lot more water as we would be going up-stream and we would be washed away. Eight boys went up the tunnel and walked about five hundred metres up the tunnel when they saw a chappel coming downstream and they saw what loo~.ed like dead codies ahead and instinctively they all ran back as fast as their legs could carry them. The next day Anthuan , Mr Mobley, my brother and myself decided to find out what the bundles were. We walked up and saw bundles of steel wire (what a let down). The five of us decided that we would carry on. We walked up the tunnel until we reached the No. 33,000 written on the wall, the first number written was 35,600. We knew the tunnel was eight miles there Above 36,600 feet is 8 miles. We then walked back. No-one walked up the tunnel to the end. On Friday morning. we went to play in th e mud, to have mud baths. We cleaned ourselves under a small waterfall nearby which was made so that you could sit behind the fa 11 of water and see the water flowing in front of you.

...

Sunday we had a barbarcue. After the meal which was brilliant we played commandos which was hillarious. We used cakes of dried mud as grenades (there were no real teams though) and flung them at each other no-one got hurt though. Monday afternoon came and we went to school tired and not too happy to return. Peter Skirrow Standard 11 35

IT'S A PIG'S LIFE

·Sarah Tyman

Mr.T.P. had decided to get 6 pigs. So they were ordered and arrived in late March. Six Yorkshire Whites from Hyderabad - two boars and four sows. You might be thinking. "Why?" Well. Mr. T.P. purchased them for Biological reasons - parasitism and such like. Also for breeding. Think of the delicious roast pork and crack! ing, bacon and ham we can all soon enjoy, Now that we have the pigs we have to look after them. The younger boys have devised a rota - at 6-00 a. m. a handful of them get up and feed the pigs, cooking their food on stones and wood, Monday. - second period our Biology class has the job of weighing them, So, the girls troop off to the day-room and change into shorts, shirts and running shoes and proceed up the hill to their pen, behind the hoz, Boys and girls are given various jobs to do, jumping into their pens, grabbing them by their legs .and quickly turning them upside down, much to the pigs' displeasure and passing them along and outside, where they are thrown into a piece of tarpauline and hung on a weighing scale. The pigs do not take to this very kindly and squeal loudly and shrilly . much to our displeasure. As they hang in the net they wriggle frantically so that their ugly snouts can stick out of an ~vailable opening to breathe. What a sight-just an ugly snout. If they are lucky they are stroked by enthusiasts and spoken to kindly by Mr. Cardy, Mr. Thompson or or Mr. T. P. "There's a sweaty'' - patting is softly. As the weight is read out ''Oh you clever dear" - we find out it has put on a couple of Kilos. ("Really whatever next.) On Friday (8th) our class had a major clean~out (or springclean, as the case may be). We changed and climbed the hill commenting and complaining in a light-hearted manner-"Oh no, back to these smally things "Pooh and what a smel I. Coupled with the smell are thousands of flies which congregate in masses inside and outside the pen. What living conditions as the pigs rumage, rampage and rootle in the rotting vegetation thrown to them to feed on hampered by flies but clueless of the smell (it's a pig's life - they snort as they rootle under the straw to find a hidden orange peel) We were instructed by ol •Teeps' to do various jobs. He has really got involved in his pigs and enjoys every minute of it. One by one the pigs were got hold of in the normal manner and then laid flat on the ground and held in position as they were doused with medicine for their scabies. While the pigs were absent their pens were frantically scrubbed clean. The muck was cleared out and bouts of •sweet smelling' anti-sceptic solution was splashed on the floor and scrubbed. The smell made a great change and a feeling of cleanliness and freshness. The pigs were returned approaching cautiously wondering what had happened to their familiar surrounding of dirt and scruff. Hay was brought and thrown into them by Mr. T. P. who joyously covered a pig with it, exclaiming heartily

{

"There you are, thats what you like emotions involved and in pigs?).

isn't it." 路(really he does get his

The muck was scraped into the corridor and then had to be pushed along to a hole in the end, where two boys had the nasty job bf collecting it and taki_ng it to the rubish pit. They were generally well behaved but had to be shouted at with exclamations of "You incompetent pig" (well known saying among the boys of the class). With clean pens and clean troughs the pigs got down to rootling again, grunting happily, leaving them to it we gathered together, flipping off the flies that annoyed us, quite used to the smell and chatt_ed. Anyway, let's leave the pigs to experiences with them.

it and wait for our next Monday's

!went out that weaken.~ and as I erit_ered the front door, what should be there to greet us, But Judy, our bullterrier, who closely resembles a pig. - Tah, Can we never get away from them?_

SENIORS GIRLS CAMP We left Selborne in the rain at about 4-30 on the way to Wynard. We stopped in Gudalur for coffee and then pressed on. We came through Cherambadi and asked if anyone knew where the factory opposite where we were staying was, the reply was no. By this time it was dark and we saw millions of fire flies. The first ones I had ever seen. We arrived at the bungalow we were to stay in and it looked very posh, we unpacked and had a cold supper and went to bed, most of us slept on the verandah as it was hot inside. We were all waked up at about 6-00 a.m. because of the sun rising, the sunrise was beautiful. We slowly got up and dressed then while we were having breakfast Krishan drove up on his bi!<e and drove off to show Mr. Davis. where we could swim, and when he came back we went swimming, after getting stopped on the way to be shown a working elephant. The river was very fast flowing but we found out the hard way that it had leeches in. That afternoon we played games and generally lazed around and it rained in the evening. Friday we went to the Estate Sports and then for a swim at the Latham's pool and two or three people got thrown in. We had our own sports that afternoon, we had to go into the Bamboo and get 6 two foot pieces of Bamboo. Shereen and I came in first with ours. Then it rained so we couldn't continue to read and lazed around until supper.

Saturday n'10'rning we went to the tea factory which was· ve,ry noisey but great fun, it was the seccnd one I have been to, ·so I understood it a lot better. In the afternoon we went.swimming again in the river. @Saturday night we had skits and songs from various groups. Sunday we went to Sultan's Battery which W!!S a lot less than any of us expected. I think we were next to be going to a river to swim and our 'guide' ended up taking us the long way round the comer so we ate there and went swimming in the usual place. Monday we went swimming in the morning and travelled back to Ooty in the afternoon, Altogether it was a great camp. · Rachel Moss

CREATIVE

WRITING

EXPLORING SPACE Boom I We landed on Mars. We all got out. It felt as if we were made of rubber bouncing. We had to be careful because of creatures. We peared behind rocks. •·Oh Help!" - A hairy hand had jerked me behind the rock. The others heard my cry. Behind were lots of monsters, home-made robots, skeletons and humans blood. Now I could gues that they ate humans and kept their blood. They were just about to get a knife when my friends came. At what they saw the hairy monsters had knives and other dangerous objects. The monsters looked back, my friends raised their guns and the monsters dropped their knives. They surrendered arid we asked themwhy they did this but they could not understand our language. So took them back to the space-ship and three of us stayed behind the rocks and explored. They had freed me now and I went with the others to explore the cave. We found various kinds of rocks which were not on earth and some of these we put in bags that we had brought. Then we took the blood and skeleton to the monsters in the spaceship. Now we had to leave Mars but I chipped out ·some of the stone from earth which we had brought, planted our flag and also tried to. plant a plant from earth. I had a little look around Mars knowing· I would never come here again. Then I went back to our spaceship, ate some food, waited for a little while making notes about space and then took off with the monsters in the back of the spaceship. It was the end of our trip to Mars. I didn't want to leave but we had to in case of lack of oxygen. So with a BOOM we took off for our trip b·ack to Earth. . Malango

Std: 5

DRAMA ETC 1980-81

THE DAV I FOUND I COULD FL V One day I was sitting on a see-saw with rny friend. I was up and she was down and the silly thing got off. I landed on the ground . I flew through the air because I had taken by the hard landing. For fun I fl aped my arms like a bird. I found I was not going down. I stopped flappin g my arms and started to go down I flapped and started up at once. My friend who had been watching me. ran hom e to tell her mum I could fly. I found that if I kicked my leg I could go forwards so I flew towards home. I flew right up to my garden and stopped flapping my arms and slowly went down. I landed and walked inside my house. I decided I would not tell any one and practise after lunch .

I went outside and with a quick flap of my wings I rose 路into the

air. I kicked my legs and went forward. Then I landed again with a bump. The wind dropped. I flapped my arms again but nothing happened I went inside feeling very disappoint d d and explained the story to my mother and my father but they only said that it must be magic wind. I don't think they be I ieved me. Sylvia Hart

A GOOD MEAL WASTED Sarah Thomson I am the most famous cook in the whole world and my name is Egg Bert. And I am going to tell you about the day ev ery sin g l e thin8 went wrong. It was a bright and sunny day, nothing at all should have gone wrong but I was not right . Early that morning I had pins and needles and OH how I hate that. I was just about to jump out of bed and get dressed when my servant came in and said, "Sir, there is a telegram for you." "What. A telegram at this time of the day you must be mad.'' I shouted angrily. But it was true. I ripped it open furiously and read it. Egg Bert AM COMING TO YOUR HOUSE TODAY. Monsieur Dranty. It read. I was astonished, "what Monsieur Dranty coming to my house for a day. Goodness Gracious I must get ready at once." "I 111ust make my most delicious meal."

I started working at once. 9 eggs, 5 spoons of cinnamon, 1 pound of butter, ...... The voice went ori not realizing that it was reading an - item from every recipe on the pÂˇage. Slowly the dreary voice went on ...... Its. of maple syrup, 2 tbs of custard, 2 oz of mustard, 8 ts. of baking powder. "There now to mix it all up and cook it.'' "Oh no. Drat, I shall have to put more cocoa in it. "I wasn't awake at all. Pshhhhht. - went the pressure cooker. In my land of dreams I saw a huge ballon blow up in front of me. then PINGGG. I woke up in my senses at last. Good now the soup is ready I can make the toast. â&#x20AC;˘'Sebastian, taste the soup and tell me if it's good," I said happily. Yes sir, Mmmmmm very good sir, ''ha said turning pat, ''Sir, could I go to the Bathroom now," " halfchoking he said this. "Certainly boy, certainly, ''was my reply.

Then came KNOCK. KNOCK.

''Good Day, Eggbert Good Day, '"said a cheery voice. "0 Good Day Dranty ... come in for lunch. It is ready. I brought in the food and we sat down. turned green.

He took a big mouthful and he

WEHRE I LIVE I live quite away from Ooty. It's a village near Hyderabad called Medak. Our house is large and comfortable. There are three gardens. A large garden at the back with roundish beds and triangular ones dotted all over the place. In the middle there is a bouganvilla tree and plants round it. At one end there is a pool for the water for plants in between a banana and papaya tree. Behind it is a stone bench in front of a bouganvilla tree and a cherry tree. There is a rectangular bed with cotton trees and all sorts of bulbs, a path leading to the cherry tree and on the other side a mango tree. Straight ahead a washing line and a gooseberry bush with beds round it. An archway leads to the small garden. On the otherside is a little garden belonging to my brothers and I. It is full of Jasmine. Lily and other creepers. At the other end is a friends garden consisting of bushes. The front garden is quite small and the creeper leads over to it. On the left of the creeper is the bathroom door, to the right is a plot of beans straight ahead is a bush with white flowers. to the right is the veranda with pots and plants. On either side a pretty creep~r with flowers. To the left is a squared enclosure surrounded with beds and pots. Inside is a water tub and bushes dotted round, to its left is a compost. In front a vegetable plot next to it is a chicken house. In front of that is a hibiscus bush. This is near the creeper behind the pots. The third garden has a hedge round it inside is a custard apple tree, bushes and creeper. Emma Dalzell

DESTINATION CALCUTTA Poor Paul I wished we could stay a I ittle bit more. What a good holiday we had but Oh! Navar mind. Ooty is a lovely place, but going back to school what a bore. The teachers, matrons and students I think are kind. Down the hill we go on the toy train as my mum calls them the beautiful displays of everlasting scented flowers. Olive, emerald, green, rough trunks and flower stems. I sat gazing out at the hills distant plains for hour after hour. At last we arrive at Meti the point where we change trains for Calcutta . We had to share two beds beca;_ise lots of people came unexpected from !rains which were cancelled because of flooding of muddy water. The journey was exciting, uncomfortable, sweaty, sticky and hectic. Lots of rails and bridges were damaged severely by the flood so because of this we were supposed to be only one day late. Every night I slept only a few sticky hard drowsy hours. All we nearly ate was rice, biscuits, fruit and curds. Many times the engine wheezed, grunted, coughed and broke down always nearly at miday when the fans were'nt at work. The fans hardly worked and many a time with filth and exaustion "I" nearly fell down. When will we be there when, when, when, is there any hope. THE END by; Timothy Watson Std-6

COME AND GET IT'' "Not rice and Curry again,'' said Paul. as we walked to the dining room. It was lunch time. My opinion was that in the dining room there came the unpleasant smell of dahl. I tried to wash down the taste with water, but it didn't work . .路 1 seemed I ike hours I was eating the horrible stuff. but at last it was gone. If I had liked it, it would have gone ii! two gulps. Then came the lovely smell of mango, banana and grapes in a fruitsalad. While I was eating- it, out of the blue came "sptash" "It had -to happen,'' I thought. I had looked to the floor, guess what met my eyes. Perfectly aimed on my shoe was a spoonful of mango and grapes. While I was cleaning it up, I bumped the pepper which went headlong into my grapes and Mango. "What a mess!" After half an hours struggling I toddled out of the dining room, to find after al I my nightmares, that I had missed tuck. 路路Rats" Clifford Milne (But Clifford, Dahl is rich in protein!路 Ed)

THE .. TIGER A Tiger as fierce and cunning Crawl through the tall grass Yellow and black Is the colour of it's coat Swift as the light It pounces on anything it sees, 路 As its sparkling eye's go through the dark It scares every animal, every animal that hides But I warn you you shouldn't go near for it is as cunning as a fox.

Suresh Andrew Philip

Age 9

I am a Deep Sea Diver I was in Ship and I had to go and get some gold So I went to the bottom of the Sea and I got about one thousand pieces of gold and I had about a million rupees. So I was quite rich because I had to go to the bottom of the Sea and when I was able to get the gold I came to the Ship with it. Then we came to Scotland I got a Ship and I went under water I got about twenty thousand pieces of gold and after that I gave up DeepSea diving:

By Alistair Coltart

THE

NURSE

When I grow up I am going to be a nurse in a hospital and

am going to give medecine and help the doctors to give injections. I shall give the food out to the people who are siCk in hospital. 路 I am going to make the people's beds every day for them .

And I

wouldj aka the pCates fo r the people when they W9re finished. Anne Houston Standard 3

A DAV IN SCHOOL LIFE We start off with waking up before the rising bell. I wake up feeling tired and sleepy and read a comic that has been left there. As- soon as the bell goes Mr. James comes in and wakes everyone up, at this, all of us start grumbling and wondering why we can't get up later . Soon we are all dressed, and have prayers . After prays.rs we go and l ine up for breakfast. After breakfast we are meant to brush our teeth but some times we skip it . Whe.n the school bell goes, we have assembly, then school. There are three breaks during the day. At the end of school we have tea, and after school we have games on Wednesday and Thursday are a bore, but Tuesday is the best of all. After games we come up and brush our shoes and get ready for supper. After supper we have our story and go to bed at 8 O'clock.

By Andrew Wainwright. 43

FARLEY I I ive in a lovely big home which is very comfortable and warm. I sleep in a bunk bed on top, my sister sleeps below. We have two cottages painted green. We have two forests, I like the top one best. but .then at the bottom woods there are rabits, monkeys and porcupines. We have bamboo stalks to make hollow, and then blow bubbles, and wattles to hide in. There are great big pine trees towering above you, like dancing gaints swaying to the music of the wind. At the top woods there are bushes, cubies, and passages which no-one knows of. At the top of the top woods there is some dry soft grass, where I often go for walks alone and lie on the grass. I don't think I'd be happier any where else than home sweet home. by路: Sharon Hawthorne

ROGER GIFFORD Roger is quite a tall boy.

He has reddish hair and a lot of freckles.

He is good at football and cricket, also he is quite a fast runner. One day we were playing cricket, against a school called Lawrence. We had played Lawrence er few tiin8,s 路befere so 路 we knew they were good players. When Roger came in I was batting as well. Roger rea.lly got the bowler mad. He had his tongue sticking out like he has in the picture. If the bowl was on wicket he would lift the bat up and somehow hit the ball. Our teacher Mr. Thomson described it as a giant lolly pop stick. .If the bowl was off wicket he would miss the ball. by Jonathan Main

MY GRANDMA! She was an old woman at the age of 71.

She's a person who ' s hair is

nearly as white as snow. She's sometimes grumpy and sometimes nice. But when she's angry she opens her eyes very big, and looks at you hard. Then you feel very, very, uncomfortable, and wished you had never done it. she sometimes shouts for "Angela." (the servant) nearly get deafed.

And

If you are near her yoa can

But I tell you that she's sometimes very, very stuburn as

can be . But when she ' s nice she's very, very nice as you can imagine. sometimes bakes you a cake or perhaps an apple cake with cream. that's when I like her .

She And

But eventhough she ' s horrid, I still love her as a grandmother.

By: Lisa Fernandez Std. 6

THE ROCKS AT DUNOON ARE THE VERY PLACE The rocks at Dunoon are the very place for a boy I ike I to be, I've only been there once in my life, to those rocks by the sea Their not like other rocks at Dunoon. They're as white as snow or the moon, they're not slippy, soggy; damp or wet, For the rocks at Dunoon are the very place, fer

a boy like I to be

The rock pools so lovely for your feet. After the sunfilled rocks of Sunfllled heat. Crash go the ways pounding on the rocks, Craw goes the cry of a coast I ine gull As the rocks yes those rocks at Du noon stay stil I The blazing sun strikes again Once more On the white, white rocks at Dunoon as before. Yes. those rocks at Dunoon are the very place, for a boy I ike I to be.

PETER WATSON. 45

A LOVELY DAY .IN 路 TELIAPARA On Sunday morning at about 6 O'ciock, we got up and got dressed for church at about 7 O'clock we had a quick breakfast and t!len rushed quickly to church. We were just in time for the service. When the service was over mum packed our lunches and our tea. Two other families came too. At about 10 O'clock we got ito the van and in about half an hour we arrived at Teliapara It is a dry river bed, we bad lunch and the twelve of us walked for about three hours collecting different stones and other pits and peices. 路Some stones were bright red and others plain It was a very peaceful place. The only disturbance were the jungle fowls. After a lovely day we went home.

Caroline Smith Standard Six.

A FL YING FISH

A flying fish jumps, And glides through the air, It sees a small school of herring, It dives and eats the small fish. The flying fish jumps again, It dives again-with a swish and a slash it's gone. Then again it glides, A bird has seen it so it dives. The fish glides again, Towards the shore, A bird has seen it. And it is no more.

By Cameron Main, Std 4

~. GOSOSMOSOSGOOSOMO :

Th e Gososmososgoosomo was slimy and gooey and it was red, black, gold, silvery. The gosomososgoosomo swallowed anything that was in his sight and

got

bad disease By Micheal Jenkins, Std 4

FROM A HILL TOP I am on top of a hill looking down into the valley. The fields are made like st eps And the soil is rich. The town is very busy The cars are going around hooting , The farmers are 路busy plou ghin g and planting . The clouds are grey and are moving slowly The distant hills are greyey blue . At last it is t ime to go down to the valley. Matthias T Staehelin Std 4

From the mountain green and rocky, I see mountains blue and lofty, They are like pofoty peaks, Like those pointy sugar beets, Dark and gloomy in the mist, In the woolly clouds. I hear the water gushing down, From the hill up high. The sun is beating down so hot, In the valley is the town, From the mountain top I see All these things that interest me. Janine Watson. Std 4

SNOWFLAKES The snowflakes came whirling down On to the ground, and settled, And a thick, feathery carpet is made, So soft and delicate. Snowflakes are tiny crystals, Snowflakes are nice to eat, They have jaggedy sides And look like silver jewellerv1 Eric March, Std 4

FALLING SNOWFLAKES Snowflakes falling. here and there, Glistening, sparkling, everywhere, Silent as the world can be, You and I are out to see. Dancing. glinting, slush fall. Smoothly, gracefully, silent all By Kathleen Hawthorne Std 4

VOLCANOES The lava bubbling red and hot. Until it reaches the very top Then erupts-going up, down, The red-hot mountain shuddering black. Then men, women. children shout and tremble, For there. nearly, there is flaming molten lava, Like tigers creeping fast, Then all is quiet, The earthquake is done.

By Kathleen Hawthorne Std 4

Thau~

in·· tha'cave · · · ·

was a Coocoocoo Dragon,· A Coocoocoo

Dra~on

he was.

He went over the field And he want over the sea, He blew·fire wherever he went · .. And even blew fire on himself. His skin was red, blue, black And yellow-you should have seen He was a fine, big fellow . ·- .

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.,,. '

:..

. . .: ··~

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By Angela Timm Std 4

SNOWFLAKES .

-·

Delicate, silvery crystals coma whirling down to the earth. Making.-the ground into a white carpet, St~rt I ike icicles over the tree branches, Designs are scattered on the bare ground, which turns white. The Sunshine appears and the snow glistens, And, last of al I, it melts. Chiragh Desai Std 4

Here is a report on Parents' Day Tuesday 28th April 1981. We started off· on Tuesday morning all full of excitement. As the morning lagged on we got more and more excited. At last it was lunch and then ..... Time to get changed, into our posh school clothes. At a quarter to two Miss Harris had a difficult job getting us all lined up. When we were I ined up (which took about ten minutes) we filed on to the stage. The curtains drew and we started to sing. :~so

After the pray e r and repo r t, Stan d ar d 5 pr esen te d Lieutenant Cockatoo. After Standard 5 came The performed by Standarps J _and 2. concerning the Camel. and then At last it was Standard -' 6' s turn

Emperor and the Tulip, a deli ghtful play Next came standard 4, with a cycle of plays Standard 3 recited a Nonsence Alphabet. to sh i路ne with the Music Machine.

Parents also enjoye路d the musical items by see programme. By Andrew Wainright and Roger Gifford. STD 6

I was born in the Wadia hospital on 31st of January Wed nesday night. My First memo ry was when I was sitting in a bowl of water at Mahableshwar and I was smiling with mv mouth open and I had no teeth . When I first went to sch oo_I the teacher said becareful the children will be rough with you and I went to the toile t and they push ed me in . Wh en I was at Napier road I did a puddle on the floor because I did not want to wear shoes. Then I went to scho J I I u sed to scribble. I used to g i g搂 le when I went to the doctor. I was fat and I used 路to kick my legs up in the air . My Mum and Dad are missionarys. Anita Popplestone Standard 2

I was. born in Germany when my DaDDy was preachin g . born I had hair on my face and I looked like a Bear .

When I was

I was sad that I had to

go to school. I want to be a doctor on my first day in school didn't want to come to school because I didn't want .tb work in Scho o l and I would get hard work,

I didn't want to come to school because I didn '. t want to work. By: Lydia Daniel Std. 2 My autobigraphy I was born in Mysore Some where in a hospital When I was two. years old My Mummy gave me some milk in a milk bottle and I threw the. milk bottle and it broke . . on my firs! day going to school I cried alot. Amu Doreswamy

I was born in Bangalore in . Pfileminas.

I smashed all -my

nice toys and my mammy got angry I got a ruler and smashed my best friend.

I went home ounschool

bay and I played with my cat he was as tall as me.

One day

at my house my friend came to the house. he pushed me into the pond.

I am in a

school wich is called HEBRON schoo I it is fun i went to a school and the boy was nortee I saw some eggs i brock them I Laft and Laft.

At my

home i red lots and lots of books John Webb Standard 2

When I was two I stole my Grandmothers toast and tea then I went away. and broke my toys up.

Then on a Saturday we went to the seaside and then

I broke my spade and bucket when I saw a crab I hit it then the crab wod bite Me. By Barry Hawthorne

I was born in Bangalore on March 2nd.

My first memory was when 111Y mom

told me when I was born. 路On my first day of路 school I scribbled when we were doing our pictures and when I did my writing I did it very big and when I wrote lot's of times I wrote big when I was five. Debbie Ironside.

My autobiography When I was one I thought that a Sheep was a horse and I got on it and it ran away when I was路 on it. When I first went to school I thought that the milk was for the and they gave it to me and an apple. A friend of mine gave me his bottle of milk. I was born in Wellington hospital. By STEPHEN SAUNDERS

THE ELEPHANT With his grey ears flapping as he walked came the elephant. He was a bull elephant with tusks white and gleaming in the sun. With his trunk he picked up sand and blew it on to his back to get the flies off. He was not in a godd mood today. The water hole he always went to had dried up. Usually there was cool, refreshing; brown m'..lddy water in which he would soak his thick grey skin. Today there had only been cracked dried mud. He had not been to the water hole for a while because he had been looking for a place with good food . . He had found a place with lush green grass and tall trees around it . He had uprooted some trees to mark the spot. He had been thinking about having a lovely time at the water hole. Now on the way back he was so mad that he walked right past his new home. It was brown and muddy and wet. It was a river. He started to increase his pace. Soon he hit the water with a big splash. by Jonathan Main

A SAILOR I am a sailor and I live in a little hut at the sea shore. Sometimes I go vyith other sailors and get big fish. Once when I was fishing by my self there was a storm and I fell in the water but I managed to get out. After falling. in the water L got a cold. Once when I went out fishing by my self I caught a big fi.sh and lots of other smal I fish. Once when I was out fishing I saw a boat sink and I tried to help but I could not because I was too far away. By. Basil Reid-Thomas Std. 3

"KIDNAPPED'' ·Ptoffessor Dodson wu working on a secret invention, then·suddenly . he · disappeared. The liist time anyone had seen him, ·was in his l~botary. · His ·invention was only known to. himself. and would help his country, It was a solar-powered motor which could power every vehicle at a speed c>f"1"00 mph. If wanted to, a few adjustments could be made to power a plane or helicopter at a speed of 2.000 mph. This man lived in Germany, and was kidnapped by the Russians. The police broke into his labotary, and discovered a broken shell. After being studied it proved to be a gas bomb.. This explained how he was kidnapped. Proffessor Dodson had been taken to a forest, where he was put in a helicopter and flown to Russia.. The ch..ief of the gang was plea.sed. Then Proffessor Dodson wa·s 1 rei to"a free, tliaf had an opening under some thick weeds. The hole was big enough for a man to get through, once inside there was a dazzling light. Footholds led down to a wel-l-furni.shed room, with all the modern radio equipment. They asked Proffessor Dodson to tell the secret of the motor. Being a boxer, Proffessor Dodson soon outpowered them brought them to justice. Today this motor runs all over the world. Clifford Milne Std : 6

FOOT BALL One day I was playing football and I kicked the ball and I fell down and hurt my back. After that I Got the ball. Then I booted it and it hit my face, They had to take me off the pitch. Then I had to sit on the bench for a while. Then I went back on to help my team. At the end of the game the score was 5-1. We had won the game. By Ali Mukadam

THE CIRCUS ,.

One day I was riding on a horse called Mona. I jump down; After that when I was jumping up, I did a Somer Solt in the air. Then when I was riding r jumped on the Swing It was fun.

I could see the very thin rope which the clowns jumped on, the clown stood on his horse with a candle. The people clapped their hands. One man had a ball under One hat. He picked it up and It was under. there; the man road away on Mona. Mona was tired and went to her stall and drank some water and ate some hay. Then she went to sleep. By: Anita Christmas Std, 2

_EXPL路O RATION _

We went hurtling throu g h space, we were ment to be exploring Saturn. We got off the spaceship and went. but suddenly Paul dissappeared into - the ground, and I went to look for him, anrl I fell into a hole. Suddenly I heard Paul. "WATCH OUT". He s11id. He was shining his torch but it began to grow dark then I saw hundreds of creatures coming from all sides; with slime driping from them. One of them had a crown of little jewe.les, he was huge and had big fang:s and he said ''Allaboalthla orat," ten men ran forward to grab me, But they were slimy, and I sliped out their grip. I took out a lazer gun and shot the king, and I ran to where Paul was trying escape, I took my knife and tried to help him out but the knife did not affect the thing that was holding him ;路 Then I blasted it and it let go . We started to run, but soon we to a dead ei1d . So we got out our mini drils and did our way out . Our spaceship had gone and the oxygen supply was running low. So drilled another hole and we found lots of jewels. We found our space.ship when our oxygen supply was down to 20 seconds, Soon we landed in the simpson desert. soon we were located and we were back home and we were rich. By

John Mckenzie aged 9

WHEN THE RAINS COME Th0 earth is dry, Parched, Cracked, Suddenly, the flood gates of heaven Are opened, Water pours down, Steady sheets of rain. Roads were once dusty, Now they are long stretches Of rich brown mud. The rain stops Within hours The Fields are green carpets Of grass Flowers appear I ike magic Peeping from under rocks, 路 Stones. Trees . It's transformed The rains have come Anne-Marie Watson std 8

OF GAUR AND PHYSICS. A Friday afternoon it was; and fiendishly wet. We left at five o'clock on a Friday afternoon in the mud-to cycle ~nd;general monsoon drip. A Hiss and it burst - the tyre - at 5.15 on the damp Friday, making us late. A wet dark night; short nosed, grinning Budagas, muddy roads and a ford. Rain trickling Kagoules - the brake cable torn - till we arrived at night fall ... Annicorai in the mist ... They took us in and gaped. Then, dhotis and riceHeater warmed Banana filled, we slept. Waking at eight to potato (stable crop you see) piles - we left at nine. Ebenad 路and fifteen rupee guides (a small red sweatered, black umberella'd man) for nine damning miles. We carried two 10 speeds down the cliff for five and though the jungle for the rest. Anniketti's lurid temple elephant bones masquerading ... as bleached wood. fourteen and two miles later, a warner and sleeping carpets on the floor. Masinagudi : floating ... Hot jungle and cold water - peacock "mroos" and monkey noises. buffalo noises and woodcutters with hairy chests and skinny legs Standing, waiting: bass policemen and punctures. Then a putter in the dark with a Neil and talk of backyard fauna (tigers) French - for an hour - with a BIG French father Maries and sweet, milky, mugged tea. A tete a tete with a gaur ... We missed the last bus: two 10 speeds at once for 9 km. And him running. Sigur ghat in the dark: animated boulders, stalking us leering. Nervous Exhausted - et - bouillon de vollaille -sweat for 2000 feet. Then jellied legs and Singaporeans路 tourist bus and grinning Rajputs. Chopsticks and capsicum at 7500 feet ... , .. and Physics tomorrow, Alasdair Ferry Standard Thirteen

. MEINE SCHULE Maine Schule steht in einer Stadt die Ooty heisst. Ooty ist in Sudindien und ist eine kleine Stadt; Es ist in hugeligem Gelande und es ist sehr schon. Die Schule ist nicht in der Stadtmittae. Die Schule hat uber zweihundert Schuler Sie ist klein und da habe ich viele Freunde . Jch bin in Klasse neun, und in dieser Klasse sind uber zwanzig Schuler. Es sind ungefar vierzig Le"1rer. Wir Lemen viele Facher. In der Schule spielen wir Fussball und Tischtennis, cricket und Hockey. !ch spiele Fussball ind Tischtennis. Wir haben zwei Spielplatze aber da ist kein Gras. In meinem Zimmer in der Schule sind meum Schuler, aber das Zimmer ist klein. Wir gehen um 9-30 ins Bett und morgens um sieben uhr stehen wir auf. lch wohne in Coonoor, und Coonoor ist achtzehn Kilometer van Ooty. lch gehe am Wochende nach Hause. Die Klassen beginnen um neun Uhr und um elf Uhr haben Wir eine zwanzig Minuten pause . Wir haben Mittagessn um ein Uhr und wir be g innen Nachmittagschule urn Zwei Uhr. Wir sind fertig um vier uhr. Wire haben acht Lektionen pro ta ;:i und zwei Stu1路den Hausaufgaben van halb sieben bis halb neun. Francis Archer Standard 9

THE MAN The man was a chap of six feet high A tall lanky tody, and a piercing eye. A great bushy beard right down to his toes And over the top peaked a large, large nose His toe peeked out from one Wally boot To see him, made the children howl. His coat was worn and wind-tattered His hat was also very battered And behind him a piece of rope Followed his companion, a Billy goat. A Mouse was seen in one coat pocket And around his neck .. ... .. a gold locket? He used to live in a stone quarry In the cabin of an overturned lorry, But now he lives down Birch lane. And comes shopping now and again But when he's finished all his shopping He walks straight home without stopping Anna Gifford Std 8

THE COUNTRYSIDE . IN WINTER

The Breeze is blowing Cold and stiff The ground is luminous white The sky is blue, the sun is shining And it is cold All you can hear is the snore of hibernating animals The wind against the rotting trees makes a hollow swish While the birds sleep in their nests, chirping in their sleep.

David Housron, Standard Seven ,.

A LEAF'S LIFE Shoot, A Leaf, An old leaf, A withered leaf hangs. A withered old leaf falls. The ground is near路 The leaf rots, in a, Bin.

Lydia Wyatt Standard Se_ven

As _si-o ow f all s l j ttl e c hildre n sho u_t w i! h g lee. Dreaming of the fun with their friends . Building Snowmen Making Snowballs But while they have such fun. Mother and father are sitting huddled around the fire, while the old Iron Pot boils. When the children come in, they sit round the fire While grandpa tells Stories old and new. Telling of his adventures in his youth in the snow. As the Old Man dreams of life gone by . Smoking his pipe as the old Iron Pot boils.

By Brett Hullah Std 8

THE LAKE Our family, went to get a ride on the boat . at the boat house.

There were a lot of People

The agent told us to wait half an hour.

Quarter of an

hour later al I five of us were in the row boat.

We went to the right wing of Ooty boat house. were everywhere.

We saw that Lilies

Some were floating around. We also saw a few fishermen ;

Then we decided to go to the left wing.

There was still 25 minutes to go .

We found a couple we knew having their Honeymoon, we tried to catch up, We didn ' t so we went back to the boa t house.

By David Christmas (The honeymoon couple were no doubt gratified -Ed.)

IF I HAD ALLADIN'S LAMP If I had Alladin's lamp How lucky I would be I'd have a little dog named Scamp And invite the Queen to tea I would wish to travel all around Give money to the poor Fly in an aeroplane with no sound And go to school no more The lamp I'd rub it every day And wish for something new To make all of the people gay Not even leave a few Ohl Geni, Gani, I would say Bring Scamp a bone for tea With him I really love to play He is a friend to me I'd wish for worms for all the birds And cheese for all the mice Green meadows for the hungry herds Would be so very nice The mounta.ins I would change to gold The rivers into jelly The butterflies I'd like to hold Like Bambi on the 'telly' The flowers would always be in bloom The trees in bud forever Pure silver I would make the moon And snow would be the weather The grass I'd change to peppermint The stones I'd change to cherries The scorpions I'd have extinct Also, the poisonous berries The pet shops they'll be, oh! so full With lots of lovely pets No illness, that would be my rule There' 11 be no need for vets

The houses th ey would be so grand The churches very tall Ten thousand great big bandstands With musicians in them all I'd wish to make the sea deep blue The sand a lovely colour The earth would be an orange hue And weeds would be no duller I 'd change the waterfal Is to cream The pine cones into peaches I still would keep the mountain stream And all the glorious beaches Off on a rocket l would go Up to the Milky Way Oh! Geni, Geni, don ' t go slow I only have a day From the Milky Way I'd go to Mars To Venus and Neptune From there I'd look at all the stars Pay a visit to the moon Back down to earth we'd go again This time to sail the seas We may just go to Sunny Spain Or to see the Portuguese I'd wish to I ive in the ocean deep And live like a lovely mermaid Sea osters for my friends I'd keep And to the sho.re we'd wade The lamp I'd treasu re all my life For it, I'd be so gratefu l The world I know wou Id never strife For no-one would be hateful

Sarah Maclouhl in Std. Vil

TALKING OF PROMISES She followed a signpost that promised a land full of sunshine and joy. But as she walked the world grew dark and cold and clouds hunched up to fill the sky, like giants bat.;. Her path wound up, through a village or a hill; bright lights, warm homes ............ and mediocrity." Was that the moon? a silver shaft in the dense low clouds? She climbed on a rock and stretched out her hands to touch nothing but darkness. The cold wind blew stronger and blinded her eyes till she fell to the ground her face covered with mud. "Look up, through the pain!" From where was that whisper that promised the stars? Cruel darkness; Hidden promise!. Far below were the flickering lights that reminded of yesterday's blindness to cloud less tommorrows. She stumbled again to the top of the mountain to stand in the cold, eerie, grey of her pain; still and alone between the past and the promise. Empty past Untried promise. She took a deep breath and stepped out into nothing dark turned to light; bright joy, through her tears. Now, the sun and the moon and the stars fill her life.

Anon.

T'HE .·.CAT. He was born on August the eleventh. His mother was part Siamese, his father a who-knows-what from who-knows-where, a stray. His mother was old, unfriendly most of the time, and spent a lot of her time inside. He was one of a litter of four. of which three were given away within three months. One. a white one. Lord Snowdon by name. unhappily went blind within two months of being away. However there was one we had to keep. His name, like his colour. was Chocolate. He was small, had a· little, wispy hair, and for the first two weeks of of his life blundered round blindly in the cardboard box full of chewed news paper that his mother had prepared for her family. He would mew at first whenever his mother left the box for food or her sandbox, but soon got used to this. Then, once his eyes had opened and he could focus them he would practise mountaineering beats over his mother lilnd up the walls of the cardboard box. Then he soon found it possible to escape and at first would mew for help when he got away the warmth of the box and found l'le couldn't navigate the junk amongst which the box was situated.· Tnis was also duly adjusted, so to that he was soon roaming the "dungeon" pouncing on cockroaches and attempting to climb the three tall steps from the store room of my father's to the main floor level. Once he had mastered this, the tedious problem for us and his mother started of continuously searching for him in cupboards behind curtains and on the chairs. He was, however, very playful, and it was much fun to tease him with a piece of string, marble, or some other small implement. He would stalk, pounce, gnaw, pat anything to defeat this thing. He was. though. when tired, quiet,· and would sleep-on your lap. or try to purr while you stroked him. However, the time came to go back to school, and stories came back in fetters of Chocolate climbing up mothers leg, or trying to, while she was writing the letter, or climbing half way up the window screen to catch a lizard (wich was on the outside of the screen). These letters revealed that he was growing, slowly getting more mature, less playful~ Thus. by the time we got' home again things had changed. He was going out every night at six O'clck after an evening meal and returning at six in·nhe morning. He would be fed, then come up to my parent's room where we would all stroke him while discussing the news. or what we would do in the day. Then he would settle dow.n on the double bed and clean himself then sleep while we went to breakfast. Later, disturbed by the servants making the bed he would move Qff to a cool corner t.o sleep off the rest of the day. Chocolate is now a large, brown, mucky cat ·who is very friendly to the family, but shows no great affectfon at all to peop.le he doesn't know. Nigel Witchalls Standard XI

WHEN THE M.ONSOON COMES

The tempest tore up the rocks, Hidden under the sea, The waves splashed over the pier Hitting the high sea wall The seaweed floated on the surface, Torn from its underwater home. It ended up with broken shells, On a battered beach. Small fish swam painfully, In therwhite flecked water, Heading out to open sea, Where there were no rocks Litter strewn on the beach, Was blown by the gale, Then battered torn and wet. Was thrown into the sea. Anna Gifford Std 8

THE MONSOON

When the rain beats down, And the house grows cold, When black umbrellas come Out to be of use, When mud is washed away, And streams turn into torrents Then will people say The Monsoon time has come to stay.

When animals run to and fro And people slosh right by, When clothes hang sodden on the line And feet lie frozen in thier shoes, When lakes will fill to overflow, And water is of no short supply Then will people say they know The Monsoon time will never go.

3. 路 When people's teeth clash, In their frozen mouths, And fingers are numb, And ears are so cold when old wellies are used, And the black mac is found, Then wil I people feel that they Know the Monsoon j3 here to stay;

Penny Moss Standard 8

IN THE DINING HALL Seven-five on a Sunday Evening In groups they were standing ; The bi g boys and the lit t le girls Eating bread, Drinking cocoa Lounging on ta bles, Giggling together Suddenly a shout, ''Shrew!" Big boys: darting; pouncing; stamping; competing Breathless grunts, Groans together Little girls squealing, Approving, Encouraging - but awfully scared really. Under tables, Behind benches. At last! Belly up, the crushed, broken, bleeding, tiny corpse is shot out across the floor. Little girls shriek: horrified, but together loving the spectacle. 0

''lt s still alive!"' More shrieks and a stamp. ''All right, put it in the stove now." says a big boy. Already I was thinking of something I once saw-and never wanted to see again. In Spain it was. Anon .

SPORTS SECTION

HEBRON SCHOOL ATHLETICS

RECORDS

{as of July 1,1980) EVENT 100m 200m 400m 800m 1500m 80m Hurdles 110m Hurdles 3· .O" ..

11.8 secs 24.3 secs · 54.5 secs 2:9:8 4:45:0

17.0 secs 20.0 secs

J. Robertson A· Weavers D. D. Elliott G. Griffiths T. Linton

High Jump Long jump Triple Jump Pole vault Shotput Discus Javelin 4 x 100 Relay

1.6m (5'6") 6.16m 12.81m 2.som (9'6") 9.98m (32'9") 25.55m {83'1 O") 38.66m 47.9 secs

L. Veal S Greenwood · T. Nadarasa K. George H. Benham H. Benham A. Taylor A. Ferds L. Reinhardt S. Greenwood Hebron

3000m Walk

19m 57.5 secs

S.Adams

3'6"

JUNIOR BOYS

SENIOR BOYS 1970 1978 1975 1969 1974

12.8 secs 26.8 secs 62.1 secs 2:27:7 secs

B. Moffat · A. Weavers I. Rees P. Watson

1976 1977 1980 1980

13.9 secs

M. Garlick

1975

A. Weavers A. Weavers M. Cochrane J. Garlic D. Crowden D. Crowden J. Witchalls Hebron P. Watson H. Spikin D. Yedman A. Joshi I. Rees

1976 1979 1980 1980 1980 1970 1971 1971 1979 1975

1.42m (4'8") 4.70m (15'8") 10.18m {33'5'') 2.31 m (7'7'') 9•64m ( 31 '7§-") 22.51 m (73' 1Ot°') 23.91m 58.5

1980

21 m 33.6 secs

1977 1977 19'13 1975 1978 .1978 1980 1979 1979 1979 1979 1980

SPORTS 1980-81

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HEBRON SCHOOL ATHLETICS

RECORDS

(as of Ju ly 1, 1980)

SENIOR GIRLS

EVENTS

JUNIOR GIRLS

61 .2 secs 13.4 secs 1.51 m (4'11!"> 4 .83m (15'10") 10.00m (32"9f') 28 47m (93'5'') 20.38m 54.0 secs

J. Wilson L. Payne* J. Wilso1 J. Wilson** J. Schrag S. Duff** J. Wilso n* J. Crossley* J. Crossley* S. Webb Hebron

1975 1976 1966 1976 '1975 1974 1976 1976 1975 1975 1979 1975

2:53:1 sec

J . White

1980

100m

13.3 secs

200m

27.0 secs

400m 80m Hurdles High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus Jave I in 4x100Relay

800m

***

J. Burton

11.0 secs 14.3 secs 29 .2 secs 66.0 secs 14.0 secs 1.37m (4'6") 4 .19m (13'9") 7 29m (23'11 '') 17.54m (57'6t ") 16.22m

also the Inter-School Record also holds the Inter-School record, wh ic h is l ower: 400m

62.8 secs

R. Jacob D. Polster J. Reid-Thomas J . White J. White

1980 1976 1980 1979 1979

E. Timm E. Timm E. Timm S. Reinhardt L. Simonetta J . White J. Reid-Thomas A . Varughese Ri. Ramanathan Ra. Ramanathan

1977 1977 1976 1976 1978 1979 1980 1980 1980 1980

H.J. 1.45m (4'9").

SWIMMING RECORDS S. G. Event

Holder

Time/Dist.

Year

1 2 1 Z 1 2 6

D. Polster D. Polster S. Webb S.Webb M. Webb R. Moss S. Joshi J, White Mer.Webb K. Marsh

18.6 secodns 42.1 a. 15.5 s. 36.1 s.

33.23 m. 1 _.56 m,

1980 1979 1978 1978 1981 1981 1981 1981 1980 1981

71.7 sec

19'81

Length Bl'east Stroke Lengths Breast Stroke Length Crawl Lengths Crawl Length Back Stroke Lenghts Back Stroke Lenghts Freestyle 12 Lengths Freestyle Under Water Plunge Relay Crawl Breaststroke Backstorke Crawl

19.0 s. 42.5 s. 2m. 34.2 6m. 18 s.

Gold

S. B. Event

Holder

Time/Dist.

Year

1 Length Breast Stroke

A. Weavers } N. WitthaHs N. Witchalls S. Greenwood 5. Greenwood A. Ferry

16.4

1978

36.8 11.9 s. 26.9 9 s. 15.2 30.2 14.6 68.6 4m. 34.5 s. 53.60m 44' 1" 13.43m.

1981 1980 1980 1979

Gold

1981

2 1 2 1 2

Lengths Breast Starke Length Crawl Length Crawl Length Back Stroke Lengths Back Stroke ~' Length Butterfly 4 Lengths Free Style 12 Lengths Free Style Under Water Plunge Relay Backstroke-Breaststroke Butterfly Crawl

S. Gr'eenwood S. Greenwood N. Witchalls N. Witchalls B. Moffat

A. Ferry N. Willey A. Joshi K; George

}

64.4 sec.

1980 1980 1981. 1981 1978

Ten Most Successful Batsmen in recorded history of Hebron Cricket Batsman

Career

Innings

Average

6 32 10 8 25 22 30

23.16 21.47 17.40 13.25 12.48 11.95 11.67 11.57 9.94 9.87

Total Runs D. Sinclair A. Timm P, Martin P. Overton N. Willey T. Nadarasa (Sen.) D. Amba lavanar K. Turakhia C. Perera K. Adâ&#x20AC;˘ms

139 687 174 106 312 263 350 301 169 158

17 16

Ten_ Most Successful Bowlers in recorded history of Hebron Cricket Bowler

Wickets

Darshan Ambalavanar

101

Ashwin Joshi

Paul Chot 3 Karan Turakhla

Stephen Greenwood

Harold Benham

Graham Chote

Mark Thurston

Andreas Timm

Allan Ironside

Most Wickets in Match

8 - A. 7 â&#x20AC;˘ D. A.

Ironside Ambalavanar X 3 Joshi X 2

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SWI·MM·ING . SPORTS One of the.minor, though no less remarkable features of the 1981 Swimming Sports was that thay actually finished on time. That aside, what made these sports stand out from those of the last

few years was the number of

new records made, 23 in all. Both Nigel Witchalls and Kathy Ironside broke three records. Often the race for the individual championship was a foregone conclusion. Certainly this was the case in the senior boys• division where few doubted that Nigel would retain the championship and in the Junior girls' division Where Kathy Ironside obtained

maximum points. The other two

divisions were more wide open. Any one of four or five people being strong contenders for the titles. As it was, Jeremy Witchalls topped the junior boys, divsion and Saira Joshi swam magnificently to win the senior girls' championship. Ahother feature of these sports was the introduction of divisional championship cups won by Blue in the two boys' divisions and by Gold in the girls' divisiQ.ns. Blue again retained tha overall championship but not without stiff opposition; Some of th3 moments to remember were Nigel Witchalls' 2i lengths under water, Katie Marsh's and Jenny Main's keen battle in the senior girls' plunge. Anna Gifford's superb style in thg junior girls' breast stroke, and of course Mr. Cardy's unexpected dip The results and new records follow:

Overall champions

Blue House "

Divisional champions

Individual Champions

Senior Boys

Blue

Senior Girls

Gold

Junior Boys

Blue

Junior Girls

Gold

Senior Boys

N. Witchalls

Senior Girls

S.Joshl

Junior Boys

J. Witchalls

Junior Girls

C. Ironside

Results

Junior Girls : First Second Winning Time

One length breast stroke C. Ironside L. Hart 19. 7 seconds

Two Lengths Breast Stroke First Second Third Winning Time

A. Gifford S. McLoughl in

L. Main 44.6 seconds

One Length Back Stroke First Second Third Winnin g Time

L. Hart R. Jacob A. Staehelin 21.7 seconds

One Len gth Crawl First Seconrl Third Winning time

C. ironside C. Timm N. Larsen 14.8 seconds

T wo Lengths Crawl First Winning time

C. Ironside 34.6 Seconds

Six Lengths free style First ::>ec0nd Third Winning time

C. Timm L. Main P. Watson 3m. 6.2 seconds

Twelve lengths free style - a new event First Second Third Winning time

S. Mcloughlin L. Main P. Watson 6m. 35.1 seconds

First Second Third

C. Ironside A. Gifford S. Mcloughlin

Dive

Plunge First r: SecondThird Winning Distance :

P. Moss A. Ratos A. Gifford 12.20 m.

First Second Third 路Winning Distance :

P. Moss S. Mcloughlin A. Gifford 29.22 m.

Underwater

Relay First Second Winning time

.. :

Gold Blue 76.4 s.

Junior Boys One Length Breast Stroke J. Wheeler s. Archer J. Locke 17.7 s.

First Second Third Winning time

Two Lengths Breast Stroke First Second Third Winning time

F. Archer J. Wheeler A. Busaidy 42.2 s.

One Length Back Stroke First Second Third Winning time

J. Witchalls D. Bennett G. Wheeler 19.0 s.

Two Lengths Bach Stroke First Second Third Winning time

S. Willey G. Wheeler 0. Houston 40.3 s.

One Length Crawl Fiist

Second 72

A. Busaidy H, Spikin

Third Winning time

D. Bennett 15.1 seconds

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Two Lengths Crawl First Second Third Winning time

H. Spikin D. Bennett J, Zachar.ia.h 36.3 seconds

One Length Butterfly First Second Third Winning time

J. Witchalls S. Willey P. Sivaraja5ingham

17.8 s .

Four Lengths Freestyle First Second Third Winning time

H Spikin J. Zachariah D. Houston

87.7 s.

Twelve Lengths Freestyle First Second Third Winning t ime

J . Witchalls F. S. Archer A. Reid Thomas 5. minutes 28.5 s.

Dive First Second Third

A. Busaidy S. Ray B. McKenzie

Plunge First Third Winning Distance

P. Sivarajasingham H. Spikin I. Rees 13.09m

Underwater First · Second Third Winning Distance :

J. Witchalls . F. Arch~r P. Sivaraja·singham 34.90 m.

Relay Blue Gold 67,8. s._

First Second Winning ti.m~

Senior Girls One Length Breast Stroke

Main S. Larsen .. R. Tyman 20.1 s

First Second Third · Winning time

Two Lengths Bl'east Stroke First Second Third Wirinihg time

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R. Tyman J. Main S. Tyman 46.5 seconds .

One Length Back Stroke First Second Third Winning time

Two

Length~

.Back

M. Webb J. Main H. Smith 19.0 seconds

St~oke

Fir'st Second Third

One Length Cr~wl ~ First ,.~. Second Third

Moss M. Webb J . White 42.5 s. S. Jos·hi s. Larsen J. Main 15.7 s.

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Two Lengths· Crawl First Second Third

Joshi M.Webb J. White 36.4 s.

Six Lengths Freestyle First Second Thi ref

,,. ,.

z·.. -..

s. Joshi · J. White H. Smith 2 m. 34.7 s. :

. .!.. • ~

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Twelve Lengths freestyle - a new event First Third

J . White , E, Mars.h 6 m. 18 s.

First Second Third

S. Joshi > S. Larsen J. White

First Second Third

S. Joshi H. Smith R. Moss

;

Dive

Underwater

28.14 m. Plunge

K. Ma rsh J· Main., · M. Webb

First Second Third

-. -

13.56 m. Relay First Second Winning time

Gold Blue

71.7 s.

Senior Boys" One Length Breaststroke . N. Witchalls

First Second Third

S. Wi!l~y: »_ ~ -:: ~~, ::~-=- ~ J. Somers

16.5 s. Two Lengths Breaststro,ke First Second Third 1 .

N. Witchalls J . Somers N . Willey

36.8 s. .

One Length Backstroke First " · Second Third

·:..~ ~~~

-. -

. . ...·_·: ~--'...:

A. Fer ry · A. Adams J. Weesner. ·

16.2 s . . 75 '- t .

Two Lengths Backstroke First Second Third

A. Ferry S. Adams A. Timm 36.0 s

Two Lengthts Crawl 路 First Second Third

J. Paterek K. George A. Joshi 31.5 s.

One Length Crawl First Seccnd Third

K. George S. Adams A. Ferry

13-15 One Length Butterfly First Second Third

N. Witchal Is A. Joshi N. Willey 16.0 s.

Four Lengths Freestyle First Second Third

S. Adams K. George A. Joshi 73.0 s.

Twelve Lengths Freestyle First Second Third

N, Witchalls A. Timm P. Skirrow 4m. 34.6 s.

First Second Third

N. Willey K. George J. Somers

First Second Third Winning distance

N. Witchalls-路 J. Somers J. Paterek 53.60 m.

Dive

Underwater

Plunge First Second Third

A. Timm A. Paterek K. George 12.08 m.

First Second Winnin_g t irne

Gold Blue

ltelaY,

640.

As well as the internal mee't reported above we also took part in a friendly meet at-' Lawrence. This took place in April ~ 980 and hence missed last year's Highlights . Judging by the results we did very well winning every · event in the sinior divisions and a fair number in the junior. We had hoped this meet would pave the way to official inter school swimming meets bul the idea has fl Ot gained wide support° amongst the other schools.

Cross country 1980 For the second year the cross country ;~ was organized on a team basis. Ten competitors from each house in the juniors divisions and eight in the senior. The surprise result was undoubtedly Jonathan Weesoer's·.vvin ·in th.e senior boys' division . Few of us expected the total upset to our predictions hat Jono.' s win caused. In tha junior divisions Janet Reid Thomas won the girls' race and Paul Watson and David How;ton th.e bpys'. ·The only record was _by Janet White who broke the senior girls' r.cord.

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TRACK AND FIELD 1980 During the year we have had three internal meets, two friendly meet and the Inter School Sports. We also took part in Lawrence School's Track and Field Meet and thank them for their invitation. The athletics year started off with the Leavers versus Rest meet. This was comfortably wo路n by the leavers. Two outstanding performances by Harold Benham in the long jump and the triple jump. both new records, were undoubtedly the high points of this meet. The school sports took place in July. Predictably Gold was the champion house. The divisional championships were evenly split with Blue taking the senior girls by only one point and the junior boys, and Gold the other two divisions. The individual championships were extremely close and in each division there were at least the three contenders for the titles. In the end Andreas Timm took the senior boys' championship Sharon Larsen took the girls'. Ian Rees the junior boys' and Janet Reid Thomas the girls'. In all all the years I have been involved in Hebron Track and Field only once have I seen everything stop and all competitors, officials and spectators, foe.us on one event and on one competitor. That was last year during the senior boys' hiph jump when Krishan George gracefully and apparently effortlessly the 13 year old record. Krishan went on later in the year to improve on his new racord but that moment in July was pure enchan tment. The resuits and current records follows: Over al I champions: Gold

Divisional champions : Seniors Boys Gold Seniors Girls :

Blue

Junior Boys:

Blue

Junior Girls:

Gold

Individual champions :

Seniors Boys:

Andy Timm

Seniors Girls:

Sharon Larsen

Juniors Boys :

Ian Rees

Junior Girls :

Janet Reid Thomas

RESULTS Junior G i rls:

75 Meters First Second

Radha Ramanathan Rathi Ramanathan 11 .8 seconds

100 meters First Second Third

200 meters First Second

400 meters First Second

80 meters Hurdles First Second Third

Lon g J umo; First Second Third Hi g h Jumo : First Sacond Third Shotput : First Second Third Discuss: First Second

J. Reid Thomas Radha Ramanathan Radhi Ramanathan · 14.6 seconds J. Reid Thomas N. Larsen 32.7 seconds J. Reid Thomas N. Larsen 76.8 seconds Rathi Ramanathan N. Larsen A. M. Watson 16,0' . . ._. ..seconds • J, Reid Thomas A. Varughese Ra.Rrna1athan 3.87 meters.

A. Varughese K. Fernando A. M. Watson 1.17m.

· -·-~.

A. Varughese K. Fernando A. M. Watson

5.Mm. A . Varughese A. Ratos 12.08 m

Javelin First Second Third

4 X 100 meter relay Firs t Second

Radha Ramanatha~ A. Gifford E. Jacob

10.4 m Gold Blue

61.5 s.

Junior Boys 100 meters First Second Third . Winning time \ 200 meters First

. ~~cand

J. Wheeler

:H~·.Spikin

Riechmann

13.7 s H. Spikin

c. Riechmann J. Lo~ke 13. 1 s.

Tbird

400 meters Fili>t

-~~~Qfld

Thi.rd·

1. Rees J. Wheeler c. Riect)mcinn 66.5 s.

800 meters

-f..lt!~

SeRpnd · ·:r:n~,c;1

I. Rees

A. Wyatt

Bennett

2m. 45s. · Hur~···

First · .. 'Second Third

3 000. ~ete1 ~walk ' First

H. Spikin J. WIJ_eele_r D. Bennett 15.2 s. I. Rees

21 m.

3~.6

.s.

LongJu~p

.First .S~cppqt

T,hi.r,d High J.ulnp First Second Thir.d

A. Busa·idy J. Witch,atls c. Riechmann

4.06 m..

1. McCabe. L. Darrell D. Bennett

1.22 m. Triple JIUDp first Second Third

H. Spikin ·

1• Rees

1. McCabe

9.81 m. Pole Vault First Second Sh~t

Put

·· First Secpp(f Third

A. Busaidy J. Wheeler 1.70 m. K.John L. Darrell

D• .Gillttt.~ - · .. '· ,' 8~915'm. ·

Discuss First Second Third

L. Darrel I K. Turakhia K.John 19. 11 m.

First Senond Third

J. Witchalls K. Turakhia A. Busaidy 23.91 mt

First Second

Gold Blue 59.9 s.

Javelin

Relay

Senior Girls 100 meters First Second

200 meters First Second

400 meters First

S. Larsen Joshi 14.1 s. S. Larsen S. Joshi 13.7 s.

J. White 74 .7 s.

800 meters First Second

80 meters hurldes First

J. White S. Larsen 2m 53.1 s.

S. Larsen 14 .6 s.

Long Jump First Second Third

S. Larsen M. Webb J. Young 4.17 m.

High Jump Fir st Second Third

J. White

First Second Third

M. Webb R. Tvman L. Nadarajah 6.47 m.

H. Smith M. Webb 1.395 m.

Shotput

Discuss

R. Tyman J. White路 C. Dar:re1lil 16.98 m.

First SeqQnp Tt)Jjl'~

Javelin

K. Willey J. White J. Kuki:i.tb~.s

First Se.cood Th.i.r9

16.25

Relay

Blue Gold 59.9 s.

First Second

Senior Boys 100 meters

C.John T. Nadarasa J. Daniel 12.6 s.

First Second Thir~

200 meters First Sec9,r;i.!!,I Third

A. Ferry C. John S. Adams 26.3 s.

400 meters First. Second Third

800 meters Firsi Second Third

A. Timm A. Ferry D. Blackmore 59.4 s. A. Timm A. Ferr路v J. Somers 2m. 20.4 s.

1500 meters First Second Thir~

A. Timm

J. Somers T. Archer 5.25.8 s.

3000 meter walk First Seconp Thir<;i

S. Adams K. Adam$ R. de Silv.a 19m. 57.5 s.

Long Jump First Secohd Third

A. Timm K. George D. Ambalavanar 5.31 m.

High jump First Second Third

I(. Gt:1orge C.John J; Weesner 1.68 m.

Triple Jump First Second Third

A. Timm K. George J. Somers 11.98 m

Pole Vault First Second

K. George S. Adams 2.35 m.

Shotput First Second Third

C.John A. Ferry D. Marsh 路 8.06 m.

Fit st Second Third

A. Ferry K. Adams o. Marsh 21.56 m.

First Second Third

K. /- dams S. Adams D . Am b alavana~ 30.08 m.

f.ir st Second

Gold Blue 62.3 s.

Discus

Javelin

Relay

Just prior to the Inter School Sports we had two friend I ies with Good Shepherd and ' St . Hilda's. In both we performed well. These friendlies were desi gned more as practice for the Inter School Sports than serious inter school competition.

The Inter School Sports A g ain our girls fared Hyphenate much better than the boys though neither was placed very' high, as Supersenior division points do not count . in the overall total. Every year we say it but it _is true. Every O路ne of our competitors gave gutsy performances and just about without exception bettered their own personal records . Our performa nce was not without upsets or real high points. Sharon Larsen broke three inter school records; Janet White in the 200 m eters, and Andy Timm in t he triple jump both suffered from poor organization. Hafidh Busaidy gave a g ritty performance in the 110 meter hurdles despite sufferin g from a twisted ankl.e. Sair(;l J o shi ran a superb 400 meters against formidable opposition. Our bast moment though must have been Janet White's high jump . A g ain the sports all but stopped and watched expectantly as Janet soared over to set a new record' Janet also set a new record In the 400 meters. Th e athletics year finished with an inter class meet in early December. It l ooked as if Standard IX were going to easily win but an unfortunate incident in the boys' relay gave the title to Standard XI.

FIVE 'A' SIDE This year we hosted the tournament and entered two teams; a staff team and a student team. The student team had to play Breaks Higher Secondary School. Good Shepherd School and St. Joseph's in the qualifying round. The first game was against St. Joseph's and Hebron after a poor first half lost three nil. Our second game was against Breeks Higher Secondary and we won 9 nil, with Adams getting four goals. Timm three and Joshi two. The next game was against Good Shepherd School and Hebron won 2 nil with both goals coming from Rees. Hebron came runners up in their group thus qualifying for the semi-finals. The staff team had only two other teams to play, Breeks Memorial and Good Shepherd student teams. The staff made no mistake winning the first game three .nil with Mr. Kemp getting two goals and Mr. Cardy one. The next game was a. 5-1 win over Breeks Memorial School, with Mr. Kemp scoring two goals again, Mr. Per.kins two goals and Mr. Cardy. one. The staff then had to meet the students in a semi fin al and what a game this proved to be. At the end the teams were separated by a solitary goal scored by Karl Adams who produced a thunderous shot which left Mr. Taylor standing. The staff played extremely well and we were sad to see them go out of the tournaments but we had the final to think of. Hebron met St. Joseph's in the final anci before long St. Joseph's were 2 nil up but before half time Timm had pulled back the two goals with two superb shots. The Hebron supporters were cheering as if they had never cheered before. A few minutes into the second half Timm completed his hat trick and it was 3-2. Not long from the end it was still 3-2 but then after a brilliant save from Stuart Adams St. Joseph's pounced on the rebound and it was 3 all. 45 seconds from the end St. Joesph's broke away and scored. making the final score 4-3 to St. Joseph's.

Teams Staff: Mr. Taylor, Mr. Davies, Mr. Kemp. Mr. Cardy. Mr. Twynam Perkins. Students : Stuart Adams. Senthil Nadarasa, Karl Adams, Ian Rees, Andy Timm. Reserves â&#x20AC;˘ Ashwin Joshi and Krishan George. Report written by J. Somers and I. Rees

Inter Football This year the school produced a reasonable inter team and they played well together. In the first round of the: tournament we played Good Shepherd on a day that was cold and wet. Neil Willey who captained the team led an inspired eleven into an exciting first half, in which Hebron had most of the possession and on several occasions went very close to scoring. In the second half the forward line played a lot better and after about 15 minutes the goal keeper punched out a shot from Busaidy and Rees volleyed it in from 2 yards. Only minutes later Spikin hit a lovely angled shot under the keeper

Hebron kept pressing and hit the . bar in th~ last minutes but the score remained at 2 nil. The next game was a gainst St. Jose nh's on a notor ious ly hard surfac e on a ver y hot day. Hebron played well for the first ten minutes and then they wer e completely out played by St Joseph 's whose 2 yards. Only minutes later Spikin hit a l o vely an g led shot under the keeper, two backs were too lar g e and whose forwards were too fast. At half time St Joseph's were leading 5 nil. After quite a stron g half time talk Heuron went out in a better state. Th ey won a corner on th e l eft, Rees took it and as it came in the goalkeeper came out and cau g ht and let the ball thro1.rnh his leg 5-1. About five minutes later across from Arch e r was floated in, Rees was obstructed but continued on and hea de d the ball in, but no goal. The whistle had gone; an indir ect free kick t o Hebron. Joshi flicked the ball to Rees who hammered it in o n ly to see the shot st op in a rather unorthodox manner. He bron kept pressing and a f ew minutes later Archer was pulled down in the penalty box. Rees made no mistake from the spot to make the s core 5 路2. Afte r that St Joseph's put on the pr es sure and Hebron relaxed somewhat al lowing Joseph's to score tw i ce more bringing the final results to

7- 2 . Ian Rees

CRICKET REPORT This year H.ebron was not able to enter any Jnterschool cricket Tournam ent s due to a mix up over dates. This did not, however. prevent us playi ng any matches. A f,ew frier.d ly matches wer.e ,arran.ged for bot h juni o rs and seniors . The first game was played b:Y tl:ie ju ni ors aga ir.ist Lawre nce School. As it has been evide ntl y tru e for many years at Hobron, our batting ability proved to be our weak est arna. The i nabilMy to build up a d ecent score proved to be vital, as in many inni ngs our score proved to be our weakest ar ea as it failed to ba sufficient. Anoth er match agai n st Breeks School also showed this. On the wh o l e the bowling was fajrly ti g ht and fieldin g practisces executed at UMarthly hours of the morning paid off, being probably our stron g point. In the junior match e s good batting displays were shown by David Saunde.rs,John Jacob and g ood bowling analysis by Andrew Coltart and Davi.d Sa,unders. The Super Seniors team played the ir first match, in confident swing, against Breeks School. Our batting displays were a gr eat dea l bet ter than in recent years and a decent score of 103 for 9 wickets verifies this. The bowling was also considerably better than in previous years . Na gg ing .accuracy in our bowlin g made life difficult for the opposition. Se n sible and accurate bo wling was displayed by Darshan Ambalavanar and Ashwin Jo.shi. Breeks then asked for a return match which a ga in proved we were the better side Batting first and with the score of 16 for 5 wickets; Bree~s slumbed to 48 all out, The required runs were easily produced with still 8 wickets in hand.

A third match against Rex School proved to be completely different. Batting, bowling and fielding displays were useless and the game was lost. On the whole this year our fielding was fairly tight and we managed to cut down decent amounts of runs. Our bowling was offensive and aggressive. A Rex batsman lea"ing the premises with a broken nose shows signs of this. In the keenly awaited Blue/Gold house matches Gold won the series in the seniors and Blue in the juniors. 路 The event of the term was the Staff. Student match. Intense rivall'y between students and Geography' Cemistry and Biology teachers resulted in the student being victorious!! Let me end on this note and hope that Hebron in the future years maintains this outcome Results: Juniors:

Hebron 31 for (8 Elder-9) Lawrence 142 for 5 (Saunders 3 for 56) Hebron 26 for 8 (Jacob- 10) Bree.ks 28 for 5 (Coltart 3 for 13)

Super: Seniors:

Hebron 103 for 9 (Timm 42, Willey 17) Breaks all out 90 (Amblavanar 5 for 27)

Breaks 48 all out on 6 (Amblavanar 6 for 13, joshi 2 for 17) Hebron 65 for 2 (Wil lay 27 retired, Timm 18 )

Hebron 51 all out (Turakhia 23) Rex 62 for 2 (Rees 1 for 12, joshi 1 for 22, and a broken nose) Andreas Timm Std X1

SUPER SENIOR VOLLEYBALL Manager : Coach Team

A; Cardy J. Perkins Stuart Adams Timothy Archer Hafidh Busaidy Joseph Daniel Krishan George Cherian John Jonathan Weesner Mujahld Zaki Andreas Timm

This was the best team that Hebron have produced in quite a few years managed by A, Cardy and coached by J. Perkins, The team couldn't put a foot wrong (until the final). It had put in a lot of practice during free time and P. T (Physical Torture) lessons; up at 6 a. m. to jog around the pitch and practice smashes aud returns, under the ruthless supervision of coach J. Perki ns, whi1e manager A, Cardy had tea in bed. Finally the big day arrived. Hebron, dressed in Gold and Blue marched onto the court to the roar of a crowd of three. In the first game. drawn against Brindavan Public School, Hebron played shakily at the beginning, but showed their style towards the end and beat Brindavan 2 games to 1. Now into the semi-finals Hebron faced last years runners up; St, Georges. These were dealt with quickly in a totally one sided game. In the final against St. Josephs which proved to be ''fairly even", St. Joseph's finally won 2:1 Ma nage r A. Cardy said afterwards ''The lads played well, almost as good as Ipswich(" Stuart Adams XI

HOTSHOTS

After the daparture of last year's standard eleven, Hotshots were left with just a framework which hed to be filled in rapidly and well, and we had to hit form fast. We do have an impressive record which looks like this.

P13 W8 DOL5 Goals for 55 Goals against 28 Points 16 The top sc o rers this season are Adams and Nadarasa with 10 apiece followed by Cardy . lngleby and Rees with six apiece and then Somers and Timm, who are both half backs with 5 each . The most consistent scorer is Mr Cardy scoring in six out of 13 games: Tho staff who play regu_larly are Mr Bromley, Mr, lngleby, Mr. TwynamPerkins, Mr Davies and Mr Cardy Mr Taylor and Mr Pill have both been lost, Mr Taylor due to leaving and Mr Pill due t o lack of form. We hope it is temporary. Mr. Taylor scored two goals for the club in his final appearance and went out in a blaze of glory.

We have had some guests pJaying for the team, Mr Mcloughlin who has left Newport ·country (Wales) which is in the 3rd division arid te·ached the quarter linals of the European .Cup winners cup. George has also appeared for.us On the whole we have had a goDd enjoyable seas'on J Somers. I 'Rees Stop. Press

Top Scorers: Nadarasa Cardy Adams lngleby Timm He.es Somers

14 13 12 10 6 6 5

TENNIS Tennis is played the whole year round in Hebron. Since it is quite popular Mr. T. P.• our sparts master, made a knock-out tournament in the first term, In the Mens singles Krishan George and Joseph Daniel were 1st and 2nd seeds with many other players seeded into the 2nd round. In the semi finals George met Adams, and Turakhia vs Mitra. Adams got through easily beating No. 1 seed 6:0 6:3. Whereas tm 1the ofhe:r side Mitra and Turakhia fought a 3 set duel ending up Mitra going into the finals 6:2 4:6 7:5. In the finals the game was not very exciting both the players being slow ton-spin players Adams beat Bibek by quite a wide margin. In the mens doubles Geor~e acritl<'Ds:tirel melt A'd•ams '8rrd'T'uFakhia. This wa-s much closer an-d drew a ldt::tl>1f ?J'.)acrp'le to wist:ch, imi:l)e•e'lil, the crowd got their · (entertafoment '8S this was a match VJery close anti ·o·f very good tennis. ln·the first ·set G:e:orrge iand Daniel beat Adams and Turakhia 6:4 but in reply Adams and Turakhia beat George and Daniel 6:2 in the second set was very even until a servrce was broken and Turakhia and Adams led 5:4 with Turakhia serv:ing 1he score was 40 ; '15. 1B·ut ·rurakh-ia mrssetl ·an easy back hand voll'ey whfoh would have wont\lhe-rnatdh. George al'l·d Daniel went on to win 7: 5. tn the Ladies singles Sarah Tyman beat Janot White 4:6 6:4 6:2. In the dout»es We.:bb an:d Tyman Senior met Barton and Young. Barton and Young won easily. In the mixed ·doubtesUS-a·r'ton 'and Turakhta met Adams ·and 'Tyman :s:r; · 'Ba·rto-n ·and Turakhia won by two straight sets. Tl:lis term Mr. T. P. decided that he would .have a league played this time. TJie, league is still in pr.o.gress. ~.B.ut this: term a new tennis .player has·. appeared on Hebron~s tennis scene I Peter .J.enki-ns It!

This year the irrter ·school tomnament was held at St, Josephs. There are only two divisions senior and super-senior. In the senior Turakhia got beaten badly in the first singles 5 ;0 6~1 I! The doubles, the Ray brothers, .Stephen and. Stt.rnrt · lost. ln :the . super-seniors Adams §iave ,a · muc·h better fight l;ut still tost, the .doubles.also ol ost by quite a margin. So Hebron is still not as. high as Inter-School level. By: Keran Turakhia Std X

THE BADMINTON ·Y EAR The Inter-School boys tourna ment started the season off. Our Sup e r. Seniors (Stuart, ·Adams, Alasd.air Fe rry, Darstlan Ambalavanar) beat Rex but went out to an incredibly strong Lawrence team. The seniors (Ben John, Keran Turakhia) in a hotly contested game ~.bowed . out to Rex. The Ir t er Girls tour nament again brought some good games especially as there are no satisfactory Badminton facilities at school. The Juniors t Anna Gifford, ,Yolanda Arnkiasamy) hammered into Breeks but then went down to .Lawrence. The Seniors (Cathy Ironside, Fiona Ferry, Sarah Tyman) put up a good show but lost in the end to Nazareth. However Breaks gained revenge after their junior team def eat in beating our Super Seniors (Hazel Smith, Shanita N e tt ur ) The Highlight of t ile season was the school tournament held at Anna Stadium on M arch 7th, a total of 7 finals in 53 matches an d 1 ·15 g ames (consuming 7 plastic shuttles and 7 racket strings). Two excellent performers were Roger Gifford a Standard Six who won the Junior singles and Cathy Ironside Standard Nine the Senior girls. was the Senior Boys. Junior Boys Junior Girls

The most hotly contested series

Single/ Hoger GiffortJ Runner/ up/ Keith Elder Single/ Anna Gifford

Runner up/ Myra Chai l e n Senior B oys Single/ Bibek Mitra Runner up / Jonathan Weesner Senior Girls Singles/ Cathy Ironside Runner up/ Hazel Smith Boys Doubles Darshan Ambalavanar and Bibek Mitra Runner up / l<eran Turakhia and Benjamin John Girls Doubles Fiona Ferry and Cathy Ironside Run n er up/ Hazel Smith and Shonita Nettur. Mixed Doubles Be n jamin John and Hazel Smith Runner up I l<eran Turakhia and Shanita Nettur BJ Pill

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.BASKETBALL . 1 980. BOYS

1980 saw basketball rise to ·join football as a year-round sport Hebron. . Mr Taylor formed a club later dubbed the Hebron Huskies, in February, which met for several practices each week right through from February to October. Practice was enthusiastic and unflagging. The members earmed team stockings and shirts with their names on the back for practising. Matct:ies were played mo~t weeks •. 13 times against mE1n.'s teams (6 wins, including the Arts College), and 19 times against other schools, excluding the Tournament matches in October. · In July, because of growing interest, the club split into Super-Senior and Inter. teams in preparation for the Inter School Tournament, The Inters played; Kotagiri Public, Stanes. Brindavan (twice). Lawrence, Kodai, St. Georges and Blue Mountain (twice) beating Blue Mountain only (both times), The Super-Seniors played: Kotagiri Staff/Studies, Stanes, Brindavan .(twice), Lawrence, Kodai, and St. Josephs - beating Lawrence and Br.indavan '(The Stanes Match was unfinished). The tournament saw both teams lose narrowly in the semi-finals, the Super-Senior 1;1ame being a nerve-wracking, excitement filled duel with Kodai, ending In a last minute Kodai victory by one basket. The Huskies did not only play basketball though, They washed staff vehicles, did variOus jobs - and even captured rats in staff flats - in order to raise money for a basketball. court at Se I borne. Several of the club members then with Mr. Taylor, themselves constructed new backboards and installed them. The major project that raised these funds was a floodlit night time, Benefit match, at which all had to pay tickets, and a canteen was run. The popularity of the floodlit match led to it becoming a once-or-twice termly social function, · Results against other scht>als;Super-Seniors A FRIENDLIES versus score (HEB.OTHER) Breaks Memorial 84:44 KPS Staff/Student 22:62 Stanes 27:28 Brindaven Seniors 57:45 Govt Arts College 58;39 Lawrence 30:24 Kodai 23:56 St. Josephs 31:34 Brlndavan Seniors 66:51

Win/Loss

w L

w w w L L

Inters Versus

Score

KPS Stanes Seniors Brindavan Lawrence Kodai St. Georges Sen/Inter Brindavan Blue Mountain Good Shepherd Sen/Inter

(HEB:OTHER) L L L

18:74 16;73 15:54 29:37 8:62

L L L L

24:35

24:44 25:22 40:50

w L

BY TOURNAMENT (Oct. 24-25, 1980) Super~Seniors

63:17 w Brindavan 22:24 L Kodai (St, Joseph's beat Kodai 77:55 in final)

Inters Lawrence 26:13 W St, Georges 22:27 L (Kodai beat St Georges 77:14 final)

GIRLS The excit ement of the boys' club infected the girls, who had their own less or ganised, though numerically larger club from October 1980, ending with the Inter School tournament in February 1981 After practising with bed ication for these 7 weeks or so, the SuperSePior Team got to the tournament only to find themselves the only bonafide team entered. However, Stanes entered a Senior team to give us a game ·The Senior Team had one friendly match, against the St. Hilda's Juniqr Team, which Hebron won 42;12 The Junior Tanm won two friendly games vs Breaks Memorial (42;0), Lawrence (2612) and lost 26 34 to the Blue Mountain Boys Team •

The SubJunior Team beat Breeks Memorial in a frien·dly (42 18), and lost to Stanes (14 18)

1 2 3

Tournament Results Super Seniors vs Stanes 22 10 Hebron wins Championship Seniors vs Stanes 14 28 Stanes eventual winners Juniors vs Lawrence 17 8 , vs Stanes 44:9 Hebron wine championship Sub- Juniors vs St. Georges 15:22 (St,Georgs ev1rntuel winners).

Congratulations to the junior and Senior teams on their Championship Cathy Ironside, the junior team Captain was judged the most valuable player scoring 29 points in the final match·

HUSKJESo ,One assembly in mid Febru"l'V :1380 Mr, Taylor announced with a ·eartain amou.nt of hope in his voice that he:was going to start a basketball club and would any one lil<e to join? There,w~re one or two people who ·thought they could-·play basketball. we soon found out we couldnot, Twelve of us appeared afterwards with ages ranging fromT4-~17 to form one te.am .. We soons tarted practising for the tournament eight months away. After we had Jearn.t .some about .shooting and dribbllng Mr. Worman Gale came and helped us ,a ~great deal and taught us the essential jump shot. Then he:left and ''Betai" a medical student from Vellore came and helped us. It then became ap~~r.ent that one basketball team wouldn't work-we had to divide it into two ·teams We asked some.more people to join, or vo.ted with the club to do so. These people were;mainfy"in the inter division as most of the "twelve appostles" were from the s.uper senior.division. We all.oHed.captains and vice c~ptains ·in each division. We started practising separately as two teams with one goal as the tournament was in October. We were regularly giving in folders full of our practice shots. both those taken and those put in. We had these marked and commented on by Mr. Taylor and given them back. Then we had practjced _games against other schools in which we did not do very well, or the inters.didn.~t. buUhe Super.Seniors however fared WJll. Then the tournament arrived and we trooped off to lawreryce in our new kit which we had earned with attendance and pr:actice record. The ·super sen.io[s _playad .their first game ,against Brindavan and won easily Then th.a.rain ,Set inWe.retumed the ne-xt day·to Jos·eph'.s thktima, to continue. We, the inter team, beat Lawrence wh~ beat us in practice·and·made our way to the semi-finals. The Super Seniors played Kodai in the Semi-finals in an ,extrerneiy close game which Kodai won by 1 point perhaps deservadly so or pArhaps not; The inters then pJayed inters in the semis, in which St George's won b,y 2.points. So we'd been knocked out by the slimmest of margins after 8 mo.,ths practice, But we'd had superb fun, learnt team spirit, and learnt the rules and tactics of a gama that we knew nothing about before. Of course all of this couldnot have been possible without Mr, Taylor withlhis persistan-t, haip encouragement and coaching. He also worked o~t an incredibt:e~amount of tactics which helped us to improve our game and kept us going with occasional "guff-ups" !! 'Hers a-re teams,-which Mr. Taylor coached to stardom, with the infinite natural capabilities of the players themselves of course J

Inter Team 1st 5

N. Willey*

A. Joshi D. Marsh J . Skirrow D. Blackmore P. Watson

Super Senior

K. Turakhia+ 1 Rees J. Paterek

I. McCabe

1se 5 J. Denial+ 路 J . Weesner A. Timm K. George S. Adams J. Owen (Spagetti) J. Somers P. Wig

Capta i n

Vice路 captain

Th3 teams together were called the "Hebron Huskies" and often played as such a;i ainst local men's teams. After the Huskies came about and practiced basketball became one of the school's main sports, but as in other sports wa haven't th3 depth of players to fall back on that other schools have. A girls basketball club was formed soon after the boys tournament was over .

JUNIORS HOCKEY Aft e r our first game against Lawrence, which was only a friendly game s9 that both teams g ot some practice. We were drawn a Jainst George's, the gamE\ was g oi ng to be on their pitch down in Kettie. The game was on a Tuesday and we l eft school aft e r lunch there were eleven of us. The trip down took about 30 mi n utes, we g ot down to the s c hool ~ ot on the pitch to g et use to it too k a few shots at our goal keeper , a路1d Mr. Bromley gave us a stern talk. The game started at a to ut 3 p. m. Th13ir captain who was called Rickey and our captain Bruce. They bullyed of and they g ot the ball and Rickey their captain cut the ball just over my head straight to their left wing who crossed it in to Rickey and he flicked it past our goalie David Houston and givi ng him no chance at all, "Hard iuck David ." They scored anther one about twenty minutes later were their sfriker cut the ball ,over or goalies head at half time we were two down. The whistle went again, and we got the ball Bruce gave it to Keith who when past Ricky down the wing and hit it across for Nicolas but intercepted beatifully they put in 2 more, at last the whistle went and we lost 4-0. "Well played George" The Table St. George vs He~ron Lawrence vs Brindavan -

Score 5-0 Score 2-0

Finals Lawrence vs St. Georges The winner was St Geor g es The winner was St. Georges we don't 路know the score. Keith Elder

The Team Bruce - Captaiir:. L Nicolas A. Ari R1 Andrew C, Ian A, M.

Reserves David·~-C.

Ian M. Alistair R: T.

John J. David. H~ David W. Rathan S.

Goa·lie

.JUNIOR FOOTBALL TEAM We wer13 all confident of winn~ng our next. match. The. first one had been against Lawrence and as we cdidri't fhirtk We had muc!:l of a chance in beating them. But in the first half James Mcloughlin scored and our spirits went up really·high. All through the s,eeond half we took it easifjr and keot it at that. Then the· day came for us ·to play Good Shepherd. We thou;:iht this wil I be an easy win .. But when'wa started everything went wrong - They broke through twice and·scored ·in between that we had a penalty, and I was meant to do it, but let Andrew Col tart (who is good in the practices and got a lot in) take it.

Nicolas Archer Stanc;ard Seven (;

· INTER SCHOOL V~LLEY BALL REPORT ·Th-is year we·dtdn't have an elite multitude to select from, nevertheless we mustered a decent team which. c'onslsted of J. Somers as Captain. K. Turakhia, I. Rees, N. Willey, A. Jo~_hi, A. Busaidy, F. Archer and J. Paterek. · The team was coached by ·Mr. -Cardy ... Our first and last match was against Stanes of Coonoor. The first game was narrowly lost, we took them to a duece. The score ended up as 16-14~· ·to Stanes. ·In the next game Staries had gained much confidence and beat us 15-7 and that then was it for. our senior team, since there was no Inter division Most of- the team was pushed up from Inters into Seniors I think it would be

fai~ to say·~e plaVed well and as a team. J. Somers.

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ROAD - RUNNING Road-running is a sport that some people enjoy but on the whole is not liked by many_. I 'll tell y o u of once when we ~ad a terrible timeWe started out by havin g to walk up, about 500 metres up t o the tumbledown house From ther e ·we ran a jour ney that'"! wi _ l l neyq r forget. Ev3 ryone starts to groan. doesn't run fast, _and in the end l'J.l.rKing ·s_t_arts encouragin;:i us with a Bamboo Cane, urgin g us to run on. It rained (It ·had to on that certain day) We tripped over stones and rocks and pe b bles, and. _s lipped over mud. In the end we reach ed the re completely out of breath ; We had about two minutes breath and then had t o go on. Mr King yy ent on and we all lagged behind In the end I was by mys e lf. I got lost a_n-d·g ot fa gged out, running hither an d thither. I came upon a few ho u ses and · asked if any boys had run ther e Yes Thank Goodness ! I r an th e re an d just as I fou n d them we had to go back This was too mu c l~. I walked back, took short cut, a nd end ed up 6th instead of last. That was my wonst run (G·ood Gr i ef I'm tired all-ready) Timothy Richards Stsndard Seven (Timothy now kn o ws th e cr oss count r y ru n li~e the back of

his. hand)

THE TE AM Some talk of Donald Bradman, And som e of W G Of Co lin, Sunny an d Gary '

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And such great names as these But of cricketin g s g reat heroes There's none that can compare With a bum pe r, drive and howzat Of the tea m pres ented h e re

With apologies to Anon

For Musical version see Mr T P

Belt-' Em Bromley

Ex Irish Air Force Che if Ru bber Band winder A Bou nt iful Batsman with a big bom bastic bash

Cyclonic Cardy

Recent arrival from .B roa'dmoor whh a special ball . , that trave ls at an e levation of 0 .1528 m. known as the Tib and Fib Ki ng.

Devastating Davies

Refers to his looks not his cricket, l oan from Ti g er B2y Mafia 1st XI

Innovative lngleby

Jingles, swi ngl es, tingles th e tingles . Also has reputa t ion for unbiased decisions. Team tactician. · ·· ·

. _.

OH spinner,-On

Mobber Mobley

Computerised hurnaRoid robot with instant recall of every possible delivery based on size of Bowler's trouser bottom as a function of the flare of his left nostril â&#x20AC;˘.

Macho Morgan

Mr, Fingertips 1981. Super sensitive fi.1gers can determine moisture content of leather eve!l through the varnish. On loan from Steinway Ivory polishers and Wire Winders 2nd XI. If = + 2AS what is the momentum of a

Pensive Pattemore

0.15675 kg red projective at the point of impact on the human cranium? 9.11 ms-2 a = 4000 cms-2. AILother factors constant. g =

Temperamenta I Taylor

Do you know what his next bal I will be? Grand spot the difference contest. Will he bowl the same ball twice?

Taciturn Thomson

Former coach of West Donegal Potato Pickers Cricket Club. Services dispensed with as could only carry one player at a time.

Thaumaturgical Wilkins Stops:

Anything Anywhere Any time Any way Wicked Whacker of Wishy Washy deliveries Note adjectives verified by Penguin English Dictionary Combined Polish and Irish Edition.

JUNIOR SWIMMING SPORTS It was a fine day and the pool looked warm Mr T P had decorated it very nicely. Mr Thomso;i opened the Sports and Mr James gave the opening prayer. Then the first race started There was a lot of cheerinJ from both sides. We had been told to cheer loudly There were several new events such as the Individual Medley for Standards 5 and 6, one length butterfly for Standards 5 and 6; diving one length medley relay for girls Standard 3 and 4 one length freestyle relay Quite a few records were broken, because it was only the second year that we had kept them. Âˇ The House captains, jonathan Main, Roger Gifford, Lisa Fernandez and Rosemary Coltart were a great help to Mrs Bromley who had to get the people to the Marshalling Area There was a lot of tension as one team crept ahead of the other team in scores It did not stay that way for long as tho othor team would soon catch up, but in the end Blues won The scores were very close, Blues 209, Golds 193. Roger Gifford and Rosemary Coltart went to collect the cup from Mrs Ironside It had been a very exciting day

The champ_ion swimmers were 1 James 路 Mcloughlin from Blue and Melinda

Wa.oi.. from Go ld

To mak.:J it n-.ore interesting we had certificates for first and second place Jonathan Main Stephen Jenkins and Nicholas Scott

Event No.

1 2 3 4. 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18

19 20 21 22

23 24

25 26 27 28

29 30 31

32 33 34 35

37 38 39

Group 5 & 6 Boys 5 & 6 Girls 5 & 6 Boys 5&6Girls 5 & 6 Boys 3 & 4 Boys 3 & 4 Girls . 3 & 4 Boys 3 & 4 Girls 5 & 6 Mixed 路 5 & 6 Boys 5 & 6 Girls 3 & 4 Boys 3&4Girls 1 & 2 Boys 1&2Girls 5 & 6 Mixed 5 &6 Mixed 4 Boys 4 Girls & 2 Boys 1 & 2 Girls 5 & 6 Mixed 5 & 6 Boys 5&6Girls 5 & 6 Boys 5&6Girls 3 Mixed 4 Boys 4 Girls & 2 Boys 1 & 2 Girls 5 & 6 Bovs 5&6Girls 5 & 6 Mixed 3 Mixed Open Mived 5 & 6 Mixed 1 & 2 Boys

Events

2 Lengths Crawl 2 Lengths Crawl 路 1 Length Crawl 1 Length Crawl 1 Length Freestyle 1 Length Freestyle' 1 Length Freestyle Beginners Length Free Beginners Length Free 1 Width Crawl 1 Width Freestyle 1 Width Freestvle 1 Width Freestyle 1 Width Freet'tyle 1 Width Freestyle 1 Width Freestyle 1 Le ngth Butterfly 1 Width Breast Stroke Egg and spoon Race Egg and Spoon Race Star Float Star Float Individual Medley 1 Le r.g th Breast Stroke 1 Length Breast Strol<e Obstacle Obstacle Star Float Big Splash Bi g Splash Egg & Spc on Egg & Spoon 1 Length Back Stroke 1 Length Back Stroke 1 Width Back stroke Egg & Spoon Diving Beginners GI ide Big Splash

Record Times 97.0 secs.

38.6 secs. 20,6 secs. 20.2 secs. 22.4 secs. 22.0 secs. 22.5 secs;

6.2 secs. 6.2 secs. 6.0 secs 6.2 sacs. 8.5 secs. 9.6 secs. 18.8 secs. 6.0 secs.

1 m. 43.8 secs. 21.1 secs. 23 0 secs.

21.5 secs. 23.0 secs. 7.03 secs.

1 & 2 Gi_rls

54 55

Open Mixed 3 Mixed 4 Mixed 1 & 2 Boys 1 & 2 Girls 5 & 6 Mixed 4 Boys 4 Girls 3 Mixed,, 5 & 6 Boys 5 & 6 Girls 3 & 4 Mixed 3 & 4 Mixed 1 & 2 Mixed 5 & 6 Boys

B_ig Splash Under-Water Swim Obstacle Star Float Obstacle Obstacle Big Splash Obstacle Obstacle Big Splash I Length Crawl Reiay 1 Length Crawl Relay 1 Length Freestyle Relay 1 Width Freestyle Relay Egg & Spoon Re lay 1 Length Medlay Relay

5 & 6 Girls

1 Length Medlay Relay

42 43

44 45

46 47 48 .49

·50 51

52 53

1981 ·Scores

Blue

19a1 Champions

209

· Girl - Melinda Webb

indicates a new record

Gold

·.!)

19.80 metres

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1 m.~20 6 secs. 1m.:21.1 ;secs 1m. 45.4 secs. 31.7 secs 1m. 33. 1;secs. 1m. 40.3 seca.

193

Boy - James Mf'Loughlin

FORMER HEBRONITES Harland

Paul has been through on furlough and plans to .r.eturn to Bangladesh in June God willing. Tim is working with the Ministry of Health in Kenya. Elizabeth is nursing in Oxford . 路

McManus

David has started a three year part -time course in Business studies and Accountancy Andrew is studying for A- levels in Physics. Geography and Maths James has left mining en~ineering and is reading for a medic路al degree in scotland. He is married with one child. Elizabeth has two children John is at university in Scotland.

Rutherford

Shrag

Maynard was going to join the U S Navy last September.

Short

Ruth was married to Denis Hargreaves last July. Sandbach

They

are

living in

Truscott

Stephen has just completed his B A degree in Economics and Busi ness Administratio r . Debbi e i s stu :! yi 11g a spGcialised nursing course Ruthie is the second fastest runner for her age in the country. She expects to finish high school in June. Mark now very tall, is in Grade eleven, and plays th e clarinett in the church orchestra there in California.

Warner Paul is with Rank Xerox as a marketing executive. Stephen has passed his po st gr aduate Law exams and is in his second y ear of articles with a firm in Lutor. He is thinkin g of go in g overseas for a while , Mr. Warn e r in CMS Re Jiona l Secretary for SE Asia and als o o n the UM N Exd c:u tive Cou11cil

Way Erica compl eted her R G N course last june and has sinc e been working as a staff nurse. David obtained his BA in theolo gy and he and his wife am now in Oxford whare David is doing research on the relationship of modern Biblical studies t o systematic theology. Banks

Dr Banks, father of David and John has gone to Northern Uganda for clarinetta a year. to help with the relief work at Karmoja.

Mercedes Webb- is attendin;i a colle ::i e in Dallas studying Interior Design and Fashion Marchand ising.

Debbie Truscott -

is doing nurse's training in America, as wel I as helping her father in his church work. Ruthie is doing her Grade 12, and is still a very keen sportswoman.

Elke Timm -

is doing her A'Levels in Cornwall School in Dortmund . She was made head girl within two weeks of starting school.

Karl Adams -

is doing his O'Levels in Sutton Valance School {U. K.). He also takes part in Junior Wimbledon Tennis, Junior County Hockey and basketball.

Judy Wigglesworth -

is furthsring her education in Scotland and hopes to go

to University soon.

Frankie Parmar__: is working in a Plastics Firm in England, and wishes to return to India in the future. Gina is now sitting her A'Levels in a college in London. Carloter Guglielmino - did very well in her O'Levels and is now taking he A'Levels in Wycombe Abbey School. The family hopes to visit India during Chr istrnas. Harold Benham - is doing his Highers in Scotland and hopes to begin University in October. Thiru Nadarasa - is doing his A'Lavels in Chiqwel I (in London) Jacob John - has completed one year at Stuttgard University in Germany. We enjoyed his visit to the school in April. Hugh Tyman - is running Guildford Boatyard as well as attending classes at a Mana gement Course in Ki ngston. Last year he completed a course on Boat Building Patrick is now completing his A'Levels in Dover College and has a place in M e dway College of Art. We enjoyed his visit to School last year. William Hacking - was previously employed in a hotel in London, but left it just before Christmas, and is now working in a Golf Club near Liphook. Stephen is working in a Shipping Broker's Firm in London. Nicholas is working in a Swiss Bank in London. John Lawrence - is attending an Engineering and Management course in Plymouth. David Craig - has gained a scholarship in Oxford. Duncan is doing his A'Levels, and hopes to go to Australia in the future. Hafidh Busoidy - is attending a college in Cairo - and also enjoying working in a book shop. Susie Wiig - is working with 0. M. in Madur i and is due to be married soon. Peter is working as a janitor on an Oil Rig in North Dakota. AUison Elder - she hopes to go toU.K. after 'Beauty Care,. Sharan Jeet -

Kaur -

Brenda Spikin got married.

completing her courses in

is attending a college in Kuala Lumpur.

is working in a j-ewellry shop in

Australia.

sh9 also recen tly

~enny MulJin~ -

is doing her nur~es training i~ ~ustralia. Ruth is.now teaching 1n a school in Bangalore. we enioyad her" v1srt to the school In April. She informed us that both Rachel and Beth are still very keen on sports and athletic trainng. Colin Gibson - ( '68-72) Finished at Kings Collage, London in '79 with B.Sc., (Eng), A. K. C. Now living near Crystal Palace and Assistant En ginee r with a firm of Consulting Structu al En g ineers with offices near Blackfirars. Keith is presentiy reading Physical Education with Geography at Birmingham University. Their father is Head of Radio Worldwide - which is a radio programming arm of W . E. C. near Crystal Palace. As Noel is from N. Z. Noel & Zena are planning to spend a few months over Christmas there visiting relatives. Alan Kiff- works with a computer firm in the city as a computer operator. Peter - has just finished his training as an operating department technitian. Christina HoUand - is now married and living in Chadwell Heath. 100

Chote John graduated fromTeachers Training College with Commendation.Now he is doing a final year at Waikato University to complete his B. Ed.-Gaylene his wife, having graduated B . A. (hons). now does one yaar at the Teachers Training College. Graham duly completed . his final year 7th (Form) 路He goes _to 路路 the Waikat o University For studies in Business Mangem ent and Ac countancy Paul sailed th rou g h his Sch ool Certificate exams With a high of 81 in French and a low of 64 in Science. This year he will be studying for his U. E. Kelvin "keeps on keepin g on" as tho Barger Paint advertisement declares, At his age he has no great ambitions unless it be just to beat his bigger brothers at sport Shirley has passed her .pro g ress exams so far and she presses on steadily in her nursin g care'.H . She likes her w.:irk, and by aH accounts the patients I ike her too. Mr. and Mrs. Beattie Mrs. Beattie enjoys doing a few days supply teaching from time to time. Mr. Beattie was extra b usy tlarlier this yJar covMing his own work at school as wel I as much of that of the head of department who was ii I. He also has a full programme of Christian activities. Last summer he was the speaker at a P. S.S. Camp and helped at the V . B S. week locally and was ir1volvt} d in open air Sunday Schools'. Mor <J re.::ently he shared responsibility for several weeks of meetings i 11 a caravan five miles outside the town. Their children, Joy, David and Ruth are ali well. Mr. and Mrs. Darling Mrs. Darlin g has start e d g 1v1ng En g lish lessons to two Vietnamese "boat p eople" famiiies. The sc hool in which Mr. Darling teaches is amal gamating with anoth er - so he will soon be an amal g amation expert! Philip will take one A Leve l, Maths, this summer but will sit other subj ects later . Lois plans to visit Germany this summer. Lois is now at the same comprehensive school as Philip and Lois X and is a member of the choir. Address:

12 Chestnut Walk, Saltford, Bristol, Avon, UK.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallis Mrs. Wallis is teaching half time and has found the difficult classes given to her a real challenge. Graeme is enjoying the research work he iS doing and being a student again in the same university. He finds that there is a much greater freedom of choices within the courses so that it is possible to select a more personally interesting programme then in the past. Robbie, Elizabeth and Natalie a1e really enjoying school and a variety of extra-curricular activities - ballet, gym, youth clubs, music lessons etc. Address ' 23 Bruce Avenue, Brooklyn. Wellington, New Zealand. Miss Margaret Enns plans to return to work in India. Msss Ruby Enns is still workin\fwith C. E. F. I. in Bangalore.

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Mr and Mrs. W. Wright

have officially retired and have gone to help in the Nursesâ&#x20AC;˘ Trainin-g School at Kalene Hospital, Zambia. Miss M. Dawson wa!'> married on Fe :, ruary 7th i n Halla n d Chapel , ?ussex to Mr. H Cherry, formerly of the I CF

Miss B Fountain

has returned to India with work amongst blind p eople

She

Mr N Hamilton

Mark who is taking A levels this

is workin g for his Ph D year. hopes to read m@dicine

is livivg in Madra s,

helping

KEMP f'AYLOR Mr Martyn Kemp and Miss Kathl een Taylor were married in November

Mr Ted McKellar is working for an MA in Christian Education Mark and Cra iti are growing fast Mark is interested in Music Miss :U Mars~all was married in March and lives in New Zeala nd Miss ÂˇM Nye is teaching fiye-year~olds this year, and has r e sponsibility in the school for R E a 'l d Musi c

Mrs B Wood

has return ed t o New Z'Jaland wirh the four girls continue work on Nepali Bibl e cross references.

She hopes to

EXTRACTS FROM A HISTORY PAPER ., When French and British settlers met they squirmished .. "The old king wa s a ng ry to find Louis and Wil I iam has chosen the air to the throne .. "The poor had very down - cast jobs " " Edward Vi's brains were much i older than he was. "The Black Death came frcm the flea that sat on the black rat " Napoleon wanted to invade Britain but met Nelson at Trafalgar Square in 1805 ''

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