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Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine 84/1)year No. zoi (New Series 74th year No. 192)

Vol. LXXI

DECEMBER 1967

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The Magazine is published under the auspices of The Former Pupils' Club twice during the year, in December and June

General Editor

Rae C. Barton, M.A., LL.B., zo Belmont Street, Aberdeen

Editor of the School Section

Alexander Tait, M.A.

Editor of Notes, Obituaries and Marriages

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CONTENTS General Section— The Rector's Message James D. Morrison .

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The Rector's Message Re-reading what I said this time last year in these notes I must confess that I am tempted to add as a sub-title--rather in the manner of the Victorian novelist—"Variations on a Theme", or better still "Variations on certain Themes". Most of the topics I discussed then are still relevant, although in some cases there may be nothing fresh to report.

There have, for example, been no further developments in regard to comprehensive education since I wrote last year and there is consequently nothing to add to what I said then. In other cases there may be differences in detail and it is with these that I am mainly concerned in this report.

The School roll, apart from the loss of two further classes from the Lower School, remains at approximately the same level as it has done for the last two years, with a total of just under 1,400 boys. The loss at the lower end has been more than offset by the increase in the population of the Upper School, where we now have about Soo boys. The 4th Year indeed is now one of the largest years in the School and with the prevailing tendency for boys to wait on till the 5th or 6th year of their course the conclusion is inescapable that we are going to witness a corresponding increase at these levels in the course of the next two sessions.

It is fortunate in the circumstances that accommodation no longer constitutes a serious problem. This is true at least as far as most subjects are concerned. With the increase in the roll of the Upper School, however, and the introduction of the new Certificate of Sixth Form Studies it is already becoming apparent that additional provision will have to be made in the very near future for the teaching of Science.

The need for an additional laboratory, possibly a small one for Sixth Form work, has now become pressing.

If accommodation presents few difficulties, the same cannot be said with equal confidence of the staffing situation. Last year I spoke of the large turnover of staff which was beginning to give cause for concern. During the past twelve months the trend has continued and once again we have witnessed a loss of some twenty members of staff or, in other words, roughly a quarter of the total strength. That it has proved possible to recruit suitably qualified staff to fill the gaps left by these departures at a time when there is a national shortage of teachers must be regarded as a tribute to the reputation and prestige the school still enjoys and is a matter for some satisfaction. Nevertheless it is difficult to view with anything but misgiving the lack of continuity in teaching which is bound to result from these frequent changes and we have every cause to be grateful in consequence to a solid core of veterans, whose continued devotion to the school does so much to ensure the maintenance of its high standards and fine traditions.

Certainly the record over the past year, whether on the academic side or in other directions, compares favourably with any that have gone before. Once again, for the third year in succession, the results of the Bursary Competition, with a total of 17 names in the merit list, 4 of them, including the First Bursar, in the top so, have brought credit to the School. The number of boys leaving to enter the University has shown a steady increase in recent years and, while the late issue of the 3

Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine 4 Scottish Certificate of Education Examination results after the School has dosed for the summer make it difficult in some cases to obtain confirmation of the final decision, it is safe to assume that somewhere in the neighbourhood of 8o boys entered upon a University degree course last October. During the current Autumn Term loo boys have made application for admission in 1968 and it may be assumed from past experience that a large proportion of these will be successful.

Sport continues to thrive in the School. Rugby after a run of success over two or three years has gone through a lean spell recently but seems once again to be picking up. Hockey had a very creditable run of victories last session and seems to be holding its own this year. It is in Swimming, however, that the most impressive developments have taken place. Thanks to the existence of the School pond and the excellent coaching provided by the Games staff an increasing number of boys are entering for competitions organised by the Scottish Amateur Swimming Association and the Scottish Schools Swimming Association. To the list of successes reported in these notes last year we can add the fact that we recently won three relay events at various age groups in these competitions and that some boys won in individual events, breaking some Scottish records in the process.

The usual reports on extra-curricular activities will be found elsewhere in the Magazine but special attention should perhaps be drawn to the account of the School excursion to Regensburg last summer. The first contacts between the Grammar School and the Oberrealschule (now the Goethe Gymnasium) of Regensburg date back to 1963, when some 6o members of the choir and orchestra accompanied by 10 members of Staff visited Aberdeen's twin city on the Danube and collaborated with the German pupils in a joint choral and orchestral concert. An equally successful return visit was made by the Regensburg pupils to Aberdeen in 1965. This year's venture was an even more ambitious undertaking, with some 115 boys participating and an excursion to Vienna, which included our German hosts as well as the School party, following on the joint concert. The value of the strong link that has been forged between the two schools, not only for the boys but for the staff concerned, cannot be over-emphasised.

Readers of the June issue of the Magazine will recall the account given there of the heat-exchange project organised by the Technical Department of the School in the Denburn. It is perhaps worth mentioning that there has been a follow-up to this. During the summer we were approached by the British Broadcasting Corporation with a suggestion that we might like to enter the project for their "Science Fair" competition.

This was agreed to and viewers will be given an opportunity of seeing and hearing about the project in the T.V. recording of the area finals on 18 January. Our best wishes for success in the competition go out to the Masters and boys involved.

Circumstances over which we have no control have delayed the publication of the Magazine this year with the result that it will not be issued till the month of January—too late for Christmas greetings but not, 1 trust, too late for me to extend to all its readers whether Former Pupils, parents or boys, my very best wishes for the New Year.

James D. Morrison Among the frequent changes of staff which have become such a painfully familiar feature of the educational scene today there occurs from time to time one that seems to carry with it a significance that lifts it above the usual run of staff leave-takings. The departure of James Morrison from the Lower School in October of last year falls clearly within this category, marking as it does not merely the loss of an old and valued member of staff but also another milestone in the history of the Lower School.

Mr. Morrison joined the staff of the Grammar School in 1949, coming to it with six years service in the Army and varied experience in a number of local Primary Schools already to his credit. Within a year he was assisting with "Prep" in the Boarding House and in 195z became Assistant Housemaster under Duncan Annand who, at that time, was in charge of the Boarding House as well as Head of the Lower School.

Two years later, in 19S4, when Mr. Annand left to take up an appointment overseas, Mr. Morrison was appointed Lower School Master in his place. He also took over reponsibility for the running of the Boarding House and continued to discharge that function till it closed in 1956.

The post of Lower School Master has always been fortunate in the quality of men it has attracted and James Morrison has won for himself in his thirteen years a well-deserved place in the line of succession.

Those qualities of warmth, kindliness and humanity, which all who know him would agree are among his most endearing characteristics, have understandably also proved his greatest assets in his work as a Schoolmaster and account in no small measure for his success. Certainly they go far to explain, to those who would look for an explanation, the happy atmosphere which has always been one of the most impressive features of the Lower School. The interest and concern which he so obviously felt for the boys under his charge and which were amply attested by the close personal knowledge he displayed whenever he was approached for information about an individual pupil, earned for him a rich and well deserved return in affection and good-will. It is, indeed, significant that the presentation made to him on his departure from the School included a beautiful engraved silver salver presented to him by some Soo boys, now in Middle and Upper School, who had at one time or another sat at his feet.

That he will be missed from his place in the Lower School is only to be expected. This is not meant to reflect in any way on the work of his successor, who has already demonstrated most convincingly that he is eminently suited for the post and has his own contribution to make to the life of the Lower School. Changes, however, are not always lightsome and for those of us who have worked with James Morrison, whether as pupils or colleagues, it will take some time before we grow used to his absence from the scene. It is a cause for satisfaction on the other hand to know that his sterling qualities have at last been recognised and will have scope for deployment in a wider field than the slowly contracting one of the Lower School. Recent enquiries have indeed wrung from him the admission that he is enjoying his duties in his new sphere—and not least the unfamiliar but apparently stimulating experience of having to cope with small girls as well as small boys!

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Most of his friends are aware of his long connection with the Territorial Army, a connection which was in fact virtually coterminous with his service in the Grammar School. His retiral from the Territorials last summer with the rank of Brevet Colonel, involving as it does the loss of an activity which occupied most of his leisure hours, left him casting about for a new avenue of service into which to direct his energies. It is pleasing to record that he appears already to have found one eminently suited to his experience and temperament. He has in fact been invited, and has agreed to accept, appointment as District Commissioner of Scouts for Dee District. In this new field of activity, as well as in his new post as Headmaster of Walker Road School, his many friends would wish him every success and happiness.

Miss Ethel M. Stewart

The closing of session 1966-67 saw the end of an era in the annals of the Aberdeen Grammar School with the retiral of Miss Ethel M. Stewart after forty-four years of unbroken and devoted service. Those many years might well have developed into a half century of service for "Ethel Mary" (as she was affectionately dubbed), had it not been for a severe warning illness last Easter which laid her low for three months. Indeed her determination was to return to Lower School in August had not some wise pressure been brought to bear upon her to give up teaching when there was still a prospect of her enjoying years of leisured and interesting retirement.

Her name had come to be a legendary one, for how many young A.G.S. pioneers arriving in Singapore, Nairobi or Hudson's Bay have been greeted by other former pupils with the question: "And how is Ethel Mary?" Such is fame!

To her teaching she always brought a tremendous wealth of interest culled from her extensive travels in many parts of the world and enhanced by her acute powers of observation of people, places and things.

One would be as liable to bump into her riding on horseback over the desert sands near Petra, on the slopes of Mount Kenya or in the Street called Straight as in the Lower School playground, the Swimming Pool or in a country lane near Banchory gathering hips and haws for study in the classroom. We shall never forget her brisk step and straight back as she walked across the playground going to and from School, an earnest of her equally business-like approach to her daily darg.

Her devotion to the School extended far beyond the narrow confines of its four walls, for she gave unsparingly of her services at the never to be forgotten Grammar School Fair, Sports Days, concerts and so many other extra-mural activities.

Our good wishes for the future go with her and we hope that she will have many happy years to devote to the things we know are so near to her heart—her church and choir, her interest in foreign languages, her bonne cuisine and her many charitable works.

"Time has passed between thee and our old association, but in those sounds with which it is thy wont to bear the twilight company, the music of thy heart speaks out: the story of thy life relates itself."

J. D. M.

Denburn Project The heat pump project which was described in the last issue of the Afrigatine was very successful, and although it no longer enhances the scenery round the Denburn it has neither been dismantled nor forgotten; it was transported wholly and, to the astonishment of the onlookers, with a certain degree of organisation to the Technical Department where we are now going ahead with modifications which we hope will improve the original model.

The heat generated by the pump was well able to transform a cold hut on the bank of the Denburn into a warm, comfortable home from home, but attempts to use the heat in a grain dryer were unsuccessful due to a lack of pressure behind the hot air preventing it from moving up through the grain. The obvious next step was to provide some means of increasing the pressure and the flow of hot air, and we decided that a fan would be suitable for this purpose. Thus we duly set out to design and build a fan for this job and met several problems in the course of evolving a working model.

Our first design for the fan seemed hopeful, but it turned out to be impracticable and had to be scrapped when it was still in the form of a heap of odd-shaped pieces of perspex. Perspex was used to make the fan since it is an easily worked material of which we had a ready supply, and is altogether more suitable than metal or wood. After our normal amount of discussion, consultation of books, and a very interesting visit to a farm which has a grain dryer, we settled on an alternative design. Drawings of the new fan were completed when we began to wonder if perspex would stand up to the stress which it would be under during operation. At this point we hit upon the idea of using a stressanalysis technique known as photo-elasticity which lends itself to working in perspex.

Photo-elasticity involves shining a beam of polarised light through a workpiece which is under stress, and the stress patterns will show up as coloured outlines when projected on to a screen. This aspect of the project is very absorbing since it provides an interesting addition to the project requiring careful experiments involving different arrangements of lenses, filters and models. The Physics Department kindly lent us a very old slide projector with the advantage of a 50o watt lamp which will be used in conjunction with a stroboscope, polarising filters and lenses to provide a picture of the stress patterns in the fan when it is in motion.

The grain bin which was used in the original project has been remodelled to include a hot air duct and a system of vents. The electrically driven fan forces hot air through the porous wall of the duct, through the grain and finally out through the vents. This air, now cold and moist, is helped on its way through the vents by the Venturi effect created by a second stream of air up the outside of the bin.

NEIL MCMILLAN, Upper V3

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HONOURS AND AWARDS

Alexander Lightbody* (1922-33) was awarded the O.B.E. in the Birthday Honours List in recognition of his contribution to the aeronautical industry. He is Technical Executive at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd., Coventry. He is resident now in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and in a letter to the Secretary he mentions that he still reads with interest the "Boy Scout" news in the Alagaine, especially with reference to i7th Troop of which he was for many years a member, and of which he is a former Assistant Scout Master.

David Raeside Auld* (1947-61) whose wedding is reported in the Marriages, is presently employed as a Physical Education Teacher at a school in Shauniger Lake, British Columbia. His brother Michael Raeside Auld* (1943-58) is a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and his other brother Stuart Raeside Auld* (1953-64) is now in the Trustee Department of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Drummond Lane, London.

William Gillespie Gilbert Bruce* (1929-34) obtained the degree of D.SC. (Pharmacy) from the University of Potchefstroom early in April for research conducted in the field of anti-bacterial activity in plants. The plant genus Aloe was selected for the investigation which revealed mild activity against a number of bacteria and a more noticeable action against the organism responsible for human tuberculosis.

Dr. Bruce who will be 51 years old in June, commenced postgraduate study some six years ago, obtaining his Honours B.sc. in 1962 and his Master's degree in 1964. He proceeded to South Africa in 1948 as a lecturer on the staff of Natal Technical College, being successively promoted to Senior Lecturer, Vice-principal and finally Head of the School of Pharmacy and Chemical Technology in 1961.

He married a South African girl and has four children. Early this year Dr. Bruce was released by Natal Technical College to enable him to accept a Senior Lectureship in the Department of Pharmacy of University College, Durban.

Alexander Mathieson Cain (1937-46), M.A., PH.D., has been appointed Systems Analyst and Assistant Professor of Medical Bibliography at the University of New York State Medical Center. He is an authority on the mechanisation of library services, having been Assistant Keeper at the British Museum Library for twelve years, latterly as senior member of the systems division, studying the introduction of automatic data processing to the Library. In New York he will be working on a computerised biomedical information resource project, 8

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Kenneth Stroud Duncan* (1948-34), A.A.C.C.A., A.T.I.I., resigned last January from his appointment as H.M. Inspector of Taxes at Cupar, Fife, and has taken up a post with Texaco Trinidad Inc. This is an American oil company, and he is presently in charge of the Tax Department in Trinidad dealing with all the company's Carribean enterprises.

John Michael Eddison* (1939-48), B.sc. (Eng.) has now joined the Canadian Department of Transport in Vancouver. He has been engaged in the site supervision of construction work at Vancouver International Airport, where new work costing £12 million is in hand.

George Angus Paterson Fraser* (1911-22), M.B., CH.B., has retired to Bourne, Lincolnshire, after twenty-nine years in general medical practice in Market Deeping.

George Leslie Fraser* (1936-49), B.sc., formerly head of the Geography Department, Ross High School, Tranent, has now taken up duty as Senior Geography Master at the English School, Nicosia, Cyprus. A senior secondary grammar school, it is now owned by the Cyprus Government but is in receipt of an annual grant from the British Government. Its 7oo pupils are mostly Cypriots, but many other nationalities are represented by the children of members of Embassy and United Nations staff.

Henry James Fraser* (I9I8-22) who recently retired from the post of Retail Sales Manager of Boots the Chemists Ltd. at their headquarters in Nottingham after 44 years service with the company, was elected Conservative member for the Mapperly Ward in a by-election for Nottingham City Council.

David Alexander Green* (1947-51) after spending six years as Telecommunications Supervisor with the Federal Government in Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. and Goose Bay, Labrador, has now been appointed to the Radio Regulations Division of the Telecommunications and Electronics Branch of the Federal Department of Transport in Ottawa as a Technical Officer. His brother Peter James Green* (1947-57) has been in Canada since 1957 and is presently in Baker Lake, N.W.T., where he is Area Administrator for the Federal Department of Indian Affairs in Northern Development.

Asbjora Harald Gudim* (1958763) has recently returned to this country after serving a year's national service with the Norwegian Army.

Douglas Robert Kynoch (1948-56) who has been with Grampian Television since 1961 as an announcer, has recently switched to B.B.C. as a television reporter and interviewer in their news and current affairs department in Glasgow.

Michael John Hardie* (1948-58), M.B., CH.B., who graduated from Aberdeen University two years ago and whose wedding notice appears in this issue of the Magazine is presently on a one-year contract in a hospital in New Haven, U.S.A. David W. Levack* (1944-57) has recently taken up the post of manager of the Dornoch Hotel, Dornoch, Sutherlandshire.

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Alasdair Grant Walker Hunter (1951-52) graduated earlier this year with the degree of B.Sc. with first class honours in Genetics at McGill University, Montreal. He was awarded the Major Hiram Miles gold medal in Biology. He has started the four-year medical course at McGill, and intends on completion of this to undertake research in the field of human Genetics. Alasdair left the Grammar at the age of six when his parents emigrated to Canada. He attended Sedbergh School, Montebello, Quebec, passing the McGill entrance examination when only fifteen. He then was one of the first students to attend the Atlantic College in St. Donat's Castle, Wales. There he captained the Canoe Club and was a member of the Sea Rescue Squad, in addition to obtaining the R.L.S.S. Life-Saving Badge and Canoe Instructor's Certificate. He entered McGill in 1964.

Alan Main (1954-60), at present Lecturing at Strathclyde University, has now been appointed to the committee of the Psychology section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

George Mitchell* (1952-63), who completed his schooling at Banff Academy after his family moved to Banff, is now attending a Diploma Course at the London College of Printing.

Andrew Graeme Nicol (1939-5Z), M.B., CH.B., who is presently with the Department of Pathology, Aberdeen University, recently gave a lecture on mountaineering at home and abroad to the Turriff Town and Country Club.

Derek Ogston (1937-39; 1946-47), M.A., M.B., CH.B., PH.D., M.R.C.P.E., Lecturer in Medicine at Aberdeen University has been granted a Travelling Fellowship under which he will work in the Department of Medicine, Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Cecil Sleigh Philip* (19,8-2,), M.B., CH.B., has retired to Elgin after thirty-five years in general medical practice in Blackpool.

Robert Arthur Smart* (1919-31), C.B.E., M.B., M.R.C.P. D.P.H., at present Director of Army Health at the Ministry of Defence, has been promoted to the substantive rank of Major-General.

Kenneth Moir Ingram Smith* (1956-6O, who passed the final examination of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland in 1966, has been admitted as an Associate of the Institute. fain Johnstone Macbeth Sutherland* (1933-41), M.A., since returning from the British Embassy in Washington in 1965 has been concerned with Soviet affairs in London as assistant head of the Northern Department of the Foreign Office. In June 1967 he was promoted Counsellor, and in October he joined the British Embassy in Djakarta.

Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson* (1899-1908), C.B., D.SC., LL.D., has been appointed by the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) to be their chairman. He has been a trustee since 1963.

George Walker* (1920-27), a local government employee with the water department, became the first person in Scotland to be awarded a clasp to the Civil Defence Medal—signifying a total of twenty-seven years service. He has eleven years service with the Auxiliary Fire Service and sixteen years service with the Aberdeen Division of the Civil Defence Corps.

University Notes At the Summer Graduation Ceremonies at the University of Aberdeen held on 6 and 7 July 1967, degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s: Honorary Degree DOCTOR OF LAWS (LL.D.)

Lillie, John Adam,* Q.C., M.A., LL.B. (1893-1903), Sheriff of the Counties of Fife and Kinross since 1941 and Convener of the Sheriffs from 196o to 1965.

Honours and Ordinary Degrees DEGREE OP BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.SC.)

(s) With First Class Honours Dorward, Gordon John* (1949-63), in Chemistry.

Hepburn, Stuart Philip (1957-63), in Chemistry.

(2) With Second Class Honours (Division I) Mackenzie, lain Grant* (1957-63), in Mathematics.

(3) With Second Class Ilonours (Division II) Cormack, Ian Richard* (195o-63) in Geography.

Ross, David Sinclair, in Chemistry.

(4) Ordinary Degree Cobb, Ian (1961-64).

Lobban, Graeme Alexander* (1955-64).

May, John Mathieson (1958-63).

Taylor, Alec Stuart (1956-62).

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE (B.SC.AGR.)

With Second Class Honours (Division I) Davidson, John Gordon (1948-62) in Agriculture (Animal Husbandry).

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING (B.SC.ENG.)

Ordinary Degree Fullerton, Robert Keith Ross* (1950-64), in Electrical Engineering.

DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS (M.A.)

(1) With First Class Honours Bell, Gavin Clement (1948-55), in German (Language and Literature).

Wood, Geoffrey Edward* (1948-63), in Economic Science.

(2) With Second Class Honours (Division I) Beverley, Eric Angus* (1956-62), in French-German.

Grant, Eric George* (1957-6;), in Geography.

Reid, George William (1956-62) in Mental Philosophy.

Stronach, Ian Macdonald (1957-63), in History.

Thomson, Kenneth James* (1949-63), in Mathematics.

(3) With Second Class Honours (Division II) Donald, Leslie Forrest* (1948-62), in French-German.

Stewart, Peter James Nelson (1952-6;), in Psychology.

Thomson, James Alan (1959-62), in Geography.

(4) Ordinary Degree Burt, William Johnston* (1949-63).

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS (LL.B.)

(t) With Commendation Smith, George Bruce Pirie (19S1-64)• II

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(2) Ordinary Degree Gray, Ian Gibson, M.A. (1956-62).

DEGREES OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY (M.B., CH.B.)

(1) With Honours Wyllie, Andrew David Hamilton, B.Sc. (1947-60).

(2) Ordinary Degree Begg, Ian Stewart Darroch* (1951-61).

Grant, Ronald William (1948-61).

Harper, Douglas Ross,* B.Sc. (1944-58).

Jamieson, Ernest Charles (1955-61).

Johnstone, Frank Dennis (195o-61).

Keith, Ian Cameron (1951-61).

Millar, David Gavin (1948-61).

Pratt, Michael Alexander* (1948-61).

Preshaw, Colin Taylor* (1946-6o).

Ross, Donald George (1957-61).

Taylor, Peter Bruce (1958-61).

Wisely, Ivan Charles Fraser* (1948-61).

DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION (DIP.En.)

Downie, Norman William*, M.A. (1951-62).

Edward, Kenneth George,* M.A. (1948-62).

Fraser, Graeme William,* M.A. (1956-62).

Reid, Stewart, M.A. (1955-61).

The following F.P.s were recipients of the undernoted degrees at the Autumn Graduation Ceremony of the University held on 14 October, 1967:

Higher Degrees (Medicine) DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PH.D.) Alexander Quentin, M.B., CH.B. (Aberd.), D.P.M. (Edin.)

(1940-47).

Gardiner, Thesis—"A Monitor of Drug Use in Psychiatric Practice."

Nicol, Andrew Dick, B.sc. (1949-57). Thesis—"Studies on Human Lipolytic Enzymes, Particularly Human Pancreatic Lipase".

Honours and Ordinary Degrees DEGREE OP BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING (B.SC,ENG.)

Ordinary Degree Robertson, Neil* (1959-63), in Civil Engineering.

DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS (M.A.)

Ordinary Degree Roger, Brian Mitchell (1957-63).

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF DIVINITY (B.D.)

Brockie, Colin Glynn Frederick,* B.Sc. (Eng.) (1955-6o).

The following F.P.s were recipients of the undernoted degrees at a University Graduation Ceremony held on 9 December 1967.

Higher Degrees DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PH.D.) Smith, Edward Alistair, M.A. (1943-57). Thesis—"The Ironworking Industry of

Norrbotten, North Sweden, between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries".

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Munro, liamish David,* B.Sc. (1954-60). Thesis--"Chemistry of Metabolites from Curvularia and Fomcs Specks".

Sangster, Alan John, stsc. (1953-59). Thesis—"An Investigation of Harmonic Distortion in Very Wide-Band Travelling Wave Tubes."

DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.SC.)

Howie, Ian Harrison,* a.sc. (1956-62).

The following F.P.s won prizes and medals at the University during Session 1966-67: Bell, Gavin C. (1948-55)—Douglas Yates Prize in German and Dr. John Lees Prize in German.

Crawford, George Patrick Mitchell* (1954-64)—Chanock Medal in Anatomy and Durno Prize in Anatomy.

Gorrod, Kenneth Michael,* a.sc. (1947-61)—Whyte Prize in Accountancy.

Harper, Douglas R.* (1944-58)—Keith Medal in Surgery.

Mann, David L.* (i960-66)—Stuart Brimmell Prize in Mathematics (Equal).

Mitchell, Gordon D.* (1950-64)—Engineering (Mechanical) Medal.

Philip, Alistair F.* (1953-64)—Engineering (Electrical) Medal.

Reid, George W. (1956-62)—Hutton Prize in Mental Philosophy and Martin Prize in Christian Evidences (1966) (Equal).

Reid, Norman H.* (1933-66)—Society of Advocates' Prize in Scots Law I. Shirreffs, Richard C.* (195 i-65)—Dr. J. A. Third Prize in Mathematics and Henry Prize in Mental Philosophy (Logic).

Smith, George B. P. (1951-64)--Society of Advocates' Prizes in Conveyancing, Evidence and Procedure, International Private Law and Taxation Law. Wood, Geoffrey E.* (1948-63)—Henry Prize in Mental Philosophy (Political Economy).

Wyllie, Andrew D. H. (1947-60—Anderson Medal and Prize in Clinical Medicine proxime =eerie); MacQuibban Prize in Surgery and Davidson Smith Prize in Child Health (proxime accessit).

Yule, Denis N. (1960-66)—Society of Advocates' Prize in Constitutional Law.

Obituaries George Anderson* (1914-24) died at his home in Egham, Surrey on 14 May 196 7, aged sixty-one years. He retired there in 196t from Malaya where he had been engaged in Rubber Planting since 1926.

Robert John Anderson* (1895-99) 'died at Aberdeen on 26 September 1967, aged eighty-five years. He followed in the footsteps of his father who was a founder of Reith & Anderson, auctioneers and ultimately became managing director. Upon the amalgamation of the mart business with Aberdeen & Northern Marts Ltd. he became a director of the new company and took over management of the estate department. For a considerable time he was factor of Stains and Glenmuick Estates and of the Williamson Estates, Insch. He was a past president of the Scottish Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers and past Chairman of the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Auctioneers and Estate Agents. Up to the time of his death he was still active as a director of Aberdeen & Northern Marts Ltd. and of Reith & Anderson (Dingwall) Ltd., although he had been in indifferent health for several months.

Stewart Duncan Begg* (1909-1o), who retired in 195o after twenty-nine years in the Far East died at Esher, Surrey on a September 1967. He first went to Shanghai in 1919 after war service with the 4th Seaforth Highlanders. In 1931 he joined John I. Thomeycroft & Co. Ltd., shipbuilders and engineers in Hong Kong and

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later became secretary of the company's branches in Hong Kong, China and the Philippines. He had twenty-five years' service with the Volunteer Corps and was a prisoner-of-war for four years during the Japanese occupation. Latterly he was associated with Blair & Company (Hong Kong) Ltd. and was a director of Doudney, Blair & Co., Ltd., London. He was one of the twenty F.P.s in Shanghai who donated the Shanghai clock to the School in 1927, and, as their representative at the presentation ceremony, he set the clock in motion.

Harry George Coutts* (1908-13), m.c., died in Aberdeen on 22 June 1967. He was a tea planter on the Kurtie Tea Estate, Nagrakata, North Bengal. He served with the Gordon Highlanders and Tank Corps in the Great War, and with the North Bengal Mounted Rifles in the Second World War. He retired to Aberdeen in 1948 after twenty-eight years in the Far East.

James Hector Edmond* (1894-98), D.S.O., Lieut.-Colonel R.A., died at Milfordon-Sea in May 1965. During the Great War he served with the Royal Artillery and in 1919 was awarded the D.S.O. From 1937 until the end of the Second World War he played an active part in the A.R.P. Service. Upon his retiral he took up residence in Hampshire. He was a member of the London Centre of the F.P. Club.

Thomas Gibb (1903-6) died in Aberdeen on 15 July 1967. He served his apprenticeship as an outfitter and after service in France with the R.A.M.C. during World War I he returned to the clothing trade in Aberdeen.

David Collier Greig (1921-27), L.D.S., died on 5 June 1967 in Aberdeen. He graduated at St. Andrews University and after a brief spell at Haddington, East Lothian, returned as dental officer for Kincardine Schools. In 1949 he relinquished the post in favour of private practice in Stonehaven. He was a member of Stonehaven Town Council from 1945-65, twice serving as a baillie in 1950 and 1958. He was twice appointed a police judge and was for a time burgh representative on Kincardine County Council. He took a leading part in Liberal activities in Stonehaven and was at one time president of the former Kincardine and West Aberdeen Liberal Association.

Philip Douglas Lawrence* (1909-16), M.A., D.D., died at Aberdeen on 1 July 1967, aged 68. The son of the late Calder M. Lawrence who was a teacher at the School Dr. Lawrence graduated M.A. at Aberdeen University in 1919 and, while studying for the Ministry, acted as Assistant at New Deer and also missionary assistant in Ferryhill U.F. Church. In 1922 he was ordained to the Church to the charge of New Deer U.F. Church and six years later went to St. Margaret's Church, Dunfermline. He became minister of Rosehall Church, Edinburgh, in 1933 but returned to Aberdeen as Minister of Rubislaw Church in 1940 at which time he became School Chaplain. He was a former Moderator of Aberdeen Presbytery and received his degree of Doctor of Divinity at Aberdeen University in 1965. His three sons were all pupils at the school. They are Philip Douglas Guthrie Lawrence (1940-O), William Calder Macphail Lawrence* (1940-43) and Albert Alexander Lawrence* (1940-46).

The Rev. John Mowat, clerk of Aberdeen Presbytery writes: "Dr. Lawrence was in the truest sense the parish minister. In his four charges—i n a rural village, industrial town and two large cities—he exemplified the best elements of preaching the Gospel and shepherding the people. What he said in his pulpit had relevance to the needs of ordinary men and women. For these gifts he was beloved of his congregations.

"Not an ecclesiastic in the administrative way, yet he did not shirk his presbyterial duty and, while acting as moderator of presbytery or synod, he showed a kindliness and grace which commended him to his fellow ministers.

"Generous in his friendships, firm in his faith, he exercised a ministry which will be long remembered in congregation and city for its sincerity and faithfulness."

Gordon Paterson Marr (1921-26) died in Aberdeen on 18 September 1967.

A well known chartered surveyor, he served his apprenticeship with Messrs.

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Jenkins & Marr. He worked with the Department of Agriculture from 1950 until 1955 when he returned to Aberdeen and commenced practice on his own account.

He was a keen member of the Cricket Section and a vice-president of the Rugby Section of the Club.

Norman MacDonald (5889-90, M.A., died at Gairloch on 8 June 1967. He was ordained minister of the U.F. Church at Plockton and Kyle in 1903 and latterly held the charge of the Free Church, Gairloch.

William Keith Moir* (1914-19), M.A., B.SC. (Agr.), died in September 1967 at FAsell. After graduating at Aberdeen University in 1925 he took up teaching and in 1931 was appointed headmaster of Auldbrae School in Angus. Ten years later he took over the headship of Edzell School, a post he held until his recent retiral. He was well known in Central Scotland cricket circles and was organist at Lawson Memorial Church, Forfar.

George Gordon Nicol* (1894-1903), D.S.O., M.1.C.E., M.CONST.E., died at Aberdeen on 9 August 1967 aged seventy-nine years. A Chartered Civil Engineer he was elected a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (M.Inst.C.E.) in 1935 and commenced business on his own account in Aberdeen in 1938. During the Second World War he was attached to the Admiralty and was responsible for the construction of a series of causeways now famous as the Churchill Barrier to protect the naval base at Scapa Flow. In 5946 he was honoured by a complimentary dinner by the members of the Orkney Mainland Admiralty Staff when tribute was paid to his skill, tact, and understanding in handling this tremendous engineering feat.

Gordon Nicol was all his life a keen member of the F.P. Club. He was for a long period of years between the wars a member of the F.Yerutive and he served as vicepresident of the Club and chairman of the Executive during 5928-3o. He was a director of the Boarding House Company from its inception. He was twice asked by the Club Executive to accept office as President but on both occasions he declined the invitation. In view of his long service on the Executive and his obvious enthusiasm for the affairs of the Club he was made an honorary Vice-president shortly after the last war. Of the holders of this office, other than former Rectors, he was the only one who had not been President of the Club. Mr. Nicol was a life long Freemason having been raised in the Lodge of Aberdeen No. 1 ter in 1925. He was Master of the Lodge from 1928 and was a member of a number of other Orders. He attained the status of Provincial Grand Master of Aberdeen, the highest position locally in freemasonry.

Herbert Brebner Scott* (19054), C.B.E., m.c., died in Devon on to July 1967.

During the First World War he was commissioned in the R.F.A. and was awarded the M.C. in 1918. He served in the Army of Occupation in Belgium and after demobilisation joined the Royal Insurance Company in Edinburgh. He was posted to Shanghai in 1923 and transferred to Calcutta in 1927. He returned to Shanghai in 1933 as manager and then to a similar position in Calcutta in 5939. In 5948 he was appointed manager for the Far East. He was awarded the C.B.E. (Civil Division) in 1949 for his work in connection with the introduction ofthe Indian Insurance Act. During his terms in Shanghai and Calcutta he acted as F.P. Club Consul and was in large measure responsible for the gifts of both the Shanghai Clock and the Bengal Lectern which now stands in the School Hall. He retired in 1953 and took up residence in Chudleigh, Devon where he took an active interest in local affairs and was for a time Chairman of the Parish Council.

William Evan Fraser Simpson* (5917-27)2 B.SC., M.I.MECH.E., died suddenly on 21 June 1967, aged fifty-seven years. He graduated with Honours in Engineering at Glasgow University in 5931 and after gaining a few years' industrial experience he joined the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company first in Birmingham and latterly in London. He retained a very keen interest in the School and was an active committee member of the London centre of the F.P. Club. His only brother John Alexander Trager Simpson*, D.F.C. (1919-28) lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

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Oswald Hastings Ritchie Still* (1922-33) died on 2 April 1966, aged fifty years.

He joined the Navy at the outbreak of war in 1939 and became a Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. In 1946 after demobilisation he went out to South Africa. He returned to this country in 1951 and joined C. F. Wilson, Ltd., Engineers. In 1956 he joined the American firm of Cleveland Twist Drill (G.B.) Ltd. which was just starting business in Peterhead. At the time of his death he was export services manager with the firm.

David Skinner (1909-ti ; 1915- t 8), M.B., cir.B., died at his home in Burnley on 22 August 1967. He had been in general medical practice there since 1925.

Norman Stuart Williamson* (1955-19) died in the spring of this year in Elgin, aged sixty-four years. On leaving School he became a marine engineer with the Ellcrman City Line sailing from Liverpool to India. In 1926 he obtained an appointment as an engineer with the Scottish Assam Tea Co. Ltd. at Kharikutia, Assam. In 1942 he became Assistant Manager of the Company. He served with the Assam Valley Light Horse. Ill health compelled him to retire in 1948 and he went into business as a tobacconist in Elgin. He was president of the Elgin Rotary Club in 1957-58.

Marriages Auld (t947-61).—At Church of Scotland, Cleland, Lanarkshire, on 29 July 1967, DAVID RAESIDE AULD,* second son of Mr. and Mrs. Ian M. Auld, Rowallan, 22

Hammerfield Avenue, Aberdeen, to Edna, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, 61 Gorsehall Street, Cleland.

Begg (1951-67).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen on 15 July 1967, IAN STEWART DARROCH BEGG,* younger son of the late Norman Begg and of Mrs. Charlotte Ronaldson, 33 Albert Terrace, to Carolyn Isobel, daughter of Councillor and Mrs. Frank Magee, 2 Woodburn Gardens, Aberdeen.

Bowie (1933-42).—At Rutherford Church, Aberdeen, on 29 June 1967, JOHN F. W. BowsE, youngest son of Mrs. M. Bowie, 39 Belvidere Street, and the late Dr. J. C. Bowie, to Sonia M., only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Sutherland, 22 Breiwick Road, Lerwick.

Burness (I955-60).—At The Congregational Church, Fraserburgh, on 14 October 1967, GEORGE MILNE BURNESS, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burness, 18 South Grampian Circle Aberdeen, to May Buchan, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ritchie, 12 Dennyduff Road, Fraserburgh.

Cameron (I961-64).—At Ballingry Parish Church, on 15 July 1967, COLIN STEWART CAMERON, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron, 49 Morningside Avenue, Aberdeen, to Katherine Robb Wright, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gray, Schoolhouse, Ballingry, Fife.

Cameron (1955-61).—At Ward Road Baptist Church, HENRY GORDON CAMERON, M.A., elder son of the late Mr. J. H. Cameron and Mrs. F. Young, 33 Eday Road, Aberdeen, to Mary McBeth Stewart, M.A., niece of Mrs. A. Roger, 23 Honcygrcen Road, Dundee.

Campbell (I955-59).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 16 August 1967, KENNETH MuRDOCH CAMPBELL, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Campbell, 6z Simpson Road, Aberdeen, to Christina, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. McLeod, 7 Oliver's Brae, Stornoway.

Campbell (1954-59)At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 14 July 1967, NEIL ANDREW CAMPBELL, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Campbell, 19A Albert Street, Aberdeen, to Elizabeth Margaret, elder daughter of the late Mr. John D. Alexander and of Mrs. J. D. Alexander, Strathcllie, Banchory.

Christie (1958-63).—At Powis Church, on 5 July 1967, MESTON CHARLES CHRISTIE,* second youngest son of the late Mr. J. Christie and of Mrs. M. Christie, 403 King Street, Aberdeen, to Katherine Winifred, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thomson, 18 Alexandra Terrace, Fraserburgh.

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Clark (1947-61).—At the Cathedral, Dornoch, on 26 August 1967, DAVID ROBERTSON CLARK,* only son of Mrs. M. Clark and the late Mr. W. R. Clark, 2 Wellbrac Terrace, Aberdeen, to Gender Gail, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wright, Drumiosal, Dornoch, Sutherland.

Cormack (1943-46 ).—At Aberdeen Registry Office, GEOFFREY CORMACK, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Cormack, 262 Queen's Road, to Irene, daughter of Mrs. J. Gavin and the late Mr. George Gavin, 28o Union Grove, Aberdeen.

Crawford (1954-64).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 27 July 1967, PATRICK CRAWFORD, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Crawford, 86 Morningside Avenue, Aberdeen, to Alison, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. B. Irvine, Littleways, Bieldside.

Davidson (1948-62).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 5 August, JOHN GORDON DAVIDSON, only son of John G. W. Davidson (1922-28), C.A. and Mrs. Davidson, 4 Woodburn Avenue, Aberdeen, to Margaret Hamilton Stewart, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Robertson, Grecnacres, Dyce.

Doverty (1944-58).-At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 9 August 1967, WILLIAM YOUNG DOVERTY, youngest son of the late Mr. John D. Dovcrty and Mrs. Chrissie Doverty, tt Craigie Park, Aberdeen, to Marlene, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strachan, 35 Broadsea, Fraserburgh.

Downie (1949-52).—At Strathbungo Parish Church, Glasgow, on 3o September 1967, ROBERT JAMES DOWNIE,* only son of the late Robert W. Down ic and Mrs. Downie, 174 Garthdec Road, to Moira, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Robertson, 431 Victoria Road, Glasgow.

Downs (1949-61).—At North and East St. Nicholas Church, on 2 June 1967, ALEXANDER LOUDEN MUIR DOWNS,* elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Downs, An-Darroch, Milltimber, to Elaine, elder daughter of Mrs. Edith Erskine, 4 Orchard Street, Aberdeen.

Downs (195o-63).—At Holburn West Church, on 28 August 1967, WILLIAM GORDON DOWNS,* younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Downs, An-Darroch, Milltimber, to Patricia Anne, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mulgrew, 5o Urquhart Road, Aberdeen.

Duffus (195o-63). At Greyfriars Church, on 21 June 1967, GEORGE McKAY DUFFUS, only son of Mr. and Mrs. George Duffus 269 North Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, to Patricia Simpson, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Deans, 4o Beach Boulevard, Aberdeen.

Erskine (1955-58).--At North and East St. Nicholas Church, Aberdeen, on 13 July 1967, THOMAS JOHN DUNBAR ERSKINE, eldest son of Edith Erskine, 4 Orchard Street, Aberdeen, to Anne Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Morgan, tgo King Street, Aberdeen.

Flynn (i953-59).—At the Registrar's Office, Aberdeen, on z8Ju1y 1967, CHARLES FLYNN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Flynn, 52 Adamson Crescent, Dunfermline,

to Brenda Lillian, youngest daughter of Mrs. Lillian Symon and the late Mr. John Symon, 22 Beechgrove Avenue, Aberdeen.

Forbes (1947-59)At the Crown Terrace Baptist Church, on z October 1967, GEORGE STEWART FORBES, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Forbes, 5 Dcsswood Place, Aberdeen, to Audrey Averill, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Carnegie, Station Road East, Milltimber.

Gillan (194i-55).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 29 June 1967, ROBERT FAIRWEATHER GruAN,* B.L., younger son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gillan, 47 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen, to Christine Gordon Sutherland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Gillan, Ingleford, Torphins, Aberdeenshire.

Gillanders (1954-6o).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on zo July 1967, ROBERT GILLANDERS, stepson of Mr. Harry C. Deans, 36 Kemp Street, Aberdeen, to Wilma, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lamb Buchan, 118 Victoria Road, Aberdeen.

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Hardie (I948-59).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 26 July 1967, MICHAEL JOHN HARDIE,* M.B., CH.B., only son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Hardie,

245 Wcstburn Road, Aberdeen, to Betty Florence, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McDonald, 6 King Street, Inverurie.

Harper (19So-S7).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 26 August 1967, HUGH ALEXANDER BARRIE HARPER,* son of Mr. and Mrs. John Harper, 63 Carlton Place, Aberdeen, to Vivienne, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eden, 53 Woodburn Gardens, Aberdeen.

Henderson (I 945-59)At Cults West Church, on z6 July 1967, DAVID ANDREW HENDERSON,* eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. David Henderson, Kerrera, Bieldside, to Lesley Elizabeth, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Black, Eambank, Aboyne.

Henderson (I948-54).—At Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, on 15 July 1967, WILLIAM CoaaErr HENDERSON, youngest son of the late John Henderson and Mrs. I. Henderson, 27 Thistle Street, Aberdeen, to Alison Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McGuffie, to Esslemont Avenue, Aberdeen.

Jamieson (I946-55).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 19 August 1967, JAMES GRILLES JAMIESON, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Jamieson, 125 Union Grove, to Muriel Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Shaw, 3 Deevale Road, Aberdeen.

Kennaway (1943-57).—At Logstor, Denmark, on 5 August 1967, IAN BARCLAY KENNAWAY,* eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Kennaway, 9 Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, to Kirsten, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Knud Birn, Bredgade 8, Logstor.

King (1946-54).—At St. Columba's Church, Pont Street, London, on 2 September 1967, GEORGE JAMES HUTCHEON KING, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander King, 162 Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, to Ida Maria, elder daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lengyel Rheinfuss of Budapest.

Leiper (, 953-59).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 5 August 1967, JOSEPH LEIPER,* son of Mr. and Mrs. George Leiper, 76 Grampian Road, Aberdeen, to Moira Taylor, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell,x zo Hilton Drive, Aberdeen.

Leslie (1947-62).—At Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, on 7 June, 1967, DAVID CARNEGIE LESLIE,* only son of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Leslie, `Richmond', 58 Bonnymuir Place, Aberdeen, to Leslie Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stuart, 29 Westholme Avenue, Aberdeen.

Lorimer (I 948-59).—At St. Mary's R.C. Cathedral, Aberdeen, on 16 August 1967, EaNEsr LORIMER,* elder son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lorimer, ;3 Stocket Parade, Aberdeen, to Dorothy, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCall, 141 Blenheim Place, Aberdeen.

Lyall (x944-S7).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 1 August 1967, FRANCIS LYALL,* son of the late Captain Francis Lyall and Mrs. Agnes A. Lyall, 68 Cromwell Road, Aberdeen, to Heather Fiona Cameron, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Smith, 311 Edinburgh Road, Glasgow.

MacDearmid (1941-48).—At Wallacetown Parish Church, Dundee, on z8 October 1967, ALLAN MACDEARMID, elder son of Mrs. Rachel MacDearmid and the late Mr. Alan MacDearmid, 313 Kincorth Circle, to Marjory Helen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ower, 1 Bellefield Avenue, Dundee.

McLaren (1946-59).—At Cults East Church, on 4 August 1967, JOHN HARVEY MCLAREN,* only son of Mr. and Mrs. John McLaren, 68 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen, to Barbara Anne Moncrieff, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Crighton, Huntcliffe, 290 North Deeside Road, Cults.

Miller (1954-56).—At Mastrick Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 29 July 1967, NORMAN STEPHEN MILLER,* only son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Miller, 25 Fernhill Road, Aberdeen, to Olivia Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKenzie, z Amage Drive, Aberdeen.

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Moncur (193I-34)At the Church of Santa Maria, Lima, Peru, on tz August 1967, ROBERT GORDON MONCUR, only son of Mr. and Mrs. James Moncur, 4o Cairnaquheen Gardens, to Raquel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Vargas, De Vcga Leon, Lima, Peru.

Ogilvie (1962-63).—At St. Laurence Church, Forres, on z9 July 1967, LAWRENCE WILLIAM OGILVIE, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Ogilvie, 287 Clifton Road, Aberdeen, to Dorothy Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Davidson, tz Pilmuir Place, Forres.

Paul (1949-62).—At the Registrars Office, Aberdeen, on 23 August 1967, DOUGLAS WYNESS THOMSON PAUL,* only son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Paul, 16 Carlton Place, Aberdeen, to Sandra Mary, second daughter of Mrs. Mary G. Lee, 43 Rubislaw Park Crescent, Aberdeen.

Pratt (19491 8).—At the Cathedral, Ulm/Donau, Germany, on 29 Jul), 1967, DAVID PRATT, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Pratt, toz Cornhill Road, Aberdeen, to Barbara, elder daughter of Herr and Frau A. Frey, Bundesbahn Hotel, Ulm/Donau, Germany.

Preshaw (1946-6o).—At Doune Parish Church, Macduff, on 22 July 1967, COLIN TAYLOR PRESHAW,* younger son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Preshaw, 48o Union Street, Aberdeen, to Carole, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Bruce, 14 McKay Road, Macduff.

Riach (I949-62).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 4 August 1 96 7, CHARLES THOMAS CHRISTIE RIACH,* eldest son of Joseph Thomas Riach* (1922-33) and of Mrs. Riach, 34 Harcourt Road, Aberdeen, to Jean, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Walker, 21A Rosebery Street, Aberdeen.

Rice (I949-6o).—At the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., on 2 July 1967, Charles Duncan Rice, only son of Dr. and Mrs. J. I. Rice, 8o Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, to Susan Ilene, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Wunsch, 274 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Robertson (1936-6o).—At Dyce Parish Church, on 28 October 1967, JOHN ROBERTSON, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Robertson, 76 Mastrick Drive, Aberdeen, to Rhoda Jean Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McIntosh, 13 Summer Place, Dyce.

Runcie (1934-61).—M Ruthrieston West Church, Aberdeen, on ;o September 1967, DAVID WILLIAM RUNCIE,* only son of Mr. and Mrs. William Runcie, 69 Scofield Road, to Kay Ironside, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Donald, 124 Momingside Avenue, Aberdeen.

Russell (1939-63).—At West Church of St. Andrew, Aberdeen, on it August 1967, DAVID MANSON RUSSELL, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Russell, 128 Pennon Road, Aberdeen, to Elizabeth Anne, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. G. McCulloch, Tarbet, Statfield Road, Lossiemouth.

Sainsbury (I936-6o).—At Ferryhill South Church, Aberdeen, on 26 August 1967, ALAN SAINSBURY, younger son of Mr. N. Sainsbury and the late Mrs. Sainsbury, 9o Fonthill Road, to Elizabeth Carle, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Greig, S4 Garthdee Road, Aberdeen.

Sangster (I934-38).—At Fountainhall, Woodside, Aberdeen, on 29 July 1967, MICHAEL GEORGE Scorr SANGSTER, only son of Mr. and Mrs. George Sangster, 33z Hilton Drive, Aberdeen, to Sheila Margaret, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Stephen, 1 i 3 Grampian Road, Aberdeen.

Senior (1937-63).—At Garthdee Church, Aberdeen, on 12 August 1967, JOHN CHARLES SENIOR, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Senior, 4 Aboyne Gardens, Aberdeen, to Eleanor, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Wood, 124 Auchinyell Road, Aberdeen Shaw (1938-61).---At North Church, Aberdeen, on 8 July 1967, IAN ALEXANDER SHAW, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Shaw, 163 Provost Fraser Drive, Aberdeen, to Elaine, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Notman, 92 Skene Square, Aberdeen.

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Simon (I937-49).—At University Chapel, St. Andrews, on 23 June 1967, JOHN HOOD SIMON, M.A., LL.B., son of Mrs. J. Simon, zoo Westbum Road, Aberdeen and

of the late Mr. A. Simon, D.C. West African Government Service, to Vida Alice, M.B., CH.B., D.R.C.O.G., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. II. Skinner, Lame Viewmount Road, Wormit on Tay, Fifc.

Simpson (1955-59).—At St. Luke's and Queen St. Church, Broughty Ferry, on 25 September 1967, GEORGE SIMPSON, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Simpson, 4z Mile-End Avenue, Aberdeen, to Isobel Christine, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Philip, 73 Balgillo Road, Broughty Ferry.

Singer (1957-6o).—At Garthdee Parish Church, Aberdeen on z8 October 1967, RONALD SINGER, younger son of Mrs. E. Singer and the late Mr. Robert Singer, 28 Springhill Road, Aberdeen, to Louise Helen, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell, 4 Ramsay Place, Aberdeen.

Skene (1959-64).—At Trinity Congregational Church, Shiprow, Aberdeen, on 17 June 1967, DOUGLAS SKENE, only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Skene, 13 Roslin Street, Aberdeen, to Cora Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gall, zo Princess Avenue, Old Trafford, Manchester.

Skene (1951-53).—At Penn inghame Church, Newton Stewart, on i 2 August 1967, PHILIP GEORGE SKENE, only son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Skene, 22 St. Ronan's Drive, Peterculter, to Kathleen Avril, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Crozier, Hamnavoe, Minnigaff, Newton Stewart.

Stephen (1948-57).—At Langholm Old Parish Church, on i July 1967, IAN BERNEAUD STEPHEN, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Stephen, 41 Elmbank Terrace, Aberdeen, to Jacqueline Douglas Anderson, twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Halliday, 5 George Street, Langholm, Dumfriesshire.

Sutherland (195o-55).—At Christ Church, Leatherhead, on 16 September 1967, IAN ALBERT SUTHERLAND,* elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Sutherland, 77 Easter Drylaw Drive, Edinburgh, to Brenda Anne, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wilson, IA Orchard Close, Fetcham, Surrey.

Webster (1949-62).—At West Cults Church, on 15 November 1967, GEORGE FRASER Wass-I'm,* only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Webster, 32 Grampian Circle, Aberdeen, to Joan Helen, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell, Milltimber Farm, Milltimber.

Wilson (1958-63).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 27 September x967, GEORGE ALEXANDER WILSON, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. R. Wilson, 177 Union Grove, Aberdeen, to Sandra, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. R. Aden, 33 Church Road, Benfleet, Essex.

Wolkoff (1942-55).—At St. Ninian's Church, Aberdeen, on z6 August 1967, IAN WOLKOFF,* son of Mrs. Wolkoff and the late John Wolkoff, 37 Leggart Terrace, Aberdeen, to Lillias May, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Borland, Balfeich, Fordoun, Laurencekirk.

Youngson (1958-6o).—At Northfield Church, Aberdeen, on 29 July 7967, STUART YOUNGSON, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Youngson, 35 Deansloch Crescent, Aberdeen, to Kathleen, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Adams, 17 Muirfield Road, Aberdeen.

School Section School Office-bearers Prefects RUARAIDII D. J. MACKAY (Senior Prefect) ALAN GILMOUR (Deputy Senior Prefect) EWEN F. N. RENNIE GORDON F. R. ANDERSON IAN A. FRASER W. H. KERR ANDERSON ROBERT J. GRANT GORDON M. SMITH WILLIAM R. HUTCHESON RAYMOND A. BINNER GORDON T. SMITH DOUGLAS S. LEVINSON W. CAIRNS S. SMITH BRIAN S. BOYD J. LACHLAN MACKENZIE FORBES M. STUART MARSHALL H. BYRES HUGH R. MACLEOD PETER THAIN DAVID S. CARROLL IAN C. URQUHART KEVIN C. CARTER GRANT MATHISON STUART W. CUMMINGS DAVID G. E. NORBROOK WILLIAM S. URQUHART RONALD L. DAVIDSON ALISTAIR T. WILKINSON House Captains Byron

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RUARAIDH D. J. MACKAY

EWEN F. N. RENNIE Rugby

Captain RUARAIDH D. J. MACKAY

I ice-captain GORDON F. R. ANDERSON Hockey

Vice-captain DOUGLAS S. LEVINSON

Captain WILLIAM S. URQUHART

Swimming

Captain GRAHAM GOOD

Vice-Captain STEPHEN M. DAVIDSON

Literary and Debating Society

President DAVID G. E. NORBROOK Secretary HUGH R. MACLEOD

Vice-President Jon); H. ALLEN Treasurer NEIL MCBEATH

Dramatic Society

President JOHN E. Mclivrosti Secretary HUGH R. MACLEOD

Vice-President WILLIAM R. HUTCHESON Treasurer IAN A. FRASER Cadet Force

W./O. DAVID G. MORRISON Editors of the School Section DOUGLAS S. LEVINSON JOHN E. MCINTOSH RUARAIDH D. J. MCKAY J. LACHLAN MACKENZIE DAVID G. E. NORBROOK R1

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School and Random Notes Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!

Presenting, for your entertainment and edification, a rollicking, ribald spectacle the like of which you have never seen before.

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In Room 6 the far-famed Wild Man of Caledonia in his natural habitat.

Journey, if you dare, on the ghost train through the East-end Staffroom; peer through the smoke at the ghastly ghouls.

Cringe from the gargantuan ogre as he festers in the limpid, turgid waters of his own lagoon.. *

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Earlier in the term, reports reached the ears of the prefects of a "habitual" latecomer. The culprit was identifiable by his tattered khaki raincoat and brown felt hat, and was seen to be riding a Model "T" Raleigh bicycle. When challenged by several of the Prefecture, the accused claimed that his chain had fallen off in Thistle Lane.

This excuse was not accepted, however, and the miscreant was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour in the Janny's garden. *

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Despite exhortations from "M", OOVII McLeod has failed to raid the adjacent smoking-room. It is hinted that he is afraid his family may be moving in next year. * In the true tradition of the festive season, the editors think it fitting that Christmas presents should be arranged for the teaching staff.

Suggestions include: for Mr. Tough, a third wheel for his horseless carriage; for Mr. Bradbury, the C.D.M.; for Mr. Flett, a year's subscription to "Practical Torture"; for Mr. Beedie, a tin of Mansion Guardshine; for Mr. Ramsay, beads and a pink floral shirt.... *

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Our swinging masters, not to be outdone by the current trend in popular music, are forming their own group to be known as: Davis, Gee, Boozy, Bccdie, Dick, and Twinx. Watch out, Rolling Stones. * Wanted: One Boy Wonder; apply Room 41.

The Janny has become a white collar worker. * Parking meters are due to be erected for the use of the cars of masters and other visitors to the School. It is not expected, however, that the three-quarters of an hour time-limit will often be exceeded.

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A big Shakespearian conflict—Macbeth attempts to overrun Scotland. *

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We can now claim to be the only school in Scotland which can boast a chaplain who shouts the odds.

* In the true Revolutionary spirit, Chairman May and his Red-and-white guards have effected a drastic change in the efficiency of the school meals system.

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Clouds have been observed floating serenely in the lofty heights of the editors' air. We presume this is due to the altitude of the ceiling ... ?

* With the coming of winter, Waters turned to ice.

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Here are some of the things which have not happened this term, but which we would like to have seen: Mr. Mackie did not read in hall.

The flower-people did not stage a love-in on the front lawn.

The Motor Club did not win the Monte Carlo Rally in their Vauxhall.

Bob Dylan did not accept an invitation to sing at the Folk Club.

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Wasn't that a good story, children? Now gather round, and let's see who's in the Magic Mirror today ...

I can see Clement, and I can see Archibald ... and there's little lan ... and 1 can see Wendy and Magnus and Quentin ... and I can see ...Aaaaarrrghh!!!—Arthur.

And I can see you, too. And Maybe it's just as well that you can't see us. *

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Finally, we should like to express our hope that Mr. Davidson will soon be back in school.

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Staff Changes The theme is the same; only the names change. Not so long ago the life of a Grammar School master reckoned in years spent in the School was on average a long one; and compared to the years spent by boys in the School it was a very long one. Now it works out differently, for a boy may now complain (if he feels that way) not that he has had too few masters to give him variety in his schooling but that he has had so many that he leaves with no sense of the continuity of the educational process. The reasons are not difficult to find. Teachers seek to join the Staff because the School has a good name, or because it is situated in Aberdeen, a city attractive for its situation, its size and its amenities, or maybe just because Aberdeen is home or is near it. They apply to leave when those attractions, even with the amenities peculiar to itself that the School still has, are felt to be less important than higher status and more money. And as money and status are more likely to be found outside than inside the structure of secondary school teaching, the loss of trained staff to activities other than teaching is usually irreparable. Teachers leave teaching to administer or to lecture; but we (and perhaps they) might well ask whether these words "administration" and "lecturing" should not, like the pound, suffer a public devaluation. A college is not always doing more valuable or more taxing work than a school; it may well be doing less, though its power to attract staff, being largely monetary, remains.

These and similar thoughts recur to us every year, at this time and again just before the summer holidays ; and, truth to tell, we find them depressing. It is pleasant to forget them and to extend a welcome to a group of new masters to the School. Here's mettle more attractive.

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Three science masters have been recruited to the Staff, two to teach physics, one to teach biology. Significantly, all are natives of the north of Scotland, all are graduates of Aberdeen University and Aberdeen College of Education, and all arc entering on their first teaching post. Mr. Alexander Garrow, z.sc. was educated first at Elgin Academy, and graduated from Aberdeen in 1966 with honours in Physics. He has already shown a practical interest in the Radio Club of the School, and in the Hill-Walking Club. Mr. A. G. L. Johnson, B.SC., schooled at Ellon Academy, graduated with honours in Agricultural Botany. Mr. William Walker, a.sc., graduated in 1966 with honours in Physics, and in November of that same year became a graduate of the Institute of Physics. Mr. Walker was a co-leader of an international party of students to East Africa, being a member of the British Association of the Experiment in International Living. He declares himself keen on swimming and golf, and has an interest in dramatic work that the Dramatic Society may be interested to exploit.

The Modern Languages Department has had a distracting time recently, and so was particularly glad to add some new members to its permanent staff. Mr. Lionel J. Davis, M.A., DIP.ED., hails from well south of the border. From Bromley Grammar School in Kent he came north to Aberdeen University from which he graduated in French/German in 1966. His main work will, of course, be with the modern languages department, but his qualification in Religious Education and his interest in the Crusader Union will be particularly helpful to Mr. Eric Duncan in his work.

Mr. Stewart Reid, M.A., DIP.ED., returns to his old school to teach the languages he showed such proficiency in when he was a pupil. He graduated from Aberdeen University with an honours degree in French-German; while still a student he spent a year at the University of Heidelberg, and after graduation, a year in France as assistant in the Lye& Edmond Perrier in Tulle. As might have been expected he has quickly accommodated himself to the practice of teaching here, and settled in quietly and efficiently.

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Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Ross also bring strength to the Modern Languages Department. Mrs. Grant comes to the Staff presently on a part-time basis; her experience gained over many years in various schools in Aberdeen and elsewhere will be very valuable. Mrs. Ross brings her own fluency and panache to the subject to which it is particularly appropriate. The classics department took a commendable step into the twentieth century with the appointment of Miss Robertson to its permanent staff in September; but we hear, as we go to press, that she has just accepted a more conveniently situated post in Banffshire, so that a Roman masculinity will continue to govern classical study in the School. And Mr. Ian Ramsay, who has never been far removed in spirit from the Grammar School has, after a progress which promised to take him to Rome and eventually brought him to Aberdeen and the married state, resumed his position in the History department. Mr. Andrew J. Dinnes has been appointed as Assistant Master to the Music Department. His school was Invcrurie Academy, from which he proceeded to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, and from there graduated to the College of Education in Aberdeen for a course of teacher training. He has acted as accompanist in television and radio broadcasts.

There would appear to be a close relationship between speed and sound, regulated speed, that is, and regulated sound, for we have seen that Mr. Galloway of the Music Department is no slouch in a car, and Mr. Dinnes gives as one of his main hobbies "motoring and road safety". He is a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and has agreed to be master-in-charge of the School Motor Club after the Christmas holidays.

To all these new members of Staff we give a warm welcome and hope they find pleasure and success in their work here.

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After a brief and quiet sojourn of two years in the School Mr. Hector C. Calder has left the dusty business of active teaching, for the administrative branch of Education. In November he took up an appointment as Assistant Director of Education for the counties of Perth and Kinross. Mr. Edward Morrice made an even shorter stay. It is only a year ago that we were announcing Mr. Morrice's appointment to the Physics staff; now we have to record his defection from teaching to the Civil Service. Ile has accepted a post as Inspector of Factories at Ayr. And it is appropriate here to record the departure of Mr. James Morrison from the Lower School. An appreciation of what he is and what he did for the School will be found elsewhere in the Magazine, but for many reasons the writer of these notes would like to say a little more. As headmaster of the Lower School Mr. Morrison was, everybody knows, alert and efficient. More important he knew all his pupils, their strengths and their weaknesses, their backgrounds and their temperaments, so that one could learn infinitely more from a ten minutes' talk with Mr. Morrison than from many hours' referring to marks and files. And he was always sympathetic, always charitable, for the right reasons. The Lower School Notes that he regularly wrote for the School Magazine over the years recorded the activities of boys and staff, and they also revealed, though unintentionally, the dedication of Mr. Morrison to his job. Promotion has taken him from the Grammar School, but not from Aberdeen itself, so we on the staff and the host of his former pupils will still be able to meet and talk with him, and find the unmitigated pleasure that one discovers in the company of a generous-hearted man.

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House Notes Byron The following officials were elected to represent the House this session: House Captain, Ian C. Urquhart; Vire-Captain, W. S. Urquhart; Rugby Captain, Ian C. Urquhart; Vice Captain, Kevin Carter; Hockey Captain, William S. Urquhart; ViceCaptain, Douglas S. Levinson; Swimming Captain, Ian C. Urquhart; Vice-Captain, Kenneth Allan.

It was a disappointing Summer Term for the House in both cricket and athletics, although our house did produce the Senior Athletic Champion. Our rugby XV for the forthcoming tournaments seems to be lacking in experience although we expect to do better in the seven-a-side competition.

The hockey team's prospects are bright as our team contains no less than seven members of the regular School 1st XI. Our swimming prospects seem uncertain but I am sure that the swimmers will do their best for the House.

Finally I would like to thank Mr. Baxter and his colleagues for their advice and encouragement throughout the term.

IAN C. URQUHART, House Captain Dun At a meeting earlier this term, the following officials were elected: House Captain, G. Anderson; Vice-Captain, G. Good; Rugby Captain, G. Anderson; Vice-Captain, P. Thain; Hockey Captain, D. McNay; Vice-Captain, C. Ritchie; Swimming Captain, G. Good; Vice-Captain, G. Reid.

During the Summer Term, the House eleven-a-side cricket team did well to win the House Championship. In the deciding game against Melvin House, the result was in doubt until the final over.

The House rugby team is a strong one this year, and should do well in the House championship.

With two games still to be played, a young and inexperienced House hockey team has played well and is leading in the House championship.

Swimming prospects arc good this year, and we hope to retain the Swimming Trophy at the Gala.

G. ANDERSON, House Captain Keith The House officials for this year are as follows: House Captain, Rory MacKay; Vice Captain, Philip Mathewson; Rugby Captain, John McIntosh; Vice-Captain, Rory MacKay; Hockey Captain, James McKay; Vice-Captain, Ronald Bartlett; Swimming Captain, John McIntosh; Vice-Captain, Gordon Clark.

Our athletes put up an excellent performance in winning the sports, and should continue to do well in the near future since the strength of last year's team lay with the younger boys. Unfortunately thc cricket team did not emulate thc achievements of their fellows.

Last year's all-conquering rugby side has been reduced to a few stalwarts who will do their best for the House. The hockey team is composed of very young boys, but so far has put up a very strong resistance to the other Houses.

The House is not strong in swimmers and any success in the Gala will be a considerable surprise.

Our thanks to Mr. Stephen and his colleagues for their help in running the House last term.

RORY D. J. MACKAY, House Captain

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Melvin At the House meeting at the beginning of the term the following officials were elected: House Captain, E. Rennie; Vice-Captain, G. M. Smith; Rugby Captain, G. M. Smith; Vice-Captain, E. Rennie; SwimmingCaptain, R. Mann; Vice-Captain, E. Rennie; Hockey Captain, A. Thomson; Vice-Captain, D. Hay. Our athletes despite some good individual performances were forced into last place in a closely fought sports. However our cricketers showed a fighting spirit in excess of their skill to be runners-up in the Senior I louse matches. With a young hockey team out success in the winter games would seem to depend on our powerful rugby team. In the gala we hope to regain the swimming trophy.

EWEN RENNIE, House Captain

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Societies' Notes Literary and Debating Society At the Annual General Meeting held in June of this year, the following officials were elected for Session t967-l8: David G. E. Norbrook, President; John H. Allen, Vice-President; Hugh R. Macleod, Secretary; Neil McBeath, Treasurer.

This session's membership has almost matched last year's, with the same resulting improvement in attendance and general debating quality.

As usual, the term opened with a Hat Night, which proved very successful, and since then there has been a wide range of topics for debate. At the beginning of October, we held a "Mock United Nations", which proved quite a success. In addition, our round of Inter-school debates has had a good start, and we hope that in the future these debates will continue to be popular.

Again this year we have decided to enter a team in the English-Speaking Union's Debating Competition. Already we are through to the second round, having defeated Peterhead Academy in the first.

There is a wide range of controversial topics in store for the rest of the session, and we look forward to an interesting and exciting year.

1-Iucn R. MACLEOD

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At the Annual General Meeting held last June, the following officials were elected to serve the Society this session: John E. McIntosh, President (re-elected); Robert Hutcheson, Vice-President; Hugh R. Macleod, Secretary (re-elected); Ian A. Fraser, Treasurer. On Mr. King's departure for Canada at the end of the last term, Mr. Cramb was elected Honorary President, and Mr. McAllan Honorary Vice-President.

This years sees the Society's return to Shakespeare, after two yeari, our choice of play being "Julius Caesar". Already, thanks to the efforts mainly of our two producers Mr. Cramb and Mr. McAllan, rehearsals are well under way, and some members even know their words!

At the end of last session a very successful revue was produced by Mr. Cramb and several members of last year's Vth and Vlth year, and it is hoped to bring off some similar event next June.

HUGH R. MACLEOD

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The Scripture Union The Scripture Union had a shaky start but it is now getting well under way with the attendances steadily increasing.

This term we have had a varied programme which included films and quizzes as well as several talks. Our speakers so far this term have been Mr. D. McRuvie, Mr. W. Marwick, the Aberdeen Scripture Union chairman, Mr. W. Gilmour, Rev. J. Scott and Mr. S. Rcnwick. More speakers and films are proposed for next term. We have been assisted throughout the term by Mr. Duncan and Mr. C. Stewart, and to them we extend our grateful thanks.

CAIRNS Surma, Secretary

Historical Society Office-bearers: David G. E. Norbrook, President; Neil McBeath, Vice-President; Derek R. Copland, Secretary; Robert Rait, Treasurer.

At the A.G.M. in June, it was decided to widen the scope of the Local History Society by changing the name to the Historical Society. The Society has undertaken a wide range of activities. In the field of local history Mr. Marcus Milne, the city librarian, was invited to speak and members themselves have given talks on historical subjects. One of the more novel meetings was the trial of Adolf Hitler and similar trials are planned for next term. Other activities included the showing of two films and an investigation by members into the Gunpowder Plot.

Members of the committee have contacted the Town Planning Department to find out about the many changes soon to be made in Aberdeen's appearance and it is hoped to make a photographic record of some of the sights which will disappear in the future.

We would like to thank Mr. McCombie and Mr. Murray for their helpful advice and co-operation.

DEREK R. COPLAND, SeGreta?),

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Photographic Society This term it was decided to split up the Society, the 1st year meeting on Wednesdays after school under the guidance of Mr. Paterson and the remainder, who number about twenty-five, meeting on Thursdays.

In the syllabus we have increased the number of practical sessions to about two in every five weeks—a move which has proved very successful. For the first time this year we have invited outside speakers to our meetings. So far we have had Mr. Alan Stott of Henderson's who gave a very entertaining talk on amateur film making and in the very near future we hope to be visited by a photographer from Aberdeen Journals.

W. H. KERR ANDERSON, President

Senior Discussion Group It is the proud boast of this Society that its members never agree, and this has been confirmed by this term's meetings. So far we have discussed Race Relations, the Government, America, and many other controversial issues. Our thanks go to Mr. Duncan for so ably keeping the peace at our meetings and to Mr. Watt for lending us his room.

N. McBEATH

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Folk Club This year's office-bearers arc: Cohn Dick, President; Jonathan Anstock, VicePresident; John Truscott, Treasurer.

Membership of the Club has greatly increased from last year, especially among younger pupils. This would stem to promise well for the future. Performances by local guest artists have continued to be a mainstay of Club activity. Unfortunately, the number of volunteer singers from inside the School has not been as large as was hoped, but perhaps more will come forward as the year progresses.

Future plans for the Club include the setting-up of a sheet music library to provide young singers with ready material.

Our thanks to Mr. May, who has continued to play a vital part in the organisation of the Club.

COLIN DICK, President •

Motor Club The Club has had a successful first term including a trip to Ingliston which, though very wet, was exceedingly interesting. We have had regular film shows and excellent talks on a wide range of subjects, such as the Institute of Advanced Motorists by Mr. Dinncs; the Monte Carlo Rally by Mr. Campbell; and a talk on Road Safety by Sergeant Senior. We have also has a couple of meetings on the subjects of rally navigation and marshalling.

Little work could be done with the Club's car which was badly damaged by vandals over the summer holidays.

Because of the new regulations concerning treasure hunts, the club are organising a series of smaller monthly navigational treasure hunts starting in December, with a maximum entry of twelve cars.

Officials this year are: President, William Maclean; Secretary, Kenneth McEwen ; Treasurer, Gordon Sim. KENNETH MCEWEN

Chess Club This session we again have a membership of about thirty and it is encouraging to see the ability and enthusiasm of some of the younger members. Unfortunately we were defeated by Inverness Royal Academy in the second round of the Sunday Times Tournament.

We arc disappointed by the lack of teams in and around Aberdeen—only Robert Gordon's seem to be willing to provide a team to play us. However, thanks to another generous grant from the Endowments Trust, it is hoped to arrange a match with Dundee High School, and buy some new equipment.

In contrast with previous years, the Club's tournaments have all got off to a good start, and we might well have a result in the Upper School Tournament before the Christmas holidays.

ERIC CAMERON, President er Treasurer •

The Musical Society It was decided to extend the activities of the Club formerly known as the Listening Circle and to rename it the Musical Society. Although the members still meet mainly to broaden their musical experience and knowledge by listening appreciatively to recorded music, new activities have been introduced, notably a "Desert Island Discs" programme and a music-quiz, and other such events are planned for the remainder of term.

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Attendances have not been large, but this is understandable, both because of the limited appeal of the Society, and the awkward but unavoidable lunchtime hour.

Nevertheless, we feel confident that those who have attended have benefited from the meetings. Our thanks go to Mr. Hawksworth, whose help and advice have been invaluable and who has allowed us the use of his room and the equipment it contains.

J. LACHLAN MACKENZIE, Presideni

Hill Walking Club Towards the end of last term, what were regarded as the most successful outings of the year took place: the Crianlarich week-end and the Glen Feshie area all-nighter.

In the main, both were blessed by reasonable weather, and on the all-nighter the sun rose in a perfectly clear sky to reveal a blanket of cloud about zoo feet below us.

Our programme this term has so far been extremely successful, with two outings to the Lochnagar area, and two to the Devil's Elbow area. The highlight of the term so far, however, has been the September holiday week-end outing to Glencoe, during which we climbed Bidean nam Bian and traversed the Aonach Eagach ridge.

At the time of writing, the Club is in hibernation, but activities should be resumed some time in January with our "annual pilgrimage" to the Brimmond Hill, after which a varied programme of hill-walks is in store.

HUGH R. MACLEOD, Seerek1Ty

Railway Society The Society meets on a Tuesday and has been fairly successful this year with the majority of members from the Middle School.Two interesting slide-shows have been given, both using slides taken by members, including some taken on the School's Easter excursion to France.

The model railway section has continued to progress, the circuit having been completed. Members are now at work on building and painting construction kits for the model railway.

The Society now has a large library of railway magazines, some dating back over thirty years, the majority of which have been donated by former pupils.

Looking ahead to the next term, we hope to have some guest speakers along to meetings, and also, possibly, a quiz with our rival Society in Robert Gordon's College.

Once again the Society is indebted to Mr. Bruce for all his help and interest during the term.

Music Notes This year's choir, hindered in its work at first because of lack of support by senior pupils, has recently been reinforced by a number of prefects, and, although still short of tenors, is now fairly well balanced.

The orchestra is strong in all departments except cello, but with Miss Moragh Easton now in charge of cello teaching in the School, the future prospect is more promising.

The main musical events of the year arc to be a recital of Christmas Music in St. Machat's Cathedral on zo December, and a concert in the Music Hall in June. Some of the Senior Choir are to participate in the Citizens' Carol Service on 17 December, and the Madrigal Group recently took part, with great success, in the l5oth anniversary celebrations of St. Andrew's Cathedral.

Our usual series of lunch hour recitals will be taking place in the Spring Term, and an unusual and exciting event will be our production of Britten's new opera (written for the Vienna Boys' Choir) "The Golden Vanity". This will be given at Aberdeen University on 15 May, and in the Civic Arts' Centre on x6 May.

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It being now possible to enrol second year boys into the two sections, numbers have improved to some extent this session, although the R.A.F. Section required an increase in its actual establishment and is now well in excess of the Army Section on paper. However, it is hoped that there will be a further entry to the Army side to off-set the present position. This term's activities have gone off with great success and we are very fortunate in having the New Training Team on our door-step—this new venture is already well on the way to providing a much more realistic approach to training. Captain Norman Scott and his team have been most co-operative and their participation in a training week-end in October made this easily the best outing we have ever had. Already plans arc taking shape for Arduous Training and the summer camps and it is to be hoped that all-out support will be given to these. We arc fortunate in having Mr. David Murray now with us in the R.A.F. Section and his experience of the service and knowledge of flying will be of inestimable value to us from now on. So far no one has turned up in the Staff to fill the vacancy on the Army side but, like Mr. Micawber, we must live in hope. So far the N.C.O.s have tackled all the problems set them with considerable energy and this is most promising.

R. McLEon Army Section The promotions at the beginning of this session were as follows: Sgts. Anderson and Tait to C./Sgt., Cpl. Shanks to Sgt. and Cdt. Barton to L./Cpl. A number of Army and R.A.F. N.C.O.s are attending a cadre at Fonthill Barracks on Thursdays at i 6.oo hours.

At the start of the term a large-scale recruiting drive was held and we now have a well filled second year section, who have all been issued with uniforms and are now being trained in basic section craft.

Annual camp this year was held in Germany at Senclager All Arms Training Centre near Minden, where the contingent was the guest of the 1st Gordon. The twenty cadets saw up-to-date "Vigilant" anti-tank missiles being fired and everyone had the opportunity to fire the S.M.G. The camp was enjoyed by all who attended and being driven around in Armoured Personnel Carriers was only one of the many experiences of army life gained by the cadets.

At the Cadet Wapinschaw this year a combined Army and R.A.F. team was entered. The four cadets were the runners-up in the Falling Plates competition which they lost by only one plate. The .22 range at Fonthill has not been neglected and due to the work of R.S.M. Rogers most of the new recruits have now fired the .22 rifle.

The proficiency section have all fired the Empire Test but without much success.

Captain Scott and the rest of his training team helped the contingent in its training of recruits by holding a week-end in October. The main part of the week-end was an exercise on Bennachie. The object of the exercise was to evade patrols of junior soldiers from the Bridge of Don Barracks. The exercise was a success; some cadets were captured but many completed the course.

I would like on our behalf to thank Fl.-Lt. McLeod for his smooth running of the contingent, Cpt. Galloway for his help as Training Officer, and R.S.M. Rogers for his unceasing support and advice on training the Army Section.

C./Sgt. I. M. TArr R.A.F. Section Last year's training was successfully completed with Annual Camp at R.A.F. Cottesmore. Also during the summer vacation, two of our cadet N.C.O.s, Sgt. Dick and Cpl. Mathewson, having gained Flying Scholarships completed their •

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training to the required standard at Carlisle. Sgt. Donaldson attended a Star Camp at A.A.F. Wittcring from 6 to it August.

The highly successful recruiting campaign necessitated many promotions. These were: Sgt. Morrison to W./O., Sgts. Dick, Donaldson and Sim to F./Sgts., Cpls.

Johnston and Taylor to Sgt., and Cadets Fettes, Geddes K., Geddes N., Henson, Ross, Smith and Tease to Cpl. Due to the exceptionally large numbers, normal training got off to a slow start, but thanks to the hard work put in by the N.C.O.s in charge, training has been brought back to normal. A contributory factor to the initial inefficiency was the attendance of our Junior N.C.O.s at a Training Cadre at Fonthill Barracks. However, on completion of the Cadre these N.C.O.s will be of invaluable assistance due to the training methods they will have learned.

Week-end activities this session have been numerous. They included on the nonflying side, the thoroughly enjoyable annual trip to R.A.F. Leuchars on Battle of Britain Day and an exciting exercise on Bennachie from which the Section emerged with flying colours. On the flying side, a party of cadets received Air Experience Gliding and Air Experience Chipmunk Flying at Dyce. The following weekend twenty-three cadets visited R.A.F. Tumhouse for further Air Experience Flying.

DAVID G. MORRISON, W./O.

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Pipe Band With most of the Drumming Section leaving last term, the Section has had to start almost from scratch. Fortunately, however, the Piping Section has suffered no losses except that of its tutor, Ian Gray, who has gone to Glen Rothes. His place has been very kindly filled by Mr. W. Fraser.

Surprisingly, there has been a large number of recruits and thisgives the band a healthy outlook for the future. lAim A. FRASER, Pipe Major

Regensburg 1967 "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days of auld tang sync?"

One would not have expected to hear these words ringing out through the calm air of a Bavarian summer evening, but on 7 July this year, the audience in the Neuhaussaal, Regensburg's main concert hall, joined with the choirs of our school and of the Goethe Gymnasium, Regensburg, to sing this most famous of all songs of friendship as the conclusion of a highly successful joint concert. Through this musical association, an "auld acquaintance" was indeed being renewed, for four years previously a parry of boys and staff from Aberdeen had taken part in a similar concert in Regensburg, marking the culmination of months of preparation by both schools, and in 1965, the Germans had paid us a return visit.

After a long and somewhat wearisome journey by train and Channel ferry, we arrived in Regensburg in the "wee sma' hours" of Sunday, z July, and went straight to the Youth Hostel, which was for five nights to prove an extremely comfortable home from home for us. During the first week, most of our time was divided between rehearsing with the German pupils at the Goethe Gymnasium and sightseeing, both in the city and surroundings of Regensburg.

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33 On the morning of 5 July, we were officially welcomed to Regensburg by Oberburgermeister Shlichtinger, Mr. Macaulay, formerly of our Modern Language staff acting as interpreter and replying on our behalf. After the speeches, the choir and string quartet of the Goethe Gymnasium gave a short recital, and we were then shown round the state rooms of the Old Town Hall, where the reception had been held.

For the afternoons, the German staff had arranged a varied programme for us. On one occasion, we were conducted round the many interesting buildings of the old town, and on another we travelled by coach to Kelhcim, a monastery lying a few miles up-river from Regensburg. This excursion was particularly memorable because of the return journey, made in small rowing boats through the Danube Gorge, where the river flows between spectacular limestone cliffs.

The evenings were, for the most part, free, and we took the opportunity of exploring the town individually or in small groups. Although not a large city, it is easy to get lost in Regensburg, and so we were sometimes "sair pit aboot" to get back to the hostel before "lights out" at to p.m. On one evening, however, we were allowed an extension of time, so that we could attend a social evening with the pupils of a girls' school. During this, we tried to teach Scottish dances and learn German ones, with a singular lack of success! But through conversation carried on in a curious mixture of German, English, French, and even Latin, new friendships were formed and a general atmosphere of fun and goodwill prevailed.

The day of the concert, 7 July, was largely taken up with final rehearsals. Of the works performed, perhaps the most exciting was Vaughan-Williams's magnificent setting of the tooth Psalm, in which all the singers and instrumentalists took part, but the most unusual and, from our point of view, evocative part of the programme was the "ceilidh" which brought the concert to a close. Of those who took part, particular credit must go to Miss Pamela Mayor of the Lower School staff, whose rich contralto voice filled the concert hall, and to the sixteen young dancers who, trained by Miss Hill, and ably accompanied by Mr. Willox's "Scottish Strings", did a great deal of work to bring their Eightsome Reel to the required standard. The whole "ceilidh" was knitted together by a running commentary in German from Mr. Macaulay, for which, incidentally, he was highly praised.

Other performances worthy of special mention are first that of Christopher Brown, solo cellist in the first performance of Mr. Hawksworth's "Variations on a Scottish Folk Song", and secondly, that of the German choir under Fraiilein Achhammer in a series of German folksongs, performed with rare sensitivity and technical skill.

After the concert, we had to forsake the excellent hospitality of the Hostel warden and his wife for that of the German families who acted as our hosts over the weekend. Of this part of the holiday, each boy must have his own individual memories, but they are all surely coloured by the overwhelming generosity of our Bavarian friends who went to endless trouble to make our stay all the more pleasant.

This week-end was for many the highlight of our holiday, but the few days spent in Vienna also proved a great experience. We travelled by train to Linz, a town just on the Austrian frontier, where we boarded a river steamer to continue down the Danube to Vienna. Unfortunately, the usually predictable central European summer weather selected this particular day to let us down, and the undoubtedly beautiful Austrian scenery was lost in a light misty drizzle. Consequently, the journey became rather tedious, and our normally high spirits slightly depressed, The next day, however, was one of clear skies and higher temperatures than we had previously experienced.

We spent two full days in Vienna, and most of our time was spent in sightseeing.

We visited two of the famous buildings of the city, the fine Art Gallery and the splendid Schonbrunn Palace, once the summer residence of the Empress Maria Theresa as the Hapsburg court. Outside the city there was much of interest and beauty, as we discovered when we went by coach to Kahlenberg in the heart of the

Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine 34 Vienna Woods. In the evenings, most of us succumbed to the "psychedelic" temptations of the Prater fun fair, while others, less philistine in outlook, preferred the more aesthetic and less expensive delights of the concert hall.

We broke our return journey to Regensburg at Passau, where lunch had been ordered for us. Afterwards, the leaders of the "houses" into which the party had been divided were treated to some "Erdbeertorte" (Strawberry Tart) in recognition of services rendered. Each section had been named after an English composer, and a competition was organised to find the best behaved "house". We also made a short visit to Passau Cathedral to hear a demonstration of the famous organ.

Our last morning in Regensburg was taken up by a "Sportfest", which was opened with a touch of pageantry by a march past of all the Scottish visitors to music provided by Mr. Spittle and his wind band. After this, the sporting activities got under way: first of all, a series of relay races, and then two football matches— both of which we won. To round off the proceedings, a demonstration of the game of cricket was given, much to the amusement of German and Scottish spectators alike!

We assembled at the Youth Hostel that evening, where there took place a short slide show, an "auction" of lost property, and the presentation of prizes to the houses coming first and second in the house competition. We had been told to expect the coaches at about i a.m., so that we would reach the station in good time for our train at 2 a.m. As the time for departure approached, rumours began to fly around to the effect that no coaches were coming. These rumours, unfortunately, turned out to be true, and it was not until the German staff had made a number of frantic phone calls that a fleet of twenty or thirty taxis, accompanied, ironically, by a single small coach, arrived to convey us in desperate haste to thc station, where we arrived with only minutes to spare.

And so, with this unexpected bit of excitement, it was all over!

The return journey was relatively free from thrills, except that, due to a derailment somewhere in the north of England, we arrived in Aberdeen four hours behind schedule, causing not a little concern to our waiting parents I We were, of course, very glad to be home again, but occasionally, on days of rain and grey skies, we feel that it would be "afa' fine" to go back to Regensburg, to the beautifully warm weather of Bavaria and Austria. Then it is that we begin to reminisce, and all our memories are happy ones, of aspects of the holiday varying from person to person. One thing, however, which everyone without exception will remember is the boundless "Gastfreundschaft" of the German families, who threw open their doors to us, and who, throughout our stay, were thc epitome of hospitality in all their dealings with us. At the end of the visit four years ago, it was remarked that that trip was only a beginning: let us hope that this year's visit will not be the end.

HUGH MACLEOD, Upper VI

Lower School Notes This winter Term of 1967 will best be remembered as the time when we said farewell to Mr. James D. Morrison, assistant teacher in the Lower School from 1949 to 1954 and Lower School Master from 1954 to 1967. Although I have known him for a short time only, I was deeply impressed by his kindness, friendliness, courtesy and efficiency. James Morrison will always be rememberedwith affection at the Grammar, and we all wish him happiness and every success in his new post as Headmaster of Walker Road School.

Other staff changes have taken place. At the close of last session Miss Ethel M. Stewart and Mrs. Stella N. Angus retired, after forty-four and twenty-three years respectively of devoted service to the Lower School. We wish them both a long and happy retirement. Miss Isabella D. Cooper left to take up appointment at Tullynessle School. New members of staff were Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Barber. Mrs. Jones has now left and Mrs. Farrand has taken over Primary VA. Our Primary VI and VII classes arc enjoying to the full their French and Spanish lessons. We hope to include some French and Spanish carols in our Lower School Carol Service which will be held this year in Becchgrove Church on the afternoon of Thursday, zx December.

This term Primary VII were delighted to visit the Hogarth Puppets' Show, while boys from Primary V, VI and VU classes had a successful and enjoyable outing to hear the Scottish National Orchestra.

Because of the fine weather we have not missed many games afternoons and Primary V-VII have made the most of their visits to Harlaw and Rubislaw. Our Rugby XV has suffered defeat at the hands of Aberlour (16-3) but scored a well deserved, though hard earned, victory against a Minors team (6-3).

On the soccer field our Primary VII team won a handsome victory against Cults Academy, but our Primary VI team succumbed to Gordon's and Kirkhill, while the Primary VI znd XI also lost to Gordon's.

Our swimmers have acquitted themselves well this term. Two boys qualified to compete in the Scottish National Age Championships at Dundee, Christopher Weir (6b) and Garth Knox (7b). Iain Robertson (7a) John Murray (7b) and Garth Knox took part in the Scottish Schools Championships at Kirkintilloch where lain swam his way to fourth place in the backstroke final.

Our monitors for this session are as follows: Geoffrey A. Jones, Head, Gordon Mutch and Alan R. Gibson of Primary VII A; Douglas McAllister, Deputy Head, Andrew W. Milne and John D. Murray of Primary VII B; Alan P. Harper and Alan J. Kiltie of Primary VI A; Kenneth A. McRobb and Derek R. Rcekie of Primary VI a. As always they have proved themselves to be a group of resourceful, helpful young men, well equipped to accept responsibility.

May I in conclusion say that I am very happy to be at the Grammar and am most grateful to all, the Rector, staff and boys for the kindness and help which I have received.

J.N.

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School Sporting Activities Rugby This year, although there was an experienced nucleus on which to build, the ist XV has again been a small one physically and the forwards have on occasion lacked the determination and spirit which were the main assets of last year's XV. Their record has been good against undistinguished opposition but poor against better teams. Of course, the result is not of primary importance: we are more concerned with putting up a good performance. That should have been easier than it was last year because there is more individual ability in the present ist XV. In fact it has been more difficult because the team have tended to approach some matches without sufficient determination and the result has been that poorer teams than our own have been allowed to dictate the standard of play. We have never yet lost to such a side but we have missed opportunities to produce the good rugbyof which we arc capable. Since it was evident that good rugby was not beyond the ability of the team, it was hoped that the players would rise to the occasion against stronger opposition. As things turned out, this hope was justified and, when playing against George Watson's College and Royal High School, the team displayed a standard of rugby which was little, if any, inferior to that of their opponents. Only when forced to will the team attempt to justify themselves, and we can be thankful that the attempt has been quite successful.

Among the better games played have been those against Glasgow Academy and St. Aloysius college. v. Glasgow Academy lost f-II The School started well and the pack subdued the opposition in the early stages. Strong pressure resulted in a try by MacKay which was converted by Boyd. Glasgow fought back with determination, however, and gradually took control of the game, despite strong resistance from School.

v. St. Aloysius College won 11-8 This was the best game played so far and showed hope that the 1st XV will play well when under pressure. The School attacked hard but failed to score because over-anxiety caused fumbles. St. Aloysius struck back and with about ten minutes left for play were 8.0 in the lead. The School fought back magnificently, however, showing excellent spirit and emphasising their fitness to such good effect that they scored ir points very quickly. Carter, Reid and Thain scored tries and Boyd had a conversion.

It has been possible due to the delay in publication to write something of more recent matches in which School has performed better. The two outstanding examples have been the games against George Watson's College and Royal High School.

v. George Watson's College

lost 27-I;

Although the School conceded a rather large number of points this was partly because Watson's possessed a good stand-off who, because of his reputation, was allowed to overawe our defence so that he could make a successful break at will. Nevertheless, the School emerged from the encounter with considerable credit, not least because they scored more points than any other side has done against Watson's. A try was scored at the end of each half which demonstrated that the School were fit and did not give up trying.

Anderson, Reid and Thain scored tries and Hopkin had two conversions.

v. Royal High School lost 9-3 This was definitely the best game played by the 1st XV. Everyone played with great verve and determination. They refused to be influenced by the reputation of Royal High and set about the task of holding them with spirit. Moreover, they were not confined entirely to defence—and here it must be said that tackling was excellent—but they were also able to maintain much pressure on their opponents, especially in the first half. In the end, however, the superior handling of the Royal High team enabled them to win. Whatever may have been the shortcomings of the ist XV previously, they certainly did a great deal on this occasion.

Hopkin scored a penalty.

Finally, I should mention colour awards given before Christmas. They are as follows: Full Colours to R. D. J. MacKay, I. C. Urquhart and R. L. Davidson; Half Colours to G, F. R. Anclcrson, G. M. Smith and W. R. Hutcheson.

RORY D. J. MACKAY, Capiain 1st XV

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The twice-weekly meetings of the Club have been well attended and great enthusiasm has been shown by the Middle School for their Knock-Out Tournament.

Joint meetings with the High School are to be held fortnightly. It is also hoped to arrange meetings with Gordon's College, the Academy, St. Margaret's and Albyn.

Despite the unfortunate injury which Mr. Shand received playing badminton, the Club has gone on, thanks to the enthusiasm of the other masters, notably Mr. Falconer, Mr. Stephen and Mr. Bradbury. Our thanks to all these masters and especially to Mr. Mackie the janitor.

EWEN RENNIE, Secretary

Hockey Notes 1st XI. With Urquhart, Gilmour, Gordon Smith and McNay the only survivors from last year's XI, it is surprising that they have already settled into a very competent side. The defence has been playing particularly well and giving very little away to the opposing sides. It is in the forward line that there are problems and we are much too dependent on Billy Urquhart, our captain, to get the goals. However, as the season progresses we hope to see an improvement in this aspect of the team.

They have already had some good victories and particularly noteworthy were our performances against Grove Academy (4-o) and Gordon's College (5-1). We have won all our matches so far against School sides. and XI. This XI has got off to a very mediocre start and have been struggling to get good results. The team is captained by James F. McKay who is doing his best with the material at his disposal. Lack of speed is probably the main drawback and as this team plays against a number of adult sides their results tend to be disheartening.

They did beat znd Gordon's College 5-3 and it is possible that against opposition of their own strength they will show up better. Among the younger members of the side Merson (left back), McDonald (right half), and Rennie (outside left) are probably the most promising.

3rd XL This side is an extremely keen and enthusiastic team. Under the captaincy of David Burns they are producing good results albeit against inferior opposition.

They have some stiffer opposition later in the season and we'll be better able to judge their calibre then.

4th Year XI. This is a most competent team, improving all the time. This is the XI that must work hard at the game, practising the skills, so that they can aspire to ist and znd XI teams as early as possible. There are a number of good players here, but at this stage the most promising are Walker (goal), Maclver (back), Robertson (right half), Smith (left half), Walker (right inner), Small (right wing) and Ritchic (left inner).

Colts. At the time of writing the Colts have not yet played a fixture—their first game being on z December. There is a pool of twenty-four very keen boys whose lack of skills is more than compensated for by their obvious enjoyment and enthusiasm for the game. Boys already worth watching for the future arc A. Black (centre half), B. Cockburn (right half) and R. Davidson (goal).

R. McNAY

Swimming Notes At the end of the Summer Term the School did well in two late fixtures against Robert Gordon's College and Peterhead Academy. The match against Gordon's College was confined to the Lower School; in an exciting contest we won by one point. Unfortunately the senior competition with Gordon's College could not take place owing to difficulty in arranging a suitable date.

Literary Section 39 In the other fixture a combined Grammar School and High School team overcame Peterhead Academy.

We had several successes at the Scottish Age Group Championships at Dundee in November. R. Fordyce set up new records in the zoo yards individual medley and too yards butterfly, 55 years, and E. Lawrence broke the record for the too yards backstroke, 14 years. Young Edward Rose was just outside the record when he won the loo yards backstroke, 12 years, while our medley team of E. Rose, D. Murray, A. Sim and H. Mutch also won. The freestyle team, in the same age group, consisting of E. Rose, D. Murray, A. Sim and G. Knox was third. Other boys to qualify for the finals were G. Knox, too yards freestyle, is years, and C. Weir in the so yards backstroke, to years.

At the Scottish Schools' Championships at Kirkintilloch also in November, we were not quite so successful. We did, however, gain two firsts, E. Lawrence won the 'Jo yards backstroke under 16 years and our freestyle team of S. Davidson, G. Robertson, E. Lawrence and R. Fordyce also won in the same age group. R. Fordyce came second in the 220 yards individual medley under 16 years and E. Rose was third in the !Jo yards backstroke under 54 years.

Several boys have been selected to train in the district squad, which is being sponsored in an attempt to prepare swimmers for the 197o Commonwealth Games.

More and more Primary boys are coming to the training sessions after school and if they can maintain their enthusiasm, I am sure we will find future champions amongst them.

The swimmers are meantime enjoying a break from training. Preparation for next year will start after the examinations and it is hoped that we can improve on this year's performances.

Literary Section The Wanderer I live down beside the river, Or under the shady tree, I have not a penny, To let you see.

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The weather doesn't scare me, The frost, the hail, the snow, I wander on from day to day.

Lest the winds should blow.

I wander miles from anywhere, I live no special place, But still I love to think and know, I have no chosen race.

NEIL CRICHTON, Midelk IA

The Tree The tree stands there, So solitary and bare, People pass it, They just don't care Its bark is rotted, The trunk is knotted.

The tree will surely die; For it The end is nigh.

WALTER BLACK, Middle 1H

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Aberdeen Grammar School Magegine A Lesson from Snow The snow lay deeply on the ground, More came down without a sound, And still more, swirling round and round, Until it stopped, When I came out I there'found, A paradise had dropped.

The drifting snow was pure white, It had changed the land o'emight, Still I see it as I write, Spotless then, Reflecting brightly all the light, Until came men.

Walking to work thcy spoilt the snow, Ignorant of what lay below, The frosty air making their faces glow, They walked carelessly, To earn their money they had to go, They walked not needlessly.

To vanish the snow had begun, Turned to slush by everyone, Even the children having fun, Had helped it on its way, But, though melted by the sun, It would come another day.

The snow has a lesson for us all, When we climb we may fall, But if we try again at all, We must hold on, In doing this and climbing hard we surely shall, The summit be upon.

IRVING N. JONES, hidelie 11A

A Lonely Cove Silent as the night, The moon shines its gleaming light, Like glitterings of white teeth, Darkness comes—the closing of a mouth.

The tide as gentle as a mother's hand, Stillness becomes unbearable, Here dripping water and deserted sand, And rocks asleep.

GEOFFREY COLLIER, IN

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The Undertaker Dressed in black, the undertaker, Craftsman of a ghoulish trade, Giving people decent burial, Just as long as he gets paid, Feeds on others' deaths and sorrows Making longish boxes in which Lifeless corpses can be laid.

He knows that it make no difference Waterproofing oaken coffin, Nothing stops it. It's a fact That pretty soon the rot sets in.

Epidemics arc a godsend; Sudden death is very handy Bringing lots of custom in.

Just as long as people die And leave this world to meet their Maker, Until we all survive for ever, There'll be a job for an undertaker.

And it gives him pleasure thinking That when, one distant day, he dies, A fellow undertaker will have A substantial income rise.

J. L. PENNY, IG

Idealists This one sought Truth, Like a moth seeking light on a storm-torn night.

As a gale flailed the leaves from the palpitating trees, He braced his battered wings against the blinding, sighing wind, Beaten back, straining on through rain and pain, Unresting, questing, searching, Lurching in frame breaking agony, striving for light.

He flew into a flame; then He found Happiness.

This one sought Happiness, Like a summer butterfly, flitting, high-fluttering, Soaring and pinking, sliding the slight summer breeze, Glorying and flashing his colours through sun-slanted woods, Dropping a moment on flowers, Then up, joy-gyrating and dancing across the soft season.

Winter came; then He found Truth.

DAVID NORBROOK, Upper VI

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Aberdeen Grammar School Atagazine

The Storm By massive tides and ebbs of thunder The clouds are banished from the sky, By wicked winds that shriek and plunder And chuckle, moan and groan and sigh.

Each cloud that dares defy the tempest Is swallowed up in Heaven's anger, The sky lets loose its spume and fury Swollen in its savage hunger.

But then the blackness dies away, The wrathful thunder turns to run As, gleaming as a radiant ruby, Appears the rightful king—the Sun.

STANNARD MURRAY, III HI

Battle Going down the quiet street at dead of night, A soldier was walking ready for fight, His sword was hanging from his side, His gallant horse he was going to ride, Charging, charging into battle, His shield and helmet beginning to rattle, Charging, charging. Death has come, No breathing now—doom has won.

JAMES CROCKETT, Middle /H

Down in the Depths The light flashed, sparkled and wavered In the watery silence Where the sea reigned supreme, Beyond the kingdom of man, And the only sign of his attempted conquest Was an old hulk lying motionless in the sand and rocks.

Tiny fish swam on their unknown ways, Fearing only the terrifying devils of the deep, One of which drifted majestically through the clear water, Unquestioned ruler of the depths.

The green seaweed swayed in a strange, airless breeze, Reaching its tentacles up towards the ceiling of its world, Beyond which lay the world of man, With its wars, and killing, and hatred While down below Nature ruled supreme, In all her splendour.

STUART O'HARA, III HI

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Loch Diabaig, summer evening Knuckled headlands, pink in the drowning sun enclose a bay of whispering seabreath.

Waterdrawn gravel on the evening shore, boulderlicking ripples and black dry tangle.

Boat upon the loch, borne on the coldgold tide, slips towards the pier, evening catch a shiver of silver in the bows.

Creaking oars gulp and flash and pull in viscous water.

Two fins curve and slice the smooth wake, a throaty suck of air— porpoise, mother and child, retreating, pale green ghosts in the seashadows.

The sun has drowned beyond the sgeir, a hanging glow in the western air.

ROBERT JOHNSTON, Upper VI

Seaside Town: Winter Grim boarding-houses in stiff lines Frown at the front with lidless eyes And watch the naked road that sprawls Along the shore, beneath grey skies.

Winds tease old posters from the walls Of unused dance-halls, vast and dark As pharaohs' tombs, and gust the scraps Of paper hats across the park.

Each summer this Victorian town Wears finery, seems young and gay.

Now, false cosmetic beauty gone, Its face is seen: old, toothless, grey.

Tatters of snow begin to fall And settle on a peeled facade; The sea, with huge indifference, Assaults the empty promenade, DAVID NORBROOK, Upper VI

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Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine

The Cocktail Party "What do think of it, then?" Miss Concord asked, her conversation starting wherever it had last left off.

"Think? ... of what, dear lady?" I said, in, one would assume, a puzzled voice.

"Of his new book of course," she ejected, her eyes watching for the cocktail tray which was drifting around the room at occasional intervals.

"You mean Professor Daily's book on Characteristics and Observations on Gibbons?"

I surmised, as this seemed to be the main topic of discussion in this otherwise very good party.

"Yes, everyone seems to have different ideas about it", she said.

I thought of Professor Daily, that exotically bald Guinean anthropologist. A friend had insisted on my reading his book.

"Well," I conceded, "he has got a point when he says that certain characteristics of the gibbon are startingly similar to humans."

"Then that proves it", the dear Miss Concord firmly stated.

I was lost again. "Proves ?" I said, furrowing my eyebrows.

"Darwin's theory of Evolution", she said.

"Oh, yes", was allI could offer.

Arthur Longman walked up.

No, I'm wrong.

Arthur Longman rolled up.

"Marvellous", he said expansively.

I decided to be clever.

"Yes, it is."

"I think it takes a real poke at the Chinese."

"Now what on earth have the Chinese to do with gibbons?" I said.

"Gibbons ?" he said. "Oh, you mean the madrigal composer. I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about John Norris's new book Our World."

"I thought you were talking about Characteristics and Observations on Gibbons", I said, looking for confirmation on this by Miss Concord. She had disappeared.

"I do declare," stated Arthur, "you don't know the difference between a bargepole and a destroyer." I detected a semi-drunken gleam in his eye.

"That's easy, Arthur", I parried. "You float them in water and step on both in turn. The one you fall off is the barge-pole."

He laughed uproariously and was then quickly ferried from under my gun-sights by his wife, who then returned to make conversation with me.

"Do you think it's any good then?" she queried.

"As swans go double in a river, so do events come drifting down our lives", I murmured.

"Pardon?" she enquired.

"Oh sorry. It was nothing", I lied quickly.

I think it's a marvellous book she's written", she said with conviction.

"She?" I thought.

I looked at the drink in my hand. It seemed to have turned green.

"Yes, it is. I wonder if you could excuse me, please?" I said.

"Of course, of course", she said and set sail again.

I put my drink down firmly and excused myself from the party.

"I've had a hard day", I said to my hostess.

"Of course, I understand", she said sympathetically. "Do come to our next one", she called.

"Thank you. I will", I said, in a very convincing tone.

How wonderful cold, fresh air is.

I did go to their next party, which I found very stimulating, for they and their friends are all very nice people. They just have literary lapses.

ERIC

H. CROCKART, „pal

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The Hexagon In the dim light I could just discern an outstretched arm. It was the arm of a city dweller with the bulging veins arranged in triangles and interlocking hexagons. The fingers were stubby and all of the same length, and the thin elongated thumb twitched spasmodically. The arm approached until the rough scaly fingers grabbed my sweating forehead and pulled me towards the dark figure at the other end of the grasping arm. I saw his face now, the hexagonal vein structure deformed by a grim smile. On his brow, twinkling like a distant galaxy, yet shrouded by a luminous nebulosity was a great ruby in the form of the Holy Pentagon. His hot eyes seemed to look through me into my distant past, probing for my thoughts. Then in a wheezing voice, crippled by years of carbon monoxide poisoning which twentiethcentury traffic had long spewed out, he spoke: "You arc the one whose orisons have moved me, are you not ?"

I nodded, terrified to speak to him.

"I, High Lord of symmetry, have heard your pleas. I grant you a pass. This will allow you to pass through the gates of the Great City to the everlasting void of the countryside. If you attempt to return you will be destroyed."

The grasp freed my forehead, and the arm fell back into the fumes. How brief he had been, how practical. I was now recovering from the shock, and made my way to the city gates. * How sensual was the countryside. How warm the flowers and cool the dripping leaves. No straight lines here, no duodecagons. No hard straight roads but dusty tracks, glib mossy ways. No hard symmetry. I embraced the trees and rolled in flower beds and ferny hollows.

Suddenly I saw a half-caste in front of me. Some of his veins were curved, some not.

Some were limp triangles, others flamboyant tendrils.

"A city fellow I see. A deserting city-fellow", he said scornfully, and spat on a rose. "You arc noisome", he hissed.

I thought the same of him. I looked carefully at him and saw that his clothes were torn and ragged.

"Consider," he said, holding up his head like a player king, "consider the folly of your actions. Consider the symmetry of the countryside, consider—" "No I There's none here. There can't be. That's why I came here. I'm sick of straight lines."

"Consider, and I'll show you."

He tore a leaf from a tree.

"Look. Parallel veins, triangles."

He tore it into little pieces and scattered them on my head, like a snow shower.

"Consider," he said diving on the ground and digging with his finger nails, "this beetle."

He showed me the hexagons and interlocking triangles on its back, then crushed it between his thumb and forefinger, and its back broke like a cracking corn-flake.

"You see," he said nonchalantly, "I've come to disillusion you. There's no escaping symmetry, and the High Lord merely allowed you to leave the city to satisfy his own purpose."

It was clear to me now. I saw now that I must return to the city, to its hard metallic straightness. Living in a city is like making love to a stone statue. There is no response.

I took the first rocket back to the city, shaking like one who is to sit an examination. What fate would the High Lord choose for me?

PETER W. DICKIE, IV

Former Pupils' Club Section (Club Founded xr September 1893)

Club Office-Bearers, 1967-68 Honorary President: JOHN VASS SKINNER, M.A., B.LITT., DIP. ED.

(Rector since 1959)

Honorary Vice-presidents: , B.L., LI..D., U.L.

HENRY JACKSON BUTCHART (1890-99), D.S.O., O.B.E., DOUGLAS PATERSON COCHRAN (1906-15).

ALEXANDER GRAY (1910-22), M.A., LI..B.

THE HON. LORD JOHNSTON (1913-26).

JAMES GRAY KYD (1891-98), C.B.E., F.P.A., P.R.S.E. JOHN ADAM LILLIE (1893-1903),

M.A., LL.B., Q.C.

ERIC LINKLATER (1913-16), C.B.E., M.A., 11..0., T.D. IAN GOWANLOCK MCPHERSON (1910-17).

The Right Hon. Lord Merrox (1901-02).

JOHN LENNOX RIDDELL (1907-16).

Sir

JAMES JACKSON

ROBERTSON,

O.B.E.,

LL.D.,

M.A.,

B.D.,

P.R.S.E.,

P.E.I.S.

(Rector 1942-59).

CECIL A. G. SAVIDGE (1913-24), M.B.E., M.A. WILLIAM DOUGLAS SIMPSON (1901-15), C.B.E., M.A., LL.D., D.LITT., F.S.A.(SCO1.), F.S.A. Sir JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR (1906-11), K.B.E., C.M.G.

Sir WILLIAM ROBERT TENNANT (1904-I0), C.I.E., M.A., LL.D. Sir JOHN MACKAY THOMSON, C.D., M.A., F.R.S.E. (Rector, 192o-21).

Sir LANossoaouGH THOMSON (1899-1908), C.H., O.B.E., M.A., D.SC., P.R.S.E., LL.D. ROBERT BERTRAM WILLIAMSON (1906-18), D.S.O., M.A., LL.B. EDWARD JAMES WOOD (1908-2I), M.A.

President : JOSEPH ROBERT CARRY (1918-30), M.B.E., T.D.

Vice-President of Club and Chairman of Executive : GORDON HARVEY HENDERSON (1921-34), M.A., LL.B.

Secretary and Treasurer : BRIAN

K. CROOKSHANKS (1934-46), T.D., 25 Crown Street, Aberdeen.

General Editor of Magazine : RAE C. BARTON (1942-55), M.A., LL.B. 20 Belmont Street, Aberdeen.

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Secretaries of Centres : Central Africa—GEoRoz M. GROAT (1927-40), z Cornwall Lodge, Umptali Road, Beams Station, Salisbury.

Dundee—ROBERT S. R1LLEY (1946-55), c /0 Bank of Scotland, Blackford, Perthshire.

Edinburgh—DAvto A. BRITTAIN (1943-49), M.A., LL.B., 2 Circus Gardens, Edinburgh.

Glasgow—JOHN G. M. BIRSS (1926-38), M.C., M.A., A.C.W.A., 99 Essex Drive, Seotstoun, Glasgow W.I 4.

London—P. G. M. MACPHEE (1430-41), Ranger, 34 Dukes Wood Drive. Gerrard:: Cross, Bucks.

Malaysia—BRIAN S. GRAY (1943-49), B.Sc., P.O. Box 207, Banting, Selangor.

Yorkshire—ARmuz J. ADAMS (1919-3o), "Guyscliffe, Clara Drive Calverley, Pudsey, Yorks.

Ireland—ANDREW M. M. STEVEN (1936-50) M.A., LL.B., 22 Adelaide Park, Belfast 9.

Secretaries of Sections : Cricket—ALEXANDER M. DAVIDSON (1937-45)9 B.L.. 18 Golden Square, Aberdeen.

Golf—GEORGE A. C. WALKER (1917-23), 164 Market Street, Aberdeen.

Hockey—F. K. S. LAwsoN (1948-62), 114 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen.

Rugby—CHARLES RITCHIE (1945-51) i48 Hardgate, Aberdeen.

Executive Committee : The Vice-President of the Club, Cbairman.

Vice-Chairman—JOHN MAXWELL MILNE (1934-46), M.A. The Secretary and Treasurer, and General Editor of Magazine, ex offrii.r.

The Rector of the School, ex officio.

HECTOR M. AIRD (1946-61).

JOHN W. CRADOCK (1940-46).

A. J. M. EDWARDS (1908-2I).

WILLIAM M. EWEN (1932-44) DONALD A. FOWLIE (1944-57).

DOUGLAS FOWLIE (195o-64).

RAYMOND A. HARDIE (1939-65).

DOUGLAS R. HARPER (1944-58).

WILLIAM W. PORTER (1915-23).

JOHN B. RENNIE (t947-53).

Dr. RANALD F. F. STEVEN (1933-43).

A. FROST TAYLOR (1929-35)• MELVILLE F. WATSON (1942-56).

ERIC D. WATT (1937-50).

Section Rotzsentatives Cricket—IAN D. F. THOMSON (1944-48).

Go(f—GEORGE ALEXANDER CRAIG WALKER (1917-23).

Hockey—A. CROMAR (1944-50).

Ritgby—ClIARLES RITCHIE (1945-51).

Staff—RonERT McN AY Swimming—H. A. B. HARPER (1950-57).

Hon. Auditors : Messrs. BOWER and SMITH, C.A.

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The Annual Dinner The President of the Club J. R. Carry, M.B.E., T.D., presided at the Dinner, which was held in the School Hall on 19 October 1967.

"THE SCHOOL AND THE CLUB"

This, the principal toast of the evening, was proposed by Dr. Donald J. Macdonald, M.A., LL.D., formerly rector of Inverness Royal Academy. In the delightfully mellow tones of a true Gael, he first told us of the fond memories which he had for the Silver City, memories which ranged from the playing fields to the taking of rectorial advice from Sir James. Dr. Macdonald told us that he had been at our University in the days of the then unsophisticated Beach with Harry Gordon the star attraction. He reminded us of the various Societies which flourished then at Marischal College and also of Bourtie's Logic and Arthur Thomson with his pink bowler and obliging chameleon.

The then new Secretary of the University was of course our own Col. H. J. Butchart.

Dr. Macdonald had always held the School in reverence: he had sat as a fledgling Headmaster at the feet of Sir James and was himself now an extinct volcano. The School, as we all well knew, was at the cross-roads of change. Last year, said Dr. Macdonald, we had been told by Dr. Ian D. McIntosh of the dangers of change. Dr. Macdonald felt, however, that he could offer us some consolation for he himself had had to preside over changes such as those which were presently troubling us and it was his view that it is sometimes good in a soul challenging way to have to face change. We speak of the good old times but all times which are old are good when they are gone. Despite that, our unconquerable granite will was trained on better things than egalitarian ways and Dr. Macdonald felt that there was some noble work which could yet be done. There must still be selection of some sort for the benefit of the abler boys.

But what of the girls ? He could understand our fear of micro skirts tripping along the corridors and of powder puffs in the cloakroom.

But from his own experiences he knew that things tended to even out when the girls become the tops academically. Besides, there would then be no need to wait outside the High School and our hearts at morning assembly would lift with the soaring sopranos in the choir.

Our principal speaker felt that the day was really just beginning for the boys and not ending. He concluded his toast with the hope that Bon Record would continue to give glory to Bon Accord.

THE RECTOR'S REPLY

Mr. Skinner was again pleased at the choice of the venue for the dinner. He apologised, however, for the lack of a taxi service but, for the benefit of those driving their cars, he was pleased to tell us that they could, before leaving, take a breathalyser test in the chemistry lab. The Rector spoke of the high esteem in which Dr. Macdonald

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It was, however, pleasant for Dr. Macdonald to watch another toiling on the sea and there were plenty troubles on the educational sea at present arising from the prevailing comprehensive wind. Mr. Skinner was sorry to inform us that there had been no change in the direction of that wind since he spoke last year. His own feelings were still the same: that Aberdeen looks like getting the worst of both worlds in that their proposals were socially bad and academically bad and, further, that staffing difficulties would lead to a levelling down in the teaching of the ablest minds. He also thought it significant that similar views had been put forward by the Society for the Advancement of State Education who had criticised the proposals for failing to provide for an adequate social intermixture, a lack of proper staffing and excessive cost. The Education Committee had, however, turned a deaf ear but the Rector again asked them to think again.

The Rector spoke of the difficulties which had resulted from a large turnover in staff: eighteen members had left last year and twenty-three in the previous. The School was not unique in this and perhaps more fortunate than some in that proper replacements were available. Again, there were no uncertificated teachers on the staff and there was a devoted hard core of experienced men able to provide the necessary continuity. Mr. Skinner spoke with pleasure of Mr. McNay's promotion to the post of Deputy Rector and also of the departure of Miss Ethel M. Stewart after forty-five years of teaching at the School. He also passed on good wishes to Mr. James D. Morrison, formerly head of the Lower School, who had now obtained his own primary school in the City.

Despite these difficulties, however, there had been no adverse effect on the educational standards of the School. Fifty boys from the Vth Form had obtained a University entrance and there was continued success in the Bursary Competition with seventeen names from the School appearing amongst the successful candidates.

THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY

Mr. Carry opened his remarks by thanking the Club for the honour which they had bestowed on him by appointing him to the Presidency.

It was his view that, despite all the educational changes which were taking place, there was still a place for an F.P. Club. We were here to enjoy ourselves but mainly to maintain good relations with the School and to pay tribute to what the School had done for us. In the absence of a Founders Day the Dinner was the occasion to resolve to do what we could on behalf of the School. There had undoubtedly been setbacks since the end of the War but all was not yet lost. It was interesting to Mr. Carry to attend the Prizegiving and to see the same polished faces and blue blazers: the School might have changed but not the pupils.

The Chairman hoped that, whenever any of us returned to the School, we could say that we had found something which we had lost.

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This toast was eloquently proposed by Edwin Grieve, M.A., LL.B., who made especial mention of the presence of "Duncan Mac". The reply to the toast was given by William Munnoch a local banker with an amusing turn of phrase.

The vote of thanks to the Chairman was given by Gordon H. Henderson, M.A. LL.B., the Chairman of the Club Executive, and the Dinner closed with the traditional singing of "Auld Lang Syne".

The following members of the Club were present at the dinner, the list being arranged in order of seniority based on date of entry to school: 1905 1906 1907 1908 191o 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918

1919 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1927 1928 1932 1933 1934 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946

2947 1948

1949 1950

J. Leith (1905-17).

D. P. Cochran (1906-15).

J. L. Riddell (1907-16), G. R. Fraser (1907-08), G. N. Gordon (1907-19).

J. Cooper (1908-14), A. J. M. Edwards (1908-21).

I. G. McPherson (1910-17), L. R. Harper (1910-17), A. Gray (1910-22).

R. J. Maitland (1911-18).

N. B. Sellar (19,2-2x).

H. S. Milne (19,3-25), J. B. Esslemont (1913-24).

J. H. L. Innes (1914-2O, W. G. Hutcheon (1914-23).

W. W. Porter (1915-23), R. L. Milne (1915-27).

A. M. Campbell (1916-27), G. P. Fyfe (1916-24), D. Hanna (1916-22).

G. A. C. Walker (19,7-23), R. H. Duguid (1917-23).

J. R. Carry (1918-30), I. G. Shinnie (1918-28), I. L. Smith (1918-30), L. G. Boyd (1918-29).

A. D. Troup (1919-22), J. Alexander (1919-28).

I. L. B. Hopkins (1921-23), N. R. Beattie (1921-31), G. H. Henderson (1921-34).

J. S. G. Munro (1922-18), A. R. Smith (1922-26).

G. E. C. Barton (1923-26).

J. S. MacLachlan (1924-32).

G. Massie (1925-37), W. L. Forbes (1925-28), A. C. R. Watt (1925-37).

J. S. Manley (1927-31).

W. W. Dickie (1928-38).

W. M. Ewen (1932-44), F. C. Connon (1932-44), S. L. Henderson (1932-38).

D. M. A. Shewan (1933-41), R. F. F. Steven (1933-43).

N. H. Macdonald (1934-38), B. K. Crookshanks (1934-46).

D. N. Armand (1938-51), J. D. Rust (1938-51).

G. Tough (1939-41). S. A. C. Robertson (1939-51)• I. R. Macdonald (194o-5z), D. Kelly (1940-49).

J. W. Cradock (1941-45).

R. C. Barton (1942-55), I. M. S. Park (1942-55), W. S. Wilson (1942-55).

D. A. Brittain (1943-49), A. M. Campbell Jnr. (1943-53), A. M. Mathieson (1943-57), M. F. Watson (1943-56).

J. M. Milne (1944-46), E. Grieve (1944-50), D. A. Fowlie (1944-57).

C. Ritchie (1945-51).

C. T. Preshaw (1946-60), R. I. L. Smith (1946-60), A. R. Smith (1946-61), R. S. Brown (1946-55)R. S. Riley (1947-55), K. M. Gorrod (1947-61).

S. J. Mitchell (1948-60, W. A. T. Wisely (1948-58), F. J. Smith (1948-59).

R. S. Mackay (1949-57).

A. D. Milne (195o-58), G. C. Petersen (1950-6i), D. G. Fowlie (195 0-64), H. A. B. Harper (19S0-S7), G. G. Milne (1950-6O, J. S. Heath (1950-63).

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1951 1952 1953 1 954 1955 1 958 1959

H. E. Morrison (1951-65), M. G. King (I951-60), R. A. Craig (1951-63).

P. N. Love (1951-58), A. B. Matheson (1952-58).

N. M. Fraser (1953-6o).

A. J. Simpson (1954-60), J. D. Rcid (1 954-65)• D. J. Hopkins (1455-61).

D. B. Campbell (1958-64).

R. A. Hardie (1939-63), B. M. Drummond (1939-63), M. A. Batchelor (1959-65), R. G. L. Stirrat (1959-64).

1965 B. A. Murray (1961-67).

Staff Members—K. D. Henderson, P. Scott, R. Falconer, J. Stephen, J. Morrison.

D. Hawksworth, A. Bruce, J. Murray, A Baxter, R. McNay. The following Club Members also attended but their names do not appear in the chronological list above as they did not include their School years in the form of application for tickets: all members are reminded that the Editor relies on members' co-operation for this information: D. G. Patterson, D. G. Dempster, K. W. Hunter, J. G. Sellar, D. P. Cochran, W. L. Forbes, R. J. Milne, J. A. Leith, D. N. Georgeson, D. H. Chapman, R. Cradock, C. C. Allan, T. G. Smith, D. A. Iamont, H. T. E. Norbrook, R. Gray, R. H. G. Bradford, A. G. Mackenzie, N. B. Borthwick, J. F. I lendry, A. F. Shearer, P. M. Collier, R. B. Rae, A. Campbell, D. K. Yule, R. C. Shirreffs, H. R. Miller, D. W. Smith, G. Lewis, S. Paterson, D. Man, A. C. Moir, B. B. Law, K. A. Hay, D. N. Yule, J. B. Rennie, A. M. Davidson, W. A. Stewart, R. Donald, I. Milne, F. A. S. Porter, E. Craig, J. R. Baird, M. L. Wolkoff, M. Plowman, G. A. Paterson.

Centre Reports Edinburgh For possibly thc first time the annual Golf Competition between the Edinburgh and Glasgow Centres which was held at Carluke, Lanarkshire early in the year, resulted in a defeat for Edinburgh albeit by the narrowest of margins.

The Wine and Cheese party held jointly with Girls High School F.P.s and Edinburgh Gordonians took place in the United Services Club on 1 December 1967 and was attended by fifteen F.P.s and their guests who largely outnumbered the others. As usual this gave us an opportunity to assess the strength of the old enemy as it were on the field of battle and to let old friends have the choice of an escort.

Yorkshire Dr. Ian D. Innes, President, and eight other regular members of the Yorkshire Centre had the pleasure of thc company of Ian G. McPherson, Vice-President of the parent Club, at the annual Dinner of the Centre in the Senior Common Room, The University, Leeds, on Thursday, 29 June 1967.

Dr. lnnes, in proposing the toast of the School and the Club, described some most interesting finds that he had discovered whilst going through the effects of his late father, Dr. Ian G. Innes (1905-8). One of these was a book, which he presented to Mr. McPherson for transmission to the Rector. This book, entitled Sir William Wallace was written by James Moir, Rector of the Grammar School, and published in 1888. The copy concerned was inscribed to Dr. Ian's grandfather, J. B. Innes, by the author. It also contained some stanzas of verse about Sir William Wallace which

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were recited by J. B. Innes's own grandfather in the distant past. Dr. Ian also quoted from the Class Reunion Supper menu of the last Classical VlIth which left the School in 1908. This reunion supper was held in 191o under the chairmanship of the then Rector, H. F. Morland Simpson, with Pat Edward and Charles Davidson (C.D.) as croupiers. It contained the autographs of all the members of the class and was notorious for the very large menu (seven courses no less) and the equally long toast list (eight in all): they obviously had a very good time and did themselves proud in those days. The remainder of Dr. Innes's address consisted of reminiscences of his own time at School and he concluded by expressing the pleasure all the Yorkshire members felt that E. J. Wood, one of Yorkshire's own members, had held the honour of Presidential position in the parent Club.

Mr. McPherson, in an amusing and also mainly reminiscent talk, replied to the toast. The remainder of the evening, as can well be imagined in a small intimate gathering such as this, was spent in general chat whilst the good-fellowship circulated round the table.

The traditional Birse Tea was taken about 10.3o and the party was finally ushered to the door and dispersed at a somewhat later hour.

Those present were: E. J. Wood (1908-22), Ian D. Innes (1933-38), I. G. McPherson (19to-I7), J. S. Anderson (191o-zo), W. J. Finnic (1928-31), P. G. Innes (1935-49), R. M. Grant (1940-42), J. M. Watt (1927-39), O. G. Prosser (1907-18), A. J. Adams (1920-30).

Ireland

Members of the Irish Centre living within reach of Belfast have continued to hold informal meetings over lunch at approximately two-monthly intervals. A Dinner is planned to take place in the New Year.

Section Reports Golf

This, the 21st year of the Section, finds it in excellent health as is shown by the many younger F.P.s now taking an interest in the small round ball.

In addition to the usual outings to Ballater, a special outing was held at Fraserburgh in July when the "H.A.R." Trophy was competed for with Gordonians. The Section was represented by W. D. Mitchell, H. E. Scott and W. L. Connon whose combined net score of 212 strokes was sufficient to retain the Trophy for F.P.s. At an excellent dinner held after this meeting at the Alexandra Hotel, Fraserburgh, a special prize donated by the Section Captain D. G. Patterson was presented to Eric D. Watt for the lowest gross score of the day.

The Section sent a team to compete in the Queen Elizabeth Schools Trophy at the Royal Burgess Golf Club, Edinburgh. The team was G. N. Henderson, R. J. Bain, D. H. Chapman, C. Beattie, W. F. Mayor and G. A. C. Walker. The weather was unfortunately very bad and fog restricted visibility to about 7o to 8o yards. This perhaps, rather than the team from the Old Giggleswickians, prevented the Section from entering the second round of the competition.

The Annual Dinner of the Section was held on Friday, 24 November, 1967 in the Northern Hotel, Aberdeen, with a record attendance of fifty-nine. To celebrate their coming of age the Section started the evening with a cocktail party at their own expense which was greatly appreciated by members and guests. As a token of appreciation by the former captains, Mr. G. A. C. Walker the Section Secretary was presented with a tankard engraved with the signatures of all the Captains and

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also with a pipe and tobacco pouch from J. L. Riddell the first Captain. It is understood that, to the surprise of all present, the Secretary finished a story which he had started to relate some years previously! The toast of the Club was proposed by Mr. T. K. Macdonald, Advocate and the reply came from the Club President and the Section Captain Mr. A. G. Scott. R. J. Armstrong proposed the toast of the guests which was replied to by Mr. J. K. Hall.

The trophies for year 1967 were won as follows: Walker Cup, W. D. Mitchell; Russell Henderson Cup, E. D. Watt; Jeffrey Mug, W. Milne; Gibb Thow Trophy, R. L. MacKinnon and Alison Fowlie Trophy, D. H. Chapman. To celebrate the 2 i st Anniversary of the section Mr. J. R. Carry, the Club President, is to present the Section with a new Trophy for annual competition.

The Office-bearers for 1968 arc: Captain, A. G. Scott; Vice-Captain, E. Craig; Committee, J. C. Williamson, N. R. Beattie, J. W. Cradock, R. J. Armstrong and P. G. Dempster.

Cricket At the Annual Meeting of the Section the following officials were appointed: President, K. J. Peters; Strathmore Union—Captain, J. B. Rennie; Vice-Captain, G. F. Webster; Grade XI—Captain, A. Maitland; Hon. Treasurer, W. M. Ewen; Hon. Secretary, A. M. Davidson.

The Batting and Bowling Cups for Season 1966 were presented to H. 0. Will and A. M. Davidson respectively at the Dinner which, as usual, followed the A.G.M. The Strathmore Union XI finished in the bottom half of the table. The side was sorely depleted through injuries to key players, and generally relied for runs and wickets from too few individuals. The Grade XI finished in the middle of the table, but unfortunately the gulf between Grade 1V cricket and the Strathmore Union left the Strathmore side short of adequate reserve strength.

It would be a great benefit to the Section if some of the F.P.s who are playing their cricket in other Grade sides would avail themselves of the excellent facilities at Rubislaw.

Grateful appreciation is accorded to Mr. Matthew for his always genial assistance, and to all those who helped with the teas.

BATTING

J. G. N. Fraser J. B. Rennie H. 0. Will I. P. Souter H. E. Morrison

Innings 16 19 16 17 17

Not out

Rims

Average

2 I 3 1 i

347 384 z6o 226 195

24.7 21.4 20.0

14.2 12.1

BOWLING

W. A. Stewart J. B. Rennie H. 0. Will I. Richardson

Wickets

Runs

Average

36 19 3o 17

522 310 533 369

15.o 16.3 17.7 21.5

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The 1st XV has enjoyed a moderately successful season so far winning eight games, losing eight and drawing two. Having been easily beaten by George Heriots F.P. the side recovered well to beat Stewarts, and Edinburgh Accies at Raeburn Place. Furthermore a victory could and should have been recorded against Watsonians.

A disappointing feature of the season so far has been the lack of personnel, and as a result both the and XV and ;rd XV have suffered. Undaunted we have high hopes of once again fielding four XVs.

1st XV Results to Dale D. Panmure v. Aberdeen Wanderers v. Aberdeenshire v. Heriots F.P. v. Stewarts F.P. v. Jordanhill Coll. v. Dunfermline v. Dundee High F.P. v. Allan Glens F.P. v. Edinburgh Accies v. Aberdeen University v. Howe of Fife v. Trinity Accies v. Perth Accies v. Jordanhill F.P. v. Greenock Wanderers v. Gordonians v. Watsonians

Drawn Won Lost Lost Won Lost Lost Won Drawn Won Won Lost Won Lost Won Won Lost Lost

3-3 20-10

o-8 0-37 11-9 3-19 11-17 9-3 6-6 5.0 19-3 6-8 17-8 r I-15 6-5 23-II 6- I 1 6-8 R. A. CRAIG, CaPiain

Swimming The meetings of the Section on Tuesday evenings continue to increase in popularity especially for those F.P.s with young families and the possibility of introducing qualified instruction for the children and any others interested is being seriously considered.

It has been noted that the School pupils have been very successful recently in Schools championships and the Section looks forward to the time when these boys will be joining the Section.

Once again it should be recorded that the Section is grateful for the use of the School Pool and also for the co-operation of the Janitor and his staff in ensuring that the pool and dressing rooms are available on Tuesday evenings.

M. F. WATSON, Secretary

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Hockey This has been the most hectic start to any season on record with many players already having had more than thirty-five games. The 1st XI is having a fairly successful season with only two games so far having been lost as against fifteen wins and two draws, the goals tally being fifty-one for and fourteen against.

The chief disappointment to date has been the defeat at the hands of Ruthrieston in the Scottish Cup, the first and we hope the last such defeat by a local club.

The and XI have been enjoying mixed fortunes, with eight wins out of fourteen games. The talent is there but the blend and drive are taking time to mature.

The 3rd XI are so far undefeated with nine wins and two draws, including two scores of i t-o and 9-I. Well done, lads!

The Grammarian XI continue with reasonable success thanks to the combination of experience (i.e. old age) and youthful exuberance.

This season the Section has gained several players from School many of whom should with experience soon make the grade. On the debit side, however, we have lost the services of three or four regulars, due to changes of job etc., including Donald Ross who has for several years been a regular member of the 1st XI. We wish him all success with his new post and club in Glasgow.

In the sphere of District hockey, we had nine players in the pool of eighteen selected for the Inter-District Tournament in Dundee. They were: W. Dick, E. D. Watt, A. K. Campbell, J. P. Drummond, D. Campbell, J. L. Forbes, A. Hampton, J. Leiper and F. K. Lawson. The District finished third out of the six in the Tournament.

The Section took a team in September to the Ayr Festival but unfortunately we were successful in only one of our four games. This was perhaps the penalty for taking a weakened team.

We have won all three League games to date and arc determined to retain the championship.

Results • = League Games.

v. Ruthrieston 3-1 2-0 V. Inverleith V. Wa1SOniallS 3'i V. School 4-1 v. Morgan F.P.s 5-0 2-0 v. Academy F.P.s o-o V. H.M.S. Fulmar /-2 v. Ruthrieston Ramblers Ayr Festival t-t v. Grove F.P.s 1-0 v. Academy F.P.s* 2-1 v. I.C.I. V. Varsity 2nd XI 4-0 Inter-District Tournament 5-2 v. Madras F.P.s v. University* 4'2 V. Gordonianst 2-0 V. St. Andrews Varsity 5-1 v. University* 2-0 v. Dundee Wanderers 4-0 v. Ruthriestont 2.2 v. Ruthriestont 0-2

and XI 9 Sept.

13 x6 23 7 Oct. 14 21 28 4 Nov. II 18 25 2 Dec. r6

v. Grammarians 4-1 v. School 5-t v. Morgan F.P.s 'A' 41 v. Academy F.P.s 0 v. Grove F.P.s 'A' -I v. Varsity 'A'• 0-2 4 V. Academy F.P.s 'A's o-ii v. Ruthrieston o-3 v. Ruthrieston Ramblers ci-3 v. Schools 2-1 v. St. Andrews Varsity 'A' 2-0 v. Ruthrieston 'B' 5-4 v. Dundee Wanderers 'A' 4-1 v. School* 2-3

16 Sept.

30 7 Oct. 14 21 4 Nov. it x8 25 2 Dec. 16

v. Morgan F.P.s 'B' v. School 'A' v. Gordonians 'A' v. Varsity 'B'e a. Varsity 'A' v. Grove F.P.s 'B' v. Tech. College v. Academy School V. Ruthrieston Colts v. Gordonians 'B'" v. Ruthrieston 'B'

W W SY L W L L L L W W W W L

3rd XI 3-1 5-2 o-o 3-0 6-3 'so 2-2 2-I 9-1 110 3-1

,

6 Sept.

9 10 13 16 20 21 23 30 7 Oct. 14 15 21 28 4 Nov. ii 12 18 25 2 Dec. 3 t6

* -r:t71t

t = Cup:Games.

zst XI

CLUB CONSULS AFRICA Southern Rhodesia: James Wyness MacGregor (1910-23), Morven, Nutt Hill, Murambi, Umtali.

South Africa: Professor William Soutar Mackie (1895-1901), M.A., B.A., Drumoak, Greenfield Road, Kenilworth, Cape Town.

CANADA Ontario: Richard William Geater (1 938-47), 436 Sheppard Avenue East, Willowdale.

Quebec: Norman MacKinnon (1907-16), B.SC., The Chateau Apartments, 1321 Sherbrooke Street West, Apartment D-1, Montreal.

Ottawa: Wallace Troup (1907-, z), M.D., 49 Powell Avenue, Ottawa, 1.

Alberta: Gilbert Douglas Menzies (1 933- 43), 15414, 74th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta.

Vancouver: George Barclay Rickhart (1932-30), The Vancouver Insurance Agents' Association, 325 Howe Street, Vancouver ,, B.C. MEXICO Patrick John Milroy Walker (1914-20), C.A., Sierra Fria 33o, Mexico 10, D.F. FALKLAND ISLANDS Robert Stewart Slessor (1927-29), M.B., CH.B., S.M.O., Port Stanley.

SOUTH AMERICA Brazil: James Irvine Melville (1917-21), The Royal Bank of Canada, P.O. Box 8o65, Rua 13 de Novembro, 24O, Sio Paulo, Brazil.

Colombia: Robert William Young (1914-21), Embotelladora Tropical, Calle 9 del y Carrera Eugenio Macias, Barranquilla.

WEST INDIES Kenneth Stroud Duncan (194 8-54), c/o Texaco Trinidad Inc., Tax Department, Pointe-a-Pierre, Trinidad, West Indies.

AUSTRALIA New South Wales: Alan Reid (1911-14), Kingscote, 68 Cecil Street, Gordon, Sydney.

Western Australia: Ian Thom (1912-25), Wydgee Station, Mount Magnet, Perth.

NEW ZEALAND Andrew Alexander Marr Ducat (1924-28 and 192 9-34), 9 Park Avenue, Northcote, Auckland.

FAR EAST Singapore: Brian Scott Gray (1943-49), P.O. Box 2O7, Banting, Selangor.

Ceylon: John Morrison Smith (1924-32), c/o E. B. Creasy & Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 37, Colombo x.

EUROPE Switzerland: James Lawson Mowat (19,5-16), M.A., Pli.D., 4 Chemin Du Mt. Blanc, Chene-Bougerics, Geneva.

Yugoslavia: Professor Dr. Dragoslair Miletitch (19,6-18), Medicinski Fakultet, Skopje.

Note: Any errors in the above list either in personnel or addresses arc regretted.

It is suggested that, in order to keep records up-to-date, Consuls should get in touch with the Secretary to confirm or correct their details above mentioned.

Any F.P.s presently resident abroad who would be willing to participate in the consular scheme should get in touch with the Club Secretary.

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New Members of the Club (15 May 1967-30 November 1967) Life Members Apia., Roy John (1951-64), 75 Cairnfield Place, Aberdeen.

CAIRNS, James Peter (1943-57), 414 Great Western Road, Aberdeen.

FORBES, Charles Leslie (1938-51), 36 Springfield Road, Aberdeen.

FYALL, Alastair Moir (1953-62), 8i Cranford Road, Aberdeen.

GAULD, Forbes Fraser (1938-44), 1888 Newton Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

KELLY, Dennis (194o-49) 39 Abbotshall Crescent, Cults.

LONGMORE, William Alan John 0945-50, Kupang Estate, Baling, S. Kedah, Malaysia.

MACDONALD, Ian Robert (1940-52), 207 Springfield Road, Aberdeen.

MCDOUGALL, George Ogilvie (1946-58), 75 Glenavon Road, Preston, Birkenhead.

MATHESON, Angus Stewart (1926-31), 7 St. Vincent Street, Edinburgh, 3.

PARKINSON, David Kelly (1945-59), 53167 Whitehall Road, Aberdeen.

STEWART, Donald Robert (1945-58), 14 Woodburn Avenue, Aberdeen.

WATsoN, Melville Forsyth (1943-56), 5 Rosewell Terrace, Aberdeen.

Ordinary Members ADAM, John Henry (1960-66), 99 Gaitside Drive, Garthdee, Aberdeen.

ANDERSON, James Adam (1954-67), 65 Union Grove, Aberdeen.

BARR, Gordon William (1953-67), 17 Hammersmith Road, Aberdeen.

BARTON, Alistair David George (1961-67), 31 Mile-End Avenue, Aberdeen.

BROWN, Gordon (1961-67), 31 Balmoral Road, Aberdeen.

BuRNErr, George Bowie (1962-67), 165 Kincorth Circle, Aberdeen. &TITER, Robert (1961-67), 5o Watson Street, Aberdeen.

CAMERON, Neil Alexander (1958-67), 17 Newlands Crescent, Aberdeen.

CORMACK, David Robertson (1963-67), 498 Union Street, Aberdeen.

COWIE, Alan Muir (1954-66), 92 Middlefield Terrace, Aberdeen.

CROCKPORD, Victor William (1953-67), ICU Cromwell Road, Aberdeen.

DAVIDSON, Ralph Alexander (1955-67), "Dunmail", 3 South Avenue, Cults, Aberdeen.

DiAcx, William Forbes (1954-67), 78 Blenheim Place, Aberdeen.

DUGIJID, John Hutton (1962-67), it Gladstone Place, Queen's Cross, Aberdeen.

DUNN, Charles William (1921-24), 3 Dc Wolfe Street, Cambridge, Mass.

FINNIE, Keith James Campbell (1954-67), 52 Westholme Avenue, Aberdeen.

FOWLIE, Douglas Thomas (1961-67), 88 Duthie Terrace, Aberdeen.

GARDNER, Bruce Knight (1961-67), 116 Ivanhoe Road, Auchinyell, Aberdeen.

GRANT, Douglas Gordon (1962-67), 17 Gaimshiel Avenue, Aberdeen.

GUNN, John Saville (1954-67), 3 Braeside Terrace, Aberdeen.

HAMILTON, Richard James Munro (1954-67), to Gladstone Place, Queen's Cross, Aberdeen.

I-Lky, Douglas Wilson (1954-67), 12 Abbotshall Place, Cults, Aberdeen.

HOGG, Ian Alexander (1 958-67), 452 King Street, Aberdeen.

INGLis, Michael Alexander (1961-67), 241 Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen.

JoHNsTON, John Keith (1963-67), 42 Rosehill Drive, Aberdeen.

KEIL, Bruce Alexander (1961-67), it Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen.

KENWORTHY, James Brian (1954-67), 1 Abbotsford Place, Aberdeen.

LEVERET', David George (1954-67), 17 Seafield Drive East, Aberdeen.

MCCONOCHIE, Alexander Aitchison (1965-67), r1 Tollohill Drive, Aberdeen.

MCDONALD, David (1961-67), 156c Crown Street, Aberdeen.

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Aberdeen Grammar Sebool Magatine 58 McDouGALL, Ian Robert Lyle (I956-67), 55 Osborne Place, Aberdeen.

McHarm, Gordon Eric (1957-65), 45 Bracside Place, Aberdeen.

MCLACHLAN, Bruce Malcolm (1961-67), 124 Cornhill Road, Aberdeen.

MANN, Stanley George (1961-67), so Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen.

MAssoN, Raymond Alexander Leslie (1954-67). 11 Northcote Crescent, Aberdeen.

MILLAR, Henry Rankin (195z-65), 16 The Chanonry, Aberdeen.

MILLER, Anthony John (1961-67), rzz Morningside Avenue, Aberdeen.

MUNRO, Colin Roy (1954-67), 19 Ashley Gardens, Aberdeen.

MURDOCH, Dane George Anders (1961-67), 37 Drumbrae North, Barnton, Edinburgh. 4 MURRAY, Brian Angus (1961-67), 16 Moir Green, Cummings Park, Aberdeen.

PIRIE, Alan David (1961-66), 49 Middlefield Place, Aberdeen.

PROSSER, Alan James (1954-67), ;6 Springfield Gardens, Aberdeen.

Ross, Graemc Charles (1954-67), 3z Middlefield Terrace, Aberdeen.

Ross, Michael McKenzie (1964-67), 17 New Park Road, Aberdeen.

SHAND, Michael George (1954-67), xo Albert Street, Aberdeen.

SHEARER, Robert David (1954-67), 19 Cliff Park, Cults, Aberdeen.

SIMPSON, Alan (1961-67), 6 Upper Mastrick Way, Aberdeen.

SMITH, Alexander George (1954-67), 22 Hayfield Place, Aberdeen.

SPEIRS, Gramme Kenneth (5954-67), 6o Cornhill Road, Aberdeen.

THAIN, Graemc (1962-67), 4o Wellbrae Terrace, Aberdeen.

THOMSON, Michael David (5938-67), 17 Stanley Street, Aberdeen.

WEIR, Michael John (1965-67), 34 Garthdec Road, Aberdeen.

WILKINSON, Geoffrey (1954-67), 44 Grosvenor Place, Aberdeen.

WnsoN, Graemc McCrae (1954-67), 3 Duthie Terrace, Aberdeen.

WILSON, Graham Robert Stuart (1954-67), 37 Braeside Terrace, Aberdeen.

Woon, David Buick Meldrum (1954-67), 4 North Anderson Drive, Aberdeen.

Staff Members FALCONER, Roy Sutherland, 77 King's Gate, Aberdeen.

FORBES, Gordon Gorrod, 49 Ashley Gardens, Aberdeen.

WILSON, Robert, 37 Braeside Terrace, Aberdeen.

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' Northern' by name and ' Northern' in origin, The Northern Assurance Company Limited was established in Aberdeen in 1836 and takes lasting pride in its Scottish ancestry

For all classes of Insurance ACCIDENT • HOUSEHOLD MARINE •

ENGINEERING • FIRE • LIFE • LIVESTOCK MOTOR • PENSIONS

You will be on good terms with The Northern Head Offices I UNION TERRACE, ABERDEEN 1 MOORGATE, LONDON, E.C.2 A MEMBER OF

THE NORTHERN 8LIEMPLOYERS GROUP OF ASSURANCE COMPANIES