AOSA 139 Annual Report 2020

Ackworth Old Scholars’ Association

One Hundred and Thirty Ninth Annual Report 2020

THIS YEAR’S PRESIDENT - PETE CAUSER

Born on the 25th of April 1955 in Stevenage, Herts, Pete Causer is the elder son of architects Harry and Margaret. Two years later brother Michael was born and shortly afterwards the family made the move to another new town – Cumbernauld, in Scotland – where their father took up a new post as one of the original 12 architects tasked with creating a new town to house the overspill from Glasgow.

Growing up with the town, Pete spent five years at Cumbernauld High School, working his way through the Scout movement and being chosen as part of the Scottish contingent to the 1971 World Jamboree in Japan before transferring to Ackworth for L6 where he thoroughly enjoyed just one year studying maths, physics and metalwork. Although he left Ackworth without any academic qualifications, an interest in engineering and especially in motorcycles was sparked off which has stayed with him ever since.

Having left school, Pete worked his way through college and worked in the health service, manufacturing industry and motorcycle retail and servicing before an ongoing interest in bike racing led to him working full time in the racing industry for several successful years, an involvement which continues to this day as a Technical Official at the Isle of Man TT and other races. After a stint of truck driving, a return to college to upgrade qualifications then gained him a post as a development engineer with a major car manufacturer.

He has four children and two grandchildren. He has been married to Nici (well known to Easter Gatherers) since 2013 with whom he has lived since 1999. They have lived on the Isle of Man since 2008.

Pete’s tenure as President has been extended for a year, because of the suspension of AOSA activities brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PETER CAUSER PRESIDENT A.O.S.A. 2019-21

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Photograph by Charles T. Stuart

One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Ackworth Old Scholars’ Association 2020 Edited by David Wood

ACKWORTH SCHOOL ACKWORTH, PONTEFRACT, WEST YORKSHIRE WF7 7LT TEL: 01977 611401 FAX: 01977 616225 Ackworth Old Scholars’ E-mail address: aosa@ackworthschool.com

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CONTENTS Presidential profile Editor’s foreword Easter under lockdown Glenthorne 2019 Old Scholar News Archive Corner School photographs 1963 1966 Memorial Notices Presidents 1882-2020

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EDITOR’S FOREWORD 2020 COVID-19 ruled out any possibility of any Old Scholars’ activities this year. The school wisely and decisively cancelled the Easter Gathering, a decision that was deeply regretted, while being widely supported.

The Easter Team, led by Sal Wright, organised a Virtual Easter that enabled Old Scholars to participate in many of the traditional Easter Gathering activities. A summary can be found in this year’s greatly truncated Annual Report, which is surely one of the slimmest on record.

Our thoughts have been with the problems facing the school during the pandemic. The ingenuity of all concerned to sustain the education of day pupils and boarders has been remarkable One consequence of the pandemic has been the decision to extend President Pete Causer’s term of office for a second year. This is the first time such an extension has happened during peace time.

The extra space made available in this year’s Annual Report has been filled by a look at the official school photographs of the 1960s. Each picture is accompanied by an outline key with a list of names.

Elsewhere, news items have been reproduced, with permission, from Ackworth Today.

David Wood

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ACKWORTH OLD SCHOLARS’ EASTER GATHERING 2020 UNDER LOCKDOWN The hoped for Easter Gathering fell victim to Covid-19, but the school’s prompt and decisive action in postponing the event was widely welcomed by Old Scholars, avoiding any last-minute confusion. However, regret was evident in bucketloads.

Undeterred by the lockdown, our Easter Secretary, Sal Wright (who was already putting on the finishing touches in organising the event) went into overdrive to arrange a ‘virtual’ Easter Gathering.

The President’s Address normally takes place on the evening of Easter Saturday, marking the end of his/her presidency, before handing the role to the successor.

Under the circumstances, it was agreed that Pete Causer’s presidency would be extended for a full year. This is not without precedent. In 1888-89, when the Ackworth Old Scholars’ Association was very young, the chosen president, William Jones, was working abroad, and was unable to carry out his duties, so was replaced for part of the year by Joseph Pattison Drewett, but Mr Jones’s presidency was then extended by a full year. During World War I, William Graveson had a threeyear presidency (1916-19) and during World War II, both Arthur Cooper and James Westwood served for two years each.

Frederick Andrews, Ackworth’s longest serving head teacher, was president in 1892-93 and again in 1919-20.

But Pete Causer’s extended presidency is the first to be the result of an international health emergency.

The photograph (right) depicts Pete Causer, the current Ackworth Old Scholars’ president flanked by a sea of all previous presidents, from 1882 to the present.

7 A number of Easter Gathering events recur annually, and Nick Seed (scholar 1965-71) continued the tradition of planting sunflower seeds at Easter, and subsequently publishing photographs on social media to compare results.

The painting of Easter bonnets and eggs continued under lockdown, with some fine results.

The Easter baking competition was a close run thing, and was won by David Swales, with Gillian Turnbull as runner up.

For many years, Charles Stuart has created a challenging quiz for Old Scholars to digest and solve. This year, it was a music quiz, sent out via social media. Charles might well consider this a better way to do things, as there were fewer arguments about the answers during lockdown!

Sunday Evening Reading was presented this year by Janet Blann on YouTube.

Easter Sunday Meeting for Worship was introduced by a video of the interior of the meeting house, with an invitation to continue with a private meeting for 45 minutes. A second video (by Jeffrey Swales) introduced the Easter Sunday walk, but this year, it was a slow, atmospheric stroll from the bottom of Great Garden to Centre Library, and to other areas of the school grounds – a touching reminder of the school’s idyllic environment.

The annual ‘Badsworth’ cross-country run has continued to attract Old Scholar runners every year, and it continued in 2020 in a different form. The measured

8 distance of the old Senior Badsworth course is 7.44 km, so Old Scholars were invited to run this exact distance from their homes, on Easter Monday morning at 10 a.m., the normal date and time of the event. On completion, competitors were asked to send GPS evidence of their run, including distance ran, along with elapsed times.

President Pete Causer fired the virtual starting gun, and supporters waited patiently for news of the runners. The women’s race was won by Eleanor Thompson in a time of 38:58. David Wood won the men’s race in a time of 37 min, 33 sec. This was the first time he had won a Badsworth race since 1970 – exactly 50 years earlier. All participants acknowledged that although the distances were identical, there were inevitable differences in the courses being run.

Easter Gatherings are often an opportunity for year groups to arrange a reunion.

This year was no exception, except that everyone involved stayed at home: “On Saturday night ‘Class of ‘85 to ‘92, had a wonderful Zoom reunion. It is 30 years since our GCSE’s, being the 3rd year to do GCSE’s I think. Any way our Zoom evening went incredibly well, with about 15 or more of us. Many have messaged since to say they are sorry to have missed it. Thank you to Susie Hinchcliffe for hosting. Unfortunately we were so absorbed we forgot to do a screen shot. After two and a half hours of us all chatting I was left with an overwhelming feeling of what lovely people I went to school with and what interesting lives and careers they are having. Everybody is keen to have a proper reunion after Covid. Lastly thank you to Easter Gathering and Pete Causer for their words of support.” Victoria Dublon Macdonald Perhaps an opportunity missed was the ‘Music for a Sunday Evening’ annual event. It was a chance for individual musicians to post their performances online, but nothing came of this. However, some YouTube posts of non-Ackworth performers did at least give a flavour of what might have been.

Other significant contributions included ‘Pop’ and ‘Poetry Half Hour’.

Finally, Old Scholars were invited to sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at home.

Looking to the future, it was envisaged that a delayed reunion might take place this autumn, but this is far from certain at the present time. Meanwhile, we hope all Old Scholars, families and friends are passing safely through this pandemic, and that we may be able to meet again soon.

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The 2020 “virtual” Easter Gathering – a view from your president Well, as everyone knows, the annual Ackworth Easter Gathering fell victim to the global Coronavirus situation which meant that for the sake of everyone’s health and well being, the event had to be cancelled. However, our intrepid Easter Secretary wasn’t going to take things lying down and with the help of FaceBook and YouTube, pulled out all the stops to transfer as many activities online as she could and Chas Stuart provided his usual excellent quiz on Friday after dinner (excellently prepared by yourselves this year!).

On Saturday David Wood and Catherine Jackson provided us with “School Today” in the form of the spring edition of Ackworth Today and Nick Seed gave us a demonstration of planting sunflowers. Sunday morning the local walk was a gentle stroll with Jeffrey Swales around Great Garden and on up to the Meeting House where meeting for worship was held in a very empty room! After lunch, again prepared in your own kitchens, Chas gave us a music quiz from the Mason’s Arms, there were Easter baking and bonnet competitions (unfortunately we had to disqualify a couple of entries, in particular those from Eggbert, Elspeth and ex-president Aidan Mortimer, since it was deemed that their entries were not their own work!), a musical recital from very special guest performer, Andrea Bocelli, singing live from the Duomo Di Milano and, after a bit of a delay due to technical difficulties, Janet Blann gave us a wonderful Sunday Evening Reading.

There was “virtual Badsworth” (run your own course around your garden or wherever) and there were submissions from Dee Yates and Sandra Lambert amongst others for Poetry Half Hour. To polish off the event we had probably some of the best entries for Pop that we’ve ever seen including a beautiful couple of pieces submitted from Missouri by someone who would not normally have been able to join us and finally, an old friend of mine gave us a lovely rendition of Auld Lang Syne.

So despite the problems, we still managed to gather to have a great, if socially distant, Easter, most of which can be accessed through Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/55068420952.

As a result of the situation I’m afraid that we had to forego a couple of the formalities of Easter, in particular, the AGM and Presidential Address which, along with my presidency, I’m told will have to be carried forward until 2021.

We can only pray that the situation will be back to something more like normality by then and that we can go back to having the sort of Easter Gathering we are more used to. Until then, love and best wishes to all Friends out there.

Pete Causer

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GLENTHORNE WEEKEND November 2019 from a newcomer to Glenthorne A calming yet stimulating, peaceful yet sociable weekend As an Old Scholar, I’ve known of Glenthorne Quaker Guest House (https://glenthorne.org) for 35 years. My familiarity with the name was helped by the fact that the parents of two of my contemporaries, Rebecca and Rachael Harrison, were the wardens whilst we were at school in the 1980s. A few years ago, I made a small detour especially to see what it looked like, but this November was the first time I have stayed there.

For one weekend every November, an Ackworth-connected group of Old Scholars and Quakers stay for two days with a remit to do nothing but relax and spend time together. It is an experience I will definitely repeat: the alchemy of Lake District beauty, comfortable rooms and beds, fantastic food and the peace that always seems to be present in a Quaker establishment. The company was the highlight though: Ackworth as our common thread is always a rich starting point for stories

and looking for the connections, coincidences and the ‘keeping bright the chain’ that follows from sharing experiences of our particular few years in one of our collective favourite places. I love finding those two or three degrees of separation when you talk to an Old Scholar who was at school more than a decade before or after you, but who you can link to through the common knowledge of others (children or staff) who were there in the intervening years.

11 I knew most of those attending at least a little, through Easter Gathering, Open Day or School Committee (I became a School Committee Member just over a year ago so am still learning the ropes), but the meals, evening in the common room, leisurely but good walk on Saturday, wandering round Grasmere and having coffee as a group in one of the posh hotels in the village on Sunday gave plenty of opportunities to get to knowpeople better and learn more about the diversity of what people do after Ackworth.

There were a number of particular highlights for me: the kindness of Stewart Huntington and Andy Whiteleyin trailing out to collect me from Windermere station late on Friday night; successfully bidding in an informal evening auction for a print of Henry Melville’s 1830 engraving of school that had been kindly donated by Helen Beaumount and Stephen Lonsdale to raise funds for the school Swimming Pool Appeal; the chance spotting that Mozart’s Requiem was being performed in the village church early Saturday evening so five of us could nip down and hear it; meeting on Sunday morning with the added beauty of Lakeland fells around us.

I was not the only first-timer on the weekend: Alison Tyas, Old Scholar 1951-57 and a previous Clerk of School Committee, attended for her first time despite having a Quaker pedigree stretching back centuries, whereas I am a ‘Muggleborn’ Ackworthian in contrast.

We agreed entirely on what a welcoming experience it was – we highly recommend it to you.

*********** OLD SCHOLAR NEWS Remembering Ackworth: Dorothy Robbins – 100 years old (Scholar 1933-38) Ackworth School would like to wish a happy 100th birthday to Dorothy Robbins who celebrated it on14th November 2020. Dorothy is the granddaughter of our ninth Head of Ackworth, Frederick Andrews, who served as head for 43 years.

From all of us at Ackworth School, Happy Birthday!

“Some time ago a large and heavy parcel arrived in the mail from the U.K. It

12 turned out to be three copies of the 2018 issues of ‘Ackworth Today’ with a covering letter signed by Anton Maree, Head of School and Janet Blann, OS General Secretary. This explained the changes in the AOSA and the Annual Report as we have known it for many years. I have perused all of these issues with great interest, including the Old Scholar news which is quite sufficient for me at this stage of my life. I am fascinated by all the exciting happenings that are going on in the School today, so many things and all delightfully written, mostly by students. Any comparison between the School now and that of the 30s when I attended is purely coincidental, which has inspired me to write something of ‘our time’.

“I was born in Nova Scotia, the third daughter of Frank Walker and Gertrude Andrews, who was the youngest daughter of Frederick Andrews, Headmaster of Ackworth School for 42 years, 1887-1920. Because our mother had grown up in the School and had attended as a student along with her other three siblings …

AND my father and his sisters had also gone there, Ackworth was a constant topic of conversation when we were growing up and it was a ‘given’ that all three daughters would go to Ackworth. As the youngest I was the last to attend, travelling of course by ship across the Atlantic and I spent five wonderful years at the School. In the Spring 2018 Issue of ‘Ackworth Today’ there is a story of the early days when John and Henry Burtt arrived at Ackworth in 1847.

“Well! I was there in the 1930s, not quite 100 years later, but to those reading this in 2020 our life in the School then will sound equally amazing. Outwardly the buildings are much the same with some new additions, but there are many changes on the inside and everything else is completely different, except for the Quaker ethos which shines through in so many writings from the Head right down to the younger students. There is indeed something special about Ackworth which continues over the years.Eighty years ago there were two distinct schools, girls – in the west wing, boys – in the east and ‘seldom the two shall meet’. By 6th form, because of smaller classes, we did join up with the boys and even went over to their class rooms near the Great Garden! Mostly however, we watched the boys from our windows in the west wing…. but on weekdays relatives from both sides were allowed to walk together on the Terrace, I think it was at noon hour. To enable this togetherness there was a tendency to develop what we termed “Ackworth cousins” of which there were quite a few! On Sundays after Meeting you were also allowed to walk up and down the ‘Boys Green’ (which was asphalt) with a ‘special’ friend and this was very exciting! At this time we were all boarders, with only one or two day students, children of staff members and once the term began we were in the School and only allowed to go to certain places in the village when family or relatives came to visit.

13 “Founders’ Day always saw us (the girls anyway – I don’t know what the boys did!) off in charabancs (not buses as we would call them in Canada) to places in the moors – generally some historic spots like Fountains or Rievaulx Abbey, arriving back at school for the infamous bangers and mash. In the sixth form we did take a week or 10 day trip to the Continent but mostly to Holland or Belgium and it was very carefully controlled and only girls!

Classrooms and common rooms were on the first and second floors in our wing, heated only by a grate fire so you either froze near the windows or burned up beside the fire! We spent what little free time we had, particularly on Saturdays, in the common rooms. That was when we could go to the tuck shops (only 2 of them) in the village, spend our allowance of 6d per week, then come back and ‘pig out’ on our goodies, cosied up by the fire!!

Sleeping accommodation was mostly on the second floor of the girls’ wing in dormitories of anywhere from 4 to 16 or 18 girls. There was no heat, as I recall, and I particularly remember one year in one of the bigger dorms, pulling the floor mat beside my bed on top of me to try to counter the cold. I spent one year at Ackworth House about a 10 minute walk towards the village and this was a delight – with smaller rooms and a more family like atmosphere. There were two other houses, Seatons and Carr House which accommodated smaller groups of older students but I did not experience those.

Field hockey was the main sport for girls and the boys were involved in cricket.

We had some competition with other schools but seldom went very far. Tennis was popular, played on the Girls’ Green and up at Flounders. Meeting for Worship was held twice a week in the Meeting House, half an hour on Thursdays and an hour on Sundays with every student in attendance. The big excitement of the week was a lecture or slide show by visiting speakers on Saturday evening in the Fothergill Hall. These were also times to get a better look at the boys, also in attendance!

In retrospect and in comparison to today’s freedom of choice and activity it sounds pretty awful but I loved my five years there and credit much of my success in future years to the influence of Ackworth and the Quaker background. It is still very dear to my heart and very much a part of me.

After leaving Ackworth I chose to return to Canada and decided to pursue physical education as a career following in my mother’s footsteps. This eventually brought me back to Nova Scotia in the mid 1940s where l was involved in the initial development of physical education and recreation within the Province at a time, post WW2, when very little was happening. And so my career continued over

14 many decades through all the phases of development in education to the sophisticated schools we now have.

I am one of the few ‘pioneers’ of this era in Canada still living and reasonably active at 100 years young! In 1963 I received a Doctorate from Acadia University in Wolfville for my contribution to the Province and am now the ‘heritage item’ and source of information for physical education through the years in Nova Scotia!

Dorothy Walker Robbins, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Duan Repcák and Viren Pandya Old scholars Duan Repcák and Viren Pandya have created a publication on Medium called ‘PR Business and Economics Review’. Both have published their first articles: Viren, about Carbon Tax, and Duan about the European Emissions Trading System. ‘These are both topics about the environment that Viren and I think concern us all,’ said Duan.

Aili Hyde I was at Ackworth from 2009-2016, and then studied for a BA at Cambridge in Human, Social, and Political Sciences, graduating in June 2019. Since then, I’ve been working as the Education Officer and Deputy President of Cambridge University Students’ Union. This is a full-time year-long elected position with the aim of representing students across the Collegiate University, specifically on issues related to their education.

I’ve done a lot of student representation work throughout the years, including being a School Officer when I was at Ackworth, heading the Student Union’s LGBT+ Campaign, and performing the role of Vice-President on my college’s internal Student Union. What’s so interesting about my current job, however, is the cross-section of the university that I get to see and the insight that comes from being involved in such a broad range of projects.

As sabbatical officers (‘sabbs’), we do a lot of different kinds of work. We campaign, both within the confines of the university but also on national issues.

We sit on committees, presenting the student view on the issues that the university is currently focused on. We support students in their own peer advocacy work and we run events for students.

15 I’ve been running the Student Union’s Boycott of the National Student Survey (NSS) this year, encouraging students to not fill out this particular survey, as it is a metric which feeds into the Teaching Excellence Framework, the regulatory framework that ranks universities against one another and exacerbates a culture of marketisation in Higher Education that our union has policy against. One of the other parts of my job is supporting the student academic representatives in the university. I run a fortnightly forum for them to meet and discuss the issues that they’re working on and joinup to campaign on cross-faculty and cross-school problems. I also lobbied academics last year to vote ‘placet’, (yes), in a ballot to reform the way academic representatives are elected and it’s very exciting that those reforms are going to be in place from October onwards!

I also run the Student-led Teaching Awards which are an opportunity for students to recognise the great work teaching and support staff do in the university.

Those are only three of the projects I’m working on – it’s a mad job!

It is really rewarding to be able to put into practice all the advocacy skills I’ve learned over the years and to spend one more year in this city. Ackworth started that process off and it was also where I really discovered my passion for music and I still play in my college’s jazz band and sing in the chapel choir. Music keeps me sane in what is a very busy and highly scrutinised role. I am very lucky to have such a busy and varied life – and Ackworth definitely laid the foundations for that!

Sally Harby Sally Harby taught piano here at Ackworth until a serious road accident in 1982 put an end to her career.

She has lived in France for the last 16 years, but on 3 February 2020 she visited Ackworth to see the new Steinway pianos. After a tour of the Music Department, she played a piece of Rachmaninov on the Steinway grand, much to the delight of a Coram class. Sally’s verdict on the Steinway was - ‘formidable!’.

Here she is seen with family members including her sister Celia Wolfe who taught History at the school for 25 years.

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Robyn Wickham The Adventures of Poetry Continue after Leaving Ackworth.

On the 25th September 2019, I read my college emails and saw a new delivery.

Three beautiful words lit up the screen in bold letters: ‘Poetry Writing Competition’.

My eyes sparkled like an excited child and I hastily clicked and read more to find that ‘Young Writers’ was running a poetry contest with the theme of ‘Through Their Eyes’.

The email gave some suggestions of starting points for inspiration, such as world leaders or celebrities, but I wanted to explore the qualities of an abstract noun within this theme. Being the superobsessed manga and anime fan I am, I first took inspiration from the character ‘Truth’, a godlike character that appears in the series ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’. However, after exploring this idea I found my work was lacking originality, so I decided to change the topic. What other theoretical images could I come up with that in many ways symbolised an all-powerful deity? What other notion could make people face the facts at the end of the tunnel?

One particular suggestion bounced around the walls of my brain: Death - a pretty clever suggestion considering my known morbid style of writing. Soon, I found myself experimenting with similes, metaphors, alliteration and other literary devices. Before long, I was submitting the poem online and eagerly awaiting the results.

A letter arrived at my college some weeks later from ‘Young Writers’ stating that my poem had been selected as one of those to be published in their book. I was over the moon to receive my copy of the book and can now proudly say that I am a published poet. (+photo)

Maddy Ward Old Scholar Maddy Ward recently celebrated her marriage to Tom Pennington at Ackworth School. Here she describes what it was like to have a wedding at her old school:‘Words can’t describe how grateful we are to Ackworth School for everything

17 they did to make our wedding perfect. The first thing to say is that the School’s flexibility and can-do attitude cut through a wedding industry that is otherwise daunting and commercialised, and made us feel immediately at ease.

‘They respected the traditions of the Quaker wedding we were having, and tailored their package around it; we were always made to feel like valued customers. We had a vision for how we wanted our wedding to look andfeel, and they made it happen. Every member of theteam went above and beyond with their kindness, energy and imagination to bring our hopes to reality.

‘The service was professional and personable throughout. The food was absolutely out of this world, and several of our guests said it was the best wedding meal they had ever had. The price was very reasonable for everything we got, and the range and combination of services on offer can’t be matched by any other venue in the area.

‘And then, of course, the venue itself is absolutely stunning - the star of the show!

The School also allowed our guests to stay in the boarding houses overnight for a very reasonable price, which made it so much easier for all those who were travelling and gave the sense of the wedding as a ‘whole-weekend’ event. We can’t stress this enough: if you are looking for a wedding reception that is personal, beautiful and good value, you must choose Ackworth School.’

Deb Henery Deb Henery is an Old Scholar of Ackworth School, joining in year 5 of Coram House in 2006. Now she has returned to work with the PE Department as she trains to be a PE teacher.

“I left Ackworth in 2013 and like many young adults I was unsure about what career pathway I would take. As all my teachers and peers knew, I was an avid sportsperson and as well as representing the school in most sports, I also ski raced competitively for England. However, my other huge passion was baking and cooking, and I aspired to become the next Michel Roux Jr. I set my hopes high, and for the next three years trained as a professional chef at York College. A

18 couple of years after graduating the reality of being a professional chef had hit hard and the industry was gruelling.

“I took some time to re-think my future and took a huge risk. In 2018 I became a student once again and enrolled at Sheffield Hallam University to study BSc Honours Physical Education and School Sport. I am now in thesecond year of my degree and have recently started aseven-week work placement here at Ackworth. It is a privilege to work along side the teachers who inspired me to be the best version of myself all those years ago. I believe Ackworth School allows you to be creative, unique and instils confidence, motivation and drive within all young people that step through its doors.

“Working at Ackworth as a trainee PE teacher is very different from my days here as a student; however the sense of warmth and belonging remains the same. In my opinion, the school has made incredible improvements within the PE department. There is a larger number of activities available to students which help to encourage all students to be active.

Hopefullythey will find enjoyment and purpose in physical activity in order to encourage lifelong participation. It is also evident that great measures have been put in place in order to support elite athletes throughout their development. I am excited to continue my development as an individual and as a trainee teacher here at Ackworth and work towards an inspiring future.” *****

ARCHIVE CORNER The archives recently received a donation of early needlework and a splendid Quaker bonnet from Mark Eastman of Devon. They probably belonged to his ancestor, Hannah Bevington, who was a scholar at Ackworth School from 1806 to 1811. Four of Hannah’s siblings also attended Ackworth between 1803 and 1809. The family came from Worcester and research suggests that they were glovers. The school is very grateful to Marl for his very kind gesture.

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SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS - SUMMER 1963 and SUMMER 1966 Ackworth School has a proud record of school group photographs, dating back to the second half of the 19th century. To the school’s great credit, from the earliest days, each individual on every class photograph was clearly recorded for posterity - that is, until the 1970s, when labelling appears to have been discontinued.

In the summer term of 1963, group photographs were mostly taken in the newly created “house-form” groups. Only the first years were pictured as a single group.

The house-forms were mixed ability tutorial groups, quite distinct from the academic teaching groups, which were rigorously streamed in most cases. Indeed, the boys’ dormitories continued to be populated according to academic groups for several more years - a practice that now seems difficult to justify.

1963 was the last year when group photos were taken in the Area. From 1966 onwards, the new location was Centre Library steps, and whole year group photographs became the norm.

Ackworth School group photos became an ongoing feature of school life in the 19th century, with full labelling of all individuals. These photographic records are stored in albums in Centre Library. .

Staff photos have been omitted, though these are being considered for a future Annual Report.

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First Years - Summer 1963 1. Paul Lindsay 2. Christopher Curry 3. Adrian Sharp 4. Michael Smith 5. Stephen Thomas 6. Peter Gunn 7. Alan Fleming 8. Philip Legg 9. Andrew Nichols 10. Peter Davenport 11. Roger Burtt 12. John Darbyshire 13. David Eaton 14. Philip Lodge 15. Melvyn Pratt, 16. David Wiggles worth 17. Christopher Jagan 18. Ian Crossley 19. Elizabeth Hunt 20. Hilary Garland 21. Annabel Scott

22. Piers Holmes-Smith 23. Alan Lapage 24. Matthew Jones 25. Peter Evans 26. Christopher Johnson 27. Charles Hague 28. Christopher Bostock 29. William Corder 30. Martin Talbot 31. Peter Burnett 32. Nigel Wade 33. Jane Ashford 34. Peggotty O’Sullivan 35. Ann Malcolm 36. Carol Webster 37. Rosemary Brown 38. Linda Hawkes 39. Susan Wilson 40. Avril Brown 41. Harry Needham 42. Noelene Walmsley

43. Christopher Pilling 44. Susan Jervis 45. Susan Sturdy 46. Janet Tyson 47. Katharine Prescott 48. Anne Kenyon 49. Marjorie Trotter 50. Judith Craven 51. Jennifer Spinks 52. Alison Percy 53. Annette Newby 54. Wendeline Beyts 55. Jane Tod 56. Deborah Watkinson 57. Penelope MacConnachie 58. Mary Lewis 59. Kathleen Common 60. Barbara Duck 61. Olwyn Southworth 62. Naomi Phillips

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Penelope Fine Rosemary Bowler Joyce Snowden Gordon Jennings Marilyn Yougn Judith Ashford Janet Frazer Deborah Smith

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Graham Blakeman Peter Ross Tom Aisbitt Peter Jagan Andrew Garland Michael Lamb Tony Ackroyd Neil Macpherson Adrienne Shaw

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Valda Dagnell Jennifer Lewis Miriam Bescoby Lotte Honig Bruce Dick Christine Tetley Caroline Trickett Margaret Langley Hazel Oliver

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Penn 3 - Summer 1963

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Christopher Todd Crispin Cullingworth Robert Cummins Brian Olver Philip Ireland James Marriage Andrew Wilson Peter Harwood Susan Watkinson

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Jennet Baily Jane Rule Juliet Smith Barbara Johnston William Westwood Margery South Jane Higgins Patricia Ireland

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Woolman 3 - Summer 1963

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Patrick Phillips Nicholas Orton Timothy Roper Kenneth Hakin Alan Crabtree Robert Milner Robert Richardson Martin Hardman

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Rosemary Burtt Margaret Vincent Josephine Clewer Doreen Bywater Laurence Fitton Lindsay Cashmore Hester Goundry Ruth Castick

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Fothergill 4 - Summer 1963

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Jonathan Fine John Crossley James Darricote Brian Jardine Richard Wolfe Alan Roberti Michael Lindley

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Andrée Mendham Hilary Fassnidge Carol Baldwin Elizabeth Maxcy Frances Willis Linda Shaw Joan Mason

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Peter Hope Susan Brown Elizabeth Gee Mary Burgess Etain Addey

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Gurney 4 - Summer 1963

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Gerald Craddock Paul Jepson Richard Evans Nigel Hicken Martin Large Julian Noble Michael Rawlinson Richard Baker Stephen Parker Christopher Smith Jacqueline O’Connor

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Janet MacFarlane Julia Hague Ruth Rollinson Jane Lodge Kenneth Rosewarne Barbara Dawson Sarah Lamb Valerie Main Alison Sharp Hilary Dagnell

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Penn 4 - Summer 1963

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Roland Kaye Robert Rhodes Ian Mitchell Martin Everett David Budd David Lever Simon Corder Robert Gibson David Harrison Gina Malcolm Susan Tod

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Sally Lee Valerie Turton Arthur Brighton Wallis Johnson Eleanor Thomas Susan Barlow Sheila McIntosh Margaret Southworth Gail Nichols Judith Young

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Woolman 4 - Summer 1963

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Robin Johnson Richard Kirkby Bruce Bailey John Edmondson Richard Coldwell Desmond Fawcett Martin Pierce David Gibson John Steele Stephen Moore John Boddy Judith Mitchell

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Jennifer Coldwell Shanti Bhatia Susan Harvey Lynne Kernot Stephanie Baldwin Phillips Harris Jennifer Vaughan Richenda Harris Carol Fitton Lesley Durrans Hilary Clunes

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Fothergill 5 - Summer 1963

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John Pickles Neil Williamson Timothy Robinson David Vaughan Robert Haworth Nigel Morris Andrew Stephenson John Coleman Elizabeth Cochrane

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Carol Bell Judith Butler Gael Clark Victor Mendham Barbara May Valerie Sutton Jennifer Robson Mary Wiggins Rosemary Fassnidge

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Gurney 5 - Summer 1963

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Catherine Seymour Geoffrey Heslop Richard Whiteley Richard Perrin Stephen Waller Adrian Large Francis Woodcock Richard Huddleston Clare Collin

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Gwynneth Charles Tessa Schiele Jinnie Schiele Lucy Cowan Brian Sara Margaret Robinson Janet Lipton Hilary Lawson Brendalyn Waterfall

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Penn 5 - Summer 1963

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Howard Webb Richard Evans Andrew Gradon Martin Armitage John Peters Simon Edmunds John Ogley Peter Lee Annemarie Kunzel

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Jill Wilson Pauline Hayden Judith Petrie Mary Scott Fred Scott Rosemary Stanton Margaret Johnson Sheila Grudgings

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Woolman 5 - Summer 1963

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Elizabeth Bush Francis Gilliat Alan Bostock Patrick Goundry Richard Aynsley-Smith Maxwell Eaton Michael Smith Ronald Wade David Cowans Susan Yellig

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Mary Beyts Elizabeth Orton Jennifer Wood Christine Burtt Anthony Cashmore Margaret Millward Rosemary Robson Mary Whitaker Anne Rowntree

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Lower Sixth (6G) - Summer 1963

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Lesley Tittle Robert Vincent Nicholas Binks Robert Walker Christopher Jones John Vallance Richard Garfield Richard Wood Paul Boyd Andrew Houghton Sandra Wells Margaret Vallance

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Vera Rehak Judith Stanley Sheena Clark Anne Maclean Roger Spinks Barbara Waddington Ruth Shaw Christine Powell Francesca Cross Helen Nicholson Hilary Westerman

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1. Silochina Hariram 2. Jill Turton 3. Thea Baily 4. Anthony Covington 5. Brian Bigland 6. Andrew Wragg 7. Carol Baldwin 8. Corinne Cashmore 9. Jane Ogle 10. Julia Kirkby 11. Jean Timmis

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23. Ann Straughan 24. Gwyneth Jones 25. Margaret Cory 26. Miranda Holmes-Smith 27. Barbara Waddington 28. James Collin 29. Doreen Johnson 30. Pamela Renwick 31. Gillian Upson 32. Anne Brearley 33. Rosalind Millington

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Upper Sixth (6A) - Summer 1963

1. Edwin Brocklehurst 2. Peter Olver 3. Ifor Ffowkes-Williams 4. Ian Foster 5. Derrick Smith 6. Edwin Aird 7. Christopher Nelstrop 8. Martin Wragg 9. Alan Walker 10. John Purvis 11. David Lindley 12. David Muschamp 13. William Wicksteed

14. Christopher Stephenson 15. Richard Haworth 16. John Burgess 17. Sarah Gee 18. Eileen Greenwood 19. Rena Heslop 20. Ceri Waddell 21. Caroline Fox 22. Nicolette Mendham 23. Catherine Lilwall 24. Melissa Baxter 25. Patricia Simm 26. Anne Gibson

27. Kathleen Oldham 28. Mary Tod 29. Ruth Orton 30. Bronwen Charles 31. Jennifer Tether 32. Charlotte Dakin 33. Phyllis Sadler 34. Ivan Gray 35. Gerald Brown 36. Anna Large 37. Annette Alonso 38. Marion Martin

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First Form - Summer 1966

1. Ian Trippier 2. Victoria Dawson 3. Philip Blakey 4. Jane Thornley 5. David Callier 6. Pamela Storey 7. John Rook 8. Rosemary Kunzel 9. Patrick Braithwaite 10. Mary Woofinden 11. Anne Whiteley 12. George Snaith

13. Mary Hough 14. Christopher Christopherson 15. Shelley Smith 16. Christopher Bemrose 17. Barbara Wilson 18. John Prescott 19. Rowena Craddock 20. Nicholas Alderson 21. Julia Turner 22. Robin Woodall 23. Jane Gibson 24. Roger Harrison

25. Rosemary de Gruyther 26. Arnold Newby 27. Rohan Beyts 28. Graam Bhoycott 29. Deborah Horne 30. Philip Burtt 31. Gillian Hawkes 32. Christopher Bates 33. Claire Crossley 34. Howard Smith 35. Sheila Hayhurst 36. Andrew Raggett

37. Susan Loxley 38. Martin Freedman 39. Susan Westwood 40. Robert Goodman 41. Diana Golik 42. Richard Hodgson 43. Helen Jones 44. Michael Burtt 45. Anne Luscombe 46. Rosemary Jackson 47. Nicholas Seed 48. Susan Hargreaves 49. Stephen Wood 50. Keith Pattison 51. Noelene Walmsley 52. Harry Needham 53. Ian Mackie 54. Blair Reischer 55. Rachel Tabachnick 56. Michael Chubb 57. Catherine Penman

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Second Form - Summer 1966

1. Andrew Wade 2. Dinah Appleby 3. John Smith 4. Ruth Sunderland 5. John Crosby 6. Celia Desborough 7. Susan Tabachnick 8. David Bowler 9. Rosalind Laycock 10. Simon Grimes 11. Michael Rieveley 12. Stephanie Cash

13. Peter Graddol 14. Alison Eden 15. Christopher Johnson 16. Penelope Oates 17. Nicholas Lowe 18. Linda Taylor 19. Stephen Smith 20. Jean Dunnicliff 21. Sarah Burney 22. Anthony Sampson 23. Rosemary Jepson 24. Stephen Gibson

25. Hilary Shaw 26. James Burtt 27. Susan Strafford 28. Robert Lincoln 29. Ann Hall 30. Anthony Todd 31. Elizabeth Stubbs 32. Meryl Wood 33. Peter Armitage 34. Iola Craddock 35. Matthew Clarke

36. Bridgitta Reischer 37. John Adams 38. Kathryn Strange 39. Stuart Gray 40. Katherine Johnson 41. Martin Fawcett 42. Catherine Wilson 43. Hugh Beyts 44. Judith Spinks 45. Roger Rowntree 46. Elin Robson 47. Martin Lester 48. Julia Bishop 49. Richard Kent 50. Hilary Foster 51. Philip Fieldsend 52. Hea her Burtt 53. Gary Watson 54. Elizabeth Young 55. Michael Illingworth 56. Zephyrine Holmes-Smith 57. Geoffrey Tomlinson 58. Elspeth Forrester-Paton 59. Robert Penman 60. Subash Arora 61. Stuart P. Cassie 62. Carol Q. Gillett 63. A. Wallis Johnson 64. T. Peter Rowlands 65. Christine Verity 66. Patrick Braithwaite 67. Irene Common

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1. Simon Guyler 2. Alan Pearson 3. Allan Braithwaite 4. Richard Green 5. David Lister 6. Anthony Bunn 7. Peter Johnson 8. Ian Addis 9. Nicholas Rieveley 10. Hugh Dower 11. Pamela Strafford 12. Gabrielle Westerman 13. Miles Leach 14. Richard Gomersall 15. Paul Kader 16. Daniel Robson 17. Sandra Fisher 18. Brian Hurwitz 19. Julia Corder 20. Anthony Biggin 21. Amanda Graddol 22. Frank Ward 23. Jane Rapson 24. Judith Lytollis 25. Jonathan Bradbury 26. Elizabeth Leightley 27. Themba Matabese 28. Jane Foster 29. Robert Dealey 30. Phillipa Gray 31. John Rich 32. Pamela Wilson

Third Form - Summer 1966

33. Richard Aisbitt 34. Catherine Thornhill 35. David Bunney 36. Ruth Midgley 37. Christopher Hewitt 38. Judith Stafford 39. David Whiteley 40. Jill Turton 41. Simon Bemrose 42. Helen Bowker 43. Richard Liddle 44. Caroline Barr-Taylor 45. Andrew Rayson 46. Margaret Temple 47. Peter Luscombe

48. Alison Hart 49. John Bowler 50. Barbara Leadbeater 51. Philip de Cobain 52. Mary-Claire Graddol 53. Victoria Smith 54. Christopher Hartley 55. Diana Hargreaves 56. Martin Barker 57. Susan Burgess 58. Richard Moss 59. Anthea Dagnell 60. Christopher Edge 61. Maureen Pratt 62. Nicholas Fearnley

63. Angela Hanson 64. Gideon Sharp 65. Kenneth Barker 66. Carolyne Turner 67. Gordon W. Jennings 68. Marilyn Young 69. Fred Davies 70. Lotte Honig 71. Dennis H. Mitchell 72. Ila R. Patel 73. William Westwood 74. Joan Anderson 75. Stephen Grimes 76. Jeanette Mitchell

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Fourth Form - Summer 1966

1. Janet Tyson 2. Katherine Prescott 3. David Westwood 4. Elizabeth Hunt 5. Peter Evans 6. Ann Malcolm 7. Patrick Clewer 8. Annabel Scott 9. Christopher Bostock 10. Kathleen Common 11. David Aston 12. Rosemary Brown 13. Antony Hurden 14. Jane Ashford 15. Christopher Johnson

16. Stephen Stones 17.Alan Fenning 18. Martin Talbot 19. Ruth Taylor 20. Matthew Jones 21. Marjorie Trotter 22. John Hall 23. Deborah Watkinson 24. Jane Goldie 25. William Corder 26. Marion Sealey 27. Philip Legg 28. Caroline Ross-Smith 29. Allan Lapage 30. Anne Kenyon

46. Adrian Sharp 47. Annette Newby 48. Roger Burtt 49. Susan Sturdy 50. Andrew Nichols 51. Christopher Curry 52. Judith Craven 53. Philip Lodge 54. Alison Percy 55. Nige Wade 56. Julia Beales 57. John Darbyshire 58. Susan Wilson 59. Clive Lee 60. Mary Lewis 61. Melvyn Pratt 62. Anita Hulland 31. Colin Walmsley 63. John Pugmire 32. Deborah Finney 64. Christopher Jagan 33. David Wigglesworth 65. Olwyn Southworth 34. Penelope MacConnachie 66. Ian Crossley 35. Marvin Hurst 67. Barbara Duck 36. Pegotty O’Sullivan 68. Barbara Dawson 37. Piers Holmes-Smith 69. Kenneth Rosewarne 38. Rosalind Coope 70. Mary Rogers 39. Anna Harman 71. Arthur Brighton 40. Linda Hawkes 72. June Terry 41. Jane Tod 73. Phillips Harris 42. Solomon Matabese 74. Kathleen Hudson 43. Jennifer Spinks 75. Michael Smith 44. Charles Hague 76. Carol Webster 45. Wendalin Bates 77. Stephen Brown

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1. Robert Mather 2. Jeremy Clewer 3. Anne Gilderdale 4. Gavin Mendham 5. Lance Skinner 6. Andrew Tetley 7. Anne Whitaker 8. Stuart Moss 9. Deborah Hopkins 10. Stephen Richards 11. Joan Greenwood 12. Charles Rowntree 13. Sarah Bebington 14. Andrew Popplewell 15. Veronica Wilson 16. Bernard Lazenbury 17. Andra Veitch 18. Robert Addis 19. Rhona Sharp 20. Anthony Hunt 21. Christine Firth 22. Paul Craddock 23. Paul Swanton 24. Gillian Harrison 25. James Boddy 26. Catharine Bishop 27. John Banks 28. Esther Richardson 29. John Sheehan 30. Rowena Sutton 31. Stephen Franklin 32. Martin Fine 33. Deborah Spencer

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34. Graham Evison 35. Jennifer Glaister 36. Peter Harwood 37. Sally Harrison 38. Julian Oliver 39. Marie Rehak 40. Hugh Jones 41. Valerie Gray 42. John Renwick 43. Pauline Lincoln 44. Stephen Todd 45. Mary Clerehugh 46. John Wood 47. Lindsay Harris 48. Nicholas Seymour

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64. Jeremy Bowler 65. Christine Lytollis 66. Nicholas Orton 67. Diana Craven 68. Hugh Laycock 69. Jean Robson 70. Patrick Reynolds A. Eileen King B. Victor Mendham C. Sara Leese D. Fred Scott E. Mary Scott F. Christopher Pilling

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Lower Sixth - Summer 1966

1. Michael Lamb 2. Alan Crabtree 3. Robert Cummins 4. Dennis Roberti 5. Stephen Pardy 6. John Walker 7. Fergus Lapage 8. Andrew Wilson 9. Peter Midgley 10. Judith Ashford 11. Brian Olver

12. Nigel Glanville 13. Margaret Langley 14. Tom Barringer 15. Kirston Forrester-Paton 16. Valda Dagnell 17. James Marriage 18. Jennet Baily 19. John Wilson 20. Caroline Trickett 21. Tom Aisbitt 22. Mai Herman

23. Michael Jackson 24. Rosemary Kendall 25. Peter Ross 26. Joyce Snowden 27. David Hayhurst 28. Margaret Vincent 29. Philips Ireland 30. Jane Higgins 31. Peter Jagan 32. Miriam Bescoby 33. Patrick Phillips

34. Jane Rule 35. Desmond Lawrence 36. Jacqueline O’Connor 37. Richard Petrie 38. Jennifer Lewis 39. Graham Blakeman 40. Margery South 41. Crispin Cullingworth 42. Adrienne Shaw 43. Timothy Roper 44. Susan Watkinson 45. John Garfield 46. Andrew Binns 47. Pamela Welch 48. Charles Wade 49. Rosemary Burtt 50. Roger Spinks 51. Barbara Waddington 52. Ivan Gray 53. Joyce Spinks 54. James Collin 55. Rosemary Bowler 56. Christopher Todd 57. Hazel Oliver 58. Andrew Garland

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Upper Sixth - Summer 1966

1. John Edmondson 2. Martin Pierce 3. Isobel Heap 4. Wilhelm Jacobson 5. Richenda Harris 6. Robin Johnson 7. David Sharp 8. Richard Kirkby 9. Rachel Weaving 10. Andrée Mendham 11. Diane Renaudon 12. Peter Liliendal 13. Barbara Valtin 14. Jennifer Smith 15. Elain Addey 16. Judith Mitchell 17. Elizabeth Gee 18. Julian Noble 19. Ursula Hunter 20. Jennifer Vaughan 21. Bruce Bailey

22. Alison Sharp 23. Hilary Fossnidge 24. Brian Jardine 25. Mary Burgess 26. Jane Lodge 27. Sheila McKintosh 28. Gaynor Darbyshire 29. Alan Roberti 30. Sarah Lamb 31. Richard Evans

32. Phyllis Sadler 33. Ivan Gray 34. Gerald Brown 35. Gail Nichols 36. David Lever 37. Margaret Southworth 38. Susan Barlow 39. Martin Large

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MEMORIAL NOTICES Dorothy Agnes Bostock (née Wade) 1941-45 Dorothy was born in Stroud Gloucestershire in 1927 and attended happy early years at Ackworth between 1941 and 1945. She trained as a teacher and taught at the air force base in Malta after her marriage in 1953 and then continued in England. Dorothy really loved life and always had a mischievous twinkle in her eye!

Jeanette Crookes née Nuttall (Scholar 1943-50) On arriving at School in 1943 Jeanette was immediately moved up a year, then quickly settled in and spent five happy years there notably excelling as a pianist.

In particular I remember a most enjoyable eight-handed performance of ‘The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba’ on two pianos in Centre Library in which we both took part....an exhilarating experience and great fun.

Instead of going on to University, Jeanette decided to join the Civil Service and worked in Liverpool for many years until her youngest child had left home. She brought great tenacity and an enquiring mind to her job and indeed to all her many interests. On promotion she moved to Blackheath and Jeanette tackled a new job with the Department of Health. At some point she was awarded the MBE. Her husband Brian was an active member of the Labour Party and Jeanette supported the cause all her life. In her late 50s Jeanette became aware that she was losing her sight. She and Brian decided to move north to Malton in order to set up home while she still had enough sight to navigate her way in a new home. She enlivened the local blind and partially sighted groups as well as learning new computer skills to further her quest to find a way to translate sheet music into an accessible form.

When her husband died Jeanette fiercely resisted moving into supportedaccommodation with the question, ‘do you think I can’t manage’? And indeed she could and did manage because she was highly organised. Living alone, she would only accept minimal support for several years until ill health problems forced her into a Home in Harrogate for the last years. Throughout her life, wherever she lived, Jeanette and her husband attended their local Quaker Meeting, where she occasionally spoke, often posing challenging questions of herself and the Meeting.

46 Peter Dibb (Scholar 1943-50) Peter Dibb, the son of a Huddersfield accountant, was born in 1933 in Honley. The excellent sporting facilities that Ackworth offered may have prompted his parents to send him to the school because he soon developed a life-long passion for sport, especially cricket.

Peter was a remarkable individual. He played cricket for nine different clubs in the Huddersfield League over 62 seasons, scoring over 17000 runs and taking over 3000 wickets. He had periods as the professional for five of the clubs. Apparently he kept his cricket bat under his bed because he valued it so highly. Toward the end of his cricket career, Peter enjoyed playing for the Penguins, a team formed in 1924 by a group of doctors from Leeds Royal Infirmary. They came to Ackworth every year to play a fixture against a Masters’ XI, a team of 3 or 4 masters and the best cricketing boys from the First XI which included Peter. Peter, as a 16 year old in 1949, would have been batting against the Penguins, with the master and future head of school, Albert Lindley.

Apart from cricket, Peter played hockey until he was 61 and was a member of Longwood Harriers Athletics Club from 1980. Even at the age of 76 he was running distances from 100 to 1000 metres. He usually attended the Easter Ackworth Old Scholars weekend and, of course, he ran the Badsworth. Peter was a gentle, quiet spoken man. He worked as an accountant in Leeds. He had one daughter Paula, a sister, Gillian, three nephews and one niece. He was the archetypal Yorkshireman, and rarely out of the county for long. On one occasion he went with a group of Ackworth Old Scholars fora weekend in Paris, but the city and the food were not to his liking.

After ending his sporting activities Peter still remained very active. He walked, together with his friend Patricia, doing the Three Peaks, Scafell Pike, Skiddaw, Snowdon and other local mountains.

He died suddenly walking in a bluebell wood near his birthplace, Honley.

47 Mary Dunning, née Wetterstrand (scholar 1939-42) Mary was born 1926 in Tonbridge. Her mother Hilda died in childbirth, so Mary was brought up by a Great Aunt in Saltburn, Yorks. In 1939-42 she was a boarder at Ackworth School to avoid the bombing of Middlesbrough area, but she remembered vividly a stray bomb that broke the dormitory windows at Ackworth.

She worked for her father, Gustave, on his fruit farm, until starting nursing training at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle,1945-1948, when the benefits of the new Penicillin treatments were discovered.

In the RVI she met a young doctor, Derek Bryant, and married in 1949. They had two children, Pamela and Peter, and got divorced in 1960. Mary continued to work in nursing, also after her second marriage to John Dunning, also an Ackworth old scholar, in 1961, and moved south to Hertfordshire. Here she was active in the local Operatic Society, joined AOSA activities in London, and also worked with drug addicts. Jonathan was born in 1964. In 1982 she divorced and later took early retirement from District nursing, moving to Portsmouth with her partner in 1986.

Mary was active in Portsmouth Cathedral congregation and also guided visitors round the warship “Warrior” in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.

Mary travelled to various countries, especially to Switzerland to visit family, and twice to New Zealand. She was a keen reader and enjoyed knitting and sewing until her eyesight worsened, and was a regular swimmer.

She died peacefully at home on 5 July 2020, aged 93, leaving three children, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Margaret Frazer nee Sandy (Atom) - Scholar 1945-52 Margaret came to Ackworth at the end of WWII just after the nuclear attacks on Japan. Being the smallest person in the school it was not long before she was nicknamed Atom!

She very much enjoyed her time there and made many good friends.

After leaving school she decided not to go on to higher education immediately but began her working life with Boots the chemist where she ultimately qualified with a certificate in pharmacy. This led her into work within the hospital service which kept her very active brain well occupied. She married Don Fraser in 1956 and began married life in Dartford, Kent. Her three children grew up there and they all enjoyed their involvement in the scouting and guiding groups locally. She and Don moved to Farnsfield in Nottinghamshire after he

48 retired, and for many years she was the secretary of the Women’s Institute there, which again, kept her active brain very much alive. Margaret died of cancer in May and is survived by her son and two daughters and her sister, Diana.

John Parkinson John Parkinson (scholar 1945-1951) was born in Scarborough in 1934 and was orphaned in his late teens.

After national service as a conscientious objector at the Retreat Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in York with the support of his older sister Janet he qualified as a solicitor. John met his wife Civil at the Retreat and together they raised a family of four children. John returned to Scarborough in 1964 and built a successful law career in Scarborough including being president of the Scarborough Law Society. John used his talents as a solicitor to good effect in Scarborough. John did not advertise his good works but from other sources it is clear that he did a great deal for individuals and for many of Scarborough’s charitable institutions. Among the beneficiaries of his talents was his help in the relocation and building of Scarborough Friends Meeting House.

Outside his professional activities John’s interests were in family history and he was a keen supporter of Derby County football club and Scarborough and Yorkshire cricket clubs. Civil died in 2005 and in 2014 John made the difficult decision to move from Scarborough to be near family at Harpenden in Hertfordshire where he died on 19th April 2020. In Scarborough John lived out the Ackworth School motto “Non sibi sed omnibus” (Not for self but for everyone).

Stephen Wright Stephen Wright’s name or doodlings will most likely still be found around the school or grounds of Ackworth. I think he had the time of his life there; stories of girls, orange peel wine and smoking behind the bike shed were often lamented over.

Studying was not important to Dad at the time, with his interests firmly focused on the music, art and culture of the late 1960s. However, after his time at Ackworth, instead of going off to art school he decided to open his own antique shop in Wakefield. Five years later he sold it and joined

49 his father Colin in the footwear distribution industry. After 11 years of great business he made another change by moving into financial advice.Apparently he was talked into joining by his own financial advisor!

In 1978 he married Louise Wright and they had two children, Gemma and Jeremy who all had a great family life in Nun Monkton for more than ten years. During that time he went back to footwear sales with great success and then the distribution industry collapsed with buyers going direct to their own factories.

This forced dad to go back into financial advice for several years. In that time he divorced, moved to London with Jyoti, learnt to ride motorbikes, moved back up to Boston Spa and enjoyed a few years as a bachelor.

Dad was always a maverick at heart and after one too many pieces of compliance paperwork he decided to set up his own business as a painter and decorator in 2012. He also started painting pictures more often and sold a few great ones but sadly this was cut short by an accident. In October 2019 he was pulling ivy off the front of his house when he slipped from his ladders. He leaves behind four grandsons but his wisdom and humour will certainly be passed on.

Jeremy Wright

Liz Morgan (Scholar 1972-74) We are sad to learn that Liz Morgan (scholar 1942-74) died recently.

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Ackworth School Old Scholars’ Association FULL LIST OF PRESIDENTS 1882-83 Joseph Simpson

1895-96 Helen Bayes

1883-84 William Coor Parker

1896-97 Sir James Reckitt

1884-85 James Henry Barber

1897-98 Henry Ecroyd Clark

1885-86 Joseph Stickney Sewell

1898-99 Albert Linney

1886-87 Henry Thompson

1899-1900 Mary Caroline Pumphry

1887-88 Thomas Pumphrey

1900-01 William Harvey

1888-89 Joseph Pattison Drewett

1901-02 John William Graham

1889-90 William Jones

1902-03 Robert Henry Taylor

1890-92 Henry Tennant

1903-04 Rachel Oddie

1892-93 Frederick Andrews

1904-05 Alfred Henry Taylor

1893-94 Charles Brady

1905-06 Philip Burtt

1894-95 Alfred Simpson

1906-07 Joseph Firth Clark

52 1907-08 Septimus Marten

1921-22 Charles H. Smithson

1908-09 Joseph Spence Hodgson

1922-23 Isaac Henry Wallis

1909-10 Anna Louise Jackson

1923-24 Harold Collinson

1910-11 William Whiting

1924-25 Henry Binns

1911-12 J. Travis Mills

1925-26 Margaret Andrews

1912-13 Samuel E. Brown

1926-27 William F. Nicholson

1913-14 Caroline C. Graveson

1927-28 Alfred E. Binyon

1914-15 W. Trevelyan Thomson

1928-29 Mary F. Hartley

1915-16 Sheldon Leicester

1929-30 Edmund Henry Gilpin

1916-19 William Graveson

1930-31 Walter Robert Bayes

1919-20 Frederick Andrews

1931-32 Gerald K. Hibbert

1920-21 Ellen M. Fry

1932-33 Leila Sparkes

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1933-34 Edgar B. Collinson

1947-48 Rowland C. Moore

1934-35 Frank Ward

1948-49 J. Stanley Carr

1935-36 Ernest Bowman Ludlam

1949-50 Reginald Broomhead

1936-37 Jane H. Williamson

1950-51 Eleanor Crosland

1937-38 Thomas Foulds

1951-52 Rex Yates

1938-39 Joseph H. Lester

1952-53 Theodore W. Allen

1939-40 Bertha Smith

1953-54 R. Percy Foulds

1940-41 G. Noel Hyde

1954-55 Dorothy Mussell

1941-42 Helen Andrews

1955-56 Bernard Wright

1942-44 W. Arthur Cooper

1956-57 A. Eric Ellison

1944-46 James Westwood

1957-58 Lucy Binks

1946-47 Blanche M. Bennett

1958-59 James S. Lidbetter

54 1959-60 Ashton Watts

1971-72 Margaret Martin

1960-61 Lucy O’Brien

1972-73 Phyllis M. Sadler

1961-62 Eric Bellingham

1973-74 Albert F. Lindley

1962-63 Arnold Sewell

1974-75 Stephen Burtt

1963-64 Elfrida V. Foulds

1975-76 Mary Rogers

1964-65 Helen J. Neatby

1976-77 Hilary W. Smith

1965-66 Arthur G. Olver

1977-78 Roger Spinks

1966-67 Stanley G. Horner

1978-79 Walter Fearnley

1967-68 Ralph E. Handy

1979-80 Agnes Thompson

1968-69 Kathleen Binns

1980-81 Ian Bailey

1969-70 Phillip Radley

1981-82 D. Keith Daniel

1970-71 Donald Birkett

1982-83 Elisabeth F. Heywood

55 1983-84 John R. Postle

1995-96 Michael Hargreave

1984-85 Stephen Ward

1996-97 Anne Telford-Kenyon

1985-86 Mary Fulford

1997-98 Margery Bunney

1986-87 George Bunney

1998-99 Robert Gibson

1987-88 Molly Longley

1999-2000 Grace Hunter

1988-89 Colin Mortimer

2000-01 Christopher Moore

1989-90 Peter Norris

2001-02 Celia M. Ball

1990-91 Margaret Postle

2002-03 Peter Lambourn

1991-92 Sheila Banks

2003-04 Michael & Annabel McRobert

1992-93 Celia Brebner

2004-05 Marguerite Hill

1993-94 Gordon Mckee

2005-06 Geoffrey R. Pedlar

1994-95 Mary Robinson

2006-07 David J. Bunney

56 2007-08 Diana Chadwick

2014-15 Michael & Marjorie Bliss

2008-09 Christopher Rengert

2015-16 Peter Speirs

2009-10 Donald Elliott

2016-17 Nicholas Seed

2010-11 Martin Dickinson

2017-18 Belinda Walters

2011-12 Shirley Day

2018-19 Aidan Mortimer

2012-13 Stephen & Joyzelle Kelsall 2013-14 Christopher Jones

2019-21 Peter Causer