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Mr Charles Martin Old Boy MAU14
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ith over 320 Boarders spread across five Houses, The Southport School is one of the largest boarding schools in the country. Hailing from all over Australia (and some international), TSS boarders will eat, sleep, study and engage in sport and recreation on the school grounds for 37 weeks of the year and therefore constitute a huge part of the culture that makes this school so special. In 1988, Headmaster Bruce Cook echoed this sentiment in his annual report: “I like to describe the School as being a boarding school to which day boys come rather than a day boy school to which boarders come. I am quite sure that many of our day boy parents send their boys to the School because of the boarding influence which permeates the very fabric of all that we do here.” The story of TSS Old Boy, William Rudland (RAD15), is an excellent illustration of this idea. Originally in Radcliffe House and commuting from Ashmore to school each day, Will was not unlike any other Day Boy. While playing rugby for the school, he quickly befriended Charlie Wells, a Biddle
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