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STANDS FOR PLAYGROUND
Queen's have added yet another credit to dts namt:. We have strayed somewhat from the normal as this once we have distinguished ourselves in being able to build our own stands on our playing fields. People have always been in the habit of con demoing Queen's as a place where everything required is easily supplied for us by the Government. Well, ladies and gen tlemen here is some food for thought. This project happens to be our second self-help scheme, the first bein g the build ing of an old stand which has recently been repaired.
SPORTS MEETING The man beh ind this sch eme is our wood-work master Mr. E . A. W ason and t h e main carpenter is Qur J anitor Mr. Daniels. These two are h elped in this very benefic-ia 1 endeavour by a few members of the school who are blessed with some wood-working ability. The erection of these stands, which has for a lon g time been a burning question, has become an urgent necessity in view of the fact that we are having our annual Athletic Meeting on our own grouods. Previously we have been accustomed to 'run off' our 'sports' at the G.C.C. ground, Bourda but this ground is unavailable ~ us this time owing to the cricket matches bein g played there,
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As a !result, Ht.51:bry w ilil. be created for Q.C. when the Athletics Meeting gets underwav on our playing field on the 171h of this month. Owmg to this state of affairs, we have found it n ecessary to prf)vide iaccommodation for our guests, and this problem could osly be solved by building two new s tands and repair ing the third. When all construction work is completed we will be furnished with three s tands and one pavilion. Each s tand is bu ii t to accommodate about 100 people. En passant I may mention that a Tea Tent will also be erected on our grounds for the purpose of the purpose of the Sports. Invitees to the tea will only include the sport officials and certain Govt. officials. FEWER INVITEES
1Due to our limited accomodation, Q.C. has been forced to limit consicierably the number of invitees to the sports. Those the parents of prefects, of new who have been invited fnclude boys and of athletes who are competing in the finals and some government off;cials and oldboys. Formerly Queen's has alwafs sent mvitat1ons to parents of all pupils and also to certain of our ne ighbouring schools. Needless to say the a bsence of the pupils from these schools, notabl y Bishop's High School and the Convents, would be severely felt by our boys and the 'L ictor' officials would like to expr ess our sin cere sympathy to all t.l1ose w ho will be in distress. However, do not be discour a ged all non-inv itees a nd fellow-sufferers. N ext year, the school plans to extend this building pro_ ject and to be furnished , b y t h e time the next sports comes around with bigger and more efficient-looking st-ands, so as to
accommodate our normal number of guests.
CRICKET By the way, these stands will serve principally a dual purpose. In addition to being of great u se .on Sports Day, they will also come in very handy in the School'5 Cricketing faculty. We have recently been promoted into the Case Cu p Division which is the First-Class Cricket Competition in Georgetown and so the previously alarming problem of accommodating our cricket spectators will also be easily solved by our self-hel9 building scheme. J.R.K.B. Asst. Editor.
'l'hursday, Mar ch 17, 1960.
ARE WE LOSING
MR. NILES?
P:~EMPEH COLL~GE i ll Kum~s1, Ghana! seems lik~ly to d epnve us of Mr. J. J. Niles, B .A., B.Sc. Lond. in the very near future - in fact we may not see Our P rincip al, Mr. v. J. Sanger- him at Q.C. next term! Dav-ies is scheduled to leave the colon y in April for England, Mr. Niles. has ~n offered the where he will spend a 4-month post of Seruor B1~lo~ ~a'iter at holiday. H e is expected to join that well-known ms~tution and, his w ife and son in England. He ~ortunately f~r us, it seems v'ery will be resuming d uties as Prin- likely that he will ~ccept the offer. ripal from the beginning of the If he does, he "'?ll have. to be Xmas term. there fo!" the opening of their term On behalf of t!he students of the on April 28th. school, the editorial staff of this newspaper would like to exten d BIOLOGY MASTER to him, its heartiest W!ishes for a . . most pleasurable holiday. Durin g Mr. Niles who. is ai:i Old Boy }'ijs absence, Mr. Cameron, will taugh t at Berb1ce High School perform the duties of Principal. from 1929 to 1943 · In March 1943 , FEATUIRES- EDITOR he cam e to teach at Q.C. and ha,; · been with us ever sin ce. Mr. Niles, who is substantively a Biology Master h ere has also taught Physics, Chemistry and Geography to th e S ixth Form in the ,p ast.
PRINCIPAL GOING' ON VACATION
AN ORGAN FOR
CENTRAL HIGH The n ew bu<il ding being put u p f th c H or e en tral igh School by contractor Mr. D. Doornick, on St: Philip's Parade will shortly be ciistinguished by the presence of a new Wu rlitzer Organ. This information was given us by the Principal of C.H.S., Mrs. Low. The Wu r!:•zer is an electric organ built by German makers in t!h.e United States and it will be the first of its name to be brought to B.G. by the agent Mr. And.lew James, prop:r,ietor of the Auto Supplies Co., and father of our own Brian James of the U4M.
SUBSCRIPTION A s far as w e can gather ·the ~urlitzer, . which is alr~ady 011 1~ way, will cost the schoo: about $5,000, a large part of which is being raised by voluntary subscrpition INSIDE THE SCHOOL. If yo14 go to Central High now you will see on the walls !ists of pupils who have promised to subscribe certain sums. Central Hig1i h as, of course, over 1,000 students and not a few enthusiastic Old Students. MAIN BALL The organ, instead of a piano, will adorn the Main Hall of the new building which is expected to seat 1,000 on ceremonial cx:ca-· sions. This Main Hall has a high stage, (too high, in our opinion for stage productions considering the nearness of the ceiling) and an auditorium over 100 feet long which is expected to seat. over 1,000 persons. ROOMS Its normal use will be to serve as five new classrooms - one on the stage and four on the floorwhich will be separated by folding panel walls. ThiSI type of wall offers another advantage from the theatrical standpoint in that the s ize of the auditorium could easily be altered to suit a small, moderate or large audience at will by simply closin g th e a ppropriate dividing w all and · opening the others. At either end of this up!)E'r flat C'f the buildinl!, which has a total le ngth of 150 feet, there is a £ma ll staff roQm, one for male an d th e other !or female st aff. LABORATORIES The entire building' is of green~ f eat ure of the hear t' and " gtructu r e is, the boar d ing of t hc . t· h • t wa lls 1s ver . 1ca 1 t drcug,1ou , s ome use a l so b em ~ ma e of p ink and green rl asbeS1tos s heetin g. fl h ·p b The. groun cor, . owever, w 1 e or
concrete and h O11 n I t wi.11 ow. 1 e. accommo?-ate a vestibule, three laboratories d t t rooms. an wo s ore
COMMENDATION The Lictor must commend the Central High School on their bold and enterprislng step. It is the first new building de!,igned for secondary school since Q.C. was finished ten years ago, and it is one cf perhaps only 3 buildings in Birtish Guiana actually designed as a ~chool. Now the largest <:econdary school in' B.G., it wil l. be the only one here and one of only two or three ::n the West Indies to have an organ (K" g t College, Jamaica, ·whert s.;; Boland went las t year, is one other) . ~at organ will be the only one available for hand-clap recitals in !3.G. as nll our other organs are 11:1 churc'h'75· ,E".'en our doubletitled Radio station, a stone-t h row away .f~o.m the new C.H.S: on St. Philip s Green, does not have an organ. And Q.C.? Well we have the British Council's and our own grand pianos, but no organ. Does not our auditorium deserve one? Come cm Q.C., past and present, what about it?
STOP PRESS A NEWSPAP ER TOO ! ~ We have just been informed that Central High will be publishing a NEWSPAPER! The very first issue is now being prepared.
GAMES MASTER Mr. Niles had also been senior c'ham_pion of Q.C. for three years r u nmng (1927-29) and so when he J"oined the taff .._ nl s 1~ was o Y natural that he was asked to be Games Master, which he was until
Following up our "Q,C. s tars in scholastic field" headline of last term' s school newspaper, th e fol. lowing achievements have kept our "banner of integrity" fl ying high. MiC'hae l S tuart Ridley gained one of three encrineerin g S(!holarships awarded by t he Texaco Oil Company , T r inidad. Herman "Bosco" Roh!eh r ~ecurcd a Bookers Technical Scholarship in Chem ical Engint>ering : while Buokers' Cadetships w ere attain<.'d by V incen t Corre ia a nd Walter L ee. T th f o ese our n ew "old boys," w e bestow QUr unadulterated congratul ations and w ish them unbounded su ccess in their future car een>. Feat. Ed.
ACTING PREFECTS . .
Durmg the staging of t ll e U.C.W.I. Entrance and Scholarship examination last week, the school lost t he services of some of the Prefects As a result the following were appointed acting Prefects to carry on in the meantime:- A li L. A.; Bcodhoo V. R.; Birkett L. S.; Chan N. P.; Gobin R. ; Ho W. G.; Kuehnel R. 0. W .; Lee Own D.; Lewis L. L .; McWatt D. A.; Ramprashad J. R. G.; Rickford G. H.; Singh J. M.; Spence D.R.; and Zitman R. I. G.
Q.C. STAGES DRAMA FESTIVAL. At l~tie last, the authorit ies ~re l~unchmg an ~1-out campa1~ armed at extr'.1ctu:ig any dramatic talent that exists m the school. On th7 last Monday a1;-d Tuesday _of th·]{, term, there will be ~ series of l~act i)lays, each !astmg app roximately h hour; put forward by the different Houses. These play5 can be of any kind whatever, but it is imperative that there be no external coaching. So far, only 6 Houses have entered the compe tition, and •it is expec ted that the r est will do so before long. The adjudicator for these plays will be Mr. Arthur Hemstock of the Sugar Producers' Union. The officials in each House should aim a t (a) bringing out the main theme; (b) good characterisation; and (c) smooth production for these are the qualities that will be especially looked for. Above all highest marks will be given for teamwork and all th.? casts should learn to work together as a whole and not h ave any one player outshinin g his coactors and having the play centred too much around him.
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1956. Mr. Niles will be seeing to. day, his last Q.C. sports meeting for a long time-we hope he will r e turn to B.G. - but he will eviciently not be short of sports meetings in Kumasi as, we hear that city has a sports stadium t hat can seat 30,000!! We would indeed be very sorry to lose Mr. Niles but if he goes to Ghana before we re-assemble we can only express our grateful thanks to him for the many yearn of fine service he has given Q.C., and wish him and his family the very best of luck and happiness in the Old World.
It is hoped that this feature in Q.C. activities, will be an annual affair, so that the quality of our dramatic productions will become so good that we w :11 be a ble t o cQmpete in t'he Nat ional Drama Festivals which w ill be arranged ( it is h oped) r egularly b y the Theat::! Guild. <?i:ie o~her benefit of this ::om pet1t1on 1s tha t together . with ou r a nnu al school p roductio_n the school'~ interest in ?rama will bc> kep t ahve all durmE( the ye:ir A point of interest w hich w ill i:timul:ltc actors to give their best is tha t the Bishops' High School ha b · · ·1 s een runrung a sum ar compe!·ition for some years now. There h as b een no offi rial word about it ,. · h oped that th is will meart' 0u t h·, 1s that com pet i·t·ions between t h ,e two schools W1·11 b e arrange d , b e-
~inn ing. if not this year, a t least hy ~1ex t year. V. R. BOODBOO. L6Ma
NEW TIES COMING One m ight have noticed in last term's "Lictor," an articlo concerning the probability of the awarding of special ,ties to those ~tudents who have achieved "schc<::! colour;." in a n:v game or a s has recently s tarted, in academic activities. This has now been made definite, and these ties have already been ordered. They are expected to arrive sometime this term. These ties w ill be the reverse of ithe prefects' ties, that is black with gold stripes. This is in m y opinion, and perhaps in yoUJrs a marked step towards true recognition of w hat we know as "school colours". A boy receives "school colours" in one sphere or ia:nother w hen he is regarded as a prominent contributor to the progress of the school in the particular sphere. At the start of every school year, a school announcement takes the form of:- "The following have b een awarded "schoo l colours" : x, y, and z for cricket, A and B for footb all etc: e tc When the announceme n t is ',co~pleted, a greater percent age of the boys and m asters presen t, cheer lustily; an d with the cheering all over, m ost of us forget of these ou tstand ing individ uals in t h e school until, a new school year -.omcs again and a new list of awards are made. The outstanding merits of these prominent individuals should, in m y opini:>n, always be upheld. Now that these special ties w ill be worn by boys wi"th " school colou rs," 1· t 1·s hoped that significance. th ey w ould b ear the intended Features Editor.