The QC Lictor - November, 1961

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13 l>istinctions. 76o/o 'A' Level Passes As Q.C. Wins Both Guiana Scholarship

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glory to Queen's by winning these scholarships, thus coutlnuing · this record-br.eaking series of scholarships awarded to Q.C. boys.

Campbell. who )lad already won the Federal College Exhibition at t he U.C.W.I. examination. obtained three distinctions in Latin, French and Spanish, while Croal a Science student, secu red distinctions in

in Physics and Maths before ente ring one of the Universities in EngJand.

J. f. Croal, born in May 1943 won a school certificate scholarship from Tutorial High School, and entere<f Queen's College in 1958 in the &RB. At Tutorial he passed in eight subjects at the 'O' level, ~aining d istincdons in four of them. In July 1959 he satisfied the examiners of the Oxford and Cambridge board in four subjects, all relatively new to him and completed in 5RiB as a one year course.

He obtained a distinction the following year in Pure-andApplied Maths at the London 'A' Level exams. At the London 'A' Level exams in 1961, he finished with flying colours, obtaining distinctions in Applied Maths, and Pure Maths, and securing Grade 3 passes in Phy· sics and Chemistry.

If the present salary scale for masters at Queen's College especially, is not revised soon enough, .i t is r easonable to conclude that in the verv near future the staff of Queen's College will be definitely impoverished-"degree-wise". As compared with the hard work the master s have to put in, in order that our college would be "on the move", their present pay packet cannot be a just recompense.

Lately many masters have been leaving Q.C ., going to other places where they will obviously receive more money .

Not only are they just masters, but they are masters with distinction, with Honcurs degrees, masters who have helped many Q.C. students t o reach their goal. The great problem is that these master s cannot be

TRfflUTE TO MR. BE'11RAM

Croal was a cadet in 1958-

r: 1959, and took an active part in .

Pure Maths and Applied Maths, passing with grade 3 in Physics and Chemistry at the London Advanced Level examinations held in .July of this year.

debating, he being one of the team with Rodney, that won the Patrick Dargan Shield in 1959.

This distinguished Q.C. boy was also a member of last year's magazine staff . Croal is at present pursuing his studies at the U.C.W.I.

The per centage 'A' level passes dropped slightly-from 78% last year to 76% this year, but by obtaining thirteen distinctions the previous year's total was surpassed by four.

The results for t his year's London 'A' Level examinations were very good, as compared with last year's record-breaking figures. We had 76% passes this year, and thirteen distinctions,

C. P. CROAL

It was no great surprise to us w hen we heard that Campbell had won the Guiana Scholarship, but it must have been a close fight for the second scholarship between Croal and Budhu, both of whom had two distinctions each at the 'A' Level Exmas.

suitably replaced, for the simple reason that nobody with L hard earned degree would come and teach here for the vel') inadequate sum "just for the love of teaching." It just is no done these days! Since thi well-qualified perscnnel is no attracted to t each here th< result would be devastating to Queen's College. 'l'he stcJ.II w.. have to accomm odate unde graduates, or graduates fron; universitie~ of no real distm tion .

This must not be so. Queen College is the best secondary ;:,.;.,vv , 1n tue Wuu1e l,a.1·,uut:u. and will have to r etain thi.: prestige throughout the ages It is therefore left to our Government to see that this remains -,v; u.., ••t'r sa1an es- better masLers--better results.

R.F.

Mr. Hetram, who joined the staff of Queen's in 1951 afte1 having served with the R.A.F. has had a long and fr.ujtful asso ciation with this school. In th Latin department he has d01 great service, always gettin good r esults.

He was always interested il law and began studying ser 1 ously 1by himself. In 1958 h• gained the B.G.L. degree at Dur ham. Now, three years later, h also has his LL.B. (1st part) which he gained externally frorr London a few months ago. H f is a member of the Inner Temple.

He intends to gain his full LL.B. degree next year when he goes on leave. ' I a~ . sure. that thff school J~ms with the sta .

L1ctor m congratulatmg hlm and wishing him success.

L.R.G.

II IBest G.C.E. "O"' Level Mr. D. HETRAM

Campbell won a Government County Scholarship and entered Queen's College in 1953. He took the 'O' Level exams in 19581959 passing in a total of nine subjects; he was a sen ior scholar.

He became a prefect in 1961 and is at present head of ~ustin House. At th is year's U.C.W.L Exams, Campbell won the F ederal Scholarship Exhibition, a scholarship open to students from all over the Caribbean, G. H. CAMPBELL and again distinguished himself at the London 'A' Level exams. by obtaining distinctions in his four more than last year', one d istinction obtained by Hinds three swbjects. from Lmve r Si_xth Modern in ' Campbell is at 1>resent a mem- Pure. and 4-pph ed Maths. T~ •b er of the Radio Club, also of cel~b~~te this! and all t~e oth~l the Historical and Bee-Keeping act1~1ties takmg _Place m th is Societies; he also plays chess as years eventf~l History an~ Oul-1· a memJber of the chess club. He ture Week, h_1st?ry was cieated is still at Q.C. and will remain when the P:mcipal _announced here f.or one mor e year, tryin g that he dec.ided _to give us one to absorb about four years· work week of half-hohdays.- Ed.

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As I followed the crowd to the form room I thought what a vast impersonal institution, cold 1and unfriendly Queen's College must he, with its motley collection of masters of divers characters and creeds. The first two periods were free as were very many that first ,week. I began to wonder how Guiana scholars were produced in such numbers by such methods of training.

But things changed and I saw how it was done.

In getting about the building I noticed many things which must seem commonplace. The untidy Chemistry Lab. (Adv) and the library which must have ,,een better days and was then Jn its last legs, are just two particularly strictly examples. I also .>bserveo that t he attitude of the ><>YS to\Yards the public property ~ould easily be expressed like ,his: "Is na me own, me en kay."

Yet these boys were good 11atured in their way. I found .heir nomenclature of the masters interesting but not easily under stood. Where did names like Sheriff Breezy or Puck or ,,e Goat come fro:n? Perhaps .heir origin is buried too far away in the Murky past for it to be recollected.

However I enjoy working and living in the company of these schola 1·s of the Queen's College whom I have so tar found quite easy to get on with.

M.A. Ra.i L6M (a)

matics, success has never exceeded 65 % wh ile Additional Mathematics gets a much higher percentage. He explained that I this was so ·b ecause too many The past school year has been doubtful candidates were put another g lorious year for us at up for the former subject.

Queen's. We have done extremely well in our Scholastic achieveAl tho h there as an im- ments and have tried, but not pro eme~i in ti: English tiard enough in our sport activiLanvguage results. he warned ties;_;w~ were. however, successthat boys would have to pay ful in r egaining t he Jacob Cup He congratulated the Fifth more attention to this subj ect in cricket, and put on a fairly General on gaining an average a nd E lementary Mathematics. good s how against the Q.R.C;. of 3.3 passes per •boy. the best When boys enter in t he Second touring team. figure s ince 1956, when it was Form they tend to neglect The ini tial year of the new 3.7 passes per boy. The Upper · them and concent rate on new Fourths were also congratulated s ubjects with the result that "common entrance" system has for thei r fine performance, when they reach the Fifth Form passed, and, as was expected, ga.ining 8'7 % passes and equal- t hey realise their mistake ' when there wer e no spectacular results. ling last year's r ecord. The it is too late. the second, which was more ap- Upper Fou rth classical, entering There has been a gener al feelpreciated by the boys, was on West Indian History as a subFinally, the principal, re-- ing of unrest among some of "Things Guianese" and was ject for the first time as an member ing a warning he gave our boys s ince the elections, but experiment, achieved 100% at last year's Speech Day, that we hope that all their problems given by Mr. Hetram. passes. there was a fall in the number and anxieties will vanish away o f G. C. E. O'level p a s s e s, with the introduction of t he new Then the school listened to what was supposed to be an Ana lysi ng s ubjects, the princi- wonder ed whether . this year \ constitut ion. Every key post in a ddress by the Minister of E du- pal fou nd that candidates were success reflected an effort made our country is g radually being cation from the radio, but which most successful at E nglish by th e 218 candidates or a I occupied by Guianese, whom we turned out to be largely un intel- Language, English Literature special effort on the masters' thinik are. qujte capable of carrying out their particular r esponligible due to faulty reproduc- ·, History, Latin Art_ and, to .a part to "show the old man." s ibilities. This is desirable. tion by the sound system. lesser extent, Spamsh and Bi- L.R.G. Ed. - L.R.G. ology. In E lementary Mathe-

In his analysis of this year 's r esults, the principal said that the total num'ber of passes gai ned, 638, was eq.ual to the number of boys who were in school at the end of last year, H e had al,ways hoped that this would happen one day. These 638 passes were g;.i ned by 21·8 candidates ::1.nd represent 68% of the total n umber of en~ries.

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f!.C. Celebrates

On Friday 27th October, Guiana Day, the school held a short programme of celebration during the latter half of the morning. The school sang "My Guiana". Thl! S'o ng of Guiana's Children" and "My Native Land," the enthusiasm of the boys making up for their lack of knowledge of the tunes.

There were two short talks, the first l)y Mr. Cameron on the history of Queen's College and

It was my good fortune to be accepted to the Sixth Form at Q.C. On the first day of term a new phase of my life ibegan. The morning assembly was qu ite a novel experience for me. The agenda was orderly and Briska hymn, prayers, )ates; a nnouncements and notices, other lates. I thought the boys sang and behaved quite well. After assembly came the ma~king of the register and then the day's "toils."

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Thursday, November 30, 1961

T~ QUEEN'S COLLEGE LICTOR

LETTERS TO· THE EDITOR

THE Q ,C , LICTOR I EDITORIAL BOARD. Editor Assistant Editor Features Editor Sports EdittJr Treasurer Distribution Manager Supervisor

Contributors are .reminded tlaat tlaeir names brary, no school library and no must .be su.bmtted witla eac:la artidle or Jetter. Your place for free conversation. name, laowever. will .be witlala~.d from pu.biHc:ation I sincerely hope that steps ii you wish it.

Supervisor. w o u Id be taken to avert

W. R. M. Farley L. R. Gibbs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • these deficiencies and that we shall soon see this notic:e on K. L. STULL every right to see that no boy show.

Two Rote-Books peT "Biblioteca espanola P. A. M. GRIFFITH uses his exercise books indis- ahoy."

Term-Not Enou?h criminately, and it is usually Yours faithfully, C. B. ADAMS these boys who are offended by H. E. ELCOCK. Sir, A. R. BACCHUS the office's "moderate" rule. affair has been A peculiar Mr. F. M. BIRBALSiNGH going on in this school for i:,ome You are supplied not only witl) exercise notebooks, but also

Note : You overlook that SpanN.B. : -The views e xpressed by i ndividuals are not n eces- time now. Wihen the boys read books fo r each subject.Use them ish is a comparatituely new su-0th is Jetter, I am certaH, that sarily those of the Editorial Board and School as a whole- some of them will wholehearted- both ! The office is allowed a ject in the school. The greatest; - Ed. Q.C.L. ly agree with what I have to certain quota and cannot spend etforts are presently being 1nade say. I have noticed that the beyond this limit. Unless more by the faculty to improv.e faciliF.M.B. office has now passed certain money is given by the Govern- ties in this subject.

T HURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30th, 1961 ~nwritten la1WS. If a boy uses ment for the purchasing of exhis exeroise book, e:1pecially his ercise books, this "tightening * * notebook in Wlhioh he docs most up" will contiJJJJe. EDITORIAL of his writing and calculations However, too many boys ~re Our Field Heeds a Fence in less than half a term, he will ,B aclly have to buy a new one for found to use there exercise of extra work. hooks to do a lot twenty-five cents, his book canDear Sir, not be exchanged because, as the This should not be so. R.F. secretary remarked," you will I can hardly wonder why T HIS is another Christmas term - a term when old faces are make the Government of Brit ish our standard of football here at * * missed and we notice n~v ones, when crioketers and non- Guiana become bankrupt."

Queen's is de.terioyating, when our facilities are so poorly taken cr icketers alike eagerly contest the coveted House Cricket Trophy Please Give the That was ,indeed very patri-a term when boys think in terms of · "house-feed." But, is this care of. I am speaking about Spaniards A Chance "just another" Christmas term? Many changes pave occurred otic and thoughful of her; howthe fences on either side of the within t he past few months or so rwh.ich cannot escape our atten- ever, it must be noted that cer- by Enrique Manuel Elcocque field and, to a lesser extent tion, and it is interesting to note how cl-0se a relationship these tain poor parents spend IiteraJJy aboui the footballs themselves events .b ear with us here at Queen's College, and how significant their last cent to educate their Sir, which are not being pl'operly sons at Q.C. so if a student uses cared for. I am sure that even t h is term is for some of us. his book honestly and fills it the cricketers would agree with It has not escaped my Our country's first premier has been elected. Dr. Jagan is fro m cover to cover in any attention that the study of me that the Queen's; College an old boy of Queen's College, and we are very proud to see that period of time, by all rights he Spanish .h as been very lightly field is in dire need of a proper one of our old students has now taken the reins of t his country ,in is entitled to a new book. After dealt with. This should not be fen ce. This opinion has been all, why is he paying $1.50 per his capable hands. Congratulations Dr. Jagan ! for if we are to have a lively voiced repeatedly in the "Q.C." term for exercise books? intercourse with our Latin- Lictor," and it is sad to see that no attention has been to it With ,t his old boy of Queen's College as her leader, British I suggest that the office American neighbours we should AS YET! Guiana is now on her forwa r d march on the road towards I nde- should restrict this rule to sec- consolidate the Sole means of Thanking you, pendence. This mov.e is, however, retarded 1by various obstacles, ond and third formers not mem- communication, the language.

I am, the principal of which is the lack of proper education. It is up to bers of the upper school, for in Yours etc., Queen's College to help to filJ this great need.

Spanish and French unthe upper school we tend to fill like Latin and Gr eek need DAVID ROHEE VG. our notebooks far more quickly Guiana will need men with greater technical skill, men with than usual, as we do much more constant familiarisation with a very sound all round £:ducation--capa:ble men who would lift her work. So, Sir, I would indeed be the words, which comes from out of the valley of drudgery, and despair, and set her on "mount be grateful if you can contact reading and/or conversation in Supervisor's Notes The P.W.D Zion", a shining light to her neighbours, in other words, Guiana the author,ities responsible for the particular language. This has already been notified about will need more men from Queen's. Sons of this college will ibe this practice, and let us hope is particularly necessary when the required repairs to the required to accept new responsibilities, and in order for our high- that this situation will be soon the language is not your own. fences. The greatest care is beest hopes to become realit ies, they w.ill have to work much harde~· remedied.

A perfect example of this is ing taken of the footballs since than at present . We will no longer be wor king for our colonial the learning of English in B. G. the amount of money available I remains, our own language b~ing Creole. to the football club is severely masters, ~ut for ourselves. limited. F.M.B. Yours etc., All of this points to one impo1'1;ant fact - we must work Both these facilities have AISAD ISHOOF. 5.M. harder. The cha llenge is already offered, t he race has been oeen granted for French. A started, we must keep up with the pace already set, and so " let us - - - wide choic9 of books can be * run with patience the race that is set ,b efore us." We must accept Editor's Comment. had from t he "Alliance Franthe challenge - wE; must work harder . . . .NOW. caise," the school library and Popsicles JI.gain Plecrse Obviously you fail to realise the Public Free ,Library and that the $1.50 you pay is for oral practice at the "Alliance Sir, "extr as," and that includes Francaise" but what do we have games- even th,is sum is insuf- for Spanish? A sparse collection five years ago, there ficient. The office reserves of books at the Public Free L i- was About a rather sudden and unexplained termination of the sales of popsicles in our tuck. ,..,.... .'.+''.+"•~•·'.+"+··. ... ... -:. ::+:: shop, thus depriving us of a cool It was just two weeks before the British Guiana Festival ..~ :.. ·<Ii • ••·'+:~:.::+:~-.... ... .... .... ..... ...... ... .... ... ....,.... .,... ... .,...•.'.. and refreshing element of our when S. M. Rickford announced that he had decided that the scholarly- if I may thus use the troops should en1ler a float in the float competit'ion. This deciword- diet. Such an article of sion was the result of a suggestion made by Senior Scout Jabour refreshment had previously at the last Court of Honour. The ma';n object of the float was formed a delicious and econoto popularise Scouting in British Guiana. ~ ~ mical attraction to the ravenous ~ ~ inmates of this institution for Luckily, we were a!ble to ob- and were s inging campfire not only were we able to obtain tain a truok from MT. Bacchus songs. Mr. Harris and Mr. ~ ~ a "half"- any flavour- for the of Peter's Hall E .B.D. without Wong, piayea guitars. We inmoderate price of three cents, much trouble. This truck, how- vited scouts and cubs from other but we could also add to our ever, was not put at our dis- troops and also Lady Cubmaster ~ ~ enjoyment by cons uming with it posal until Thursday 26th Octo- .Joan Gilkes wit h her colourful w• ~ one roIJ, priced two cents. ber, thirteen hours before the lumberjack covered with badges. ~ ~ ~ Competition. Meanwhile we ob- A globe with a Scout hat on it ~ By this petition for the rein~ troduction of such a delicacy, I tained per mission from Mr. was at the top of the Totem ~ Chinape:i:i to get material and to Pole. This symbolised scouting do not wish to imply that the use the woodwork shops after around the wor ld. In the front ~ ~ menu in our present tuck-shop school hours. Many faithful of t he tray of the truck was a ~ is unsatisfactory, but some of scouts helped to prepare lengths large Fleur-de-tis adorned with ~ See tJ1e wide selection of ·•· our scholars do seem to need a of wood, and pa.int emblems, bright flowers. But the most agent after two periods Bird Cages & N'ovelties : cooling and make other preparations to interesting part of the float was .. of application in the morning. ~ get the float fixed up at such the camp kitchen at the back.

Bird Seeds ~ short notice. Many meetings In it four scouts were preparing i_:1. :._: H.G.A.U.GC were held and the plan of the hot dogs, wrapping them up and ; Pet Food. l"i .: float outlined. The boys who had throwing to the crowd. This '.+' to wear national costumes were caused quite a stir among the ~: Dog Collars and Leads el S1iperviso1J s Note: given their designs. Most of the spectators. half holidays during History ;:; Dog Shampoo & Soap '•' , The caterer is at present negoand Culture Week were spent T he success of this float was ;.•.;.

T k -i ;; a e good eare va your pets 1., tiating for the purpose a "deepin the den or in the woodwork largely due to the exceHent freeze" refrigerator for the . '+: storage shop. When the truck came on supervision and hard work of ~ of popsicles. F.M.B. Thm'S<lay we spent many hours our young S.M. George Rickford , t ,,:.: _!. and the willing work of many ~ fixing it up. * * * '•' The Float took' the form of scouts. Besides these, the scouts ~: of British Guiana would like to ' ' BUY FROM ~; aJamboree scene. A Totem Pole convey t hanks to many business ~ Let thy Light Shine '+' with emblems and symbols from in Da.rkness past Jambor ees was placed in the centre of the truck. Scouts float. We also hope that this dis- : ~; Dear Sir, representing different countries play has reached its goal,- and ;+; :.: such as Zanzibar, Hungary, popularised scouting in British :!: } At the end of last term a Scotland, Canada, Jamaica. Finnew clock was put in t h~ audiland, Lebanon, Fiji Islands, Guiana. M.A. PATTERSON, ~: Your Friendly Store torium. I think a helpful sugIndia, Pakistan, were gathered U. 4M. ;........ · .............. ...... .. .. ~ .......... ...... ,. ., .. ....... ............. . .. ...... . : a r o u n d the Totern Pele . .......... :+................................ ............. :+.............;t'.;t' ••. !t' . ... ......... ~ ~ ~..............t.+;.it;.~:+:: (Go ntimied on page 3)

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Letters to the Editor

For some considerable time now, the Historical Society had heen planning to invite some p r omi nent member of the communi ty to speak to its members. This was par t of the Society's dnive to intensify the inter est in our own country. This need became even more ur gent with the drafting ,of a new Consti.tution.

Someone had to come to expla in its working to the boys of Q.C. But not many men were qualified to speak on this importa nt document. After some delay, however, it was announced that the Attorney General, Dr. Fenton Ramsahoye ... would be coming on the 13th of Oct ober · to address the school on the New Constitution of British Guiana.

gestion would be to paint, the Roman figures and hands of the clock wit h luminous paint as this would enable the a udience a t school plays to know the time even in the dark.

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S uve1·visor's Note. The clock dia,i is already covered with luminous paftnt. Painting the similar ly hands and figures wvuld not help very much.

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When Wild the Remaining Honours Boards be p ut

Up Dear Sir, A year ago two honours boards w ith the name of Guia na scholars included thereon were put up on thP. southern wall of t he auditorium. The st a rt was commendable but s ince then no new boads have been put up and by th is time all should have been put up.

On F riday night the 13th, accordingly, about 120 men assembled in the History Room to receive the promised enlightenment. The Principal had condescend to IJe in t he cha ir, and

the proceedings commenced about 7.35 9.m. After an appropriate int roduction, Dr. Ramsahoye proceeded t o address his audience. He took his discourse from a booklet embodying the Constitution.

H e enumerated its principles and the contents of its Bill of Right s and expla ined that par t of it was appr opriated from the Niger ian Constit ution. It was on the whole, a simple, bu t enIightening lecture.

After he had finis hed the floo r was thereon open for quest ions. Many were asked; some concerning immigration, some concerning the working of the va rious legislative bodies, and some concerning government procedu re. Th is done, the President of the Historical Society moved a Vote of Thanks on behalf of t he Society and the a udience. The Cha irman then closed the proceedings at approximately 9.15 p.m.

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Supervisor's Not e: One more t1l board is required to complete the record of school '•Jwnours."

The board is being prepared at Recently Russia exploded he1· the moment. With your he/.,p it mult i-megaton atomic bombs. could be finished earlier t lwln thus creating harmful "fallout" e.ipected.

F .M.B. to the great alarm of several countries. But what exactly is 'fallout' and hOIW does it affect mankind? H ere is a simplif ieu accou nt in answer to these ques* t ions.

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malfo rmation s such as having six fingers or no limbs or a very small head. Mutations are also hereditary.

30th Oct. 1961.

Sir, I would like t o draw your attenion to certain games, such as lawn tennis, which are not possessed by our school, but are owned by other clubs a nd or ganisations .

When I first joined this I school, I was told that the Staff The radioactive elemen ts may I does not appreciate boys of the enter the h uman body either ,· school joining any outside directly, or indirectly, as when organisations, as we have many mixed w.i:th food. If the elements j such projects in the school . disintegrate wit hin the body the There are a f ew exceptions , of emitt ed rays react in a complex course, such as the above men- way with the tissues damaging! tioned. The youths of this or destroying them. Ce1tn m cleschool who wish t o join out- ments star t cancers while otners side or ganisations a re t here- cause mutat ion in the genes. fore hindered . It is my belief ~enetic mutations can cauHe in tha t if the boys are not f utu re generations id iocy or allowed t o join s uch organisa- 1- - - - - - -- -- -- -tions, the games should be , introduced into the school, just HALL CLOCK as volleyball, cricket, table tennis a nd other games, a re already in progress, so that the Foi· a decade the noble eyes boys have no desire to go out- of Q.C. st udents had gazed upon side. ! a timepiece in the Hall which was no different from the others Hoping that something w ill in the school. General opin ion regarded this with some uneasibe done a bout this . ness. and it was f elt that the I Remain.

Hall needed something more ap- I Yours Respectfully, propriat e. F or s ome time noth- 1 A Youthful Student. ing was done to relieve th is discrepancy. One day, however, as we repaired to the H a ll for our us ual mid-morning break, our eyes beheld an unfa miliar sight I Supervisor's Comments - a new Hall Clock. Many quc:1- I The school rule clearly states Lions were asked and nom. anthat any boy may take part in swered, but the s tor y behind ' the activities of " outside" or- this clock is simple and intu estganisations with the Principal's ing. permission. Such permission may reasonably be granted f or When our Principal returned boys to play such games as in 1960 from leave in t he lawn t ennis, as are not included U.K. he brought with him in the school's programme. mechanics of a clock. He commissioned Ridley to design and build the outer shell. The design was seen and approved ; the shell Overheard in the was bu ilt; t he working parts were assembled and inserted.

Lab. and the semi-fi nished machine Mac: Co. !eh we hear a defini- sent to Mr. Burr owes, our evertion for cigarette. willing Art Master for spraying Co Banks: A cigarett e is to- and beautify.ing. ! he result ·- a ba.cco wrapped up in a piece of new clock of which any school paper, a light on one s ide, and can be proud. even more so Q.C. (Co-Bangs, looking intently at . smce it was built and preJ;ared Bup puffing away) a jackass by itn'> own student s. at the other end.

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Welcoming newcomers is al- with St. Thomas' High School. ways a pleasant affair fo r the In 1953 he left for the U.S.A. Q.C. Lictor. This term we ex- soon after he entered Howard tend the cordial ha'Ild of wel- University. where he majored come t o five completely new in Chemistry and minored in Masters. They are: Messrs. Mathematics and Zoology . . He Boxill, King, Perry, Chang-Sang obtained his degree in 1957. and Birbalsingh.

Thereafter he pursued a postMr. Boxill left his native Bar- graduate course in Zoology. In bados at the age of 25 and since 19_59 he sta_rted :J. cours~ !n Ele~then has resided in the islands trical Engmeermg wh1cn he 1s of St. Lucia and Antigua. He still . continuing. Mr. Perry's divided his years of teaching hobbies are Games (outdoor) , (1925- 1948) between these' Gard~ni~, ~nd listening to two islands. Thereafter he set- Classier., Music. tied down to a job in the St. Mr. Chang.Sang Is an old Lucian Education Department boy of Central High School. Afand has been called from that ter leaving Central he wrnt to post to t each us French. the U.K. where he recently obMr. King is an old boy of the tained his B.Sc. Hons. degree in Progressive High School. After Physics. A quiet una$'> Uming, leaving his Alma Mater he took man, Mr. Chang-Sang likes to up teaching assignments with look at most outdoor games. His the B. G. Education Trust and special love is lawn tennis which Central Hig,h School respective- he plays as often as J>')Ssible. ly. Duri'!lg this time he obtained Mr. lli:nbals ingh has jus t rea General degree as an external turned from the U.C.W.I. In his student at the U.C.WI. His fav- quiet.· efficient, way he has ourite su1bjects are Latin. His- slipPed into the life of an Engtory and Economics. Although lish Master. This is not. sur prisyoung, he has eleven years of ing, however. when we realise t hat he attended Queen's from teaching behind him.

1949- 1956 and then left in OcMr. Perry's career has been tdlx!r 1957 for Jamaica. In June a s colourful as he himself. He 1961 he ,g raduated with 2nd attended Q.C. from 1942- 1949, Class Honours in English. and was in " B" House. He was ~very boy in the school joins a C.S.M. in_ the Q.C. cadets and wit h us in wishing these masters Second Lieut enant in the every success in their new apB.G.V.F. pointments. Furthermore we On leaving Q.C ., Mr. P erry pledge them our wholehearted took up a teaching assignment co-operation. K.L.S.

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We have here at Queen's rru.de dra,wfog on the walls~ this quite a large basement, and is NOT the work of Q.C. ooys, Q.C. Regains quite conveniently too, a part and I, as a Q.10. boy would be Case. Wight Cups on a rather drab display as Jacob Cup compared with Roopnarine's set aside on the Southern side, thoroughly ashamed to direct Resume with a On Thursday 26th October fine bowling and field-placing next to the bicycle shed which anyone to what are supposed Bang! when Queen's was fielding. provides us with toilet facilities; to be Q.C. toilets. Tthe situa- 1~61, ~ueen's C-Ollege met BerH_1gh School in the ,Jacob Because of this poor support lbwt as I enter this room, I often tion is absolutely disgraceful! bice wonder what use it. I say what' Outsiders would readily like to Cup F'mal on the Q.C. Ground After a rather long lapse, from the batsmen we lost outhaving defeated St. Stanis~ during ,1•hich time the series of right. In the second match, because it would only take the condemn Q.C. boys as the cul- after the mentality of 'things to have prits. .Seeing therefor~ that Jaus. Co.liege in the semi-finals interterritorial criciket matches against B.G.C.C., came another m the y:ear. The visiting were being played, (B.G. emerg- unent-erprising show from our the formerly clean place in the Q.C. boys are not responsible for earl,i~r.

Berb1c1ans won the toss and ing champions again) t h e batsmen. Imagine Patoir bowlfilthy c-0ndition it is at present. this state of affairs, I appeal to elec~~d ~o bat on a perfect bats- second round of the Case Cup, ing his leg-breaks-giving them The taps do not function pro- higher authorities that they see perly-, the mal'lble stands of the to it that these toilets are man s :v1cket. However, they were and the continuation of the a lot of air-and what most of 'founts' are dirty, sometimes cleaned up and kept clean, for s~on m trouble after the first Wight Cup cricket matches the batsmen did was sprawl in there are even grains of rice we do not want the name of wicket had fallen at thirty-three. have r esumed. Queen's College front of the wicket and allow ly.ing scornfully in the basin - Q.C. to lbe "mingled with filth'·, The other batsmen put up a grim was near the bottom in the Case very poor deliveries to beat strug,gle but the innings closed and concerning the toilets ! ! ! do we? shortly after tea with the score Cup and played against D.C.C. them, - the result either they One wonders whether a sanitary - - - -- -- - - - - - - at 140. The main reason for s uch in their first match. Queen's got out, or were made into ever visited-may even had the B.G. Dramatic a "huge" total was the rather did extremely well in leading on laughingstccks of the B.G. C. C. Anyhow, Roopnarine 'guts' to visit them.

Festival poor fielding of our boys. There ·the first innings, but the bats- team.

As one enters one of these The senior division of the were far too many overthrows. men, in the second innings put again did extremely well in-the bowling · department, a b l y "Storehouses," he is at first B. G. Drama Festival is sche- M?Lean who finished t he day assisted by medium pacer Pat stifled 1by the sweet smell as duled to commence on the 12th w,1th an analysis of 4 for 32 was of Ammonia and hydrogen sul- of November. The school is pre- the most penetrative of our the picture although "E" has Griffith. Only Maclean showed any initiative in really going phide; he manages to bold his senting two plays : one, a West bowlers. _Roopnarine, Griffith prevoiusly beaten them.

Outstanding bowling perform- after the bowling. B.G . C. C. breath for this fatal moment Indian play entitled "The Har- and Morrison also performed and actually enters the little rowing of Benjy,' and the other creditably each claiming two ances were by Stephen (E ) 30 only gained first innings points, wickets. (including 6 for 8 vs however. room because of compulsion. He one entitled " Father Noah." wickets.

At present, the "A") also Hamilton (E ) 27 Queen's College Case Cup team carefully treads on the slimy These plays have ·b een produced When our time came to occupy wickets, Roopnarine ( G) and is still near the bottom. concrete floor, and •there in by the boys themselves; Marshall front of him he sees bow the and Benjamin C.O., being the the ,batting crease, the handful Morrison (L) with 24 wickets Apart from the surprise sweet-smelling aroma was manu- respective producers. We take of spectators present at the each. "drops" from the Wight Cup match were somewhat disapfactured. Piled up in a great this opportunity of wishing the In batting the only two cen- team, this team seems to be behigh heap in the toilet bowl are two dramatic teams the best of pointed at the slow rate of scor- turies were made by Dolphin coming more and more "Pilyesterday's or last Sunday's luck in tlie preliminaries which in.g of our openers Dolphin and (H) 108 not out and Griffith grimised" and "Moulderised".

"Chronicle," covering and re- will be staged at the Y.W.C.A. B1rkett. Nevertheless we fin- P.A.M. (F ) 108. Other good The "happy bun·c h of lads" is•hed the afternoon with 38 vealing nothing else but just Flash: "Harrowing of Benjy" runs on the board without any performances were by Edwards (that includes the energetic plain filth! He attempts to flush was placed first in the preliminloss. On Friday we witnessed ( E ) 70 not out, Helliger (K) captain ( Pilgrim House! ) Mr. the bowl, and hurries out of aries. rather exciting cricket. 60 not out, Birkett ( D) 55 re- London are heading, without some the room for fear that the water and Khanhai (L) 52 (bat- any fear of having worthwhile with tts "dissolved impurities" _ B_e_w _ a__r_e__R _a_d-·a_o_H _ a_m_; Our first wicket fell with 45 tired ting at No. 10 vs "E"). opponents, straight for the botruns on the tins.

During the folwould fill the bOIWl and fall on In an interesting, exciting tom with a "zoom". Their "takehour's play four more lowing him.

Are Here ! wickets fell, and th~ scoreboard House competition many prom- off" for this term must be Now, all of this may seem as read Q.C. 70 for 5 wickets. At ising youngsters emerged and indeed gratifying to the selecta joke, but it actually is the case.

It is not strange to s~e that stage most of our bes t bats- so in this respect the competi- ors' eyes .

That is the oonctitwn of our miracles hapening in our modtion has been fruitful In their first match, against' basement toilets, and even in a ern world, so it should not shock men were tbaok in the pavilion, P.A.M.G. (Sports Editor)· B.G.C.C., they did the incredible the difficult task was left and worse state, our toilet provided you to hear of one that happento the other half of the team, for both innings they actuon the playing field. I am to.tally ed right here in Q.C. Cricket Flash most of whom :were newcomers, ally totalled less than ninety! convinced tha,t apart from the A few days ago, Friday the Thereupon London, the baby of In their second match, two 20th October to be exact, a the sides, rose to the occasion and In the final on the second "Pilgrims" were excban~d for QUOTABLE QUIPS group of eighteen boys met in a magnificent innings in this his day Durban made 150 in reply two "Moulders", but that did room 18. Then, after fifteen Bryce's bicycle has b e e n minutes IT HAPPENED- the Jacob Cup debut. A.I.though in- to Moulder's 124. Inniss 35, not help the situation. 'fhe first named "Collision" ,b ecause its radio club was resurrected! But jured he stuck to the task, and Rohlehr 28, and Haynes 30, were day versus Y.M.C.A. they scored parts are held together lby acci- the important questions are: everyone was sorry when he was the run getters. Roopnarine got 37, bowled out the opposition out with Q.C. still requiring two 7 of the Durban batsmen for 34 for 57 runs, due to Mr. London's dent.

Has it l;leen elevated so that it runs for victory with one \•;icket runs. At the end of the second somewhat penetrative bowling, could fall again? Or will it be day Mou.Ider has made 65 for 3. and by close of play had 27 for That a certain master said to a perpetual guide to the many to fall.

There was a hush over the 7. a form of unruly students: "If young enthusiasts we have here * * * entire ground as the Bel'1bice I had wanted to teach pigs, I at Queen's? The answer to the captain Only London (jnr .) and Late Flash: After a very exmoved in to bowl to our citing game, "Moulder" has won Inniss, showed any sign of would have gone in for agricul· latter question obviously rests in number eleven batsman Walcott. ture.'' the hands of our 'hams.' It is The ball was edged to third man, the "House Cricket Trophy.'' having the makings of good only 1.,y their attendance and * * and the batsmen took an easy Moulder managed to amass 108; cricketers . London fields exThe trees ·b e,i ng of the car- suport that they can, assure single. The scores were now Durban replied with 37. In the tremely well. These boys are nivorous type, were a lus h green. themselves of a career much in level. The next ball was pushed second innings, after a devas- going well, they are going . .

(5. G. English essay) demand-in the field of elec- by Stephen in the direction of tating spell, Roopnarine took 7 (Bajan ?)

MACK. • ~ * tions ! Members are therefore mid-wicket and the batsmen for 13 and Ross 3 for 14.

At speech day the Governor reminded to attend faithfully scampered tbrou,g h for the winwas met lby the principle, the this worthwhile club while they ning run. Thus had Q.C. redeputy principle, and their wives are still at school. gained the Jacob Cup in the exA. B. Farley VM citing manner in which they had 5th essay) . __ """ lost it in the previous year.

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In the "semi" Pilgrim lost the toss and the match. After a poor start Moulder managed to reach 130. Pilgrim had a worse start. as SJ;ephen and Shivgulam tried vainly to avert defeat. Pilgrim totalled 98. Thus Moulder qualified to meet Durban in the final .

In the "A" defending champions " F" house defeated in the first round by Dur,ban were only mediocre ending with 7 points. Wooley tried hard but t hey too were-beaten tby Durban.

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Mr. Hetr:im has already gained his LL.B. dC'grcc from Lendon University. He has also pasRC'd the first part of his Bar Final examination. He hopes to complete this examination next year. The Lictor apologises very sincerely to Mr. Hetram for our inaccurate report of bis academic achievements.