The QC Lictor - July, 1962

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University College planned for B.G. Queen's College Building To Be Used For New University

Head Speaks Boy The

Prepa1·a tions a1·e l>e inl,{ maclr fo1· the settino- np of a "University Uol1ege of Bl'i tish Gn innn ·, hy <kt ;he1· 1963.

This was disclo eel on 'Thnn,;clay 5t h iusbrnt iu !he (!1wpn's Coll ege Auditodnm hy th e }li11iste1· of E<l11calio11 H on.

C. V. Nune1,, wh en h e i-.poke 011 "'Ph P (·ai;e ro1· the withdrawal from th e U nivei·sity C'oll ep;e of the "\Yest I rnliC's aud for the UniYenMy Colleg-e of British Guiana.

Paul Winter

Sextet at Q.C.

manager is Gene Lees, former 'Downbeat' editor.

P aul Winter, Les RO-lit and Gene Lees attended assembly on Wednesday morning and spent some time talking with members of t he school on a wide range of subjects.

The two concerts were well attended and apparently well recieved by the audience, many of whom were not particularly fans of jazz. Les Rout the baritone player and Harold Jones drummer were the outstanding soloists and they recieved long rounds of applause for their respective performances. T he bassist R ic hard Evans came in for his share of applause for bis compositions which displayed his considerable musical talent.

A wave of intel!C>ctual aware- I The P aul Wint<'r Sextet, ness has swept through, it which is on a tour of Latin wou ld anpear, th<' whole of our America under the auspices of TJpper Sohool. Perhaps ._ve a~e the Un ited States Government, ahead of other schools m this gave two concerts of modern respect. ~erhaps o_nly .;vr a.~ jazz in th<' Q.C. auditorium on Q.C._. can _d1v:ulge_. durmg. gaff Ju nr 27th and 28th. sessions ms1de information on The Sextet - with a difHegel's metaphysics or L<>nin's dia!C>ctical materialism. But our ferent bassist - was the winner . One rol~ _of a unh-eesity, the ;\fiuiste1· said. was to p1·0· thinking has worked itself into at the 1961 In tercollegiate Jazz v1de an add1bonal oppo1-tn11ity fo 1· thc> (:itizens to ac- hit'Ye as a few· lrnrsts from which we F est ival at Georgetown Univerfar as possible intelleC'tu al seiJ'-1·t>11lisation Jor hr rostt>1·in"' ought to disC'ntangle ourselves sity in Washington, D.C., where Dizzy Gillespie was one of the quickly. independent minds, independent O ni a 11ese' won lcl be rreei n: very T oo many of us are much too Judges. The leader, Paul Win, t hem selves of some of their ttaditional wayH of thi.nkin: cock-sure about our resistance ter, plays alto saxophone, Les and doing things. t> to "indoctrination''. We must Rout plays baritone, I>ick Whitalways look out for zealots, who sell trumpet, Harold J ones through sheer long service to drums, Richard Evans bass and The Minister pointed out that their movement, have acquired a Warren Bernh~rdt piano. Their although vast sums of monev glib tongue or a facile pen and wPre spent annually as British who while producing the same Guiana's contribution to the old "gropaganda.", have a knack u.r.w.r., this country was sufof appearing "uncommited to fering a grrat loss, while Jaany cause save that of the logical maica and Trinidad were gainn..i oojective pursuit of t r uth''· ing in t heir income by B. G.'s ·iere, as almost everywhere irnbscription of at least ten lse, it is the mightiest who fall percent of the university's ex·he hardest. The gullibility of pend iture.

It cost British 1nc of our Upper Sixths on one Gu,i ana $80,000 per graduate on occasion was most amusing.

1 recurrent and not capital <'XChurned up into near hysterta penditure, and of the ninetyby one of their orators, they seven Guianese students who pent a whole week-end of deC'p I gained degrees at the U.C.W.L oul-searching and highly secrrt since its inception only forty1ssions over a "cause" that one returned to British Guiana. ,1st did not exist by the time It would be economic.ally unwise ·w y got around to it - it did for this country to continue iot exist in the first place. supporting th ii s university (Continued on page 3 ) whilst the same money could be Mr. N. E. CAMERON, M.B.E. used in B. G. and serve the same " .. . We hilt a long stretch of very white, very dead sand .. . " It was tiV1e for rejoicing, when 'f)urpose of educating the Ileople. on tlw Fourth of June, we lea.rnecl The University C-Ollege of that Mr. N. E. Cameron, oui· British Guiana would be a non- D e p u t y Principal, had been residential institution w i th awarded the l\I.B.E. by Her Majesclasses held in the evening and ty the Queen, for long and devoted We were a high-spirited lot feet deep and about the same .1ervice to the community and paropportunity would be granted to \icularly at our Red Water Creek camp diameter was dug with a spade to education. everyone w.ho possesses the necIn the field of education, M:r.

Thi" yoor's head boy, A. R. on Sunday April 8th, so high- very thoughtfully included in essary minimum qualification!' spirited indeed, that the only our supplies. Into this hole (five s u·bjects at the ordinary Cameron h~ had long and varie<l Bacchus, and W. K. Alli have been person who slept through the oozed a dark brown liquid from experience, having taught for 36 ilio only two students to have ;;o level), to enter. din of that first night was Mr. the surrounding sand to a deptb years. His first eigbt yea.is of teaching were spent in a private far been awarc1ecl scholarships to Edwards, whose position was of a few inches. This water, The new University would - -1. I Th th 28 . the U.W.I. / despite its forbidding colour was 0 0 er years havmg B11c('hus has been awarded a understandable. use the classrooms and labora- = •00 · Cool and faintly sour to the been spent at Queen's College.

Texaco scholarship to do civil entory facilities already in existaste.

Herc he rose from tha position of · · th U · · 'H In spite of the lack of sleep tence at Queen's College with As.sistant ,u.u.:,wi· l'.-_..._ __ to that of Deputy gmoo1"lllg' at t ec IDVCl'Slty.

Go t s h lare was d we left Red Water Creek at 6 O su itable additional equipment Principal. He is also author of text a verumen: , ?tUli Y c .' M: This was to be the pattern for for more advanced work. An books on Addition.al Mathematics eI1;tere<l Queens ~ 1954, and m Ins a.m. on Monday morning. F or five days We slogged through extension estimated to cost and the "History of Queen's Col- fifr~1 fo.rrn be .~lilecl a tot.al of 9 a li ttle over two hours we kept hot dead sand, eternally thirsty, $60,000 would be made to t he l"°"'." Ho is founder and A ,,...;n" p ~ in the O. Level - thr~ of up a blistering pace and reached hungry and t ired, and rternally West Wing of the building to President of the Association of wbich were obtruned th·. e prev1?n~ Volunteers' Creek some time hopeful that the next bend accommodate administrative Masters and Mistresses in Govern- year. Ile. also passed 10. three A lifter eight. This performance would bring us in sight of the rooms, a common room and a ment~recognised Seeonda schools. J:ovcl s~bJcets las~ yoo,r.. Aparl served to ma~e our. spirits so_ar. short-cut which was indicated H'o is at present Pre.sicf:nt of th from lus acadmruc aeluevements, The end of hlns l?enod of elat10n 6n a map and ~hich we eagerly library.

Royal Agricultural and Commm-~ Bacchus has boon quite a.ctiv~ in came when ._ve hit a long stretch sought. We had some very A four-year course is plan- ei.al Society, and Chairman of the t~e ~adet qorps, ancl also did a I of ver:r wh_1te, very de~d sand heai't-breaking moments wheh, ned, the first two year s being Mi1seum and zoo Committee. He bit oJ. debati1:g. . .

1 gleammg 1~nocenUy m the after walking through cool Alli, who :5 tl10 rec1p1ent of. a I strong sun~1gh t. After a few shaded forests, we emerged into used as a course of general also holds offico in various othm· studies, and in the last two organ.izatio118. H o is well-known, Federal Agn~ul~nral Scholarslup, • hour_s o~ this _we began to r e~ret the cruel sunlight to find miles years the students would special- •110, 11s the, author of several works c:nlercd Queen s rn, 1954. In July, 0~11· md1scretI0!1 o~ the previous and miles of sand; just a white ise in their particular subjects. dealing with the hist-Ory and soci- 1959, be took tho 0' Level C)."Rms. mght. By this time we were trail snaking uphHI! For the · and was nccessful in four subject.<s, without water, for the intense and this wurse would be such as ology of the country _The "Lictor" sta.fE ti1ereforo takes the !ollo"·ing yoar he got four more heat coupled with our greenness last three days there was never to train Guianese to work in really enough water or food and their own country. This univer- thls op-port1111ity of co "'ratulatin" subJects. As a. member of "D" had served to make us use our we never had enough sleep, but \fr.

Cameron and ,lhin<>' ) i~ House i1e represented them in precious water: but at that time sity, then wou ld bear a close 1 we pressed on, if only because resemb}ance to the universities many more y~-s of fruitfnf social crjcket, and captained his House in none of us knew the real value we could not stop, or turn back.. work. the 'final' last y<'ar.

Ifo, too, was a of water. in the U.S.A. keen debater.

K. L. S. Both of them wonld leave with We were soon to learn, for The staff, he hoped, would be Those five days were an exthe shortage was beginning t o per ience which had to be lived At. this ~ta~e the chairman our best wishes. of t he highest possible level, as make itself felt. We were to be really grasped. After all current world rates would be ~r. F ., W. E. Cal:{e, invited quessaved by some brilliant fellow those hardships we had to be tions from the audience. What paid to qualified men. who thought of digging for taken then would become of Q.C. ? Boys do into Mackenzie. Of What then would become of Would it become a school water after it was evident that course we were very grateful at students at present at the U.W.I. where students ~re on.ly ta.uzht . there were no creeks to be en- the t ime. but there was a. bit of and what about those who would up to the fifth forms? H ow Once more Queen's College lias countered. A hole about three disappoin tment in our minds at like to become engineers and would the new University affect excelled in music, for at tJ.1e recent~ot having done the complete doctors? The Minister emphati- tl)e standa rd of work in ly concluded Music Festival it,; Journey. The one day we spent cally stated that the Govern- Queen's ? overall peTfOlrlllance was laudable. forte Solo, Chopin Class, and in Mackenzie was totally inadement would pay for all the exH ow effective would this plan The )tale Voice Choir, conducted Perey Walcott, wb.o caimied away quate, but we made the best of a penses of Guianest. students at be? Onlyr time will ,tell. Pros- by the Principal, i\Ir. V. J. San<>'C'r- the Verse Speaking prize in the bad job and useg it fully, roundpresent in the U.W.l., and would pective graduates should how- Davies, won in its class, while0thr Under 15 Championship class. ing it off finally with what our aid as far as possible all those ever heed the Minister·s caution .Jun!or Choir won in the Boys' We all hope that Queen's can secretary euphemistically term1 students who wish to tb medi- about "early specialisation,' anq Choir under 13 division. Other not- equal and surpass these standards ed "farewell exercises". cine or engineering in other prepare themselves for a. wider abl? perf?rmances were made by at the next Festival. universities. scope of education. - Ed. Colin Robmson who won the Piano·K. L. S. -L.R.G.

Mr. Cameron receives the M.B.E.

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THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE LICTOR

THE Q ,C, LICTOR

MRS. SANGER

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DAVIES LEAYES B.G.

READING IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE

W. R. M. FARLEY L. R. GIBBS K. L. STULL P. A. M. GRIFFITH C. B. ADAMS

A. R. BACCHUS Mr. F. M. BIRBALSINGH

N.B.:-The views expressed by individuals are n ot necessarily t hose of the E ditorial Board and School as a whcle- E d. Q.C.L.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18th, 1962.

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I Mr\h~A:.g~~-~~~~s That Q.C. boys are loyal members of their scllOol goes I was with great regret that we . . . learned recently of Sanger-

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It . )Irs. without sa:nng, but a few recent eYents tend to md1 cate that Davies' proposed departure from t h ere are possibly one or two who are indiffel''ellt towards I British Guiana, for although ,~e ?-o

The Editor, Sir, Milton said that, "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master's spirit", but how many boys in this school really fol low this statement?

In Q.C., nearly all types of Ii terature are read, hut the percentage of time spent in poring over pornographic magazines and cheap novels, comic books &.nd other valueless booklet!:,, is ilarming.

As one who has been closely associated with the Q.C. Library for the past three years, I have been shocked to learn that the majority of Q.C. boys only know it to be thl' few shelves of books for borrowing in the ground floor at the west end of the building. On the contrary, the Q.C. Library is a vast network of books containing matter suitable for seven year olds to as-

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

EDITORIAL BOARD. Editor Assistant Editor Features Editor Sports Edifor Treasurer Distribution Manager Supervisor

Wednesday. July

maintaining the dignity of thi s sc:hool. Little do many us real"se what loyalty and deYotion our "older brothers' e nO'endered in order to give Queen's thf' good r eputation it 0 • • l 'f' . now holds and rndeed 1t wonld be of some Ya u e to us 1 \\ e r eflect on what loyalty w e owe to thiA Coll ege.

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Watchmen on the move ?

Dear Sir On c.e'rtrun occasion<; .such as when I came to the junior and senior championships Finals I noticed that a watchman was stationed at the entrance adjoining the cycle shed to the basemont. I left my bulb ancl socket in my bike.

After the Finals I came back and fo und oot}1 the watchman and my bike untouched. This mad<' u.e quite happy.

On a re<'ent publie occasion-the performance of the Paul Wintcr'R Sextet - as I entered tho shed I noticed no waf.flhman, so I took out my bulb and 1,'0Cket and proceeded U}Jstairs. Afarr the show and as I was approacliin:r my bicycle I noticed that rny !illd<llle bag was gone: I turned around to ask the watchman, but ho ww, not there.

Also I la.tor found out that two hood-lamps and one saddlo were missing from bicycles.

I hope tl1at watchmen would h£stalionecl in the cycle shed a.t all public occasions in the futm·e.

Q~tt;.~~c::I:.\,:~;!/~:~'t~~ ~~B~fib~~~;e~~i~;i!;;i~~ttis~~; Thank you, spirit is always near.

Li brary, Mathematics Library, H. P. SHARMA, (III B) Since her amval here, abo~tt nine Physics Library, Chemistry I years ago Mrs. Sanger-Davies has L'b Biol 0 gy L 1'brar y · 1 been conn'ected " "th sev- l rulrary, • I ... ""' French Library, Spanish Lib- · tnral projects either dirootly involv- rnry, Geography Library, Enging the school or the community. lish Literature Library and the • Boys lia rn been known to have nn wittingly cast re- Of her forty yean; as a teacher popular English Library which proach and r ebuff from the pubHc for triYial misd eeds (she has been teaching int.enuit- most members know. All the At their lMt general meeting, the l tot li braries except the last are Committee of the Q.C. Co-op ( however well intended ·) t11r·o1Hrh theil• ignorance of the'r tthentl.y)t shetihas fdeyo~ seve~al ~ e ms rue on o Jumor pup1 s a t . ti th f d t Soci<>iy cliselo.sed to members the obligations as 111eml>ers of this school. N ol>ody says that /St.Gabriel's School. Several of her " ric Y ' e re erence epar · prCS<'nt p,,sition of this Society. mentsso,of considerable the various sums faculties Q.C. is faultles.<;, but we Aurelv do not wan t a false impres· ' pupi·1.s~ have passed th rough Queen,s, and of Ith wai,; gout news for the member!< . f l k Q c· b . t d . tl . d , f and many attend presontly. f th G t w en they lea.mt that the Society . s1on o w 1at ta es p1ace m . . to e Cl ea e Ill 1e uu n s o :.\[rs. Sanger-Davies was until quite money rom e overnmen was negotiating a rail,;e in the the public. This can be so, however, when careless state- recently the 'Divisional Commission- grants have been spent in main- interest rates, and that there were f G 'd th East C t taining them. However, it is future plans which would benefit ments are made to our parents and others. ' How then must er or m es on e ·· oas,. ~ad to note how few interested .

She has also produced many plays, u everyone. we know what loyalty to Q.C. ·really means? It IS not a char- several oi• which have been acted on members of Q.C. use them. acteri~tic that cau be inher:ted? Provisions can howeYer be tho Queen's College stage. Mrs. I Sir, le~ thi_s be a "call, to arms'' made for this to l>e "in the nature" of a Q.C. boy.

Sanger-Davi~ is also a competent f_or re'.1dmg m Q:C., let.a use our singer and has taken part in many libraries and hidden r~ources Befort be enters Queen's, the n ew boy should be told or :.\Iusic Festivals. more carefully to achieve a On tho light.er sicle, she is n oroader education so that we the type of institution Queen's has heen since its fonnda- bridge-enthusiast, and to all ac- may be better citizens in the t.ion, the prestige it enjoys, and the nume rous other quaU- counts is no mean bridge player. ~mergmg nation of independent This shop ha..s been progressin"' ties of this school. H e is then given an idea of ·w hat is ex- She claims it is very rela..xing as Guiana. 'l'.hank you. rapidly despite the early setbac~ an intellectual exercise.

I am, which were lmtvely faced by pected. of him beforehand. 1'hen he wonld know how to beWe of the "Lief.or" take this Yours faithfully very energetic 'proprietor'. Boys have loyally. opportunity of wishing her bon A. ISHOOF. cau now obtain articles such a,:, voJru,qe and many happy years of pens, et.e., from this shop at • a lowershirt~ • • And what a.l>out tho::;e who are already in sc:hool ? 'They relaxing retirement. price than at other shops, Her new address would be: aud many hoys are taking full adAbolish the are those who should be pracfo1ing thiA loyal ferY0mvantage of this offer. The Co-op Homestead, Lower Fourths whet.her it be l earning the school song 01· being present at a :-hop was temporarily clc:J1Sed when Shorleswell Banbury, school game; whe ther it he obey:ng a Prefect or being reSir, it seemed as if it woulcl l1ave been Oxforil, I believe that the year a a failure. But tlianks to good adspectful to a Master--these are the fruit$ of J1is "acqnire<l England. boy spends in the l?wer fourth rninis1n~tion, this shop ;is now on a llature." form ''skipped" witho~t har- very sure road to prosperity. mony the boy's education. A - M. B. boy should move from the third Some deft definitions form to the fourth and finally evident familiarity with various t,he fifth where he t akes 'O' MR: FRANK PILGRIM African Incline Bl''"i'ie dialects. In conclusion, exams. This course would Intestate - The 'Soaniard' level '1e gave the African opinion of LECTURES ON take him four instead of !five West Indians in Africa and the with the pipe-he walks withyears. . a will.

PAN-AFRICAN ISM ongm of their curious pseu- outInconsistency If this plan is to go ~nto - Clarence. donym for them: "Europeans". action boys would be required Parents' day for 1962 took For over 50 years the name of K.L.S. to work harder, but I am sure place on Friday, Ailay 25. This * * * Pilgrim has been connected with In a sixth form a certain they would rather do this than was the second occasion on Q.C., and it was with gr,ea.t haracter said (the day before lose a whole year in the lower which parents of Queen's Colpleasure that we learned that his exams) , "Boys, sleep is a fourths. lege students were afforded the FOOD FOR THOUGHT Yours sincerely, Frank Pilgrim, "the illustrious precious t'ing, Ah had two opportunity of seeing Queen's W.F. son of an illustrious father", whole hours sleep lass night''· College at work. For many of Knowledge is proud that he was going to speak to the Histhe parents it was to be their has learned s·o much, torical Society on "Pan-Afrif irst Parents' Day, and for all Wisdom is humble that he _ _ _ _,_,._,__,_ _ _ _ _~ ~ ~ -o-....a-.O- c:i -1>e-. canism''· it was an enjoyable day. knows no more.

The parents attended General There is no substitute for The meeting took place on Assembly and were welcomed by thorough-going, ardent, sincere Friday 23rd March. the Principal on behalf of the earnestness.-( Dickens).

DROP IN AT school. He told fhem that the Study to shew thyself apUsing a political map of Afmain object of their visit was unto God, a workman rica as a "guide", Mr. Pilgrim proved to see exactly how the school is that needeth not to be ashamed explained the movement that rightly dividing the word of run in the most informal manwas sweeping Africa with its truth.-(Bible). ner possible. Accordingly, at the nationalistic fervour. There end of morning assembly, the had been two Pan-African conparents were free to go whereferences in England, and these ever they pleased. They took had been attended by such not- DO YOU KNOW ? the opportunity of visiting all able leaders as: Nkrumah, over the school and seeing what Mboya and Kenyatta. The dif- 1. In what country are there no their sons were doing. ficulty lay, however, in implesnakes ·{ At four o'clock the parents menting the resolutions adopted 2. One of Guiana's neighbours were able to have tea together. at the conferences, because of had an Emperor ruling her At s ix o'clock, they attended a the great differences between within the last century. What parent's meeting which lasted the peoples of various regions was that country? until seven-thirty. So it was in Africa. He then outlined the 3. Who were the first two Guithat another Pa1·ents' Day came political significance and policy auese to have played test to a close. In the words of one of each country in turn, and cricket abroad - i.e. away parent the views of all were exillustrated the difficulties of from t he Caribbean? pressed: "I was able once again Pan-Africanis'm in a multi- 4. Under what Governor was to capture the spirit of my national societY'. the Guiana Scholarship esschooldays; I was impressed tablished? with what I sa,w, even if I did I He briefly touched on the 5. How do Tibetans greet each not always understand, and I on Camp Street characteristics of some of the other? bhoroughly enjoyed myself". well-known African leaders and delighted the audience with his See "Answers" on page 4 -K.L.S.

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THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE LJCTOR

Scouts tour the Rupununi

Lecturer from 'K' in semi-final UCWI visits Q.C. House Debate

At Kamu Falls we enjoyed a The Journey bath ( there were too many rocks to 1 S\vim). A few of the party exoverland' to Cayenne plored the upper reaches of the Not many people realise how Dr. GCY<li.ng, Lecturer in Physics On Friday 20th April, a falls. convenient it is to travel by land at tha U.C.W.J., visited Queen's Colgroup of fifteen Q.C. Scouts A little rain fell, which w.as an left Atkinson Airport for indication of the approaching rainy lege on the 28th :i'lfarch and delivThe House Dobating Competi- and sea to Cayenne, French GuiLethem, Rupununi under the season, but this did not stop us ered a series of int~restiug lectures tion, sponsored by the Literary and ana. in the few days he spent here. Dr. Debating Society, is in an interestchar ge of A.S.M. Jackson. On from getting back.

If one ieaves Georgetown by Gosling, who was on a tour of the ing stage. So far, only the first arrival, we were met by the special taxi early on a TuesWest Indian i1 slanc1s, delivered his Assistant District Commissioner roillld of this competition b!IIS been That evening we held a CampMr. Persaud, who introduced fire for the residents, and this wa., first lecture to members of the concluded, and much interest still day morning it is possible to reach Springlands by 11 a.m. us to our driver, Mr. Halliday. enjoyed immensely. The District Science sixth forms in the Physics remams.

There, one takes the laun~h Mr. Halliday drove us around Commissioner, Mr. A. Learmond, laboratory when he outJjned the . which crosses the Corentyne structure of the atom and demonthe Ru pununi by tn1ck. A pro- later thanked us for our efforts.

At this stage, Ctutn?1ghrun has river and reaches Nickerie about strated how the Geiger cou11ter gramme of visits was arranged We paid a short visit to Bra.1.il for us. We stayed at St. ,gna- the next clay. We walked over, works. Two more lectures were dofeated Nobhs; Raleigh has do- . 3 p.m. Two h'tmrs later one tius School, three miles from even crossed the Takatu R. ( the given to the public during tho fol- feat.eel )Ioulder hy a walk-over; boards the "H.M,S. Peri ca'' for Lethem. Mr. London, the Head- boundary) on foot. The W arcleu lowing nighbs, and tl1ese were fol- DUl'ban defeated w:~n, and a 200 mile journey by sea to Paramaribo. This long ship master, showed us around the oi' St. Ignatius Scl1ool accompanied lowed on the fin.al night by a film Woolley de.feat.eel ~ercival. building and the surrounding us as guide and interpreter. At a show. The films were very instrucTho standards of these diseU',,- journey lasts from 5 y.m. on area. !>mall villllg'e a few articles were tivo and showed clearly how the sion.~ were high and the judges, Tuesday afternoo_n until 8 a.m. atoms are made to do work and who were mainly members of the Wednesday mormng. On We~Sketches and water-colour bought with B.G. cuITency. the difficulties overcome during the St.af'f, thoroughly enjoyed their nesday at 6 P·J?· another ship drawings decorated the walls, · and lent an air of freshness to job; but more hoys shonld attend lea v~s Paramari_bo for Moengo, The second village looked more process. the school. There was even a like a ranch, as we saw horses the debates. an mland bauxite town. From Some very interesting queistion,; display of about ten photo- there. Nothing eventful occurred l\foengo one takes a bus to Alwere posed to Dr. Gosling, and he graphs of waterfalls in B.G., a on the way back.

However, an early ro-oommence- bina a small town on the Eastwas ahle to satisfy everyone by hi;; ment of this competition is desir- ern Dutch border. very pleasing decoration. we stopped at Lcthem for a clear-cut answers . ~nd l?reci;;e able.

The next day we visited the swim in the river, and while there [ method of explammg difficu!t From Albina it only takes 15 Rodeo (the first of its kind in a. storm arose. We paid a courtesy problems.

-FEATURES Eo. minutes to cross the river by this district) in the company of launch and reach St. Laurrent Mrs . Rockcliffe and her party. eall on the District Commissioner. / - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - in French Guiana. It is necesHe later dropped us off at the This Rodeo was held at Pirara sary to spend a night in this in the North Savannahs, forty school in his Land Rover. · town, in order to leave at 6 a.m. miles from Lethem. Highlights the following daY' by taxi for Our last morning dawned cool of the Rodeo were such feaCayenne. This final road journ.nd misty, but later brightened. tures as Pushando R a b o ney is about 200 miles and lasts Tho school was put in order, at,d ( throwing the bulls by twistfor about 6 hours. It also ining their tails to one side and we got ready to leave. Mr. London cludes three ferry crossings. then tugging) . This was done on took a picture of the p.arty, lacle11 The entire journey from ,vith thei r bows and arrows ancl horseba ck and while the bulls Georgetown to Cayenne can take were running. The Bronco rid- other things. just three and a half days, and ing provoked much amusement The truck carried us to Lethem. costs $Rl ..2:'i from the onlooker s. Most of the riders could not stay rm their Whilo waiting for the 'piano we mounts longer than thirty paid a last visit to tho curio shop and bought everything in it. seconds.

Two animal skins were also purThe swimming in the creek cha.'>Ccl from the le.ather shop. was very stimulat ing. On SunCoal black loot.and and de· day our drive took us to SandThe 'piano arrived, and after serted stage, cheek in the South, seventy~one unloading, we wcut aboard and Bending, stretching at the miles from Lethem. The drive settlled down in. our sea.ts. Some bane. took about four and a half minutes later the 'plane took off, What ambition? Paulona is hours. On the way we crossed loa.ving behind an attraotive part gone. the Rupun uni River . Large of B.G., known for its sa.vann.abs Les Rout, Paul Winter ant] Dick Whitsell of the Paul Winter W oulds.t thou grapple - dawn flat rocks covered the bottom. its cattle, ranchens, and above a11; Sixtet dcJng a number on t he Q. C. stage.

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At Sandcr eek we met some for its magnificent mo1mtai:n seenScouts from Essequibo. A foot- · ery. It is an ru:ea offering gr~t Bending, stretching, fiery ball game was planned, but potential for development.

The Head Boy Speaks fine positioned feet!

(Contlnued from Page 1) there was not enough time for Go. float on clouds and glassy MRS. CAREW R. E. DANIELS, it, as we bad to leave early so lakes Some thing Wlh!ch is becomas to be back before sunset. In RETURNS TO 5 R (b).

You swans and sylphides ! ing quite bori ng now is our spite of our timely departure, What life is dance? frequent "run through" of our the sun wen t down when we JAMAICA three or four arguments on had covered half the return Bending, stretching, whirling, "capitalist domination" or distance. We crawled along in Mrs. Sylvia Carow who until BRUSH U~ YOUR turning the darkness (the truck had no "communist tyranny" I know Friday 13th inst. was Spanish Gliding, floating - ,pTetty light), with the aid of a flashdiscussions along these lines and English tnaster, has left 'ATOMIC' dancer guilded frock'd light to a ran ch near the mounposse.ss great charm, because Q.C. and would be returning DEFINITIONS Black leotand be not mocked! tains, where we had one light they can be coupled with devas- to her native land Jamaica. fixed. Progress quickned from tating wilticism (devas tating at Alpha particles consist of least for the first dozen times Pas seul, pirouette, pas de then onwards, and we arrived helium nuclei- that is, of ions we hear t hem). But in dealing deux; Mrs. Sylvia Carew added back at 10 p.m. bearing a double positive charge. at one particular level with over more charm to our staff and Oh f~olish formality!

We rested on Monday. worked themes, one's mind gets was a great hit among all of · To hinder expression µ'atural Radioactivity is a property of into a groove, relaying second the boys. Her presence would be In the dance.

W e spent Tuesday at Manari a substance by which the nuclei missed, and, as the principal rehand material without add ing Ranch, ten miles from Lethem. of its atoms disinte grate 01· What is dance?

Swimming was indulged in, fol- send out ,p artieles producing anything of its own. This me- marked, the Spanish situation To lose a life-long-gone time s ince lowed by a big lunch graci- other elements or isotopes, and chani caJ chanting, and the blind would become acute Upon a bare stage? Artificial Mr. Insanally the S,panish masenthusiasm that goes with it, is ously done for us by Mrs. In unnatural short sweet liberating energy.

D'Orella, the proprietrix. Later not to be expected from us who ter would also be on leave from steps? in the day we rode horses, and are likely to be involved in the next term.

What life is dance?

Beta rays consist of a stream administration of our coun t ry everyone was sorry when it We a ll hope t hat Mrs. Carew was time to leave. of electrons. later on, we must learn to relate - Jordan We went on an expedition to the our textbook and mass media would have an enjoyable stay in Nuclear fission is the split- con victions to circumstances Jamaica.

L6C mountains to a place called Komo.

The truck carried us to the foot of ting of a heavy atom into two which surrou nd us. Instead of the mountains, and we went the relatively large atoms of differ- 5 etting stuck with "sins" and rest of the way on fOO"t. We passed ent elements. "cranis'' we should apply ou1 a_ a _ a_ a- ~ n- m- a- ~~ ,._ ..,_.,o.....c. - c . . .n·- 0 - ,0 49.:" - ~ through two settlements at each of talents to specific problems. The Gamma rays cons'ist cf pho- most challenging one at the which families resided. They made their living, we were told, by grow- tom~ and ar e very much like X- pres ent time, I think, is that of ing .and selling ground provision,; rays though with far greater finding out how best to inspire and making "farine" from cassava. penetrating power. patriotism in "ordinary·• people arou nd us-people who may not care to sing" of "liber ty'' or of - ·- · - · - · - · - · - - - - - - - -·- ·- - , ''Kaicteur's, shinning splendour" when their country is in t he t hroes of the intellectuals" I "trans ition stage" It is disturbing to sense t he with intellectual rift which has deFOR TBOS,E PICNICS, PARTIES, veloped between boys belonging · to different schools of though t .

SCHOOL TREATS AND GATHERINGS Since there is no doubt that we all mean well for our coun. ti-y, it would be a good thing if we would come together, analyse our local problems, and arfrom rive at practical solutions int s tead of antagonising one another with cries of "wantons OK ROBB S ~ T proligate" or "imperialists' tool".

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'Saints' defeat Q.C. in Jacob, Dias Semi-finals these matches showed that with youngsters like Dummett, Chung and Joseph, the Q.C. football team would be strong The climax to two goalless enough to regain the Dias Cup matches in the ·semi-final for next year. the Dias Cup between Saint Stanislaus College and Queen's JACOB CUP College came on Tuesday, June On Monday, May 7, Q.C. and J 9, fifty minutes after the start St. Stanislaus College started of play, when Van S1uyitman n<'tted the sole goal in all three their annual cricket match at matches and thus gave "Saints" Bourda. Here Q.C. , having a the ri,g ht to meet Berbice High poor Case Cup season. hoped to <'mbark on a ser ies of successes School in the final.

The last game was much by regaining some much needed faster and provided much more self-confidence which hindered excit<'ment than the two pre- them from snatching victories vious ones, for in the first in Case Gu'p matches. "Saints" match Queen's was on the were fresh from a tremendous attack, and Saints never seemed victory against Transport and to be able to get past our backs showed indications of a result very often. even though Hazzle- in their favour.

The vital toss was lost by wood from Saints netted an "off-side" goal which shot past Q.C's. Roopnarine and his Vargas in the goal like a brother Robert captain of St. rocket. Quite uncxpeotedly, in Stanislaus team rightly elected the second match Sheppard, our to ba,t.

Unnecessarily cautious captain who had been nursing a bad ankle for some time was Saints rcaohed 95 for the loss able to play. But none of that of Nurse, Robert Narine and first-game 'pep' was in him, and Rodrigues in the 120 minutes Tea. Camacho and since Queen's depended quite a before lot on his effort, he had to be Chan-a-Sue continued in this contented with playing a very . vein until the deceptive spin of tame game. "Saints" was still ·3kipper Roopnarine backed by desperately trying to get inlo clean, enthusiastic fielding Q.C. the goal, and actually scored . .. pressed forward to 119 for 6.

From here the unorthodox off a 'foul'.

Hutchinson guided by seniorTHE LAST GAME partner Camacho held on till In the last semi-final Queen's close of play. This pair conwere trying desperately to re- tinued until 2 o'clock the next gain their original form. They day and Camacho, using several played very well, but the for- chances to advantage was finward line players were not co- ally caught by Ross off Roopordinating as they should have. narine for 167. St. Slanislans Charles played a very good left- were all out for 327 runs. wing and centr.ed the ball quite Replying to this total we unwell, but the centre forward was fortunately quickly lost a nerunable to collect cleanly and beat vous London, over-agressive the "Saints'' goal keeper. Mean- · Dolphin and reliable Birkett for while Vargas was gallantly de- 2. But then, "Reds" Murray set fending his team against the an exemplary pattern of defence very hard-pressing "Saints''. and short-singles which all the He was ably assisted by Griffith remaining Q.C. batsmen followand Browman, who were the real ed gamely and resolutely to 209 ancho·r s of Queen's defence as ohortly after tea on the 3rd day baoks. However, ten minutes of this historic match. before the dose of play Van The Roopnarine brothers who Sluytman was able to get in the gained 7 wickets for 77 runs and penalty area and kicked one past 7 wickets fo1· 87 runs respecVargas - it needed a super- tively will long be remembered human effort to stop that one. in a match where Q.C. lost to' a Saints won. team which bore ,u p better in What are the future prospects tight situations. for football at Queen's? At least -Sports Ed.

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After each of our 10 houses had played 8 matches, Moulder and Weston emerged winners of Section A and B in the school ·ootball competition earning the right to decide between them which was the best football .earn in the school.

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Despite various setbacks the hockey team placed fourtJ1 in the Hiram Walker ~ague. As., the season started dunng the l1obda)"'i a team could not have been formed and a fe,". matches ha_d to be postponed which <resulted m a clash between hockey and i'ootball fixtures.

The first match wa~ on tl1e. first day of Term ~gamst Ch1_nese Sports Club. Tins was 1()($t m a score of 1- 0, mainly because there were not e11ougb hockey players to reprel5()nt the school. The remaining matches resulted in two games won, one drawn and throo lo.;;t, with other points gained on "walkover.;."

Five players were selected for They are the National Colts.

Byrne, Holder. Ho, C. V.; Ho, W. G.; and Sue-A-Onan.

A coach is CS''l('lntial for promoting the standard of play. It is hoped that the g-a mes authority will .soon look int.o tho matter.

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Daly (F ) - 13, Rohec (K) - 8, Roach (A), Babb (B), McAllister ( A) 7 each, Stephen (E ) and Cox (B) - 6 each got the most goals this season.

Captain Sheppard's skill leading the swift moving attack featuring Bovell, Joseph, Evans and Miranda was expected to defe.at F with its 4 school players and the goal-getting Daly.

A goalless first half showed nothing; but an injured Sheppard exposed the weakness M ''G" house without him. "F'' seized this advantage pressed relentlessly until they eventually scored t,vice through Charles and Bunbury. Congratulations to Byrne and his Westonians are a fitting epilogue to an eventful 1962 House Football Competition.

D .A. M. G.

OLD BOYS' DAY.

Old Boys' Day is fast becoming one of the most popular traditional institutions of Queen's College. On that day, the old boys' have a chance of refreshing their memories of their Alma Mater. They attend General Assembly, in the morning) mingle with the masters and boys, and have lunch at midday.

In the afternoon, there is usually a cricket match between the old boys and a school team. This , is followed by tea and a social function in the evening.

At our las t Old Boys' Day we were treated to more than our usual share of entertainment.

Of the distinguished Old Boys were present among others, Mr. Forbes Burnham, Q.C. who spoke first, Mr. Frank Pilg rim who spoke afterwards, and Mr. R. B. Gajraj, the Speaker of the House of Assembly ,who presented the G.C.E.O. Level Certificates.

Mr. Burnham told of his past experiences at Q.C. with lively wit, and ended, by exhorting all the boys now attending the school to use foresight, perseverance, and determinatio.n in their sojourn through life.

Mr. Pilgrim caused great amusement by his anecdotes of his school days, referring to his cognomen "Bogus Minimus" which first applied to him at Q.C. The only disappointment was the non-appearance of the Past Boys' Cricket Team, and the cricket match was called off.

From all appearances, however, the Old Boys spent a most en• joyable day .

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The attendance of Q.C. boys at Q.C. Sports could still be improved.

Ever sinco ,ve ceased to make ourselves indebted to G.C.C. for their P'l'Olmd (a "'OOd move) the attend~ce has fi~llen. However witl1 a few more pavilions we shall have all the necessary added attraction;; to warrant ,vholel1earted support.

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Thern is an unhealthy situation when all old boys are bunched together in a rough 'u tumble. Wlmt about a race for old '"old boys."

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A few Q.C. students from the Bible Club attended the InterSchool Christian Fellowship's third camp at l\udc.wini this year from Friday, April 13 Thu1·sday, A:pril 19. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the camp in all its aspects - both in spiritual activities and in physical recreation.

Of course, being a mixed camp, it was an added attraction. However, the purpose of the camp was not only for one to eat, sleep and have a good time, but also to emphasize the need of having Christ as both Saviour and Lord of one's life.

The key verse was John 10 :10"I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly".

As a result of bhe camp, many made decisions for Christ, As for those of us who already know Him, we can look back at Camp and say, like the apostles, that 'it was good for us to have been there'.

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Now about Ga.mes - winning becrune so monotonous we lost both Jacob and Dias Cups.

To the cricket.ors I isay gather all the experience you can - you will ne(l<l it after the "promotion" to Rajah Cup. . . . Don't label me fot jud~ ing from pa.st performance.s, thi, is only inevitable. To the footballers I say 3 men could never win tho game. So come on boys build a team - remember l;eam work i;; !he way to sueco;;..,,

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"ANSWERS" l. Ireland 2. Brazil 3. (a) C. V. Wight in England (1928), (b) R. J. Christiani in India (1948) . .

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