The QC Lictor - July, 1967

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No.8. Vol-9

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From Minister of Edu.cation Guyana celebrated its first . independence anniversary on the 26t-11 May, 1967. In order to celebrate this important ev,ent, several schools had a special programme for the da~. Queen's College was no exception and at ow· programme, the Minjster of Education the Honourable Mrs. Winifred Gaskin was present to d~Jver a message to the school. . First of all the Headmaster read lo the school a text of the mes~age of the Prime Minister to schools on this joyotis occasion after which three national songs were St,ng. The'-e songs were very inspirational and surdv set the pattern for an afternoon of patriotic speeches and !houghts.

Next came the most im- lhe way .she delivered it.

P?rtant proceeding of the I-T<' also asb;-d ~I rs. Gaskin aftPrnoon - Mrs. Gaskin ·s to present a copy of the speech.

The speech was speech to the school for preservation . , After this, the school <'il ~ was sung, and this w ls followed ~Y the playin ,~ of tht:; national anthem.

Thie; howrbt the curtain :-, clown on a very interesting afternoon.

I n the picture above one can see a section of the Queen's ColJege Cadets looking very smart and military as usual, representing the college in the two-mile long military parade which marched 4 miles through the streets of Georgetown on May 26th when Guyana celebrated its first Independence Annive-rsary, The Cadets, led by Second Lieutenant Robinson (extreme left) and clad in full m.il\itary gears, show the materi;al which Queen's can proThe Lictor talces pleasure 10 printing this p:cture of duce for the country's d efence. the College's serious faced military boys on whom Guyana may depend in the future.

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GYMNASIUM PROJECT

very exciting and was well received by the eager, appreciative audience. The speech, which was brilliantly delivered, exh01ted our students to greater effor ts .

As Queen's College students, she said, we shall he looked upon by the community to provide leaders who will steer t Guyana through her most strenuous periods. \Vithout doubt the challenge thrown out by the Honour able Minister of Education will be taken up by our boys.

A.fter the speech, the Headmaster thanked Mrs. Gaskin for her very sobre a n d thought-provoking speech.

I le praised the In this photograph, a senior memher of the school s_peech for its excellent displays the prowess one can achieve by being an vocabularv and lauded ardent gymnast. :\I rs. Gaskin specially for .,.,;(

NEWS IN ·BRIEF Dr- Ewart Thomas old boy of Mlr S A. Hinds an old boy of Q.0, ai'id tormer member of Q.C. and Cunningham House is Raleigh house has r eturned to now back in Guyana. He obGuyana after completing his B.Sc tained his PhD from Cambridge course in Engineering at New University.

Brunswick Canada- Mr. Hinds who gained 1st class Hons. in his s ubject is now employed at Demba

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Also successful in his finals was Charran Hetram son of the Headmaster and former member of Wolley House who obt ained his B.A: degree from Queen's lTniversity Canada:

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L ast year's Supervisor of the Lictor Mr. Ramraj has now obtained his M .A . from New Brunswick -University and is now proceeding on work towards h~'> doctorate.

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Charlie Denbow who left Q C. in 1963 and t aught for a year on the staff before entering U.W-1. has been successful in his 2nd M.B.B.S. exam. winning both the Anatomy and Physiology prizes

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Mr. H. S i n g h o f t h e University of G u y a n a has ol>talned a post -graduate award to Mr Master University in Canada Mr. Singh who left Q.C. in 1962 was among the lirst students to enter U.G. and is the iirst student of the University t o win a post-graduate award-

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Of course Nardat was asked to leave school at the end of the Easter term bu,~ it seems that Fate is always taking a hand on his behalf and so he evemually returned. The big question is will he finally leave school at the end of this term? He is odds on fa. vourite to do so.

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Confucius was seen begging for pennies outside "Strand"

Congratulations to -,be Students! Council

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The entire Lower Soi.x th was shocked with the retun~ of this hairy faced Chinese to school a fortnight after it ha:l ireopened. Heard tha:. he is now · dabbling in History, Economics and Literatur~.

One by one, the equipment of our gymnasium i~ being erected and gradually the dreams of the Students Council are materialising into reality.

As Mr. Yansen said, the ~mnasium is not a new idea hut is in keeping with the gfd Queen's College tradition. Al] attempts at erecting a gymnasium m the past have met with littJ,e or no success. That it is being established iri our time, at a peri'od when evervone is critical of us, is an honour to every present m ember of Queen's College. But we must not steal the honoW' that is rightly due to others. The persons who ought to feel most proud of themselv.es are the members of the executive of the Students· Council.

The Students' Council itseH is a little more than a year old, its constitution b eing approved in June 1966, but it had become functional since 1964. Between 1964 and 1966, the Stud,ents' Council was only heard of, as the present Chai.irman quite rightly said when its dues were to be collected. Yet even this latter was not done for when the pnesent committee took office the Students' Council had in its b·easury $34.00. Despite such a dis· appontment and the fact that a q_uarter of the Students· Association h as not paid ~ts membership fees, the Students' Council was able to make steady headway. Now you can see why I said that the executive of the Students' Council should feel proud of themselves.

Just as the ex,ecutive members of the Students' Council should be lauded, so should the third formers be chastised. Not only do they bring dishonour on the school by their ridi'culous behaviour but they even refuse to pay their subscriptions. These forms clearly have no To solve their problem would need to school spirit. fie;ht fire with fire. No man knows h ow well off he is until he is cast in a lower soci,ety. Confiscate the privileges of the third form s, make them outsiders, I say, and we shall see if there is really no hope for them.

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Heard that at Prior's wedding reception, Eddie was seen slinking thr ough the back d oor wi h two yards black pu:lding under his arm. When challenged

by BUP he replied, "Is foh de dog, man."

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Heard tna,t a certain member cf U6M (a) was heard singing, "I'm walking in the footsteps of a fool" after he had jilted Alfie of L6M (b).

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That Robo was telling a certain form tha c treasure w as only found in ancien t places when the obvious ftuestion came - "Sir, did you find any in your car. '

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That sweet boy Vaughn of 4b was put in d~ention for smiling too suddenly

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That Primo is taking judo lessons from his idol - agent COP.

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That someone remarked to Saddle of the fifths ,ha if he hadn't got such a bril liant head he might have had a shining future,

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That someone said that he had been to.Id that PB738 had once exceeded the speed limit.

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That PB '/:ill is the of1spnng of P9655. ·1,1at Balance said to a noisy form: 'hke-lh-i-ss is bour-da market new location."

That the PM suspiciously asked, "Which section?"

Replied Agent COP "Waal n aturally, you wouldn'{ want me to coach the boys."

James of L6M (a) is the only GUERILLA that has never fought a war.

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Tha. Balance sad to M.: Allister: ·Bo-y \vh-h•en. would yuh le-learn to-o spea-K prvperly.'

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Heard that he was caught writing a letter to Helen Hayes.

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lil:e to become engineers and one well-known 34th placer answered ' 'I S ir."

Replied S'1icky smoothly "Boy, I wa~n't &peaking auc-ut grease-monkeys."

That Agent COP volunteered to train the GDF for its expedition to Anguilla.

The said Alfie had to change his "liming spo." from Pike and Alexander Streets, Kitty to Bank ot B aroda.

Now that the term of office of the new executive is at an .end, a new exeC11ti've will take m·.er. They will hav,e the express d\lty of filling in the rest of equipment that could not h ave been ob tained this year. They will have to maint.ain the bl~stering pace set by the pnesent executiv e. To do this they will need men of stature. I do sincerely hope that the new ,executive wi'll take up the chaH,~nge left by the 1966-67 committee.

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LIOTOR

A certain Fifth form stuctenit wrcite in his Easter examination: ''Plants are made up of stems, roots, leaves and WHAT NOT!

C. Rambarat Amin, K. A., Watson, E. S. McIntosh Clarke, L., Dewar, D. Gobin, W.W. Rickford, J. R. Mr. M. M. Drepaul

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John White Reports •••

T he views expressed by ind;viduals are not necessarily those of t1,e Editorial Board and School as a whole.

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Andy: Look de mile is abou~ to start.

Nardat: Yo' mad! Is de sack race You ain't see that chap in his sack?

Andy: Man that is Amin in his khaki pants.

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Member of L6M (b) to COP: Man you're looking like 007 COP to L6M (b): ActualJy I'm Inspec.tor Pickering of the yard.

Voice: Mus' be Federation yard.

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Heard that Big Bart hoisted his short pants to ccmmemorate his ascent of Chi-Chi mountains.

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There was a hammock saboteur on the Ayanganna expedition. Luckily for the victims. Vijay's hammock was always open to them.

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Nugget during one of his la' in lesson to L6 class. said that it was the habit among the Romans fo,r the nobility to have three names, the bourgeois two and the plebs one Voice from the back: "Confucius."

That fourth

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Sticky asked a form who would

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That this reporter (!he author of Fiasco) has gone in hiding under M.T's car.

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That an old bottle of XM gave this advice to a new bottle of Old Kaie, "Watch out for BUP otherwise it's BUDUP."

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That the fa.th er of a certain fifth former despairing of his son ever appreciating fine cultural languages like French was astounded by his so.n's French marks during the last two terms. Explained his son dreamily; "Well you see dad my new French MASTER has taught me to appreciate the finer paTts of lifa.

I now realise .he value of a well-rounded education figuratively speaking."

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Tht! only man to gain weight on the Ayanganna trip was Mbutu. This colourful character downed half a can of biscuits, two tins corned beef, half tin condensed milk two tins orange juice and a cup of hot cocoa at one go!

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MIB (about midnight).

Move your fool nah man.

Voice: Who say is me foot.

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Heard that NK.R is considering applying for a job as a dr ainage officer. After all keeping P9655 dry during the recent heavy downpours is no mean f ea •.

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Yango had no qualms abou t riding his "Big Ben" through the recent rainy period.

"Aft er all," he claims, "rust is insoluble in water.'' .

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That James Bond is back in town.

Heard than Eddie was recently christened "The Mini Bond."

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That E . A. J ame:, <;ays he enjoys 'light" ex · periments in Physics. He says, ''They are so so simple, I absorb them quickly! "

That when questioned by our reporter on his ab,sence he gave a crytic smile and said, "you only live twice.''

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DAN MOORE - WATCHMAN Ask anyone living a!i Uitvlug-t about "Ole" Dan Moore and the response you get will fake your thoughts on a widely imaginative journey.

You conjure an image of this man that e ven if you had never seen him and you are walking on the path he usually takes to go home, you most certainly w ill recognise him. His IQOSely fitting trousers which he would tell you, keeps him warm at night and cool in fJ1e day, his large humorouslooking face, forever creased in t>miles his large clay pipe after the manner of Sherlock HQJmes all make this man as essentially a part of Uitvlugt a~ \'.he land:

Dan Moore works as a water.man , or rath er h e is a member of the Estate Security Department, as he likes to put it. He is on e of few men who watch at nigh t a11d don't sleep during the day which doesn't say a lot for his duties after twelve o'clock at' night. On one occasion as watchma n at the main gat e, Da n fell asleep c:1nd around twel ve in tha ·night, an Estate o'ffacial haJ'\-pen ed on p'Oor Dan and proceeded to r ob l:im of his helmet, Now the helmet is a part of the uniform of a watchman and any loss must be rep or ted to managemen t. When he turned u p to r eport, he had a feeling t h at one of t he staff had r elieved him of his helmet, so he repor ted th at wrile he was testing his imm unity to sleep, a staff m ember took h is h el met. He said t'hat he saw the member taking h is hat but b ecause of the darkness of the watch hut he did not see his fa ce. Ask ed ~ h y re did not m ak e a ch allenge, Dan calmly said that he thought th at the whole a'ffair was a plot a nd as such h e was determined that he would k eep 1,:ruiet and unearth the consp irators, w ho in hls opinion wer e seek ing to wreck the management. Needless to say , Da n f ound h is h elmet in the hut when he retu rned th ere.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

On afternoons when we had nothing t'o do we went out to catch a "gaff" wit h Dan. Each 'gaf f' was a jok ing session wi th Dan out in tfron• side-stepping now and then into vibrant jokes

but never did he seem to run out of gas. Now and then he would tell us about his days in tl:e West Indian Regiment which never saw ac· ion but escorteu German prisoners· He always swells his chest when making reference to his service. Once he told us that he and two friends were in a village having a few drinks and talking when up came an old man and told them about some haunted house that was supposed to hou se things which flitted around in tl:e night. It 1urned out that the house was the old man's property and as 1he three men were in uniform 1 he thought they could help him.

The first of Dan's friends, a huge fellow, was immediately inter~ ied and ventured to sl eep in the pl aoe with a revolver. He ,utered t he house complete with a loud creaking of the door and rising wind just as in films and lay d<mu on the floor to sleep. ~ome {)ime later, on awaktning he saw things flitting at i he foot of his bed, In a scared vowe tie I al 1ingly asked who it was. No reply was received where upon would resuli1 in it ge:tihg shot. l·e declared that failure to do so 'J'he only response to this was increased flitting, He counted to three and 'fired. Alas! Dan and the second friend had to carry him to the Medical officer - the poor fe llow shot of£ two of his toes. . .. ·~~

and said as he was going ou!. ' It •oo green, man'.

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He can always keep us occupied and so we often tall: with Dan whenever our spirit,· need a Ii 't or just for plain simple fun. For political 'gaff' Dan's t},e greatest. He believes he could ba the answer to the cot•ntry's problems. During the great str ike, Dan expounded 1heory day after day and supported his arguments with figures. He could make most people see J-js points and never would his blood rise when arguing <iuring that strike, But he would never be active in politics he says since the time when the leader 'of his section made gOOd use of Dan's cows and fruit trees and never bothered to help Dan realise his dreams.

His oullook on life is simple.

His motto is: 'D n'i; wcrry' Wi } a ~aracter such as I his i i~ r wonder tl:at if Dan were to die suddenly, Uit'vlugt would mourn his death for a long time. His indl!ference to colour has earn~d him friends ove1· the whole of Uitvlugt, which, in times of stress, is about the most violent scene of hatred. Yet Dan can walk anywhere without fear showing that the way to unit; is love.

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Going down the road you may see Dan where upon you greet him 'What's up Dan'?' - He replies, 'Sun, man'. You try again ·What's on Don·.'' ·pants1 man' says Dan. He told me that one day, in his yard, !:is parrots escaped into the tree. H e had injured his foot the previous day ,1nd did not fee l like climbing, so he saw a young man passing whom he recognised as Gavin, 1amous because he was the village's only mad-man and not wanting to wait longer he asked him to get the parrots for him. Gavin obligingly opened the gate, entered quic kly and mounted the tree- Minutes later, he brougl:t down the yellow parrot.

Dan asked him why he didn't bring down the green one. Gavin walke:i to the gate, opened it

NE PREFECTS Now that the past year's prefects are busy doing their exams. twenty-seven acting prefects were appointed to carry on the discipl ine in the school. ,T he Acting Head of School and Deputy Head are respectively A Mc Intosh and J. Dow. We are s ure that these boys are very capable of leading the new prefects, and the Lictor would l:ke ~o take this opportunity in wishing all new prefects the best of luck in the future.

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- GUYANA STYLE I is nrw dusk The afternoon air is still and peaceful. Except '• · he soun;l of the occasional ""O'o.· which is passing in the street, one hears notl:ing el.se but ni , own fl,01•,,}lts and the soft music 'coming from a r1ouse about • wo yards awayThen ..,il-ienlv the qui<>t spell is broken - shattered actually. A crescendo of ~hrill voices rises like a moonbOt'.nd ro"l:at, almost melodiously. to 1he tune of 'Oh me mamma!. Me mamma Yuh gann? Oh l-a-~-a-a-a d! Oh I-a-a-a-ad!' Yes, that is tl:e ~ignal. It has st'ruck again. What?

Death of course Guyanese Style.

In fact that is only the begin0

St rar.gely enough the cr owd out here in the living room c"nsists mainly of women. There are a few men yes, but they must be teetotaller s, for in a bed and q uite segregated from the -est sit a circle of sad 'sober' men around a bottle of old 'Dem<'ran River water' as t hey call it . Of course it is only ' brown rum. "Wl:at!'' you may say, 'drinking rum over the dead ?'

Well you've got a surprise waiting for you in Guyana if you thin k that is disr espect, By the time everyone has left, t here are about a dozen e mp ty rum bot,les lying around a nd a host i)f dirty plates. They call t his a

L. A. R . Grant ni~~ .of a peculiar sequence of 1c' 1v1t1es associated with that dreaded disease called death The chorus of screams continu~ ·or about half an hour, partly to ~xpress the grief of the bereaved a.,d part1y to announce to neigl:bours, friends and well wishers the tragedy.

THE WAKE

Soon 'he wcrd has spread and all the immediate relatives a nd friends gather at the home of t he deceased. The relatives a mong 'hemselvas make arrangemen ts for the funeral and the body is taken away to a funeral p arlour.

By this tjme it is n ight proper and all tl:e well wishers have urrived. Extra chairs have been brovght in to accommodate the "rowd which has gathered to praise or even to cri'icise the life >f 1he one who has passed on.

Meanwhile a jug of coffee has already been placed on t he stove- ThJ lit11e son or daugl:ter of onP. of the r e 1 a t i v e s h a s b e e n sent to one of the nearby shops for a few packets of biscuits. Of course the young girls ore >alrea:ly busy gra,ing coconuts and picking rice fo, t:he pot of c0ok-up which is going to be made to feed the large crowd which will be there until the wee hours of the morning and most of wl:om did not have time to eat before they left jl.ome after hearing the news.

Meanwrile they nave coffee and biscuits.

'wake'. In fact it is quite an other excuse for the celebration of an occasion called death.

FUNERAL PARLOUlt

At the funeral ceremony next afternoon a large, mixed crowd has gather ed-relatives. friends, well-wishers and just plain gossip moniers. This ceremon v may be quite a $ad, sober affair or on tl:e oth er hand a rowdy free-for-all w ith abuses a nd even fi gh ts, normally over t he t he oossessions of the b eloniiogs of the d eceased. Of course the ''river water " is present in adequate supplies t o lend spirit to those concerned.

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F rom the ceremony a t the parlour t he corpse is borne in a gran:I procession of car s and cycles through th e streets to th<> rver-waiting cemetery where it is laid to rest am idst a new outburst of weeping and wailing and hymn singing, Then it ill all over- At least for soma. Now that the decPased shall be seen no more ther e are those who 1hink that L,; only right that they have something to r emind them of this last parting. So dff they ~o lnugl:in g and chatting, brooding and meditating to the nearest liquor restaura nt where the indelible seal is now affixed to one more Guyanese w ho has su~frred the fate of death !

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Student Exchange Programllle

It is to be regretted that this :Unbitious scheme has been wasted by the indifference of Q.R.C. (Queen's Royal College) of T rinidad.

The programme was originally the idea of our Chairman, and it stood as follocws after being accepted by the C ~uncil: that the Student Association of Queen's College should propose to Queen's Royal College of Trin;_dad the establishment of a Student Exchange Programme whereby each college would send to the other a senior student for a period to be decided on, so as to link both instit1ttion.c; more closely to their mutual benefit. lt is doubtl~s that such a programme would have been not just an intriguing novelty but a profitable thing as well.

But here is the account of what happenerl.

Our first letter, sent on the 18th November of last year, made the abr,ve proposal.

It recalled the relations already existing between the institutions by means of past S ports Tours (Q.C. and Q.R.C. have sent teams to challenge each other at regular intervals, the last team sent by us has its photograph in the lower western corridor outside Room 4 l.

It expressed our interest in improving these relations, in l earning more of Q.R.C., and in broadening ideas and outlooks on both sides. This could b e don e t hrough the Exchange Pn,gramme. Our letter went on to express a preference for Lower Sixth students as far as this programme was concerned.

Reasons for the choice were "to avoid the confusion or decline in academic progress which may arise if Fifth or Upper Sixth students ( both taking external exams) <1re selected". It outlined the qualities to be sought in the student selected: "he would be chosen on his merits as a 'full' student, of sound character and intelligence, his academic abilities, participation in extra-currilar activities and sports, his general _bearing, would all be take~ into account." The p eriod of his stay would last probably for a month, possibly for a full term; the process of exchanging

studeuts could, of cour e, be made as frequent as once a term, or failing that, c,nc:e a year, as funds permitted.

The cost of the passage could b~ defrayed, at least a:; far as our side of the bargain was con .erned, Crom As!'Ociation Funds a:; well as from contributions made by organizations. such as the Old Boys' Association.

But best of a ll, arrangements could, if needed, be sought with Travel Agencies or the Government for "special concessions and redu ctions."

After the student's arrival, boarding and lodging costs could be avoided completely. silllce Prefects and other students could accommodate the visitors fnr periods of a week or two, thus at the same time affording the visitors more opportunities of making friends, of living in different areas and ~·eeing condition.:;, and preventing the hospitality from waning as might be the case if they had to spend long periods in one M1Jreover, school-time house. student expenses bemg "generally low", the visitor would be able to spend even three months in a foreign country without having to provide more than his 0wn pocket-money for miscellaneous expenses.

The Council had set apart the sum of $100, which was expected to cover passage and all expenses.

high-ranking college in the Caribbean besides Q.C. There i:s Codrmgton College of Barbados, and beyond that, there is Jamaic;;.; and the United States is certainly not too far away in these days of speedy travel, in fa~t. the very distance and difference between the U.S.A. and Guyana 'nay encourage an American college to learn what life- here is like, and vice versa.

There is every hope for a new Student Exchange Programme in the : uture.

This being the final term of the schonl-year, we look back upon the activities of the year, with an eye to assessing our achievemen ts.

Our aims, as set forth in the Preamble to the Constitution, arc as follows: -

•·we, the students of Queen's College, to foster a unity of interests among the students, staff and administr ation, to stimulate a spirit of co-operation, to help co-ordinate student activitie., for the smarter function~ mg of the school, to encourage student:; to acc:ept and discharge their responsibilities to themselves and to their school, and to aid in the development of 1oyal, con strudive school spirit, do ordain and establish this All necessary and relevant in- constitution." formation was given in the letter, and provision made for such It will be remembered that modifications as might be sug- the Students' Association was gested by Q.R.C. (which does founded in the Christmas Term not have a Student Association). of 196-!, under the ChairmanWe had to wait a considerable ship of C. A. Ying, Head Boy, time for a reply. It finally came, and his deputy, K. Byrne.

In dated 20th January, 1967, ex- the year Hl65-66, the Chairman pressing interest in the proposi- and Vice-Chairman were Messrs. tion but regretting that Q.R.C. Glasheen and McAndrew. Durcould not commit itself witl:out ing those two years progress clearance from the Trinidad was made in some way or anMinistry of Education.

Yet other by the Association and its they gave no indication as to administrative unit, the Studwhether they considered the ents' Council.

But it is in the plan feasible or not. We wrote present school-year 1966-67 that them immediately, requesting the greatest advances have been definite information so that we made in the furthering of our could either conti!l1ue with the ~tated aims. We have seen the plan and move to a further stage status of the Council rising in negotiations or discontinue it. !'teadily in importance as this But Q.R.C. is not the only body became a hive nf activity,

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TEAMWORK Cingratulations to the members of the Students' Council of Queen's College on their efforts to provide a gymnasium for their school.

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Demba has gathered an experienced management team, of skilled This is :rpuch the same with the bauxi,t e labour force, which is combined with experts in associated companies responsible for research, sales and shipping to bring a reliable product to customers in 9ver 30 counh·ies at COljlpetitive costs. .'\.s a result, Demba is now a leading supplier of specialty calcined bauxites for the abrasive and refractory indus ries. '

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what with plan after plan being proposed, objections thrown, debate stimulated, amendments offered, and best of all, action taken. Whereas in the past the matters diseussed had tended to be trifling, all emphasis wa , now plated on matters of import and relevance.

But before sharing congratuJations, let us remember that a number of Association-members have shown an annoying indifference tc the organization, and that credit for whatever progress we have made is due primarily to the Chairman and Executive. and then to the Council generally. And thanks to the efforts of those persons, as well as to many individuals and certain individual forms, improvements nave been made in our general administration in addition t o the projects that have been undertaken.

It i!< the growth and general administration of the Council frat will be dealt with her that is, as far as contained within the period spanning the present school-year.

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The obvious field for improvement was in our meetings. I.n the Council, membership was expanded by the addition of society-representatives, in accordane;e with Clause 5 of Article llll which calls for the composition of the Council to be of Pref e c t s , form-representatives, Scl:ool Captains of all school and "Chairmen, s p o r t s, presidents or leaders of all extra curric ular activities." So this is, in effect, the first rar in . which societies have had repre:. sentation in the Council. Clearly, this addition to the membership of the administrative unit means that a wider cross-section of stud nts have a voice in that body, that tr.ere is a greater coordination of student activities, and that the body will thus be better able to administer the affairs of the 700 and odd Associat ion-members.

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Moreover, a new orderliness and discipline was required of the Council; members were urged to regard themselves as a Parliamentary body, and a new arrangement of seating was introduced. To complete the general improvement in our meeting-room , proper record books were purchased for the use o:f the Recording Secretary and a report-box built. meetings have Association been likewise improved upon In the first place they are ~ore frequent and regular· Secondly, a recent alteration in the times for such meetings r.as set them for Wednesday afternoons instead df after morning assembly and within school-hours; so that the Association now has at its disposal a full half-hour or more in which to hold meetings which are exclusively their own and which can last longer tr.at the previous ones. Furthermore, individuals are allowed to put questions to the Executive, and it is expected that much constructive use will be made of thi~ privilege, , It will be realised that whereas individual s had formerly to address their queries solely through their representatives,

they are now, through this expansion of Association-meetings, able to be more in touch with their Executive· To the same effeet more or less, was the setting~up of our Notice Board at the beginning of this term. since thn plans of the Executive and its nego'tiations are placed in full view of the students. The Notice-Board is, however, only a part of an official P ublicity Programme. at the head of wr.ich is a Publicity Officer- The other part of this Publicity Programme operates throu gh the Lictor.

It can be said that the wheels on which an organization runs are the subscriptions pai-d by its memberc:. and that without those subscriptions, wit'~out that material support, the organization will collapse,· causing tl:e benefits offered bv it to collapse. This is what would threaten the Students' AssM;ation were it not for a number of dedicated and responsibleminded students: In spite of all the improvements and projects undertaken in the course of the year, it has been an uphill battle against the apathy and selfishness df not a few individuals· For all the appeals, exhortations, demands and cai0leri<>~ directed at them, they r.ave for the most part remained stubborn as mules. However, we are glad to find that the majority of members have realiserl their duty an-\ oarticularlv in the T,ower School, have dedicated themselves to its fulfilmGnt. 'T'heir sense of responsibility is laudable. , By far the most interestin g aspect of the Student Council's work during th.is year is its expansion, its delegation of powers to numerous communities and sub-committ ees, in accordance with Article IV, Clause 1 (e), which delegates to the Council the power "To appoint, supervise and co-ordinate sub-committees·" This privilege has been used to its fullest, wit}: small groups being charged with the responsibility of investigating the feasibility of pr ojects, of carrying on negotiations and. of reporting to the Executive and Council their s u c c e s s e s or disappointments. S uch d e 1 e g a t i o n s were n e c e s s i t a t e d by the exten siveness (ff the work facing the Council, for the projects considered (not necessar ily implemented) were a Student Exchange Programme, the purcr.ase of equipmen t for gamessocieties. the organisation of a Boxing Club, a P ublic-Address System, a Special Privileges Agreement with Fogarty's. a school-fence, an exhibition and a Gymnasium. among others The business firms which had to be contacted in connection with thes!' projects are too many to be listed here. but a few are Sprostons, Demba, Bookers Fogarty's. etc.

Even more projects are envisaged; those selected for imolerrentat'ion are from a wide field· and with the wnole-hearted su p~ port of members. tl:e Students' Association 1hrough its elected Council, will be present d with benefits hitherto unknown i.n the course of attaining the stated a ims of the Preamble 0

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Moon-to-Ear th enhanced view-RunP. craters appear on the surface of the Moon (foregro1mrl) i?, this "enhanced" printing of Lile first photograph of E:arth tnk,m from the vicinity of the Moon by the Lanar Orbi ter-I space-::raft.

Technicians at the Boeing Company . mavmfacturer of the spacecraft, ...sed special lighting tecrniques, but 1, 0 photographic i-etouching, to bring out t.he details of the picture.

This pi!:ture ww: taken August 23 as the spacecraft tva.~ about 1,200 kilometres abfJVe the eastern edge of the Moon, iravellin.g at a speed of about 3,600 kilometres an ,hour toward the sde ne1,er seen from Earth.

The Moon's horizon is approximately 2,250 kilometres away. Sl1utter speed was 1/100 of a second. The picture was transmitted to Earth in a series ot jramel'!ts.

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Man has taken long st.eps across the frontier of the unknown since the opening of the space age in October 1957 with the launching of his first artificial satellite by the U.S.S.R. His unmanned spacecraft ar~ blaz~ng trails to the Moon~ Mars and Venus, _th'.lt he is preparing to follow. His satel1ites are broaden,ng h1s knowledge about space near and distant from ea1th and about earth itself. !od~y, ~ace re.s earch is making our world a better one to live. in. Satellites are expanding global commurucabon, 1mprovmg the accuracy of weather forec asts and providing the basis for future air and sea navigation ar~und tlie world. These are only the more no~ab1 e examples of the thousands of ways that new knowledge gamed from space research contributes to our daily life.

VASTNESS OF SPACE Among the ni?e planets which revolve about our sun, Earth is the fifth in size. Pluto, a "neighbour" in our solar system, 1s more than 3~ bill:on miles distant and yet jf like the earth, is held in its orbH by th,: massive gravitat=onal attraction of the, sun. Our Sun is l (lO·times as large as the largest planet in its family of 9.

Yet our sun is itself only a minor star. Its neare ,t neighbou ·ing star is so far away titat even hi1Iions of miles are too tiny a measure of distance. We must instead use the light-year, the distance travelled in one yelar at the speed of light. Light travels 186,300 miles per second, making one light year about 6 trillion miles. Proxima Centauri, the star nearest our Sun, is approximately 4 1/3 ti g h t years from earth and the farthest galaxy (grouping of stars) man can seei in his b\ggest telescope is 10 billion light years away.

Both Proxima Crntauri and our Sun are star members of the galaxy we call the Milky Wp.y, a , grouping of an estimated 200 billion stars so immense it w ould take 100,000 years at the speed. of light to cross its length. And even more staggering is the t hought th at this galaxy is only one of several billion within t he range of the world's largest telescope.

View~ in our terms of time and distance, the challenge of space e'"ploration seems fantastic. Yet it is a challenge which he has already acce)?ted with his early explorations in h 's solar sy stem.

SPACE RESEARCH AND YOU Our lives are being subtly moulded by Space Explorat~cn today and w ·n be even more gre::itly affected in the future,. Space research is revolutionizing the outlook of the students of to-day. Among the flood of new benef.ts to mankind are weather satellites which will provide warnings of tornadoes, floods, hurricanes and other catastroph 'c weather thus enabling people to take precautions and so l~ssen their losses. Improved weather forecasting will also help air and sea travel as well as agr·cultUlI'al and engineering iproje~ts.

Navigation ~atellites can help to guide the t..'lousands of air and sea crafts enabl"n g them to steer safe courses in all kinds of weather.

But perhaps the most exciting prospect offered to man through satdllites is that of the world w :de tele, vision, telephone and teleprinter communication iu a matter of s e c on d s. The world's first commercial, communicavlons satellite, Early Bird, was launched on AJ>ril 6, 1965. From a position high ab o v e the Atlantic ocean, this satellite made possible transmission of telev;.sion programs (such as the World Cup Series in 1966) between Europe and the Western Hemisphere. · The sc•;ence of- Astromony will bernefit greatly from future orbiting observatories which will give man more definite information about the nature and origin of our mysterious solar system. Other satellite observatories will assist in determining exact distances and locations and prec'. se shapes of land and SEia a:reas on earth.

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PHYSICS With satellites the physicist has a new tool for study of the earth, the earth's at mosphere and the earth's magne/tic field. With interplanetary spacecraft, t he physicist can study the so 1 a r wind, the stream of hot electrified iatomic particles (protons and electrons) coming from the sun. He can study cosmic and other forms of radiation. When landings are made on the moon and on other planets, the physicist may gain a new perspective of his area of Science.

MEDICINE It is in benefits to mEldicine, however, that the m an in the street is more 1 kely to £er( the dramatic impact of space iresearch on our lives ; and great advances are expected in the treatment of heart and blood ailments. Significant studies have been made on human behaviour and performances under conditions of great stress, emotion and fatigue. Discovelries have been made as to what type of man can best endure long periods of isolation and removal from his ordinary environment, a der•vative of hydrazine (isoniazid) developed as a liquid space propellant, has been found to be useful in treating tuberculosis and certain mental illness. And the space industry is producing such reliable and accurate miniatu1re part3 that they m ay someday be used to replace worn-out human organs.

Communications satellites will certainly heip in speeding up medical information and may even provide the means for international specialists to advise on major operations in a mattE1r of seconds. :The idea of a remotely operated instrument carrier for unmanned exploration of the m o on has been adapted to build a wheel chair that literally walks and it not only can negotiate curbs and steps, but also can be operatep without the use of arms and hands.

A switch has been developed to enable an astronaut to operate his spacecraft controls by voluntary e::rc movements when his arms and legs are out of use because of thei heavy gravity forces during acceleration or dec~ration. Su<:h a switch can be used for a variety of medical and non-med=,c al purposes. For example a paralysed person could operate a motorized wheelchair or an e 1 e ctr i c typewriter . .. Bed-,:idden patients could control 'room lightsf radios, T.V. sets and other electrically operateld equipment and appl:ances.

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Th;s then, ...s the exciting challenge of space .. . It is a challenge for the schoolboy of to-day bCl::!ause new knowledge to cope with the needs of space will be needed in almost eVE1ry branch of technology . This need covers the basi.c sciences of physics, chemistry, e:ngineering and mathemaf,cs. It also include c; biology, psvchology and almost every fie 1 d of me,dicine. So stop day dreaming in the labs and prepare for t he excitin~ future in space!

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had seized Arab land, t he armies precision and tenacity of .the · Jews. Outnum~e::e.d at frrst, dan (now Jordan) and Lebanon 20-1 , the Israelis finally forced at tacked Israel the day after its the Arabs :o agree to a ce.ase· decl aration of independence. fire after eight months of bitter fighting-

, f Egyp:, Syria , Iraq, Transjor-

Before most Q.C. boys were ev.en awnre that a war (a "real" war with tanks and planes!) had started, it was

At tl:e end of May this year President Nasser asked for the Declared Independence May withdrawal of t he 1956 UN 14th, 1948. emergency force from Egyptian soil. U Thant withdrew t he force. l\rea: 7,933 sq. miles Egypt then promptly occupied ~·harm el Sheikh which overPopulation: 2,700,000 looks the Straits of Tiran in the During World War 1, .in .an effort to obtain the backing of Gulf of Aoaba. Thev mineri th~ Forces: 300,000 (150,000 ~traits and declared that no the :Jews against Germany, the regulars} SUEZ CRISIS: JULY-NOV 1956 Israeli f!~ip would be allowed Br.itish Government issued the Balfour deelaration, which propassage through the straits.

Tanks: 1,000 For eight years sporadic hosmised England's support for the tility erupted in the MiddleJewish cause. When the war t:r Force: 270 East then in 1956 another war THE ARABS , HUMILIATING tuded, the League of Nations broke out Alarmed by Nasser's WEEK, JUNE 5th-9th gave Britain trusteeship . over Premier: Levi Eshkol arms deal~ with Eastern Bloc Palestine- . But f!erce opposition countries, the US withdrew its The war ended practically on by the Arabs . who . comprised June 1967: Israel <t::\ptures offer to help build Egypt's Asthe first day, June 5th, the the majority of Palestine's popuSin::i wan High Dam. Nasser retalia· I sraeli air force in a series of lation forced . the British . to ted by nationalizing tl:e Suez lightning raids, with deadly change the Balfour Declarn1 ion Peninsula, Jordanian sN•t:>r of Canal to gain more revenue for precision, wrecked the majority and they promised instea1 I() ' Jerusalem Egypt. The British and French of the Arab planes befor e they give the land to the Arabs and governments who had the ma- could even 'take off At the end to stop .Jews coming . to settle ARAB wo'RLD jority of sr.ares in the Suez of the day 400 Arab· planes were there. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Canal secretly planned together1:·destroyed as against the Israeli Population, of 14 Anb Nations Alter Hitler's attempt to . exwit~ Israel a co-ordinat~d atta~kltloss of 18 planes. In tr.e desert around Israel 110,000,000 people terminate the Jews . in Europe against Egypt. I srael with Bnt-,iwar Israeli tanks moved relent· du~ the Second World War ish ~ir cover ~a?tured the Sinai lessl~· and efficiently across the public . sympathy in . Europe Peninsula, Bnt1sh and French Sinai Peninsula cha~ing the Egyflt: 300,000 troops, 1,000 caused England to ignore wan; troops landed at the canal's ·Egyptian army as it did in 1956. t1nks, 325 planes. of Jewish imm~gran,i., su::vivors northern end. Under US and eventually capturing' Sharm el of . concentration camps, wh~ Soviet pressure a cease-fire was. Sheikh and occupying the west Syria: 115,000 !roops, 600 poured . into Palestine . in . deagreed to in Nov., 1956 and a ··bank of the Suez Canal. The tanks, 130 planes fiance of the British promise to 6,000 UN emergency force was Jordanian army was severely the Arabs. At the same t.l.me, stationed in Egypt as Israel, mauled by Israeli Infantry, tanks Jordan: 70,000 troops, 200 Jewish commandos hegan to atBritish and French forces with- and air force and by the end of tanks, 50 planes tack British troops in Palestine drew. the week they had withdrawn and Arab terrorists continued to from the Jordanian sector of April 1954 Col Nasser assumes THE PRESENT CRJSIS raid . hwish . villages, . Within Jerusalem leaving it to the p ower in Egypt months the country . was in a Israelis. Syria was dealt several complicated three-way civil war July 1956 Nasser nationalises In 1he most immediate sense, decisive blows. its capital city Suez Canal perhaps the crisis began with Damascus was even threatened and Britain in desperation took Israel s !arming operations in with Israeli invasion. By June the PalesEne . problem to . the Britain, early April. Israel tractors, as is 10th all parties to the cor!flict United Nations.

Oct-Nov 1956 usual every year, rumbled into had agreed to a cease fire and France, Israel overrun ti1 ' 'demilitarized zone' on the this is where the situation rests FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL Syrian frontier to plow the an- for the mom ent - by no means S:nai Peninsula. nual wheat crop. This year solved, in fact even more danThe General Assembly of the Syria decided to deal severly gerous than when the war beU.N . took ten weeks to partition with this border violation. She gan for the Arabs have not only the land between Jews and The Arabs were decisively re- used MIG jets and in the ensu- lost the war but land and presArabs. A nd in May 1948 Israel declared her independence- The pelled by the 'fa::~astic military ing fight r ~rael claimed six ti3e as well.

Arab nations were not prepared - -·- - r to accept the fact that tl:e world powers had divided the land, on which their Arab brothers had lived on for centuries, wi:h the J ews. So, claiming that the Jews

over. Few bovs were. able to understand the situation beyond the fact that tiny Israel had won a decisive v:ctory over the big bullying Arab world. This articL~, in concise form, aims to provide 'J..ictor' readers with the information behind the Middle East crisis. ,It#;

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ThP war which erupted so recently is only a more serious manifestation of hostility between Arabs and Jews which has extended since Biblical days. As Biblical scholars will explain patiently to you, Israel is the Promised Land, the land of Canaan to whicl: Abraham was given a divine deed and towards which Moses led his people in 13 century B.C. Later it was the lan:l of Zion, Judea the homeland of the Jews. And though t'he Romans drove out the Jews rrom Jerusalem in AD 135 they still continued to regard the land as tl:eirs.

The Jews, of course, have always been tM object of hostility and perseoµtion. Th~ nation had been conquered by the Romans, the Arabs, (AD 636) Crusaders (1099) , Mamelukes (1250) and Turks (1517). Their nation broken thei,r land settled on mostly by Moslems, the Jews sc~ttered over Europe becoming r enowned for their stoicism and financial ability.

THE DREAM RE-BORN

The present Middle-East crisis has its roots towards the end of the nineteenth century. Jews persecuted in Europe, especially in Russia and Poland, began to go back to the land of their ancestors then called Palestine and a part of the huge Turkish Empire. Their dream was a modern Jewish state on the land of their ancestors which was occupied by Arabs. They were assisted by an organisation cal· led the World Zionist Organisa tion and the fabulously rich French J ewish family Rothchild.

Under the UN truce, Jordan gained control of most of Arab Palestine and Egypt the Gaza strip_ The greatest losers of the war, however, were the 750,UOU Palestinian Arabs who fled the:r homes to live sullenly for 20 years in dirty, squalid refugee camps in Jordan, across the. border from Israel

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planes, Syria four. A month later terrorist's a\legedly from Syria .mined a road in Israel killing several people. L<;rael decided to threaten stern a ction and her defence minister speculated publicly that it might be advisable to topple the S yrian governmen t. Syria became alarmed and requested aid from Egypt under the defence agi-ee. ments it had signed in November of last year.

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MOCN TROUGH _ Enlargement of a portior. of a photograph made May 11 by Lunar Orbiter-4 shows a Large trough with raised rims on the hidden side of the Moon near the south pole.

The trough, about 240 kilometres long and up to eight kilometres wide in places, cuts thr ough several largf! older craters, and is itself cut by a small younger crater at centre. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Cal.ifo-rnia say the trough extends outward from a large crater cutside the pirturti and may have been induced by shock from the impact which created the crater.

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Gymnasiulll -P rojtct b y the Ch airman, John R. Ricldbrd.

Queen's College has always been noted for her academic achievements, and has always been a producer of great scholars. Not so. in the spheres of athletics and sports. Many years ago our college produced the country's leading sportsmen.

This is hardly the case nowadays.

This was the problem under consideration by the executive of the Students Association, and it was traced to two basic fa ctors: 1· Besides the actual playing of games, no special facilities are available for t he training of athletes and sportsmen.

2. General interest in Physical Training and exercise is lacking, for little else can be done but a few push-ups, pull-ups and so on. Some-

equipment and by the need for expert workmanship) and have other equipment made locally.

At the same time, we obt ained catalogues from Britain and the U.S.A. listing equipment which we would have to import.

With t his, the project got off the ground. Mr. Creche, unknown to us, built and upholstered a vaulting box, starting from tr..e battered bottom section of an old one- The more skilful students volunteered to make abdominal and spring boards, and a balance beam, and to help v. ith the installation of all other equipment received. This help would be specially needed for equipment hanging from the ceiling and the walls, likP ropes, overhead ladders, and so on.

After ·lengthy negotiations. we got various individuals and firms to make certain parts; of equipment locally.

Fogarty 's made six gym-mats specially

This left us with three peices of basic equipment to bP provided : Parallel Bars, Fly Rings, and a Weightlifting Set. The first t wo are to be imported from Nissen Corporation, U.S.A. After writ ing to request special reductions, with a covering latter from the American Embassy here, we were offered a 20 % reduction on the required equipment. Tl::e weightlifting Set we plan to import from Lodge Sports Equipment, England, but so far, have been granted no reductions.

Altogether, despite our efforts to keep costs low, the total cost remained high. Below follows details of equipment and prices: LOCAL:

Gym Mats Vaulting Box Chinning Bar & Horizontal Bar Climbing Ropes ) Peg Board ) Balance Beam Abdominal Boards ) ) Spring Boards Over head Ladder ) Skipping Ropes Expanding Strand.; ) ) Wrist Exercisers DlPORTED Parallel Bars Fly Rings We ightlift ing Set

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Now tha t t he extensive .Planning had been done, it became painfully obvious that', whatev"r problems existed, the essential one was finance. Meeting tr.e great expenses was our big task . thing was need to revitalize interest in Physical Training.

The immediate solution agreed upon for both of these problems was the establisbnent of an Indoor Gymnasium. The need for this had long been recognised, and so the idea was not a wholly original one. But the difficulties which had blocked all previous efforts immediately presented themselves. How was it to be done? And how was the enormous cost to be met? The Student Council felt the gymnasium could only be tackled successfully if an all-out investigation and effort were made to achieve it, and as a result put it down as tl::e major project for 1966-67· Our ideas were given encouragement and force by Mr. Jonas, Games Master, and Mr. Creche, his assistant, who is a Peace Corps Volunteer from the U.S.AMr Creche himself had been th~ing in terms of a complet 0 Piiysical Education Programme to apply to all students from next year, but complained of the lack of proper facilities for this.

The Gymnasium seemed more pertinent and necessary than ever beforeEarly discussions bet ween t he Executive and the Ga mes masters soon resulted in some definite and very practical decisions. To keep the cost down, we would l:ave to build wha•ever equipment we could ourselves (the p ossibilities here were restricted to wooden

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Other miscellaneous equipment t o be bought included Expanding Strands. Skipping Ropes, Wrist Exercisers, and so on.

From normal Student Association subscriptions, which were also being directed into other administrative and special projects, and from extra fund-raising projects carried out by individual forms, we estimated that the students themselves could provide some $400.00. It proved impossible to bring off any large-scale fund-raising projects, for by this time preparation for examinations kept students fully occupied, We had inevit ably to depend on o'. her assistanceMr. Jonas collected $50 for us from the Tutorial Staff, and from the Old Boys Association we received $100. We had previously been assured some assistance from the Guyana Government, but owing to the fact: that they were already helping U:e Old Boys Association to finance the building of a fence,

we were unable to receive this any longer.

More important, however, was the gusto with which several forms embarked on vogourous fund-raising efforts for the project. The frst and second fcµ-ms were most successful in this respect, and gave a fine example of jp,l,'t how much can be achieved with ingenuity and effort. The series of fund-raising projects carried out by the individual forms are significant and encouraging not only for the substantial sums they raised for the project, but also as symbols of a growing awareness and interest in the college and its wellbeing. If one is not being too optimistic, it may mark that revival of school-spirit which had been awaited for so long. In any case, as the pictures attest, it was certainly encouraging to see students going out of their way to mak e the project a s'!-ccess,

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THE STUDENT COURT AND DISCIPLINE COMMITTEl The existence of this body is authorized by Article IV, Clause 3, of thP Constitution ; it may b e better to quote from it in order to give a complete and definite outline of the composition and power s of t he body, , " The judicial power of the Student Council sl:all be vested in a St udent Court and Discipline Committee, consisting of the members of the Student Council Executive and four other members of the Councila. This Committee shall be empowered to investigate and rule on such matters of student discipline as are brought to its attention for this purpose. b, In the investigation of breaches of stu dent discipline, the trial of all offenders shall, except in cases of impeachmel\t, the by jury decision, c. The jury of the Student Court shall comprise tl:e members of the Discipline Committee, with t'he exception of the President and Vice-President, who shall pronounce sentence."

Assizes are held on a termly basis, the first in November and the second in February, the third is soon to be called. Considerable success has been met with, in this venture. This success can be estimatt\!d by comp aring t'he volume of cases dealt wil h at the first and second a ssizes. The first, held at a time when a n excessive amount oi detentions and general indisci-

pline had necessitated the appointment of a four-man detention-committee to investiiate the situation, had to face a huge amount of cases, and did not conclude until 7 P.m. after beeinning at 3·15 p.m : A great effect was produced upon the accus0d, so much so that the February Assizes l::ad to summon only three offenders and even then the offencP had been committed during the Christmas ·Term, and had not been punished at the previous sitting because the offenders had failed to anc;wer the summons The Court does ~ot content itself with sentencing offender s, but takes the additional meas ure of appointing them Super·visors, who make it tl:eir personal responsibility to see that the individual does not breach regulations again. Lt is to be n'lted that t he term "Student Court" means just wh at it says.

In other words, offenders are in the final analysis summoned to an ~,ver charges laid against them by the students of Queen's College. they are tried by a •rourt which has been a ppointed by the students tr.rough their Council-~epresentatives and they are sentenced by theh' fellows working through the same court, 'for actions which are both abhorrent and de .rimental to their 'fellows.

Such is the progress made in the 'field of administering justice to those whose immature behaYiour is a disgrace to tl:e name ol the Association

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MARl('S Mark Cicero was descended from Italians and ilt had always been a boast that they were descended from the familv of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great or greatest they ·said~ Roman orator.

Mark dreamed that he, like his iUustrious ancestor, would free the Ciceros from their poverty. Ach1ally they w.ere fairly well-off, but this did not deter him and everything that could be read about his famous forefathers, Mark had react This day, a Wednesday, it had r ained. Mark sat at his bench in Physics and listened to the teacher's drone.

"The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second' . . . Mlark's thoughts drifted I wonder how many words Grandfather could read in a second? 'light travels in straight lines" Mark's mind wandered - I'll travel to Rome. 1l'll be rich. I will become a lawyer, winning cases by the score and receiving the plaudits from the mob . . . like my famous ancestors.

'Cicero, pay attention!' rapped the master.

Mark listened.

T r.at evening the Ciceros had visitors, the Carters· Mr. Carter was robust, blunt, jolly and plump like the rest of his family.

'You know', he said, 'Cicero is a famous name.'

'Of course;' said Mr Cicero 'But did you knoV.: that the fourth Marcus Tullius Cicero, the orator's son , had no childr en.' Mr. Carter's tone was pompous and self-right eous.

Mark rose startled· 'That's not true,' he said loudly 'Sorry lad , it is. I know' 'You are a liar. How do you know?' said Mark wildly 'Mark!' shout-ed his mo'ther.

'I know how the lad feels, but I am :eight' Mr. Carter's patronising tone was the last straw.

Almost in tears Mark yelled, 'No, no, no,' and ran from the room.

He ran out into the street, blindly keeping back tears of rage. He thought, 'I'll kill him!'

He stumbled across the road.

He never saw the bright lights of the bus. He did not hear the frenzied scream of brakes,

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COLLEGE LICTOR

The bus stopped.

For a moment there was dead silence.

Tr.en the air was filled with hysterical J:i ughte r from one of t he women in the bus.

His body was surrounded by people. He lay on the road partly mangled by the wheels of the bus. There was a frighteningly fast str eam of blood gushing from one temple. One leg was twisted under his , body.

Both arms were folder! over his face, as if to protect him from some unseen foe.

Someone pressed a handkerchief to the bleeding temple. A man said sympathetically, 'So young . . · but t'hey will run across the road' The air was filled again. this time by the wail of a siren, which drowned the sobs of the women. The ambulance men Jiee1 him into the ambulance.

One asked, 'where did he live?'

A bewildered boy supplied the address 1::e.s itantly, The rain beat down. The crowd disappeared, The ambu1:.ncc drove off.

Mark Cicero never dreamed again.

AFTERMATH OF THE BIG FIGHT One day Jingo ana P ussy were fighting furiously over some incident. Of course the form joined in and there was a noisy babble as some backed J ingo and others Pussy. After about ten minutes Robo suddenly en ' cr ed t'he form-room and quelled the uproar. The two fighters were taken to the cloakroom.

A few minutes later Balance arrived on the scene. The whole form was tense- He came into the form-room, cane in hand.

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J ingo was smiling, Pussy was scared still.

'Y-y-you l:eard what the headmas ter s-s-s aid this morning.

You a-a all heard w-w-what he said.' stuttered Balance. 'Now two boys fighting a-a-and you all JOm in wholeh6'artedly._ l-I-I should cane all of you n-now b-but-' He left th" form room and proceeded to deal with the two fighters, S wish! Swish! S wish Jingo re-entered the form smiling.

'It ain't hot' Pussy's turn came.

Swipe!

'Ow !'

Swipe! 'ow--0w-ow!'

Swipe! 'ow-ooooh-ow! ' Three of the best. Pussy came in weeping, and like Rachel of old wept and could not be comforted.

C, D. Brotherson (2a).

~GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN' In 'Go t~ll it on the mounta in,' James Baldwin has \lr it'len an extr"!mely m oving nc vel. The story is written in clerr, decis ive la nguage and is easy to read.

The wri•cr has con·1eyed a s clearlv as possible an image of he oppressed negroes living in t he United S tates-

By James Bald,w in birthday. His mother gives him some m-0ney as a gift and he goes to downt-0\vn New York He finds i!i ta1ite different from Harlem and he passes where the whites live. He sees buildings he is afraid to enter because of his colour. and finally ends up i"l a rinema. On returning home be finds the family in distress because Roy was cut in a fight with some wbiile boys.

There is a quarrel aJld Gabriel strikes Elizabeth which mak r" bol!ih Roy and John hate him.

·~ l..J p, i 1d pal ch racter of this book i;; John Grnnes, eldest cf a family of three children.

John is four teen, and the illegitimate son of Elizabet!: the mother The other two are Roy and Sarah. Roy is the apple of Gabriel, the father's eye, He is something of a black sheep and ,k es things not expected The family then goes to of lhe son of a preacher, church and the writer goes int o Sarah is the youngest. the minds of Elizabeth, Gabriel, and Flm·ence, Gabriel's sister, The book is centere.1 around showing their thoughts as they events accompanyl.ng John's pray witl:: breaks in between to depict the surroundings and J ohn's reaction to the service- In this part: of the book the writer tries to show us the ure and background of a typical American negro. He shows their sufCharles _ Street _ take me ferings and struggles. He shows ah - . It was so commanding the their bitterness against the second time that he found h~- whites and the whites' attitude self au tomatically heading for toward tr.em. ,11at address. He looked round as The book closes with John's if compelled to do so. What he saw was one of the most hideous complete conversion to Grd; sights that he had ever witness- dur ing the service he had seen ed in his life. The face that was visions. He had come in church turned towards him could clear- festering a hatred against his Jy be seen; it was white as it step father and most of his bloodless and was twisted with v1s1ons were concerned with hate. The hand that was on the him. The book · ends with John seat was gripping it as if it walking home happily with wanted to go through it; it wa,; Elisha, his youthful teacher and friend. s haking nervously.

Harold B. Davis 4b.

When he arrived a t the ad-

THE CIRCLE Of FATE It w :is exactly t en minu es after mid-night on the t•.ven Y· fifth of December. Seblstian Sicklgruber was driving in his new Ford when he was brought to a halt by a sickening and terrifying scream which pitched through the darkness of the night.

It was only a month since Sebastian had come out of hospital. He had been sent there by his friends who were tired of his drinking and his reckless way • of spending his father's money . They had advised him to entt r the institute in order to reform, He had been told that tl:e attendants in the institute were very kind to people but they had refused to give him even a ~ip at what he called his water of life, rum. Everytime he put that coffee cup to his mouth he expected to be revived by it, imagining it to be 'his drink' until he was brought to reality by that horrid taste on his lips.

Now he was out, and r eformed, never to go back to that horrible place. He was now returning from the club where he had done a remarkable feat by not touching a drop of alcohol. To him alcohol was now poison.

He was brought back from his thinking by that scream. His car came to a halt and he was out in a split second, standing next t o the body just two or three feet ~way from the pavement. It w:is a young girl in what was once a beautiful white dress, which was now covered in blood ex· cept for little parts here anri there to show that it was once white. A shudder went through his body and for a time he had the urge to shrink away from tl:is horrible nightmarish sight. The body of the woman was horribly twisted and she was whispering something to him b u t it seemed to him :is if the shock of seeing this had made him lose his sense of hearing. He lift ed her and put her in the seat next to him and his only thought was to get her to, the h ospital as ~uickly as possible.

He was heading for the hospital when he heard her voice clearly. It was a pleading voice but for a second he thought that it was commanding h i m.

I It was repeating only one thing, "Take - me to - ah one hundred and twenty one -

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dress he jumped out immediately and rapped at the door- A voice came from inside telling him to wait a little. The door was opened by an old man.

"Do you :ive here?" asked S-ebastian.

"Yes! I do. What do you want?"

"I have your daughter - out there in my car." ''My daughter? Is this some kind of a joke. Young m an," a tear rolled down his check, "the only daughter I had was knocked down by a hit and run driver exactly one year ago tonight She was left to die miserably.

"But Sir, ah, would you mind coming with me?"

The old man followed him to his car. He pulled open the door.

"There. Is that your daughter -Oh, my, God!" He fell into a faint. The car was empty! There was no sign to show that someone had been sitting there. The old man left him and went into his house cursing furiously.

When Sebastian recovered he go~ int o his car nervously and '4r~m, home. Home?- Why should I go there, there are no drinks tr.ere, he thought, Why should I go into that eerie place.

He drove straight to a bar. He ordered and sat at the table in a corner to think. It was then that the facts started to come back to his memory.

He was · drunk and he was driving home recklessly. He had run into a girl at that exact spot on this same nii?ht last year. He, Sebas tian Sicklgruber , was the one who had left· that eirl there to die after knocking her down.

MURDER "Oh gawd! Oh gawd! look wah he do!" cried Mavis "What! Wah he do Mavis?" ai:k ed Be1ty.

"Oh lawd! He tear up me best party dress" wailed Mavis "Th at damn 'ting.' Is de same ting he do to me good shoe yesterday and he even sn scraven he eat one of me cheese sandwich as if he mudder never feed he. You wait, Mavis, you wait - we gun murder he".

"No Betty. I ain't 'gree wid murder. Leh we Jeff he. I can't bring misself to murder he even fo what he do to we."

"Well duh is you. Wnit. Look!

LQ.ok! he com.min now!

Betty grabbed a m ortar stick and started lashing and pounding h er enemy. His head was smashed open, his entrails oozed out. "Come on Mavis, tek out you own pon he, remember how he tear up you good cl.Tess?"

Mavis' hatred rose. She picked up the mortar s t ick and started pounding until 1he body was distorted.

Tired and sick from their gruesome task Betty nnd M;:'11i!' sat on the bed. Then wearily Mavis began to dispose of thP corpse, "Damn cockroach," she grumbled as she swept out the remains.

-R. Yhap (3a) .

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_4THLETICS

FOOTBALL 1966-67

OUEEN'S SHINES IN D.S.Ss ATHLETIC FIRST XI- A CHAMPIONSHIP DEVASTTING SIDE

Dur ing the past Easter Term Sports :ommh 1 ~e tcok quite a praiseworthy step when they ran off an Athletic Championship mee: with the hope of trying to unearth youthful talent in the f ield of Athletics and thus taking a step towards t he regaining of Guyana's former prowess in this in•ernalioan1 sport.

After a long break from external Athletic meets, Queen's flag was kept flying high when we ended up third in the Boys Division. First was Tutorial High ,,·hi le Qolden Grove Preparatory was second. Eight schools took pr.r t in the Boys Division.

Heats for this meet began on Monday 14th of March on our School ground. The actual Sports meet took place on the G.C.C. ground, Bourda on Saturday 19th and the sports began at around 12.15 p.m. At the start uL t he meet Queen's was way ohead of other schools because of our fine performance in the field events most of which were omplC'ted on our ground and before the actual day of the sports.

Taking a look first at the l'nder Thirteen Division and the boys' performance at the championships, we find our youngsters not doing quite well here.

Walcott did well to earn us points while Pollard and F ox gave us seven and two points respectively. Pollard did well c, place t hird in the 80 yards dash. 'l he Secondary School's

The boys who represented us in the Under Fifteen must be complimented on the fine job they did in winning the Relay for th is ~ .ision. The team in the order in which they ran, was Burke. Boxhill W. G,reen L. nnd Corsbie. Individual performances were also praise worthy and Corsbie did very well to win the 80 yards Hurdles, to place second in the 100 yards dash and to place third in the Long Jump, thus contributing the handsome sum of eigh.teen points for his school. Other 'points-winners' were Boxhill who gave us three in the Long J ump and two in the 220 yards nnd B. Akai who gave us one point in the High Jump_ Our Under Seven1een boys performed quite appreciably and this division gained us the most points. Our Relay Team (4 x 110 yards) of Bove-n, Fields, Hales and Clarke did quite well to end up t hird out of the six schools that competed in the event Nicholos Payne of the fifth form must be congratulated on his fine performance in winning t he Shot Putt and even more for winning the Throwing ! he Javelin event, despite the fact that this event it not on our School's Athletic Programme.

He did well to earn us sixteen points. Laurence Clarke man~ged to secure twelve points smce he placed second in both t he Long Jump and the 120 yards Hurdles. In the latter he was beaten by fellow student Colin Plummer who also placed in the Discus f.iVent. He earned us ten points. George Granger won the High Jump with a leap of over 51h feet and this lanky lad must be congratulated on his performance as a result of which he gained seven points ~ince he tied for t he first place.

Donald Rodney in his usual contributory way managed to secure

four points for us when he placed third in the 880 yards.

Quite a good piece of running was done here since all six compeqtors were capable of running the race in under two and a quarter minutes. Andre Fields gained us four po1nts in the 220 yards when he placed third while Keith Bovell and A. Boston scored one point each in the 100 yards and Long Jump respectively. Timothy ~Ison did well to \qualify for the finals of both the 880 yards and the Mile hut unfortunately he was mcapable of finishing either' on th~ :;ports day_ Our performance in the !.ienior Division was quite encouraging. Andy Morrison in perhaps the best performance for Queen's, walked off wi.111 th~ Triple Jump (Hop, Step and_ Jump) with a leap of 41' 4," '.: ls::. won the High Jump, placed third m the 120 yards Hurdles and fourth in the Long Jump. Thi'! fine performance gained us ' wenty three points, quite a praiseworttiy number.

Glen secured one point each in the 100 and 440 yards, Lewis three in the 220 yards and Gaskin one in the same race. Our 4 x 110

yards Relay Team of Massiah, Lewis, Glen and Gaskin did well to place third, whilst the 4 x 440 yards relay team of Glrant, N. K.hah, Gaskin and Glen managed to place third again in the 880 yards while Sydney Mc Intosh secured two points in the Triple Jump with a leap of just over 39 feet. Abrahams placed third in the High Jump and as a reward he was given four points. Gordon and Griffith S. both qualified for the Shot ?utt finals while the latter also qualified for the Discus finals, ,bought much luck was not in our favour here, Michael Haynes ran well in the iurdles to win three points. All in all our performance at this Sports was fairly good seeing that at the end we were only fifteen points behind the Champions and indeed our third position was well cieserved.

The Lictor Staff congratula.tes all those. successful boys and to \he others who tried better luck next time is wished. The Staff also takes this opportunity to thank Mr. Perry for his able supervision of our Athleti~ Team throughout the Championship Meet.

This year, QC's flag has rightly been re-instated at ihe :.0'P of ihe Schoolboy football pole in Guyana. We have had some memorable matches but unfortunately most of t he school have not enjoyed the thrills of these matches because they did not turn up to watch ihe games! A: no game this year (except the l•• .t:> ca· - Boys Ma,ch) did we have a cheering crowd of more than 25 and this is ce1-tainly an insu1Jt to Cjne ol the most dynamic QC 1st Xi's in years.

EXTERNAL COMPETITIONS We have entered two external competitions for the year - the Demerara Secondajry Schools Association League (in progress) and the Guyana Football Association Junior League (to begin on July 11th). Under Mr. Kretsch two under-14 teams A and B are playing in the DSSA League.

We ai,so hava an under 16 side which has been playing fairly exciting football and we sympathise with .them for losing to leaders Tut<¥ial by a solitary goal. However they are still in the running and should win their remaining fixtures.

FIR~1T XI The first ell\Ven, coached by Mr. Stanley Moore and super-

lriter-House Table Tennis Conipetitio,i

PILGRIM HOUSE RETAINS T.T. CHAMPIONSHIPS

Stal"ting on t he 3rd March ond concluding on the 6th at 5 p.m., this year's Annual InterHouse Table Tennis Competition was run off on a knock-ou,t system. Once more Pilgrim House maintained 'their supremacy in the celluloid game when their team of T. Hopkinson (captain), C. Benjamin, D. Cri~chlow, A. Fields and P. Ramsammy triumphed over 'A' House in the finals.

PRELIMINARIES The competition started with the playing off of two preliminary matches, the winners of which would vie with the other six ho1,1ses for s upremacy in the ouarter finals. In the first of the two matches Austin House under the captaincy of L. Clarke was cutplayed by Raleigh House, led by the 'veteran' B. Moore. They lost by three games to nil. In the other match Cunningham Hous~. under D. Chichester's captaincy, Jost to Percival House . le<l by S. McIntosh. They lost three games to two. Chichester and Layne won for 'K' House QUARTER FINALS

best in the competition. In the fourth match of the quarter finals Percival House defeated the number two Seeded iouse, Nobbs, when K. Aaron, M. Alli and Chow-wah slammed their way to victory in thir games.

Nobbs' team of Gordon, Denbow, G. Robinson, G. Bourne and D. Couchman seemed the most formidable team on paper, but perhaps their failure was due to lack of practice.

The Semi-final stage came on Thursday 6th March at 11 p.m., as Captains Hopkinson Fletcher, Bakker and Mc Intosh of Pilgrim, Weston, Wooley and Percival Houses respeQtively prepared their order in which their players were to play, On one table Pilgrim House took on Weston House's team of Fletcher, Henderson Harris, I larks and Mayers. However qu ''e an unfortunate event struck on Weston's side and as a r esult they lost one of th~r key players. Pilgrim Hcuse strengthened by t his mishap went on to win <'ut by three games to nil. Critchlow ,defeated Marks. B~jamin gained a walk over from Henderson and Hopkinson outlasted Fletcher.

In t he quarter final round Pilgrim House defeated Raleigh House by three games to nil. In In the other semi-final match ~·nother match, R. Fletcher 'dark-house' of the competition, capably led his Weston House Pereival House, continued in Team to victory over N. Lee's Moulder House Team. Among their winning ways when they the players of the victorious cutplayed Woolley House. Mc Chow •vah Weston House Team were K . Intosh, Aaron and Hender son and Mr. Harris still in wer e the successful Perciv~Ities the quarter final round Wooley and thus they emerged into the House Team led by Bakker de- finals, booked to meet reigning feated A. Sears' D'urban Team champions, Pilgrim House. by three games to one. The FINALS match between Bakker and The finals were played off at young Phillips w~s one of t-hc 5 p .m. on Thursday 6th and it

,·isei by Mr. C. 0 . ferry has swepi all before them, playing unbeaten in their competition so far. Thier \victims to date are Alleyne High (4-), Central High (8-1), Saints (2-1) East Ruimveldt (4-1) and GGlden Grove (4-2). An aggrega :e of 22 goals for, 5 against ! Our deciding match against Ttitorlal is stm to be played because the Association has re-arranged tM fixtures and added more teams to the list.

I n other matches we played against the Treasury Football Club in our final match of the Christmas Term losing 3-1 We had our revenge in the replay when we. whipped them 4-0.

Other victories which we chalk· ed up w~e against Charlestown Govt. (1-0), Gola United (5-1) , and a morale boosting 1-0 victory over Saints in a Charity Match at the GFC. We are now eagerly awaiting the Dias Cup, emb'em of tocc~r superiority among High Schools.

MASTERS - BOYS MATCH The annual Masters - Boys match was played on the Western Ground d uring the Chris' mas Term and attracted a Jarge and excited crowd. It was, of course, a lively and amusing game, enjoyed by spectators and play~s alike. The youngsters were obviously delighted by the flashes of flee!y footwork di·s play by Messrs London, Robinson and Sue-Wah-~•nig and they will undoubtedly remember the spectacularly agile goalkeeping of Mr. C. 0 . Perry. The score again, 5-1 in favour of the boys_

was a one way affair in Pilgrim's favour. Playing with the top three players in the school \Viz Messrs. Critchlow, Benjamin anci Hc,pkinse,n, ,h e Pilgl'im House Team had no trouble in the disposing of the weaker Percival team. A. Fields defeated S. Mc Intosh by two games to one, P. Ramsammy lost to K. Aaron after a gruelling three-game match, C. Benjamin found it simple in outlasting L. ChowWah two games to nil In the fourth ma,tch, school and Pilgrim House captain T. Hopkinson outplayed M. Ally to win two games straight. At that stage ,the competition, short but interesting and exciting, ca'ne to a tame end, as Pilgrim House was then sure of victory, having won three games out of five.

HOUSE COMPETITION This year's House competition was one of the keenest in years and the standa,rd of play was higher than usual. The only really h umiliating defeat (6-0) was suffered by Wolley at the hands of Austin, which appeared the strongest team on paper.

The Semi-Final matches wer<? played amidst wild speculations and dven after the first leg of matches no definite winner could be named. On the Western Grounct the Percival - Nobbf. match ended in a 1- 1 draw: Nobbs ba,rely holding its own with a late penalty. On the Eastern Ground Weston flattered its fans with a 2 goa;J lead fifteen minutes before the end only to lose eventually 3-2 in a tigJ,t game. The replays reflected the close finishes of the first leg The Lictor staff congratulates Wes' on drew with Austin ,'lnd all the players of this team a s Nobhs snatched a victory over well as the other finalists.

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FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1967

Ta ble Tennis

Q. C. TRIES IN NORT.HCOTE AND

WIGHT CUPS CRICKET COMPETITION

declared, Moore took five wickets in a great spell of pace bowling; it seems a pity t'hat such a good effort was wasted.

Having about seventy-five minutes left before stumps our batsmen made it clear that they had no intention of returning the following week by employing the most inexperience and unrewarding methods to play slow bowling that I have seen, Thus, the innings could not last very long and Q.C. were all out for a rriserable thirty runs, many of the batsmen literally throwing a Nay their wickets.

In closing I would like to rr,ention the standard of comp etition in which we were leadin when school closed. We then thought that we had won the competition but were informed at the beginning of the term Lt>at the former competjtion was squashed and a new one was about to start. Now this attitude is not encouraging and helps no one, least of all the game. The authorities should endeavour to arrange definite plans if they r£ally want to help the game and encourage more youngsters t c play itD. Dewar.

the Gandhi Youth Organi·ation, on our ground. The setting was ideal for cricket and G.Y.0 - who won the toss showed just how much they appreciate :i this, amassing a huge total. Biscessar, their star player made a century Of course, they were, one could almost s a y wholeheartedly '!'he 1967 Cricket Season star- aided and abetted by our team. t ed in April and as is usual Biscessar being dropped no fewnowadays both the Northcote a nd e r than four times. These patheWight Cup t eams performed tic performances are becoming tamer dismally in the two commonplace with the Queen's matches played before the ad- College Cricket teams, and there is no sign of an improvement vant of the wet season.

We played our first match 'in our general approach to the against the East I ndians Cric- game- But, to return to the ket Cl ub on the latter's ground 'match , on the following Satur!\t Thom as Lands. Owing to : he 'day rain washed out completely wet weather experienced just a ny hope of resuming the match. bei:cre the match, the wicket Sunday was sunny and due to was not altogether without the efforts of the GYO the m oisture and quite a few balls the ground was playable in the rose awkwardly Queen's batted 'afternoon. Despite the rather /f i r s t a n d c o u 1 d only ·1ate start of play, Q-C. again compile a m e a g r e total lost first innings points because E v e n so the total would o f the lackadisical a ttitude of have been very much smaller if 'the batsmen except ing Ch eddie Aaron had not batted so pain- and Aaron who both made stakingly for forty-seven runs. useful contributions. Some ex'cuses could be found in the fact We were all out early in the afFROM PAGE 9 that the pitch was unprepared ternoon, and the E.J.C.C: had Percival with a free kick three and totally unpredictable. abou t two hours batting time. m inutes from the end.

FINAL Had the splendid effons of our The Wight Cup XJ played Nobbs t he under dogs against bowlers been backed up by just Sprostons Sports Club in their A u st i n as good fielding the outcome of initial match with some success. the much vaunted the match might have been dif- Sprostons bc1itting fiirst on a live- l:lous~ S,i de which boasts s uch ferent but th e fielding with the ly wicket were all out for a pal- school stars as Gr ant, Morrison , exception of two or three players try seventy-nine runs due to the Monsan to, Lewis and Campbell was poor and E.I.C.C. was thirty 'splendid bowling of Benjamin W L n by a soli?ary ,:;cal scored by runs short of our total. who captured six wickets. Q.C· Henry of 4b in a rather heartThe following Saturday's had replied with eighty but breaking manner. Nobbs though play was rained out no doubt to t h e skipper d e c 1 a r e d po~ g only 2 school players the chagrin of the Indians. hoping to collect a few wickets (Johnson and Couchman) played Play was possible on Sunday ·before stumps. He succeed2d in with · great determinatiQn and however, a n d the E -I .C.C. pro- doing this but unfortunately tenacity and (!horoughly deserved ceeded to go for quick runs, de- rain washed out play the follow- their victory. claring early in the afternoon ing week- The second match COUCHMjAN with a comfortable lead . Again against the Demerara Cricket Couchman, a velsati~ forward only t he performance of Cr.eddie Club on their ground was so with a lighting kick in both feet , who contributed an invaluabe dismal an affair that it is better brought honour to QC when he forty-two saved· us from losing forgotte n .

Q.C. batting first was called upon to represent· his outright, as the second inning s could only compile forty three County Demerara in the Ottawa debacle was just as much a runs, succumbing easily to the Independence Cup Competition . fiasco as the first innings. pace of Willock and Nurse, DCC In two matches be scored 5 goals The second match was against replied by making eighty for six including two . scin-tilla!ling opportunistic goals in the ilinaJs against . Mackenzie. FoLlowing these brilliant performances, be MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL was included in the list of players called to priu:ijce folr posare cordially invited sible selection .on the ['..uyana to attend the National Side.

In the Junior Division I a m proud to report that of 24 school boys called to trials by the GFA for selection on the side to represent Guya na in the on Tuesday, 1st August from 9 p.m. to 2 a.rn.

Int~r Guyana Schoolboy Series six were from QC. These are M usic by: Rhy thmaires S4:00 per couple Fields, Browne, Richmond, Phil(Supper inclusive) lips, Tait and Massiah. I am sure that we shall be well represented (Tickets are obtainable from any Prefect) on the actual touring s ide.

SPORTS EDITOR. While the preoccupation of the fifth and sixth forms with t'heir G,C·E. examinations is understandable, it is still to be regretted that all t he forms did not carry out such projects, a s our su ccess would have been even greater.

FOOTBALL

PREFECTS' BALL

WIDE SELECTION . • " MORE

HOPKINSON COPS HANDICAP TOURNAMENT Terrence F Hcpkinson , th., school's table tennis captain v·0 1 for the second time the I ndh:i dual K nock Out Handicap To11r ney which was run off during the first a nd second weeks of t his term. Playing well from ac; e rly as the se~ond round the talented player mixed his game well to defeat quite a few :1ble . players. With his very great handicap . 'Hoppie' stru~gled and won h is way through tr the finals only to meet chowwah in a one-way match. H e won by three games to one.

To return to the early stages of the competition note must be made of the fact that all the t op players of t he school such as Mes:-trs.

Benjamin (-10) , Critchlow (-10), Clark e ( -6) , Blenman (-6), Lee (-10). Couchman (-5) and McIntosh ·c- 1), took part in the competition.

As early as tte second round _here were some notable upset s among which was the defe:it of Kersten (0) by Hopkinson (-10) The t hird round saw the elemination of mixed player Clarke (-6) w!-:o saw 1hing3 unfavourable a nd fell to Andre Fields (-3} one game to two.

David Couchman ( - 5) was also stc,pped by an upcoming talented youngster Yhay ( + 2) by one game to two. The fourth round was very k eenly cont'e.;te::l a '1d the best match was betwe:m Ramsammy ( -I) and Chow-wah (-5).

The latter even tully w ~n by two games to one. N- Alli (-2) was perhaps · the outstanding plc,yer . not only of this round in which he defea ted young Yhap hut alrn in the later rounds of the cor.1petition.

At last the quarter-finals · stage came and Critchlow vs. ChpwA h, Alli N., vs. Lee N., H opkins0n vs. Fields, who defeated W. Boxhill in the previous round, and Blenman ( -6) vs. Benjamin (-10) wer e the fixtures.

Thrilling points, tense morren ts a nd sighs CYf relief filled the atmosphere for most of ther,0 g:u:1(>c; and even m this round ill w hich the bett er player!: <.hould have clistinguii<;hed thPmseh-e.,. upset was th,e order of the day. Lennie Chow-wah a talPnted attacking playe~ who J-,: ,s bPen always 'knocking at the d<ior' for a p lace in the school's team, virtually achieved h is aim when he downed school's singles champion Critchlow by two gam es to one.

In the nex t quarter-final match Alli N., outclassed school player L ee wit"' well timed and placPrl s t r o k e s and w o n by 1wo gam es to one. S tarting at (-5 ~ a~ opposed to Benjamin'<; (-10), Blenman found "Benjie's'' tactics t oe, unbea rable and as a rec;ul t he was forced to change his style of play.

The sem i-final round was greeted with two new-comers namely, Chow-wah and N. Alli and Hopkinson and Benjamin.

It must be noted here that in this year's House competition Percival . and Pilgrim Houses were the finalists and in this Handicap competi(tion, in the sem i- fin'il stage, both Percival and Pilgrim had two representatives.

The first match, which was the best match of the compelition was between Hopiunson and Benjamin and tactics, strokes of all sorts, moments of silence intermingled with tension and concentration were all that were se~n in th is match. "Hoppie", however, finally won out by three games to t wo and thus secured a place in the finals, to meet Chow-wah who defeated the inexperienced N. Alli by three games to one. The finals w ere played off on the same afternoon as the semi-finals and when H opkinson had slammed his way to victory in this match, yet another Handicap Tourney came to a successful end.

TOUR 1 he Quee)'}'s College Educational Tour Club is sponsoring a trip t'o the interior. The party, which is under the cont rol of Messrs. P. Manga l and N. K. Robinson , is a bout. twe n ty strong and among the places to be visited are Kur ubearu , Orinduik and Kato, places on the Gu yanese-Brazilia n border- The

lri,:, has been organised by HD.ton Mc David cf the F.i'ftl: form and prom ises to b e an exciting adventure for the exuberant Queen's College students who have just finished a hard term's work. The p arty leaves Atkinson on 10th August and will return on th e 20th A ugust.

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