Novo Nostalgia To celebrate 100 issues of the ‘new-style newsletter’, we take a brief look back at key articles and features that highlight the contributions and ongoing legacies of Old Novos to the RGS.
Issue 15 1978 RGS Hovercraft-sprayer project This was a great era for our young scientists. Retired teacher Bill Elliott (52-88), known to countless ONs, outlined the wonderful success of the Hovercraft-Sprayer project which won the BBC Young Scientist of the Year award. Consequently, Paul Brown (73-78) and Alastair Wolf (71-78) were invited to enter the 10th European Philips Contest for Young Scientists and Inventors, competing successfully against competitors from 15 countries and winning one of the five prizes.
Issue 16 1979 Big Penrith Reunion of wartime “family” The school’s evacuation to Penrith on Friday 1 September, 1939 was commemorated by a 40th Anniversary ‘Penrith Event’. This article details the notes behind the idea from the Headmaster Alister Cox (72-94). All 870 boys and staff were evacuated to Penrith until July 1944. The reunion centred on the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, the school shared with the boys’ counterparts; Wordsworth Hall, where lessons were also held and St. Andrew’s Church.
Issue 1 1973 Front Cover In 1973, during Alister Cox’s (72-94) first year as Headmaster, the Old Novocastrian Association undertook some developmental changes. One of these changes included The Novocastrian taking on a new-style. It was introduced with slight trepidation by the Headmaster, noting that the, ‘school is ready to be regarded as the fount and focus of ON activities and the Headmaster therefore has his part to play’.
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