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School Notes
from Feb 1966
by StPetersYork
We welcomed four new members to the staff at the beginning of the Christmas Term: Mr. P. G. Croft, M.A., has come to be head of the Classics Department; Mr. A. J. Riley, M.A., and Mr. J. H. Dixon, B.Sc., to teach Science; and Mr. K. S. Clark, B.Sc., to teach Mathematics.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Bolton on the birth of their son (Timothy), and to Mr. and Mrs. Kirby and Mr. and Mrs. Burbridge, on the birth of their daughters (Susanne and Sarah).
York Symphony Orchestra gave a concert in the Memorial Hall on 17th November, and Mr. Waine shared the conducting with Dr. Jackson.
The School play was a production of Henry IV, Part 1, by Mr. Bolton, and it was performed on 6th, 7th and 8th December. A report appears below.
The seven boys—D. J. Barker, Bowie, Hargrave, Roebuck, Sugar, Summers-Smith and Waller—who took '0' Level Russian after four terms' preparation, all successfully passed. Congratulations to all concerned.
J. R. W. Thirlwell won an Open Scholarship in English at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.
0. G. Hodgson has become an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.
During the holidays Mr. Maw and Mr. Craine took a party of twentynine to Leck in Austria for the winter sports.
