OLD PETERITE NEWS A meeting of the General Committee of the O.P. Club was held at the School on Saturday, 9th December. The Headmaster announced that, because of the new dates of the School's external exams, Commemoration will be held on 12th, 13th and 14th July, which is a week earlier than usual. Dates of Regional dinners were announced as follows — North West-29th March, at the Brocket Arms Hotel, Wigan. Birmingham-10th May, at the Staff House of the University of Birmingham. East Riding-24th May, at the Highfield County Club, Driffield. :
COMMEMORATION, 1968 Old Peterites are reminded that the 1968 School Commemoration will be held on the 12th, 13th and 14th July, and Old Peterites are urged to support it. The Headmaster has again kindly agreed that a limited number of unaccompanied O.P.s (in order of application) can be accommodated in the Junior School, charge 12s. 6d. per night for bed and breakfast. The official programme and pro-forma on which to apply for tickets for the O.P. Club Annual Dinner, to be held on Saturday evening, 13th July, and the Commemoration Service in the School Chapel on Sunday morning, 14th July, will be circulated with the May issue of The Peterite. Any Old Peterite wishing to play in the Old Boys' cricket match against the School should apply to K. M. Ratcliff, "Fairways", Ratcliffe Lane, Sheepy Magna, Atherstone, Warwicks.
NOTES The next meeting of the General Committee will be held on Saturday, 2nd March, and the Hon. Secretary (D. Kirby, 7a, St. Peter's Grove, Clifton, York) would like to receive any items for inclusion on the agenda by the 20th February. The following crested neckwear is available — 17s. 6d. each plus postage 5d. All-silk crested ties 12s. 6d. each plus postage 5d. Terylene crested ties 1 ls. 6d. each plus postage 5d. All-silk bow ties 19s. 6d. each plus postage 5d. All-silk batswings 34s. Od. each post free. All-silk cravats ... 60s. Od. each post free. All-silk squares ... :
The North-East Old Peterite Dinner was held on 27th October, 1967, at the Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham. Those present were :—The President of the Club (K. H. Rhodes); T. B. Boulton; D. L. Brown; H. G. Brown; E. P. Davison; R. M. Deas; W. Graham; J. T. Harding; R. D. Harding; D. C. Holmes; W. G. Huntley; K. D. Lockwood; G. R. A. March; J. D. Morrison; D. R. Reavley; D. N. Simmons; D. L. Whitfield; D. G. M. Young. 47
