Oct 1991

THEPETERITE

No.408

1990-1991

HAZEL SCARLETT

It is with great regret that we inform readers of the death of Hazel Scarlett on 23rd January 1991 following a long illness.

Hazel came to St. Peter's as the Head Master's Assistant Secretary in March 1975 and became the Bursar's Secretary in September 1977. She will be remembered as a cheerful vibrant personality who exuded efficiency and competence. She was caring, sympathetic and approachable. Nothing was too much trouble for her, and all at St. Peter's, both staff and pupils, benefited from

and were enriched by her presence. She was dedicated to her work at the School, and the generosity of her nature frequently led to her involvement in tasks which were beyond her immediate responsibility.

Hazel's interests outside School included art, music, local history, gardening and animals. She was devoted to her family — her husband Will and daughters Sally and Fiona to whom we extend our deepest sympathy.

St. Peter's is indebted to Hazel. She will be sadly missed, but never forgotten.

THE PETERITE No. 408

1990-1991

Contents PAGE

PAGE Commemoration

2

Cross-Country

56

Prizewinners

6

Swimming

57

Results

7

Athletics

57

House Reports

8

Cricket

60

Senior Common Room

16

Tennis

65

Interview (K. G. C.)

17

Oxford Cup

66

Weather

20

Boat Club

67

The Great Egg Race

22

GIRLS' GAMES

Chapel

24

Hockey

70

Combined Cadet Force

26

Netball

72

Drama

30

Squash

73

Music

35

Tennis

74

Perspectives

40

Rounders

75

Poems and Pictures

42

Clubs and Activities

76

Comic Relief

46

Travel

78

Library and Archives

85

SPORT — BOYS' GAMES Rugby

49

Old Peterite Section

86

Hockey

54

And, Finally

92

Squash

55

Editor: D. S. Newman Photographs: Mathew Sumpton, Stephen Whalley, John Brown, Nona Blenkin, Ann Hodgson, Adam Dean, Richard Wallace, Eric Thompson, Adrian Robinson, James Harding, Yorkshire Evening Press et. al.

Artwork (page 77): John Brown.

STOP PRESS: Congratulations to Matthew and Claire Grant on the birth of their daughter, Lauren, and to the Musicians for the success of their German trip. Full details in next year's Peterite.

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COMMEMORATION However, the achievements, even if touched on only briefly, cannot lightly be dismissed. There were our outstanding A-Level results last summer with a 93% pass rate and 65% of them at A, B and C grades. There were the nine successful Oxbridge candidates and the significandy improved G.C.S.E. record. Highlights of our sports programme have been the continuing success of the Boat Club, of the boys' and girls' tennis, of the girls' hockey and netball and the boys' squash; the Rugby tour of Portugal was worthwhile and enjoyable; and I am pleased that fencing is once again part of our options list.

Two very intense and powerful plays have been produced — Ian Lowe's Dragons and Antony Dunn's Resurrection.

The musicians have given us some splendid singing and playing in both me Minster and the Chapel, and a whole series of concerts through the year augurs well for the Choir and Band tour of Germany later this summer.

A glance back dirough my diary and files has reminded me of other particular areas and activities (the list that follows is necessarily selective): Comic Relief Day when me School thought (incorrecdy) tiiat I was going to remove my trousers in Chapel, the various meetings of our Amnesty International Group, our links at both pupil and staff level wim Selborne College in South Africa, die major Barry Daniel Fund Award to Matiiew Sumpton and Marc Mitchell for their coming trans-Africa expedition, the participation of Ann Hodgson and Charles Barlow in me north-east Schools' party to India and die continuing work of our voluntary service unit. Concerning mis last it was very gratifying for me to receive a letter from York City Charities thanking us for our help with die residents of Fotiiergill Homes during die February snow. The letter ended, "It must be said mat die association witii St. Peter's is most highly valued, and die many benefits which we enjoy through it are greatly appreciated. Indeed, die way community service is taught and also practised at St. Peter's is something of which you should be justly proud".

CARDINAL HUME

Cardinal Basil Hume preached the Sermon in die Service at the Minster, which provided a memorable finale to the School year.

After the Service, Cardinal Hume blessed the memorial plaques in the ante-chapel. These record the heroism of two Old Peterites martyred at the beginning of the seventeenth century: John Mitchell gives details of their lives in his "Forgotten Fame" article on page 86.

THE HEAD MASTER'S SPEECH

One or two otiier diary items of this last year: a farewell retirement party for Stan Shirreffs, our laundry manager, and John Hall, our head groundsman, after many years' fine service on the School's behalf; and inservice sessions for teaching staff which have covered such relevant matters as die role of die educational psychologist, alcohol and young people, and child abuse.

If my review of the year has been botii brief and sketchy it is because I wish to spend a short time sharing with you my reflections on a number of matters which have been at die forefront of my concerns during tiiis academic year. They are our current development programme; things academic including die National Curriculum, technology and the future of A-Levels; die importance of our boarding provision as an integral part of die School's life; and my so-to-speak constituencies of parents, staff and pupils.

Below we print extracts from the Head Master's Commemoration Address.

Review of the Year There is an old Chinese proverb which states that the brain will only absorb what the seat will endure, and I use this rubric as a guide on these occasions not to bore you with too many details of this year's successes: scholarships gained, matches won, concerts performed and so on. These are more than adequately reported in the School magazine, and I wish to leave time this morning in order to share with you some of the concerns that have claimed much of my thoughts and attention over the last twelve months.

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Our development programme First the recent improvements to our facilities. Appeal '89, through the generosity of so many parents, Old Peterites and other friends of the School, was a huge success, and donors received a report in January marking the achievement of reaching our revised target of £600,000. The results are visible around the School campus: the Chilman Building constitutes a junior School classroom complex, spacious, comfortable, utilitarian, aesthetically pleasing, surely as good as or better than any such provision elsewhere; the School Library, handsome, well-furnished, better serviced and stocked, attracting in particular our sixth formers with its quiet atmosphere for private study; the renovation of The Grove and Scott blocks as fine modern languages and mathematics centres, due to be opened on September 20th by Denis Hirst and Guy Shuttleworth respectively, an evening event to which in due course you will all be invited and hopefully come.

These developments have significantly enhanced our educational plant. The Methodist Halls, in use currently for music and drama, have yet to be tackled, and I hope that sooner rather than later we can begin the work which will make them a worthy centre for the performing arts.

One other task is to be undertaken in the coming year and that is the renovation and partial rebuilding of the Chapel organ. Its present condition, after sixty years without significant attention, is both musically dire and electrically dangerous. This was not the ideal time for further financial outlay, but the Governors in their wisdom have recognised the importance of the organ and the part it plays not so much in our musical life but rather in the Chapel worship which lies at the heart of the School as a Christian community.

Academic matters Now to academic matters. The National Curriculum and much that is related to it — A-Level reform, standard attainment targets, balanced science, technology — have been a constant and not always uplifting theme to my School year and that of the Second Master, the Heads of Department and other teaching staff. Two things are especially depressing: the confusions and uncertainties at the top with the Government tending to make policy 'on the hoof and the 'bleak-speak', the incomprehensible utterances of the two educational quangos, the National Curriculum Council (N.C.C.) and the Schools' Examination and Assessment Council (S.E.A.C.). I liked the Master of Haileybury's dig at S.E.A.C. which found its way into the columns of The Times. "S.E.A.C.", he said, "would translate those luminous words of St. Paul to the Corinthians, 'When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things' as, 'In the contextual situation of infancy I communicated in media appropriate to the age range, my comprehension was restricted to non-adult levels, and my cognitive processes were of only sub-adolescent equivalence. On the completion, however, of personal maturation I developed rejection tendencies towards primary hardware' " .

Our own particular concerns have been with balanced science and with technology. The National Curriculum balanced science has many virtues, and all our pupils embarking on G.C.S.E. either in 1992 and 1993 will undertake the new balanced science courses covering all three subjects — physics, chemistry and biology. This makes educational sense (and is indeed the only option open to us) but we continue to nurse the doubt as to whether our brightest pupils are being as fully stretched as in the former O-Level days. Concerning technology the educational gurus have yet to determine whether we are dealing with a specific subject or with a crosscurricular theme. C.D.T., in other words, may not be a full substitute for a discipline which is sometimes defined as embracing C.D.T., information technology, art, mathematics, science, business studies and home economics. Over the coming years I expect firmer directions and a more focussed philosophy to emerge. In the meantime Mr. Dawson has taken on the role of Head of Technology with a brief to plan, co-ordinate and implement this fresh approach through our eight to sixteen range. Suffice it to say that he has a challenging task.

It will give the parents here this morning little cheer when they hear that we who are meant to be the professionals are so unsure and uncertain about these new departures and reforms. I give you just two further instances of confusion and muddle. The National Curriculum provides for testing of children at seven, eleven, fourteen and sixteen by means of S.A.T.'s (standard attainment targets). I am predisposed to follow the National Curriculum as closely as practicable (though we as an independent School are not legally required to do so). However, the procedure and proposals for the S.A.T. testing is in turmoil with pilot schemes having gone seriously wrong and different signals being sent out by the Government on the one hand and S.E.A.C. on the other. For the time being the prudent course for us will be to stand clear and wait and see. Watch this space!

The other example of confusion and drift concerns ALevels, and the Government's recent White Paper on sixteen to nineteen education has done little to set a new agenda. Here is an examination attacked by the country's employers, by the heads of most secondary Schools, by the university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales. The response of the Government is to cling to it as part of England's eccentric genius. A-Levels from some points of view serve this School well: it is an examination which is sufficiently rigorous for the large majority of our sixth formers; it is relatively simple for us to staff and resource; it provides a well-practised if not always accurate selection test for entrance to degree courses. But its disadvantages are also clear: bright sixteen year-olds abandon all but three academic subjects, thus ensuring that scientists remain unread and arts pupils science-blind; and early sixth form specialisation narrows the pool from which university science and engineering departments are able to choose their students. The Government, in my view unrealistically, wishes to cling on to what it terms the gold standard of A-Levels while at the same time promoting the status of vocational courses. Perhaps a simpler or at least a first step would be to scrap A-Levels

Headmaster's role is dealing as much with people as with buildings, changes in the curriculum or the promotion of boarding. Parents, staff and pupils are the people with whom much of my working life is spent.

Parents are in some respects our customers. In one sense Prizegiving is the company's annual general meeting when the shareholders have the opportunity to consider the Chairman's and Managing Director's discharge of their duties. One of the particular rewards of my job at St. Peter's is the considerable and friendly support which you, the parents, give us. I would especially like to thank Ann Musgrave, Chairman of the Friends of St. Peter's, and all her committee for their efforts on our behalf.

Noteworthy have been a most enjoyable Easter Ball and also the popular disco organised earlier this term for the School's pupils.

I.am conscious of the fact that parents want more for their children than academic achievement, the provision of which is clearly our responsibility as teachers. Parents have other concerns too, and we as teachers have obligations to meet these also. It is worth recalling the hopes of Tom Brown's father as he sent his son off to Rugby:

and insist that university entrance should require five or six separate subjects, perhaps topped up with a specialist paper in one chosen discipline. If such a reform failed to increase the number of pupils staying in full-time education after sixteen it would at least ensure a more broadly educated sixth form product and a more satisfying and stimulating sixth form syllabus.

I must, however, add a footnote to leaven the lump of this curricular misery and show you that all is not completely doom and gloom in the classroom. A Headmaster of my acquaintance was visiting an English lesson for his eleven year-olds and, walking round looking over their shoulders at their poetry work, saw the following on one boy's page: Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow Grief, grief, grief.

The Headmaster was amazed and moved and said to the boy, "But that's marvellous, what a wonderful depth of poetic insight and feeling", to which the boy looked up and said, "But, Sir, it's not a poem; it's my spelling corrections".

Shall I tell him to mind his work and say he is sent to School to make himself a good scholar? But he isn't sent to School for that — not for that mainly. I don't care a straw for Greek Particles or the digamma — no more does his mother. What's he sent to School for? If he'll turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling Englishman, a gentleman and a Christian — that's all I want.

Boarding The issue of boarding education in general and boarding at St. Peter's in particular has been another continuing concern of mine this year. Currently boarding on a national scale is becoming less popular, and the Boarding Schools Association with I.S.I.S. (the Independent Schools Information Service) are organising a National Boarding Week in October to promote boarding and emphasise its worth to a new generation of parents who seem less inclined to consider this form of education for their children. At St. Peter's we have been working hard and successfully to buck the trend, and our boarding numbers are being sustained with a healthy strengthening in the younger age groups. This is something about which we should all be glad: I am convinced that our mix of boarding and day contributes much to the School's success. Our boarders and day pupils both gain by being educated here together: our sport, our music, our pastoral systems, our very ethos and educational philosophy benefit from our having a substantial boarding element. It is what makes us a community, and it is this sense of community which is such an important ingredient in what we are able to achieve. For all these reasons we shall be playing our part in the October National Boarding Week and putting resources and effort into seeing that the School remains a purposive, caring and happy community in which boarding continues to be significant.

Today's parents do not express their hopes in quite those terms, but, like Tom Brown's father, they do have aspirations for their sons and daughters which go beyond the acquisition of G.C.S.E. and A-Level results, and it is in large measure the responsibility of us individually as teachers and collectively as a School to meet them.

How then do we discharge that responsibility? What is the essence of our task as teachers? Someone else has

People It was once said that a Headmaster is paid to be unpleasant and he earns every penny of the substantial salary he is paid. I would take issue with several aspects of that statement but it does at least suggest that the 4

Schoolmastering.... is 'iceberg' work. Very little, perhaps, appears on the surface, but deep down, under the surface, something is going on which is very, very important in a boy's life....

Boys are very perspicacious: they are very much more shrewd than we think, and they know whether the man who is looking after them or with whom they have dealings is genuine or not.

Little things can have a tremendous effect on boys.... It is the hundred-and-one things one says or does which have an importance and effect out of all proportion. That is why Schoolmastering is so worthwhile: for everything helps to building up a life. It is what we are that matters. It is the small things that count.

That was said by the Abbot to his monks at Ampleforth in 1966.

It is the teaching staff's strong sense of commitment, in and out of the classroom, in and out of term, which makes me as Head and you as parents so fortunate, and I take this opportunity of acknowledging the staff's continuing and caring contribution to the well-being and success of the boys and girls of this School.

It is appropriate for me at this point to pay tribute to three members of staff. It should not pass unrecorded that John Bulcock leaves our C.C.F. contingent after twentyfive years' service, eleven of them as commanding officer.

Doubtless he has both good and bad memories of countless parades, camps, field days, annual inspections and so on.

He has served well and long, and the flourishing, popular, voluntary contingent which he hands over to Brian Jelbert is testimony of his achievements.

Commander Bulcock.

I only learned yesterday the sad news that Bill Riley will not be returning to his post as Head of Wind. He has made a well-nigh miraculous recovery from his severe illness of last summer and shown superb resilience and determination. He has been a full-time member of staff for eighteen years, having taught part-time previously for three. His contribution to instrumental teaching, the various bands and the School's music overall has been huge and we thank him and wish him a continuing return to full health and vigour. To both him and Margrit our warmest good wishes for their retirement and future happiness.

"strong sense of commitment. "

Also we say our farewells today to Keith Coulthard, forty-two years a member of staff, for some of which he has headed our geography department and for most of which — thirty-seven years — he was careers master. For a long time he ran the School's scout troop and its Young Farmers' Club. For seventeen years he was a boarding Housemaster. This is an outstanding record of service, and generations of Peterites have him to thank for being just that sort of Schoolmaster whom Cardinal Hume was describing at his monastic conference. I owe Keith special thanks for his quiet, wise help and advice in his capacity as Common Room Chairman, a role he filled with tact and effectiveness. Nor must Margaret be overlooked and the special importance of her part as Housemaster's wife during their many years in Dronfield. We give them both our very grateful thanks and our warm good wishes for a long, happy and active retirement.

I have mentioned two of my three human constituencies — parents and staff. I turn finally to the School's pupils. If I see them only infrequently in the classroom it is because the other affairs that absorb my time — our developments, our marketing, our curriculum and so on — are being pursued in the interests of their education and its enhancement. That relatively little of my time is spent on matters of discipline is, I believe, a reflection of our boys' and girls' overall high standards of responsibility and sense. Particularly rewarding for me as Head Master are the sometimes verbal, sometimes written indications from parents that their sons and daughters like School, that they have full School lives and above all that they are happy here. I hope that it is not just the rose-tinted spectacles of the academic year end which makes me think that the majority of our pupils actually enjoy their Schooldays: certainly not a few genuine tears are shed as our leavers say their final goodbyes and depart. To our pupils for all that they have done to make this another successful year and to make my task of headship the more fulfilled and satisfying my thanks. To you all my good wishes for a refreshing and restful summer holiday.

PRIZEWINNERS THE DEAN OF YORK'S PRIZES FOR LATIN:

Senior Junior

Matthew Williams Christopher Braganza, John Crisp Christopher Braganza Gareth Kay, Matthew Williams

WHYTEHEAD MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR DIVINITY TOYNE PRIZES FOR EUROPEAN HISTORY GEOGRAPHY PRIZES:

Senior Junior L. C. LE TOCQ PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS THE FRIENDS OF ST. PETERS PRIZE FOR BUSINESS STUDIES POLITICS PRIZE SKRENTNY PRIZE FOR CREATIVE WRITING BRIAN HOLBECHE MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR A CRITICAL ESSAY JACK BRITTAIN MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL ESSAY: IVth Form Illrd Form

Charlotte Cranston Alan Hodgin Robert Crossley Stephen Harryman Gareth Kay Antony Dunn Adam Dean Jenifer Swallow Thomas Archer Antony Dunn

JOHN CROOK PRIZE FOR POETRY THE OLD PETERITE CLUB READING PRIZES:

Senior Junior ROBIN SHANNON MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR SPOKEN ENGLISH RICHARD ATKINSON MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR DRAMA

Emma Ward Marcus Buckle Fiona Watt Antony Dunn, Victoria Gill Sally Hamilton

ARTHUR CRAVEN MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR SPOKEN FRENCH:

Senior Junior

Olivia Smart Robert Emsley

FRENCH ESSAY PRIZE GERMAN PRIZE

Richard Ambrose Andrew Buisson

MATHEMATICS PRIZE PRIZE FOR SCIENCE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE PRIZES

Simon Davies Jason Ayers Amanda Daniels, Indraneil Ghosh James Stephenson

B.M.A.

WALTER SMITH PRIZE FOR BIOLOGY

Harriet Torlesse

DAVIDSON PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY WILCOX PRIZE FOR PHYSICS WALTER SMITH PRIZE FOR G.C.S.E. PRACTICAL WORK

Jason Ayers Matthew Millar John Crisp, Alan Hodgin Simon Shepherd

FRANK PICK PRIZE FOR DESIGN

Charlotte Graves-Tamvakis

ART PRIZES:

Senior Junior

Adam Dean, Sarah Durham Alan Hodgin

CRAFT, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY PRIZES

Andrew Farrow

OLD PETERITE LODGE PRIZES FOR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY PADDY POWER PRIZE

Charlotte Graves-Tamvakis Sarah Durham, Sarah Masterman Anne Suttill

TUDOR HOW AT PRIZE FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION

Andrew Collier

ORANGErBROMEHEAD PRIZE FOR STRING INSTRUMENT ACCOMPLISHMENT .

Music PRIZES:

Tifanny R i c h a r d s

Senior Junior

Martin Kershaw, Tifanny Richards Cherry Alton, Graham Kershaw

Vth Form

Christopher Braganza, John Crisp Alan Hodgin, Andrew Mawby Alexander Martin Selwyn Mcllhinney, Thomas Nowell Penelope Whiting Samantha Carter, Benjamin Ferrey Lorna Highet, George Pitt

FORM PRIZES:

IVth Form Illrd Form BARRY DANIEL AWARD K.H. RHODES PRIZE

Mathew Sumpton Rebecca Ingledew

NORMAN CROMBIE MEMORIAL PRIZE

Christopher Rowland 6

RESULTS ASSOCIATED BOARD MUSIC EXAMS

A-LEVEL

GRADE 5 AND ABOVE PASSED

The following gained three or more passes at Grade C or above (excluding General Studies): Altman, C. R. (A,A,A,); Ayers, J. M. L. (A,A,A,A) Bean, M. A. (A,B,B); Bell, R. D. (A,A,B); Bond, J. N (A,B,C); Buisson, A. J. (A,A,A); Butler, J. P. (A,A,A) Cove, T. P. (A,A,C); Cranston, C. N. (A,B,C) Crossley, R. J. (A1,A1,A); Curtis, A. G. (A1,B,B) Daniels, A. L. (A,A,A,A); Davies, S. G. (A1,A2,A,A): Dean, A. M. (A,A,A); Durham, S. H. (A,B,B) Farrow, C. L. (B,B,C); Garai, K. (A,B,C); Ghosh, I (A2,A,A,A); Gildener, S. J. (A,A,C); Gossow, R. J. C (A,A,C); Hamilton, S. A. J. (B,B,C); Harding, G. J (A,A,B); Ingledew, R. P. (A,A,A); Kay, G. N (A2,A,A); Lovell, A. D. (A1,A,C); Macphail, A. J (A1,A1,A,B); Masterman, S. J. (C,C,C); Millar, M. C (A,A,B); Mills, J. (B,B,C); Mitchell, M. J. (A,A,B) Musgrave, S. C. (B,B,C); Pollard, I. J. (B,B,B) Powell, J. S. (A2,B2,B); Richards, T. C. F. (A1,A,A,A) Rigby, J. D. (B,B,B); Rowland, C. P. (B,B,C) Stephenson, J. I. (A,A,B,C); Sumpton M. W. E (A,A,B); Taylor, J. (A1,A,A,A); Thompson, J. H (B,B,B); Torlesse, H. (A,A,A); Waters, A. L. (A,C,C) Weir, A. P. (B,B,C); Westwood, N. J. (B,B,C) Williams, M. J. G. (A,A,A).

The overall pass rate was 95%.

November 1990 Grade 8 Cherry Alton Kathryn Wood Iain Mclntyre

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merit merit

Grade 7 Lucinda Francis Emily Strong Penny Whiting Elena Clegg

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distinction distinction

Grade 6 Nicholas Strong Martin Brown Eleanor White

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merit

Grade 5 Andrew Collier Steven Clegg Katy Pittman Catherine Dixon Kellea York Rebecca Gilbert

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March 1991 Grade 8 Andrew Moxon Charles Barlow

piano piano

merit merit

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merit merit merit

Grade 7 Emma Brown Caroline Murphy Alastair Alton Charles Barlow Cherry Alton Kellea York Grade 6 Rebecca Gilbert Alastair Alton

Cr.CS.E. The following gained ten passes at Grade C or above.

Bean, D. J.; Berry, S. A.; Braganza, C. M. A.; Brooks J. R.; Butler, B. C ; Clark, L. G.; Coulbeck, S. B.; Crisp J. R.; Daniel, L. J.; Davies, M. J.; Davies, T. G. Dowding, S. R.; Dunn, T. M. C ; Ellis, D. H.; Emsley R.; Farley, C. F.; Fieldsend, J. W.; Gorman, P. A. Graves-Tamvakis, C. E.; Graves-Tamvakis E. F.; Harrison, S. M.; Hodgin, A. D.; Holgate, J. M. Ibbotson, M. J.; Jackson, D. S.; Keenan, G. C ; Khanna S.; Lacy-Colson, J. H.; Lang, M. A.; Langford P. J. R.; Layram, M. J. J.; Marlow, M.; Mawby, A. R. Millen, D.; Mindenhall, J. E. M.; Morris, C. Nadian, R.; Nuttell, M. T.; Oakley, T. J.; Pickard A. J.; Pittman, M. E. P.; Roberts, C. D. H.; Sampson L. C ; Sanderson, S. Y.; Scott, M. J.; Shedden, H. I. Shepherd, S. W.; Smith, M. S. R.; Smith, R. M.; Strong E. L.; Swallow, J. E.; Tildesley, D. M.; Tilston, S. J. Todd, M. G.; Wallis, A. M. R.; Watson, P. J.; White, E. K.

Grade 5 Stephanie Sanderson Richard Hugill Catherine Dixon July 1991 Grade 7 Graham Kershaw Grade 6 Oliver Button Grade 5 Hannah Fieldsend Rebecca Gilbert Rachel Hancock Rachel Owen-Barnett Juliet Stephenson Margaret Wood

The overall pass rate at Grade C or above was 88.3%.

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HOUSE REPORTS CLIFTON The start of the academic year saw the House receive Mr. Harvey as the new Housemaster. It was the first time in living memory that the Senior School had had a Chaplain-Housemaster and it has been a challenging experience for both the House and the Housemaster! There have been sixty-two pupils in the House, including seven third form girls and three lower sixth girls. For the first time in its six-year history, Clifton has had girls in the Middle School. We have begun the process of becoming a fully co-educational day House. The small number of girls has meant that, for games, we have joined forces with The Grove. This has worked well, although we look forward to fielding our own teams next year.

Clifton is working hard to build up its games-playing ability. Although we were knocked out in the first round of the Senior Rugby and Senior Cricket Competitions, we did much better at junior level. We got to the semi-finals of the Junior Rugby and Junior Cricket Competitions, and came second in the Junior Rugby Sevens Competition, being beaten only by School House. In the Junior Rugby there were some particularly good performances from Jamie Beaufoy, Ben Councell, Michael Hunter, Naithan McBride (Captain), Robert Pugh, Michael Helme and Nicholas Wight. We are optimistic about our potential at senior level rugby. The Five-a-side Soccer Competition is always keenly contested and we managed to win the junior competition in the Summer Term.

We enjoyed considerable success in the Inter-House Swimming. Clifton finished third in the competition, and was first among the day Houses. The U. 14 Medley Relay team (Daniel Leveson, Oliver Marlow, Julia Toms and Grant Williams) set a new record time, and Ben Councell created a new record in the U. 15 Breaststroke. Jon LacyColson, Ben Councell, Naithan McBride and Oliver Marlow came first in the following events respectively: U. 16 Individual Medley; U. 15 Breaststroke and Butterfly; U.15 Backstroke; U.14 Breaststroke. The House also came first in the U.15 Medley Relay and U.15 Freestyle Relay (Ryan Allworthy, Ben Councell, Michael Hunter and Naithan McBride).

The House performed well in the Inter-House Crosscountry Competition. Jon Lacy-Colson came seventh in the Senior Boys category; Naithan McBride eighth in the Junior Boys; and Julia Toms twelfth in the Junior Girls.

We were particularly pleased with Clifton's performance in the Athletics Sports Competition. The House was represented in every event and came fourth overall — but first among the day Houses! Particular congratulations must go to Michael Hunter for coming first in the Intermediate 200m; to Scott Bradley for coming first in the Junior Javelin; and to Nicholas Wight for coming first in the Junior Long Jump.

Members of Clifton have represented the School at senior level in various sports: Robert Crossley and Edward Savage at 1st XV Rugby; James Harding and

Naithan McBride at 1st XI Cricket; and Michael Hunter at 1st VI Tennis. James Harding has also been the School's Captain of Squash for two years. It has been good to see several Cliftonites taking a keen interest in Rowing: Alistair Birch, Caroline Murphy, John Crisp, Dugan Jackson and Jon Lacy-Colson have all represented the School successfully. Alistair Birch was a member of the crew which competed at Henley this year and is to be warmly congratulated for his achievement here.

Academically, members of the House have enjoyed some success this year. Jason Ayers won the Chemistry Prize and the B.M.A. Prize for Biologists going into Medicine. Robert Crossley won the Economics Prize.

Matthew Williams was awarded the Senior Latin Prize and the Toyne European History Prize. The Junior Latin Prize went to John Crisp and the Junior Arthur Craven Memorial Prize for Spoken French to Robert Emsley.

Samantha Carter won one of the third form prizes.

Cliftonites have contributed to many other areas of School life: Robert Crossley had a major role in Ian Lowe's Dragons; Samantha Carter, Vanessa Jelbert, Julia Toms and Roger Lakin were in Alan Ayckbourn's Confusions. Jason Ayers masterminded our Egg Race team and Top House team. Paul Cove, Matthew Williams, Rupert Gregory, Caroline Murphy, Juliet Stephenson, Andrew Mawby and Ryan Allworthy all made significant contributions to School music. Denzil Jelbert served as Head of the Army Section of the C.C.F. Other members of the House have participated in the Community Service programme.

In May, just before the upper sixth left, we had a Clifton Sixth Form Dinner. This was a very enjoyable evening, with all members of the sixth form attending, together with House staff. We were given a fine afterdinner speech by Mr. Neil Malherbe, a Master from Selborne College in South Africa, who has been visiting the School this term. Edward Savage, the out-going Head of House, and Alistair Birch, the new Head of House, also spoke.

I have greatly enjoyed my first year in Clifton. For staff and pupils alike it has been a full and busy, and I hope, very enjoyable year. I would like to end my first House report by expressing my thanks and best wishes: to Edward Savage and James Harding, our two School monitors, for their help and support; to M. J. G. and A. J. H. for their invaluable roles as assistants; to K. G. C. (whose wise counsel we sadly lose this term), K. R. P. and D. J. S. for their support as tutors; and to Alistair Birch as he assumes the responsibilities of being Head of House. I am pleased to award House Colours to Jason Ayers, Kinshuk Garai, James Harding, Edward Savage, Naithan McBride and Robert Pugh. I wish all those who are leaving the best of good fortune in the future and thank them for their varied contributions to the life of the House. I look forward to those who will return in September continuing to play a committed and enthusiastic role in Clifton's life.

S. C. Harvey

DRONFIELD The beginning of another academic year saw a healthy intake of seventeen lower sixth and three junior boarders: Dronfield was indeed bursting at the seams. We welcomed Miss Finney and Mr. Shaw to the staff, as assistant and tutor respectively. The House had three School monitors: Sally Hamilton, Charlotte Cranston and Rebecca Ingledew; Rebecca was Head of School and Head of House.

With an excellent representation in sport, Sophie Jackson should be congratulated on her captaincy of First XI Hockey, Ernma Ward as Captain of Squash and Isla Pollard as Captain of Netball. Rebecca was Captain of Boats.

Hockey was the main sport of the term and saw many members of the House playing in various teams. Sophie Jackson, Connelee Morris, Anne Suttill, Julia Thompson, Nicola Westwood, Angela Rosindale and Emma Ward all received First XI Colours, with Sophie achieving the added distinction of a Cap. Juliette Webster, Caroline Cooper, Isla Pollard, Susie Musgrave, Melanie Gibb and Eleanor Bowling also represented the School at First Team level. Julia, Sophie, Nicola and Angela also played for York and District. The Jackson-Pacey Trophy was awarded to Julia. The House won the Inter-House Competition with a handicapped team, a fine achievement.

There were relatively few squash fixtures this term.

Emma Ward, Sophie Jackson, Nicola Westwood and Juliette Webster all played at First Team level. Rowing enjoyed considerable success: Sally Hamilton, Charlotte Berry, Esther Williams, Anne Suttill, Alex Simpson and Rebecca Ingledew all rowed for the First Crew; Emma Brown, Amanda Farley and Polly Evans rowed in an active novice crew. Lindsay Daniel coxed the majority of the winning crews.

Drama and music was as usual an important feature of the contribution made by Dronfield girls. Dragons featured several members of the House but special mention must be given to Sally as co-producer and one of the principal characters. Emma Brown, Emma Ward, Rachel Robertson, Claire Taylor, Sarah Richards, Olivia Smart and Clare Farrow also took parts. Claire Altman maintained her strong involvement in musical events, joined by Lucinda Francis, Amanda Farley and Emma Brown. They and other members of the House played in orchestra and band. The choir and chamber choir as usual contained a significant Dronfield contingent.

The term was rounded off by a successful formal dinner and the usual in-House festivities.

The Easter Term saw the House participating yet again in a wide variety of sports and other extra-curricular activities, as usual with great success.

The start of term saw the House netball team battling through under the leadership of Isla Pollard to win the Senior Inter-House Netball Cup. The junior team played to a high standard, although they were unfortunate not to be as successful as their counterparts.

However, they proved their worth in the Junior House Cross-Country Competition and must be congratulated

with five people coming within the first ten: Lucy Evans, Sarah Richards, Molly Tyler-Childs and Kathryn Charman, with Claire Taylor finishing a commendable third position. Her efforts were rewarded along with Sarah Richard's as they were picked to represent the York and District Cross-Country team.

The last week of term held the Inter-House Swimming Gala. Unfortunately for Dronfield the end result of seventh position in the competition did not reflect the standards obtained in the individual races. A whole range of girls represented the House: Alexie Zimmermann, Sarah Richards, Claire Taylor, Melissa Marlow and Esther Williams. They all swam individually with a combined team winning the medley relay.

The House hockey team maintained its usual high standard of play by winning the Inter-House Outdoor Competition under the captaincy of Sophie Jackson.

Despite the emphasis being placed on sport this term, Dronfield has participated in other activities. For the fourth year running we entered the Great Egg Race although the team was not as successful as in previous years. Becky Ingledew and Angela Rosindale were team members for the fourth time along with Connelee Morris, Sarah Richards and Alexie Zimmermann.

Dronfield was represented by Angela Rosindale in Antony Dunn's play 'Resurrection' which was performed in School and will be shown in York later on this year.

The Summer Term brought a continuation of the active involvement in sport. Heidi Clark and Kathryn Charman both represented York and District in tennis. In athletics, Amanda Farley and Emma Copley were successful at discus and sprint respectively in the York and District trials. The Inter-House Competition featured wins for Anne Suttill, Amanda Farley and the senior relay team.

The rowers were not to be outdone; an all Dronfield crew of Rebecca Ingledew, Sally Hamilton, Anne Suttill and Charlotte Berry won the Senior III event at Bradford.

Esther Williams, Emma Brown, Polly Evans, Diana Wooding, Philippa Merritt and Nicola Andrews were also among the trophies in other events.

Distinctions gained in other areas included the Senior Geography Prize won by Charlotte Cranston, the French Reading Prize which went to Olivia Smart, the Old Peterite Club Reading Prize awarded to Emma Ward, and a Drama Prize for Sally Hamilton. Anne Suttill was awarded the Paddy Power Prize for her contribution to the School in many areas.

At the end of term, House Colours were awarded to Rebecca Ingledew, Charlotte Cranston, Sally Hamilton, Sophie Jackson, Emma Ward, Caroline Cooper, Rachel Robertson, Nicola Westwood, Julia Thompson, Clare Farrow, Juliette Webster, Susie Musgrave, Anne Suttill and Isla Pollard. While the upper sixth enjoyed a successful Leavers' Ball, the rest of the House enjoyed strawberries and ice cream in the garden.

Finally, our best wishes to all our leavers, and congratulations to next year's Head of House, Emma Brown, Head Girl, Shelagh Pitt, and additional monitors, Angela Rosindale and Esther Williams.

came from I. Gordon, B. Neary and R. Hudson. There were also significant appearances in the U. 16 Colts from B. Butler in goal, M. Layram, S. (hat-trick) Khanna and D. Marks. A. Marks was appointed Captain of Crosscountry and led the House senior team to a well deserved second place with B. Neary finishing second overall. The junior girls played well in winning the junior tournament.

Well done.

The junior boys' rugby was enthusiastically coached

by A. Gowthorpe. His expertise with the front row gave A. and C. Mosby and D. Falconer real help in holding a much stronger School House side. Unfortunately our midgets in the backs were outgunned and we exited in the first round. However, in a specially arranged game against Queen's we eventually ran out winners 6-4 after a quite splendid match. The tremendous enthusiasm was fair reward for Angus's efforts and those of N. Walker and P. Taylor, both stalwarts of the U. 15 XV. Swimming sports provided both boys and girls with the choice to show their skills. Lorna Highet did very well in the Junior Girls with the usual sound performances in the boys from the "Butler Brothers", I. Gordon, A. Pickard, A. Curtis and A. Baines. The senior five-aside football provided many thrills and spills with A. Marks and J. Stephenson showing the way (sadly to defeat!).

THE GROVE Christmas Term Christmas Term began with James Butler as Head of House and School Monitor. We welcomed Mr. C. Hodsdon and Mr. D. Morris as replacements for Mrs. M. Holt and Mr. D. Newman as House Tutors.

We were pleased to welcome back many of last year's fifth form who had done well in their G.C.S.E.'s especially J. Angel, T. Brassington, I. Gordon and J. Sutcliffe. We also welcomed our four new lower sixth, the Sans twins, H. Daggett and "Bob" (G. Taylor).

Sam Forsyth returned from his visit to Selborne College in South Africa with a lively video of his stay.

Jim Butler missed the first week of term completing his work with the Manchester Youth Theatre.

As usual the Senior House Rugby Competition provided the first real challenge to the House. Angus Gowthorpe led the team in a fine performance against a much stronger Queen's side (eventual runners-up). Angus also proved to be a tower of strength in the 1st XV where his commitment was justly rewarded by his 1st XV colours. 1st XI colours were also awarded to Louisa Sans for her outstanding contribution to the 1st XI hockey. Our senior girls combined with Clifton House to finish second in the girls' Inter-House Hockey. The boys came third in the indoor competition eventually losing to the winners, Manor, in the semi-final. John Sutcliffe, Sam Forsyth and Tom Brassington got useful practice for the hockey team playing each week for Y.H.C. Our thanks go to G. Todd and York Hockey Club for their valuable support.

The Great Egg Race arrived again. Captained by Jim Butler, Louisa and Helena Sans, Stephen Dowding, Richard Harran and Nick Walker engaged their brains, battled with the problem, produced a solution and LOST! However, our House Quiz team nearly made it. Anthony Curtis, Chris Braganza, Alex Martin and Douglas Falconer lost in the final on their very last question! (Our thanks go to John Shaw for his organisation of this event.)

Again significant musical commitments were made by Iain Mclntyre, Jeremy Doncaster, Matthew Bean, JackPatrick Weatherall, Alex Martin, Alex Bailes, Anthony Curtis and Chris Braganza culminating in a quite excellent performance of Handel's Messiah.

John Sutcliffe also displayed his artistic talents in the early part of term at the York Art Gallery. It only goes to prove how much can be gained from the extracurricular programme by those willing to commit their time. This was exemplified by C. Braganza with his contributions to the splendid production of "Resurrection" for the National Theatre Schools' Challenge.

Many other sporting contributions were made throughout the House with A. Curtis ever present and safe at full-back for the 3rd XV. Ben Butler and Chris Braganza also made their contributions to.game one rugby and their enthusiasm will be looked for again next season.

The Shooting was won by the House, captained by Julian Bond, Anthony Curtis coming top in the School. The girls made their contribution with Lisa Thompson scoring a hat-trick in her first game for St. Peter's junior hockey!

James Stephenson established himself at No.2 in the 1st team squash and gained well earned 1st V colours.

Ian Lowe's splendid play "Dragons" gave Jim Butler his final chance to light a School production. He required all his talent and ingenuity to master the prehistoric lighting in the "new" drama centre. That it was a success is fair reward for his outstanding commitment to this sphere of School life. The House also provided a major influence in the Choir which goes from strength to strength. It is good to see senior boys like I. Mclntyre, A. Curtis, M. Bean, C. Braganza and J-P. Weatherall still involved. It was a pleasure to award House colours to Jim Butler and Anthony Curtis for their obvious contributions to The Grove. The end of term also saw John Sutcliffe win the award of a most prestigious Army Scholarship.

Summer Term The Summer Term began with Bruce Neary and Richard Hudson gaining places in the 1st XI cricket. This was a sign of things to come. Bruce gained his 1st XI colours after contributing well with both bat and ball.

Bruce and Richard did well to motivate a group of basically non-cricketers in the senior part of the House.

With the invaluable help of Nick Walker and Paul Taylor we overcame Clifton in the first round, Queen's by two runs in the semi-final and Temple by five runs in the final (Thanks Tom). All gave of their best, fielded like tigers and never gave up. It is appropriate to note that the two juniors turned in excellent individual performances to

Easter Term The Lent Term began with J. Sutcliffe, T. Brassington and S. Forsyth all representing the 1st XI hockey. All went on to gain 1st XI colours and John was appointed Captain of Hockey for 1992. Major contributions to the 2nd XI 10

knee. We had more success in the Inter-House indoor hockey. With the help of Neil Forshaw (a third former in a senior team) and Indraneil Ghosh's brilliant play, Manor won the tournament. It was a term for setting records — Manor had a record number of applications to Oxford (seven), a record number of rejections (four), and fortunately a reasonable number of successes: Matthew Millar, Sandy MacPhail and Antony Dunn all won offers of two E's at A-Level. Antony Dunn was also the only Manorite to have a part in the School play, "Dragons". The end of term meant the return of Manor's famous Christmas Party — this year, despite being prizeless and speechless, the evening was of the usual high standard and none of the vegetarians were forgotten.

The Spring Term, despite the snow, contained the junior Inter-House rugby. Manor's team, despite their complete confidence, didn't quite win the cup. Colin Tse's stunning try deserves special mention, though, as does Charles Atkinson's win in the butterfly race of the InterHouse swimming which Manor also didn't quite win. The Inter-House Cross-Country finals produced fine performances from Matthew Dodgson and Andrew Wallis. The other team members were enthusiastic, the juniors collectively running very well, and the seniors trying very hard. The Dunn brothers took part in "Resurrection" and the Inter-House quiz, also featuring Joel Hopwood and Michael Catling. After resounding victories over School House and Queen's they beat Grove in the final to win the trophy. Another success was the annual Great Egg Race, in which Manor's team, captained

by Adam Dean, won another trophy.

clinch the final. Paul Taylor 6 for 17 and Nick Walker 41. This led to eager anticipation for the junior cricket.

After beating School House in a tremendous game (The Grove 92 for 9, School House 92 all out!) we managed to acquire 124 against The Rise (out tail end wagged!).

However, Toby Cockcroft was too strong for us and they went into the final. Athletic sports is not always our strong point but individuals gave of their best with Angus Gowthorpe "throwing himself'into things; Euan Drysdale making his mark in the junior events.

Again major musical contributions were made in the build up to the German Tour and we wish all ours success in this summer venture.

On an individual note it was excellent to see Jeremy Doncaster's excellent organisation of the 24-hour row over half-term. This was another sign of the health of the Boat Club captained by Jim Butler. Certainly he and the rest of the crew must have enjoyed their first visit to Henley. The junior House football went well with Paul Taylor leading his band of merry men, Alex Martin, "Norm" Berry, Selwyn Mcllhinney, Nick Walker and Nick Hales, into the semi-finals.

On a more academic level, the House was pleased to see Fiona Watt win the Robin Shannon Prize, Alex Martin and Selwyn Mcllhinney the fourth form prizes and George Pitt and Lorna Highet the third form prizes. Chris Braganza collected his normal trolley load! Well done.

Finally I would like to thank Jim Butler for his outstanding stewardship of The Grove. It was not easy for him with little real support from his peers in the upper sixth. The remainder of the House developed a fine spirit.

They have much to offer and have found a House identity.

I look forward very much to next year, wishing Bruce Neary as Head of House and John Sutcliffe as his deputy all good wishes. My thanks as always go to Messrs.

Tooms, Dawson, Northfield, Morris and Hodsdon for all their help and support. We all wish Clive our best wishes for a full recovery from his back injury.

P. J. Stephen

Comic Relief meant a non-uniform day, and an alarming number of people turned up in skirts, except those who sabotaged School sheets and pillow cases and turned up as the Ku Klux Klan (tastefully re-named "Blu Mux Chicken" to prevent controversy) and paid, like everyone else, for the privilege.

The Summer Term was completely dominated by exams and sport, the second of which, at least, Manor are quite good at. Ben Oakley was selected to represent North Yorkshire in the high jump, and special mention must be made of Scott Roberts, Andrew Wallis and Matthew Dodgson for their impressive performances in Inter-House athletics. Manor were joint winners with School House in the athletics, and although we didn't win the cricket Michael Forrester and Dominic Bundy played at a very high standard. The junior indoor football team, captained by Dominic Martin, played excellently and reached the final. However, three of the players suffered injuries just before the final and were unable to play. Their substitutes played well, but did not quite manage to win the final. Mark Benson was a finalist in the Robin Shannon Prize for Spoken English. Congratulations to Robert Hiles and Scott Roberts on being made monitor and Head of House respectively, and thank you to Adam Dean and Simon Powell for all their help over the last year. Mr. and Mrs. Bulcock would like to wish all the leavers luck for their futures, and especially for their impending exam results, and are looking forward to having a new set of relatively peaceful third years in the House.

THE MANOR The year began badly — Manor had been redecorated in shades from honey, through blue, and back to sand.

Thanks must go to Adam Dean and Chris Hall for that.

However, we did have new chairs in the TV room and a new satellite system which led to the creation of the House Shop, which now subsidises our movie channel.

Also a new bunch of third formers arrived, and turned out to comprise nearly all the Under 14A rugby team.

They were, and are still, energetic, tireless and noisy, and are indeed a welcome addition to the House. A new assistant Housemaster, Mr. Jeffs, joined the House in September and has already made himself very popular.

The Autumn Term saw The Manor playing hard in the Senior House Rugby. Despite failing to win the competition, we definitely left our mark. Mike Forrester must take the credit for breaking Kinshuk Garai's (Clifton)

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Aspden, David Baldry, Charles Barlow, Tim Cordier, Oliver Gardner, Angus Iveson, Chris Richardson, Nick Senior, Ian Sharper, Richard Shaw, and Andrew Wildblood for gaining ' C grades or better in every subject they entered.

James Rigby captained the First XI this summer, while Andrew Wildblood sometimes filled the same role for the 2nds. Others who represented the School at Cricket included Richard Musgrave, Oliver Gardner, Angus Iveson, Hugh Shedden, Fraser Black, Alex Deighton, Magnus Inness, Alastair Rigby, Chris Pyne, James Sleight, Anthony Killip, Nicholas Ogden, Jonathan Noble.

It was, therefore, a bit embarrassing as well as disappointing when we failed to make anything of either House cricket competition — though everyone learnt a lot in the process, and the victories against us were thoroughly deserved. Fraser Black and Tom Archer gained county selection.

James Rigby, Alex Deighton (despite the dreadful disappointment of his shoulder injury), Paul Mulryne (who made a strong and positive impression on the House when he joined us for his sixth form) and Chris Richardson were awarded First XV Colours, and there are others who should aim to receive them next winter.

House Rugby should be strong too, next season, after the hard work endured last winter. We only lost the final by 14-9 in 1990 despite the odds set against us by the absence of three key players.

The girls in the House have continued to be a mainstay of Games for the School, with Emily Strong, Vicky Robinson, Claire Walker and Jenifer Swallow in particular appearing in virtually all the sports on the calendar.

Perhaps the most impressive performance of the year was Shirley Lewis taking the trophy for Victor Ludorum on Sports Day: it must be unprecedented for this to be achieved by a third former, and bodes very well for the future. The Girls also won the House Swimming Competition; and should be congratulated on coming second only to Dronfield in House netball. Their Hockey was also strong. Amanda Daniels for Squash and Emily Strong for Netball were among those awarded School colours.

James Hague, Stuart Clarke, and Charles Barlow, with Chris Richardson as reserve, represented the School First Vin at Henley; while Tim Cordier and Stephen Harryman have also regularly represented the School. It is most pleasing that Stuart and Charles made up part of a composite VIII which took the Silver Medal in their class at the National Championships later in the summer. They were coxed by Mathew Taylor — who as a third former has set the rest of the House an example of how to enjoy yourself by taking part in every available activity.

David Baldry lost the final of the Alcuin Cup for Tennis — but beat many more fancied players to get that far. The Senior Five-a-Side team, captained by Richard King, won the final of that competition by 3-1.

During the year, among other musical successes, Charles Barlow passed grade 8 Piano; Cherry Alton, grade 8 Flute — and selection to play flute for the National Children's Orchestra; Alastair Alton and Charles Barlow grade 7 Violin; Emily Strong, grade 7 Flute; Cherry

QUEEN'S I would like to begin this report as I ended the year at the House reception, by thanking the Upper Sixth for their tremendous contribution to Queen's over the last four or five years: they seem to have been a particularly happy and thoughtful group, and those of us remaining will miss them. I imagine — and hope — they are carrying good memories with them as they leave — even if there have been some rough times with the smooth. They will always be welcome visitors, even if only for another glass of wine on the lawn at Commemoration. Lawrence Patton has been a Head of House and Monitor whose company and whose help I have valued greatly; and James Rigby has set a fine example as a School Monitor both in the House and more generally around School. Alex Deighton ended the School year by gaining success for the initial stages of his attempts to gain entry to the world of motor racing.

Andrew Berrington earlier captained the House Crosscountry to personal and team success. David Blacker earned his House Colours simply — and rightly — just for always being there and being bothered on behalf of those around him. Amanda Daniels, Lucy Yeomans, Sarah Glover and Harriet Torlesse learnt how to tame — or tolerate — Peterite Males at their best and worst: they have played a great part by example and by direct help, in the way the House has successfully become fully coeducational . I wish all the leavers well for their various futures. In particular, we wish a happy year and successful return to James Rigby, who will be spending the next twelve months teaching English in Thailand.

At Commemoration 1991, prizes were awarded to Alan Hodgin (the Junior Prize for Geography, a Walter Smith Prize for G.C.S.E. Practical Work, an Art Prize and a Fifth Form Prize), to Stephen Harryman (the Friends of St. Peter's Prize for Business Studies, awarded this year for the first time), to Jenifer Swallow and Tom Archer for Middle School Essays, to Amanda Daniels for Science and Mathematics, to Harriet Torlesse (the Walter Smith Prize for Biology), to Cherry Alton (a Junior Prize for Music) and to Tom Nowell (a Fourth Form Prize): congratulations to all of them.

It continues to be a pleasure for me to read the Tutor Sheets each mark order, of pupils who are steadily working in classrooms and at home to fulfil — and in some cases to exceed — their academic potential. This has been very much the case with the Lower Sixth and Fourth form this year, where I might mention Sally Marshall, Chris Pyne, Ian Sharper and Stuart Clarke. They even began to influence the more slothful among the Fifth and Upper Sixth so that the final term saw a great upsurge in effort — which I hope will be rewarded when the results come out!

Talking of which, congratulations are in order for examination results in 1990. Louise Blackburn finished a marvellous career in our sixth form with straight 'A's in Maths and Sciences. Alex Gage did well to achieve an 'A' grade in Geography. Vicki Inness gained entry to Durham University, where she is now distinguishing herself rowing. At G.C.S.E. level, praise is due to James Hague for remedying earlier disasters; and to Marcus 12

of the large Rise contribution to the 1st XV led by Jason Morris. This was reflected in the success that the House had on the rugby pitch during the House matches. Having been seeded first, favoured to win, it took a replay with School House to see us into the final, having drawn 10-10 the first time. The final was much more a show of skill and speed and with space to run the ball, The Rise showed to be ultimately the most all-round team and deservedly managed to retain the senior rugby cup. Five members of the House received 1st XV colours: Jason Morris, Jason Mariyappan, Adrian Robinson, Gareth Silverwood and Chris Caldwell are to be congratulated.

For part of the term we had Phil Bartlett visiting us from Selborne College in South Africa. He was very well received and he proved to be an invaluable member of the rugby team and of the general spirit within the House.

This term also saw the opening of a House shop in order to finance more luxury items for the House and the addition of a new television and video is hopefully only an appetiser, having seen The Manor's latest purchases.

The House fancy dress party was replaced by a more formal sit-down meal as an experiment for the future. The end of a long term saw the revival of the 'Air Stars' who added good humour to the Inter-House hockey tournament.

Alton, grade 7 Piano; Nicholas Strong, grade 6 Clarinet; Rebecca Gilbert, grade 6 Flute; Alastair Alton, grade 6 Piano; Rebecca Gilbert, grade 6 Theory; Rachel Hancock, grade 4 Oboe; Shirley Lewis, grade 3 Flute; and Lucy Robertson, grade 2 Piano. Rebecca Gilbert, Cherry Alton, Alastair Alton, Charles Barlow, Angus Iveson, James Hague all competed in the Finals of the Music Competition. Sarah Glover, James Hague, Charles Barlow, Emily Strong, James Rigby, Alan Hodgin and many others have regularly taken part in various instrumental and choral performances.

Stuart Clarke rather surprised himself by leading the House Quiz Team to the final of that competition, only to lose there.

Charles Barlow went to India in the autumn with a group from North Eastern Schools, including representatives from Pocklington, Ampleforth and elsewhere. He talked on this most successfully with Ann Hodgson on their return. Other travel talks were given

by Stephen Harryman about his British Schools Expedition to Svalbard in the summer of 1990, and Lawrence Patton about his journey to China in the autumn. In all cases the photography and talking were fascinating.

Derek Paterson's tutor group were entirely to blame for the fact that Red Nose Day was also a Non-Uniform Day at St. Peter's: they co-ordinated the whole thing — and on many other occasions worked for Charity through such things as cake-stalls. I am grateful to them for this.

I am pleased that so many members of the House have been involved in Community Service, visiting people locally or spending time visiting Hospitals nearby. I also thoroughly commend the involvement — led notably by the example of Harriet Torlesse — of so many of the House in the activities of Amnesty International. The more we can involve ourselves with helping others, the better.

I would like to thank the House Tutors for all their vork for the pupils in Queen's over the year: they take a tremendous interest, and the well-being and progress of students could not be assured without them.

At the summer half-term, Andrew Wildblood was elected Head of House for the coming year. We wish him well. Stuart Clarke, Tim Cordier and Chris Richardson were also appointed School Monitors.

Geographically, things have been quite different, with classrooms on 'our' top corridor and therefore a continuous throughput of visitors. This has made the House, if anything, even more aware of itself and its strengths. As ever, this report only skims the surface of all that has gone on; but I hope it gives an impression of those strengths and of how much has been done during the past twelve months.

Easter This was a frustrating term on the sporting front, with a show of great spirit only to finish second best to many of the other Houses in various sports.

The most disappointing event was the junior rugby.

After making good progress into the final, the team managed to edge ahead only to be beaten in the final minutes by an excellent School House try.

Also, the senior football went the same way. Having made a stuttering start, the team continued to the final.

Having yet again made a good start, going ahead in the first half, we were beaten in the second half to bring the second time in the term where our efforts were unrewarded.

The House was well represented in the Hockey 1 st XI

by Gareth Silverwood and Chris Caldwell who are to be congratulated on the re-award and award of their colours respectively, in one of the finest hockey seasons in the recent School history.

The senior House Cross-Country was seen as a foregone conclusion before the run had started and Queen's came in the easy victors despite very spirited runs from Jason Mariyappan, Simon and Mike Davies, gaining very respectable placings. The junior run was lost for the first time in over a decade, with many of our better runners unfit after the junior rugby; a case of unquestioned bad timing for an important event.

The House Swimming Competition was another very tightly fought match. After some excellent swimming by Joel Ward and Mickey Clarke the whole competition was left in the balance on the last relay, with School House and ourselves level on points. The House was again beaten at the dying of the event, having to settle for second place.

The swimming standards was another trophy which was forfeited this term.

THE RISE With a significant reduction in the number of boarding pupils this year, the House was filled out by a number of day boys and any new recruits which we could get our hands on.

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A number of members of the 1 st and 2nd XV rugby teams left early at the end of the term in order to commence a tour of Portugal.

driving skills, Joby Taylor for his dress sense, Alistair Lawson for his television and finally Andrew Moxon for having the reddest cheeks of all!

Summer The Summer Term quickly moved into full swing with both the senior cricket and the tennis Inter-House competitions taking place. Despite the lack of the tennis captain, Gareth Silverwood, the team made a spirited attempt but were overpowered in the first round.

However, the House cricket team was rather more successful in the first round, mainly due to some excellent fielding and good performances from our four full-time cricketers. However, in the second round there was a defeat by Temple due to a batting collapse.

The House was represented in the 1st XI cricket team

by Mike and Tim Davies and Mike should be congratulated on the award of his colours after a very good batting season.

The junior football team had an unlucky string of sending-offs which upset any chance of a place in the semifinals. This was quickly forgotten after a success against the odds in the junior cricket. Having disposed of Temple in the first round in a flurry of batting and bowling Temple out for fifteen runs, and then Grove in the semi-finals, an inspired performance allowed us to overcome Queen's and win our second competition of the year. Note should be made of the batting of Toby Cockcroft, scoring about 60% of the runs in every match.

Despite not managing to win the athletics tournament there were many great performances. Two cups were won however: Jason Morris won the Sprint Cup and Jason Mariyappan's 400 metres victory brought another cup.

Thank you for all your sporting contributions throughout the year. Thanks also to Mr. and Mrs. Watkinson, and also to Mrs. Shuttleworth for doing an often unrecognised but invaluable duty for the House. I hope the House continues its excellence for many years to come.

Simon Davies

Easter The Easter Term saw 1st XI hockey places go to Adam Waters, Marc Mitchell and Charles Pugh with Robert Bell in the seconds. Allan Foster, Jamie Ballantyne, Mike Lang, James Swallow, Jon Brooks and the Captain, Matthew Todd all represented the School Colts XL The senior cross-country team came a creditable third with Joby Taylor in tenth place overall. However, with Gordon Gibb winning the junior run and Mark Lane coming second it was no surprise that the juniors managed to win their competition. This success seemed to inspire further triumphs and a last minute try by Michael Cox inspired by the play of Mark Lane and the leadership of Gordon Gibb secured a memorable win over The Rise in the final, 16-10. This was further embellished by the middle school members of the House winning the Inter-House Swimming Standards Cup and in the Gala itself, amply led by Alistair Lawson and thanks to individual wins by James Swallow and James Meaden and many places in the next three positions saw us take the Inter-House Swimming Gala Trophy in the very last relay, beating The Rise by the narrowest of margins. All these exploits ensured the Oxford Cup returned to School House this year, a most welcome addition to the already full sideboard. The Easter Term saw us gain two fourth formers — only to lose one the following term — and lose a fifth year, all adding to the excitement of daily life where we saw one Suttill more than another and found Matthew Todd in Temple for most of his free time (having been awarded a chocolate medal for present-er of the year the previous term).

Summer The Summer Term saw 1st XI opening bat Paul Carvosso ably assisted by 2nd XI wicket keeper David Batty and all under Andrew Moxon steer us to a thrilling finish against The Rise in the first round of the Senior Cricket Competition which we unfortunately lost by two runs — a feat bettered for its edge of the seat drama in the junior competition when we tied with Grove in the semi-finals only to lose because we lost ten wickets to their eight. Nicholas Middleton — Lincolnshire County U.15 — captained the juniors and with Edward Backhouse and initially Gordon Gibb, represented the School Senior Colts XI, ably assisted by the following third year School A and B team cricketers: Simon Rivis, David Todd, Michael Cox, Edward Lindley, Lee O'Keefe and Stephen Whalley who along with Mike Dowds represented the School's Rugby A and B XV's in the winter months.

The Inter House athletics brought an equally close result as the swimming. Individual wins from Adam Waters, Mark Lane, Dominic Greeves, Mike Lang, Simon Rivis and Gordon Gibb saw us through to win the Inter-House Athletic Shield by one point from The Manor, a great team performance robustly led by Robert Bell.

School tennis representation by Alcuin trophy winner Adam Waters who also won the prestigious Shuttleworth

SCHOOL Christmas The year began with ten new third years being welcomed into the House. Two sixth formers, David Batty and Matthew Neale also joined us. Christopher Rowland, Captain of School Boats, was Head of School and Head of House. Paul Carvosso was a School monitor and 1st XV prop, Robert Bell and Adam Waters also represented the 1st XV with Graham Wood and David Batty regular 2nd XV stalwarts, who, along with Mike Lang, James Swallow and Jon Brooks, other 3rd XV players, ensured a re-match was required, with The Rise coming out narrow winners, who went on to win the senior competition after defeating us in the semi's. Paul Ferrow and Edward Lindley took part in the School's drama production of 'Dragons' and deserve congratulations for their efforts, as did Mathew Sumpton for his expert 14

budding thespians appeared in the year's major drama production, 'Dragons', and Charlotte Graves-Tamvakis, Stephanie Tilston and, in particular, Vicki Gill gave particularly fine performances.

The term ended with the very successful House parties, including the brilliant disco thrown by the third and fourth years (watch out Radio 1 disc jockeys!) and the award of House Colours, our answer to the New Year's Honours list. Stephanie Sanderson received Junior House Colours for her contribution to the girls' hockey team and Senior House Colours were awarded to Andrew Ludiman, Gareth Kay, Simon Gildener, Sarah Durham and Tifanny Richards for services to the House. Finally, Gareth Kay is to be congratulated on gaining a place at Balliol College, Oxford to read P.P.E.

Cup for all-round best sportsman, Mike Lang, James Swallow, Andrew Farrow, Daniel Sumpton and Dominic Greeves until his groin strain — playing tennis rather than climbing through windows apparently — ensured, along with Marc Mitchell in School Squash, that every School sport, including shooting with Paul Carvosso winning North East District trophies, was represented by the House. Further non-sporting representation ought not to be missed out — the contribution to School Music from Christopher Rowland, Paul Ferrow, Matthew Neale, Matthew Todd and Dominic Greeves must surely deserve special mention as does, finally, the exploits of our School Rowers, particularly Christopher Rowland and Joby Taylor who were members of only the second School VIII since the war that has done so exceptionally well to represent the School at Henley — a memorable achievement.

Yet, the success of the House is not to be measured by just the silver on the shelf, but also by the spirit and camaraderie that is generated within the House and this being such a successful year, much credit and thanks must go to all our upper sixth leavers — and others who will be leaving this year with all our best wishes for success in the future.

J. A. Owen-Barnett

Easter In the Easter Term, on the sportsfield, the House enjoyed mixed fortunes. Whilst the junior girls netball team won their tournament, led by Rachel Gill, unfortunately their senior counterparts, led by Katy Wood, fell to the much stronger Dronfield House team. In the Inter-House Cross-Country, in the senior's race, Tom Reid came eighth, and in the junior girls, Hannah Fieldsend came first. It didn't matter that the junior boys' rugby team lost heavily to Clifton's side, because it was enough that the House actually presented a team, which is commendable for all fourteen non-rugby players concerned. The five-a-side indoor football team under the captaincy of Gareth Kay, had a poor season losing all their matches. Hopefully, next year the side will enjoy greater success. It shouldn't be too hard! Both Simon Gildener and Gareth Kay represented the School in the 1st XI hockey team.

The House continued its tradition to be heavily involved in the arts scene. Firstly, there was Antony Dunn's excellent "Resurrection" in which Elena and Steven Clegg, James and Hannah Fieldsend, and Katy Pittman all performed. Andrew Collier, taking a break from the preparation of his musical "Fools Gold" in which James and Hannah Fieldsend also were involved, helped behind the scenes. Sarah Durham and Charlotte Graves-Tamvakis had some of their artwork exhibited at the City Art Gallery.

Finally, although the House was knocked out of the Inter-House Quiz, due to the quick buzzer work of Grove, the Egg Race provided a surprising result. The team led

by James Gossow (Solomon Burt, James Fieldsend, Elena and Steven Clegg, and Rebecca Newton), came a close second (which was very good considering the vehicle didn't look as though it would make 15cm let alone 15 metres, even though some of the opposition went backwards!).

TEMPLE The year began with the House welcoming new members and Mrs. Shepherd as a tutor and House assistant. Sadly, Mr. Riley was not with the House due to a serious back problem which kept him away from School for the term. The House throughout the term gave much effort on the games field which often went unrewarded. In the Senior House Rugby Competition we went out at the first round to an excellent School House team. Despite a sterling effort from the forwards and halfbacks (Tom Reid, the Captain, Andrew Ludiman, and his brother, Mark in particular stood out), the better organisation of our opponents in the end paid off. Andrew Ludiman, however, became a regular member of the First XV (gaining his colours in the process) and Tom Reid, Mark Ludiman, Guy Chiswick, Matthew Pittman, Ewan Graves-Tamvakis and James Fieldsend all represented the three Senior School teams. The Girls' Hockey team too played well and were very unlucky to only beat Queen's House in the four team Inter-House tournament. Special mention must be made of Sarah Durham, the Captain, School First XI member and prolific goal scorer, who led the team by example.

Once again, Temple played a major role in various musical activities around the School. Many members took part in the School Choir, Band and Orchestra and Martin Kershaw, Eleanor Clegg and Tifanny Richards gave splendid solo performances during the term's concerts.

Tifanny, co-leader of the National Youth Orchestra, is also to be congratulated on gaining a place at the prestigious Royal College of Music. On a different note, 'The Funky Chicken' who include Adam van Huet, Gareth Kay and Jon Firth, picked up where they left off last year playing an exceptionally successful Halloween concert at the jam packed Lowther in York. Temple's

Summer There were some exciting clashes in the Inter-House events during the Summer Term. The athletics, whilst giving a poor House result, nevertheless provided some fine individual achievements, such as Tom Reid, Andrew Ludiman and Hannah Fieldsend winning the 400m, the Discus and the 800m respectively. The senior cricket was exceedingly exciting. The House reached the finals by beating Manor and The Rise in the heats, convincingly, 15

At the end of term, prizes were won by Sarah Durham (for Art and Community Service), Gareth Kay (for History and Politics), Sarah Masterman (Community Service), Charlotte Graves-Tamvakis (C.D.T. and Art), Andrew Buisson (German), Vicki Gill (Drama), Andrew Collier (Music Composition), Tifanny Richards (Strings Award and Music), Graham Kershaw (Music) and Martin Kershaw (Music). We also said goodbye to eighteen members of the House, all of whom will be missed, and at this point, thanks should be given to the monitor for helping with the running of the House, the tutors and assistants, to Mr. Drysdale and to all the members of the House for their support and spirit, and I hope it shall continue under Tom Reid as next year's Head of House, to be assisted by Chris Martin.

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to play against Grove. Whilst on paper, the House seemed a much stronger team, the odds were not stacked in our favour. On the contrary — at one stage, despite Tom Reid's and Charlie Roberts bowling, and Tom's innings of thirty, the result soon seemed to be pointing towards a conclusive Grove victory. However, a captain's innings of forty-five by Simon Gildener plus the solid support of the tail-enders ensured that when the House finally submitted to defeat it was only five runs short of the required 105. The juniors were decisively beaten in the first round against The Rise. Special mention, now, must go to the senior tennis team (David Jones, Mark Davies, Stuart Berry, Andrew Buisson, James Fieldsend and Matthew Pittman) for their success in winning the Tennis Cup, proving that Temple can be counted amongst the most sporty and sporting Houses.

SENIOR COMMON ROOM There have been two particularly happy events this year (not counting Derek's sabbatical). We celebrated both the birth of John and Tessa Shaw's son William, and also the engagement of Paddy Stephen and Liz Wymer (with envy and congratulations for one balanced by incredulity and commiseration for the other!). Rumours that this was Liz's contribution to Comic Relief were hotly denied, though plausible given all the other silly things colleagues got up to to raise money on Red Nose Day. From comedy to farce and the staff's sporting achievements. Soccer, rugby, basketball, squash, tennis, cricket, rowing (particular congratulations to Ann on her sculling achievements) and hockey (with nearly half the S.C.R. turning out against the girls) have all been attempted and, despite some truly amazing individual performances, at none have we been as successful as we were at noncompetitive wine tasting!

Four new colleagues and one familiar face joined us in September. We were delighted that Sue Watkinson increased her involvement in the School by becoming a member of the R.S. department and we also welcomed Clive Hodsdon as Head of Modern Languages, Jacquie Finney (Mathematics), Robert Jeffs (English and History) and John Shaw (Languages). Whether joining the S.C.R. is a healthy move for them must be doubted for this has been a year in which staff have been dogged by illness and injury — particularly to Bill, Andy, Clive and, most recently, Jed. To those still recovering we send our very best wishes. Equally missed (and not just because of the quiet left behind) has been Derek Paterson, off on a sabbatical to Africa (and the wilds of Durham) during the Summer Term, leaving behind him some inexperienced youth as acting HoD. Cover for absent colleagues has been provided by the temporary addition to the staff of John Chitham, Eve Smart and John Stones and we have also been very grateful for some student assistance, particularly from Ben Home (with the School for a pre-P.G.C.E. year) and Nick Stebbing. For all their efforts our thanks and best wishes for the future. Best wishes also to Neil Malherbe who spent half a term with us "on loan" from Selborne College, experiencing the joys of an English summer. His help around the School (particularly in English lessons) was much appreciated, as was his lively conversation.

Finally Keith, to whom we sang farewell at the end of the Summer Term. Full details of the remarkable contribution he has made to the School appear elsewhere in this magazine: here let us merely record our gratitude for the calm, humorous, civilised common sense and courtesy he has brought to the S.C.R. over so many years.

Significantly, since he gave up the role of S.C.R. secretary it has taken two of us to fail to fill his shoes.

R. H. Hubbard, I. M. K. Lowe

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INTERVIEW K. G. C . — T H E E N D O F A N E R A

What have your main interests been?

What was the School like at that time?

I was initially appointed for three years, and at the end of three years I went to see the Head Master, John Dronfield — for whom I had tremendous respect, incidentally — and he said that if I stayed, there were various things he would like to offer me. So I found myself becoming an Assistant Housemaster in The Grove (1953-56), where duties sometimes went on until two o'clock in the morning because the Housemaster was a very keen bridge player. I was also offered the chance of starting a Careers Department (also in 1953), and the other thing that I was involved in from quite early days was the Scout group, which we built up in the 50's and early 60's to about forty or fifty people. This was a very energetic bunch, and very nice to work with because they were doing something they wanted to do. We had many very interesting camps and expeditions, we produced a lot of Queen's Scouts, and in some ways the scouting activities represent the highlights of life here as far as I am concerned. The present Activities Centre was our Scout Room, and we helped to dig out the foundations for it. When scouting died out during the late 60's and early 70's, we changed the Scout Room into an Activity Centre, and I ran an Activity Group for some considerable time after that. Also in 1953,1 was approached by a group of sixth form farmers' sons, who asked if I would be interested in forming a Young Farmers' Club. I expressed interest, and I maintained that association right up until a year or two ago, when the Young Farmers' Club seemed to peter out completely. By and large it had been a pretty successful Club, which had provided an outlet for many people.

Well, it was of course a completely boys' School, predominantly boarding, and it had a pretty rigid system of discipline. There were some of the vestiges of the traditional public School practices such as fagging and a seniority system. Uniform was strictly worn by all members of the School, and that included a School cap and a blue suit which was worn on Sunday's whatever they were doing. The School was dominated by the Chapel: there were daily services for the whole School and there was at least a full Evensong on Sunday which was compulsory for the whole School, and sometimes also a Matins, so that there was not a great deal of time for exeats. Exeats were few and far between: only two a term were allowed, on specific weekends, beginning after breakfast on Sunday and finishing half an hour before Chapel. There was no question of an overnight exeat. We had no half-terms at all, but we did have the occasional day's holiday, such as All Saints' Day in the autumn and Ascension Day in the summer, when the boys were given a day off and encouraged to go off and do their own thing.

As time went on, I moved out of Grove, and eventually I was told by Mr. Dronfield that if I stayed on he would make me a Housemaster when I was thirty-eight. Sure enough, when I was coming up to my thirty-eighth birthday, Dronfield House was being built, and we were asked to start it off. So, in September 1964 we opened Dronfield House, and we remained there for seventeen years. We thoroughly enjoyed it. We were appointed for fifteen years, and we were asked to stay on to cover a hiatus period for a further two years, and this was probably a mistake, because we were geared to the fifteen years and at the end of fifteen years I think we had had enough. When I moved out of the House in 1981, the Common Room was looking for a new Secretary. I offered to take it over for a few years and ended up doing it for nine years, until we brought in the present constitution and appointed a Chairman and Secretary to take my place.

Of course, I have done a bit of teaching, too....

When did you join St. Peter's?

September 1949, full-time, although I had spent January to March 1949 here as a student, which was when I was offered a job.

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What would you say were the highlights of your career? Are there particular things which have given you personal satisfaction?

as migration or the lithosphere, and any reference to regions is what you bring in by way of example. You are not learning quite so much in the way of fact, but you are learning much more about theories. The other great thing that's happened is the subject has been flooded by the concept of the model: models of industrial or agricultural location, models of cities and so on. You can bring in, wherever you like, your examples, and this gives a great deal of freedom to the teacher and to the pupil, who can build up by wider reading much more than was possible in the past. So the model approach, combined also at A-Level with a much more statistical and analytical approach, has changed the subject from being a matter of a great deal of fact learning and fact regurgitation to a much more conceptual approach, whereby the student uses his or her powers of thinking very much more. So it has changed, and I think it's changed for the better.

Becoming a Housemaster was very important, especially as we were appointed as a team and we ran it together, my wife and I. We also had the advantage, which very few people have, of starting a House from scratch. We didn't inherit someone else's way of running it, although we did find a bit of a handicap in the fact that some of the early boys came from other Houses. This was very interesting, because we found big differences between those who had been in School House, The Rise, Grove and Manor. The Rise people had very rigid ideas about the seniority system and the fagging system, which I was absolutely against from the word go, whereas the School House people couldn't care less about it. It was a very interesting job welding them into a House. We only found out afterwards that the games players of the School got together behind the scenes and somehow manipulated it so that they all came into the same House together. So for the first two years of my Housemastership Dronfield House reigned supreme. This gave the House a great fillip, although it was a little unfortunate for those Houses from which the games players had come. I may not appear to be terribly interested in games, but I was then very interested, and in fact I used to do quite a lot of games coaching.

Have you found your work in the Careers Department a satisfying part of your own career?

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed Careers work. It gave me tremendous satisfaction, in two main areas. One was that it brought me into contact with a lot of young people, and I felt that in my own way I was helping them towards decisions that they had to make. I never felt it was my job to make those decisions, but to feed information, make suggestions and help them along the way. It has been very satisfying to have had several come back and say that my advice was helpful to them. The other thing was that as a Geographer I found Careers work a great help, because it's got me out of the School and into all sorts of industries and occupations. I've seen much more of the world outside, even though I've never moved around from one School to another, than many Schoolteachers do. This has broadened my geographical outlook as well as helped my Careers work.

One other highlight was that I introduced two things into the School which gave opportunities to those who didn't fit too well into the conformist society. One was that when I felt I was getting a bit long in the tooth for rugger games and so on, I started a walking group as an option to games. We went walking on the Yorkshire Moors, the Dales and the Wolds. It was quite vigorous walking and it involved another of my hobbies, the use of maps, and there were plenty of long conversations and heartsearchings as we tramped across moorland. I think it provided an outlet for some of the individuals who found it difficult to fit in otherwise. The other thing — and here I was helped when I was in Dronfield House — was that we were given two very valuable pieces of machinery: a full-scale printing press and a hot-metal typesetting machine. Again, various oddbods who didn't fit into anything else would spend hours printing things like play programmes, tickets, School newspapers and so on.

Unfortunately, this died out when I left Dronfield House, which seemed to me a great shame.

Do you feel that teaching is a more or less enjoyable career now than when you first started?

I think it is probably more enjoyable. I have certainly found in recent years a more relaxed approach in form — and I think this has been helped very much by the advent of girls — has added to the pleasure of teaching.

I find that the pupils today, either because I've changed or because they are different, are much less "them and us" in form and much easier to work with. I suppose that one of the things that colours it is that in my last year I have taught probably the pleasantest bunch of Upper Sixth people I have ever been faced with. It really has been a joy to work with them. I've also had a very pleasant and co-operative Fifth Form set and an equally cooperative Fourth Form set, and I've enjoyed working with them immensely.

Is Geography in the 1990's a very different subject from what it was when you started?

Oh yes, very different. When I started teaching geography, it was very much regional-based. It required amassing a lot of factual information. The subject has moved right away from this approach to the- modular or conceptual approach, where you are looking at ideas, such 18

You've served under five Head Masters. Do you think that the character of the School is dictated by the character of the Head Master, or does it evolve separately from any changes at the top?

I think that it used to devolve very much more from the nature of the Head Master than it does today. In my early days the School was dominated by the figure of John Dronfield, who had been Head Master from 1937.

Interestingly, in the light of later events, he was invited in to take the job after the Governors of the day had made a very bad mistake in appointing his predecessor, whose apparent mission in life was to close down public Schools.

He nearly managed to close this one, and John Dronfield was hurriedly invited to come and rescue the School. He made a very fine job of this, and also guided the School through the very difficult war years. As a result the School was very much his baby, and he kept a very tight control.

The School very much reflected his personality, but I think this has changed. The Head Master has become more of an administrator, and certainly in the case of one Head Master the School went on in spite of him. We decided that we just couldn't work with him or under him, and so we got on with the job.

Do you have a philosophy of education, an idea of what it should provide?

Yes, I suppose I have. I think that education should encourage people to be actively interested, be questioning, be ready to challenge. In other words, I think that what we should do as teachers is to stimulate people, not merely fill them full of facts. We should actually get them to think for themselves and to argue. Education should be a preparation for life. Therefore, if life is unfair and arguable and fluctuating in its pleasures and their opposites, I think education ought to do likewise.

Finally, after such a long time at St. Peter's, are you looking forward to retirement, and how are you going to spend the time?

I'm looking forward to it very much. I've always been a great believer in looking forward. I shall miss the School, I shall miss teaching, I shall miss the young people, although that is made up for to some extent by grandchildren. What are we hoping to do? We have two or three ambitions. The family is very much an ornithological family, and we hope to get away to some of the bird areas that we are very fond of — places like the Outer Hebrides — at times of year when we have never been able to visit them before, when all you people will still be working hard. We would like to get out and see our daughter and her children in Norway, a country which we are very fond of. So we hope to get out and about, to use our Dormobile more than we have done in the past, to visit those parts of Britain and the world that so far have eluded us. Other than that, I hope to spend more time reading, more time sleeping perhaps, to enjoy eating — nothing terribly ambitious, but I think that we shall find that we have more than enough to fill our time.

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Christinas Term: Once again the School year began with a period of high pressure, though temperatures did not remain as unseasonally high for as long, and the maximum temperature of 23.5°C was recorded on the first day of term (September 10th). The lower temperatures were associated with lower pressures and greater precipitation was experienced than in September 1990. October's data were close to normal, though temperatures began to dip, falling below freezing point at ground level during the last night of the month. The first prolonged period of winter weather was experienced in the second half of November with the nights from the 19th to the 22nd inclusive having marked ground and air frosts. That part of December which we spent at School was remarkable for a period of very high rainfall. Of the 64mms. recorded, 94% fell in the forty-eight hours of December 7th and 8th; which means that the average for the fourteen days of 4.92mms. is rather meaningless.

Time to bring on the sub, Paddy?

Basic weather data for the three School terms: TEMP. C Air Ground Max. Min. Min. Frosts Frosts (air) (grass) September (part) October November December (part) January (part)

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Easter Term: January was a cold month, with a ground frost every night and maximum temperatures rarely moving into double figures. It was, however, a dry month with considerable sunshine and gentle winds in the predominantly high pressure conditions. February continued to be cold and a particularly cold spell from the 6th to the 12th inclusive was accompanied by heavy snow; the heaviest snowfall — 22mms (when melted), but equivalent to 2V6 metres in depth — was at the end of this period, on the 12th itself. Pressures fell at the beginning of March and there was considerable cloud and some fog, coupled with considerable rainfall. However, there were few frosts and it felt that Spring was on the way.

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Summer Term: Pressures were higher again at the end of April and daytime temperatures began to rise into the middle teens, though there were still a number of frosts. May was warmer, though the sun was often covered by a pall of clouds, so that Spring was rather delayed. June was also disappointing in a similar way, even recording ground frosts at the beginning of the month. The temperatures seemed to be reluctant to climb and only managed to get close to 20°C at the maximum, right at the end of the month. We ended the term with Summer making a late arrival and the maximum temperature reaching over 25 °C on the penultimate day of term.

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David Hughes led a week's Chapel, as did the School's Amnesty International group.

The Choir continues to make valuable contributions to our Services — particularly to the School Eucharists, the Advent Carol Service, the Christmas Carol Service, the Service of Words and Music for Lent, the Confirmation Service and the Commemoration Service.

We have continued with the School Eucharist three times each term. We introduced, in the second half of the Christmas Term, a voluntary Eucharist at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday evenings. I have been very pleased with the response to this Service. There have usually been enough people, pupils and staff, for us to sing two hymns — an important element in Peterite spirituality!

We have again had two visits from Fr. Barry Orford from the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield. He came for a short visit in October and for a week in March.

During his March visit he met each evening with a small

Unlike many parish priests, a School chaplain's life is not dominated by the occasional offices — Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals. This year, however, the Chapel is being used for five weddings, and I am very pleased that this is so. It says a good deal about the affection which Peterites feel towards Chapel (however much they complain about it when they are here!) that they wish to return to be married in the building.

This year, the Chapel has also been used for a funeral — that of Hazel Scarlett, the Bursar's Secretary, who died in January. The Chapel was full for her funeral — an expression of the esteem in which she was held by the School community. It meant a great deal to us that her family felt it appropriate for her funeral to take place in the Chapel. Her younger daughter was married in the Chapel in May. We have been fortunate with our visitors this year: Bishop Graham Foley preached at Choral Evensong in September; Stuart Taylor, the Director of the Bloxham Project, preached at our Remembrance Service; and Bishop Gordon Bates of Whitby presided at our Confirmation Service in May. Leon Carberry from York Minster, Fr. Cyril Brooks from Ampleforth, David Mullins from the Central Methodist Church in York, Christopher Armstrong from Bishopthorpe and Graham Cray from St. Michael-le-Belfrey have all been to speak 24

sheltered housing scheme for senior citizens in York); the Parkinson's Disease Society; and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. When the Chapel account is closed we hope to be able to give over £1,000 to each of these projects.

The year ended with two major Services. The Leavers' Service on the penultimate day of term was held in the School Chapel. Mr. K. G. Coulthard, leaving after fortytwo years on the staff and surely our most distinguished leaver, gave the address. The Commemoration Service was held in the Minster on the last day of term. We were privileged to have as our preacher the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume. The Service was followed by a brief ceremony in the School's ante-Chapel, during which Cardinal Hume blessed two memorial tablets of Old Peterites, Edward Oldcorne and Robert Middleton. Both men were Roman Catholic priests who were martyred for their faith. It says a great deal about the growing together of the Christian Churches in our time that the memorial tablets of two Roman Catholic priests who were executed by Anglicans should be blessed in an Anglican building by a Roman Catholic Archbishop.

group of senior pupils. These discussions were extremely stimulating and wide-ranging. It was obvious each evening that one of the major problems for many young people when it comes to religious belief is the conflict which they perceive between a religious and a scientific view of life.

As a result of these discussions I wrote to the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Habgood, asking whether he would be willing to come to the School to speak on the title "The interface of science and theology". Dr. Habgood is, of course, both a scientist and a theologian. I am delighted to say that he has agreed to come, and we much look forward to his visit in November.

Our link with the Community of the Resurrection continues to grow. A group from here went to Mirfield on All Saints' Day, to join the Community for their Festival Mass and for supper afterwards. After supper we went down to the College which the Community runs, preparing men for the Anglican priesthood. It was a very enjoyable evening. The Confirmation Group went to Mirfield for a day in April, and in May a cricket team from St. Peter's went to play a College team at Mirfield — and won!

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I report another successful year for the Combined Cadet Force at St. Peter's. The strength of the Contingent remains close to our Establishment limit of 120 and there has been a well motivated group of senior cadets who have maintained the various exercises and drills with the usual vigour. The Christmas Term, in particular, saw the arrival and initial training of fifty-seven new recruits and another active Field Day with The Green Howards at Catterick, which produced its usual professional expertise, including some fearsome bayonet practice.

It is with some sadness that I write my final note for "The Peterite" as Commanding Officer of the C.C.F. Few other organisations depend so much on the goodwill of a group of voluntary officers and I have been extremely fortunate to have had the support over the years of men and women of real stature who have inspired the pupils in their charge. In particular I wish to mention Captain Tooms, my adjutant, to whom the Contingent owes very much over the past eleven years, and to Lt. Owen-Barnett who is leaving the Contingent after ten years' service and

R. J. B. RETIRES FROM C.C.F. This year Commander Bulcock retired from the C.C.F. after a military career lasting thirty years. After service with the Oxford University O.T.C., the Royal Engineers and the 10th Parachute Regiment (T.A.), he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant at Bromsgrove School. Moving to St. Peter's, he served as Lieutenant before being promoted to Army Captain and transferred to run the R.N. Section (for five years the St. Peter's Army Section did not operate). In 1980 he became Commanding Officer of the C.C.F. which at that time had a total strength of sixty cadets. In 1984 he was promoted to full Commander and was awarded the Cadet Forces Medal with Garter. He leaves a flourishing C.C.F. with a total strength of 120 cadets.

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preparation for the annual field day this year as guests of The Green Howards at Wathgill. Activities included bayonet drills and live firing of the cadet rifle. The day ended with the presentation of a face stick to the section by the Old Peterites serving in The Green Howards.

As usual a team was entered for the 'Colts Canter' March and Shoot Competition, although a lack of firstaid knowledge and an incorrectly marked check point meant we were not in the top placings. The shooting team, under the command of C/Sgt. Jelbert also attended several competitions, with mixed success.

This year also saw the arrival of several radio sets, and the re-establishment of the signals section, under 2/Lt. Liz Wymer, which no doubt will be an asset in future exercises.

Thanks must go to Sgts. Savage, Patton, Millar and Ingledew, and C/Sgt. Jelbert, who leave this year. Their assistance in running the section has been invaluable.

Finally, mention must be made of Cmdr. Bulcock, retiring this year after twenty-two years of service in the C.C.F. We thank him for all he has done in his many years of service, and wish his successor as C O . , Maj. Jelbert, well for the future.

Joby Taylor

SUMMER CAMP 1990 Over fifty cadets attended the annual camp this year at Leek, under the guidance of Cdr. Bulcock, Capt.

Tooms and Lts. Stephens, Owen Barnett and Wymer.

The programme offered a range of military and adventure-training activities including canoeing, climbing, shooting, orienteering and platoon exercises. There were also march and shoot and assault course competitions.

Despite all this activity we even managed to arrange a football game against Mill Hill School — with the multitalented Capt. Tooms standing in as referee.

At the end of the camp Ben Taylor handed over command of die section to Joby Taylor.

ARMY SECTION The beginning of the year saw a large intake of new cadets into the section, with the number of girls joining being particularly pleasing.

The beginning of the year was spent introducing the new recruits to drill, fieldcraft and the cadet rifle, in

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R.A.F. SECTION Section Commander: Fit. Lt. P. B. Jelbert R.A.F. V.R.(T.) W.O. I.C.: W.O. P. F. Carvosso Summer Camp 1991 saw the R.A.F. Section going on expedition to R.A.F. Wattisham, situated in darkest Suffolk. This was found to be a great site, not only because we had our own barrack block, but we also shared the base with two front-line Phantom squadrons and a Bloodhound surface-to-air missile squadron. This was seen as a vast improvement on R.A.F. Newton's two Chipmunks and a police dog.

We shared the week with Dulwich College who proved to be a constant source of amusement. A great time was had by all, with the most memorable occasions being Cdt. Porter's decision to change his go-cart into a bulldozer at the expense of several members of the Section; a visit to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford; A.E.F. in Cambridge and a visit to the American A10 base at Alconbury. All proved interesting and enjoyable days out.

The Section also took part in a night exercise at three o'clock in the afternoon, here, the flourescent orange juice came into its own which proved an illuminating experience, especially for F. S. Bowen and his friendly R.A.F. Regiment Corporal. Our congratulations must go to Sgt. Dawkins' flight which won the inter-flight competition and also to Cdt. Eleanor White who was a popular choice to win the best cadet award.

The new year saw F. S. Carvosso take command of the Section assisted by Sgts. Rowland, Curtis, Bond and Simmons, the other senior N.C.O.'s.

The Section welcomed the arrival of a large number of new cadets and a new officer in the shape of P.O. 'Rodney' Grant.

The first main event of the year was the field day, and sixteen of our new cadets went to R.A.F. Leeming with the intention of flying Chipmunks, whilst the remainder of the Section joined the Army at Catterick with First Battalion, The Green Howards. The Section had an opportunity to take part in some full-bore shooting, an assault course, bayonet practice (where F.O. Ison was suggested as a possible candidate to be one of the dummies), and some much needed drill under the watchful eye and loud voice of the R.S.M. This was closely followed by the Colts Canter Competition. For the second year running the R.A.F. entered its own team made up of F. S. Carvosso, Sgts.

Bond, Curtis, Simmons, J. Cpl. Doncasterand Cdt. Todd.

The team acquitted itself admirably, coming fifth in a very strong field but more importantly beating the Army by four places, to make it 2-0.

The cadet rifle shooting competition was the last major event of a busy term, with a number of the Section winning shields in the falling plate and Section shoot elements of the competition.

The Easter Term provided some much needed R. & R. after the excursions of the Christmas Term with all the new cadets enjoying their first air experience at either 11 A.E.F. in Chipmunks, or in the new powered gliders at R.A.F. Linton-on-Ouse. Other highlights of the term were the promotion of Cpl. Anne Suttill to Sgt. and Cdts. Andrew Farrow, Eleanor White, Matthew Todd, Jonathon Brooks, Matthew Pittman and Stewart Berry being made up to Junior Corporals after the successful completion of their projects and passing their proficiency exams.

The Summer Term again saw the R.A.F. doing very well on the ranges at Strensall, this time having two members of the winning team in Match 'B' of the North Eastern District Target Rifle Competition.

Much excitement was generated by the news that this year's camp will be held at R.A.F. Lyneham in Wiltshire, where Fit. Lt. Jelbert will not be the only Hercules on show.

Our congratulations must also go to W.O. Paul Carvosso and F. S. Mike Simmons on gaining R.A.F. University Bursaries; to Daniel Smithson for the award of a Flying Scholarship and to Jeremy Doncaster for the award of an Air Navigation Scholarship. In addition Andrew Wildblood has been selected to attend a gliding course and Pippa Smith has been nominated for the Cadet Leadership Course at R.A.F. Hereford. We wish both Pippa and Jeremy good luck in their forthcoming selection boards for R.A.F. Sixth Form Scholarships.

As you will see from the above report, the R.A.F. Section has enjoyed a very successful and fruitful year under Fit. Lt. Jelbert, F.O. Ison, P.O. Grant and Miss Lucy Rawlinson. Unfortunately, Fit. Lt. Jelbert will be leaving the Section to become the new C.C.F. Contingent Commander next year. We wish him all the best in his new post and thank him for the way in which he has built up the Section in the last few years, and hope that his replacement will continue to enjoy similar success.

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ST. PETER'S SHOOTING TEAM REPORT 1990/91 in good form for the competition. On the day itself, the 'B' team, consisting of C./Sgt. P. D. Jelbert (Captain of Shooting), FS. P. F. Carvosso, Sgt. A. G. Curtis, and L/Cpl. P. J. Watson, took an early lead which was never lost, and ultimately won the 'B' class competition. FS. Carvosso did particularly well in winning the Individual Trophy. The 'A' team, captained by Sgt. J. N. Bond, and consisting of Cpl. S. R. Forsyth, Cpl. A. C. Alton, and Cpl. J. C. Doncaster also put in some very high scores, but were beaten by other very strong teams.

During the past year, the shooting teams have seen the refurbishment of the twenty-five yard range to a very high standard. This has ensured regular shooting for pupils in all years, and the C.C.F. in particular. Shooting colours were awarded to C/Sgt. Jelbert, FS. Carvosso, Sgt. Curtis, Sgt. Bond, Cpl. Alton, Cpl. Forsyth, Cpl. J. D. Sutcliffe, Cpl. Doncaster and L/Cpl. Watson.

Congratulations go to Cpl. Forsyth on his appointment as Captain of Shooting for next year.

The shooting team would like to thank Major P. B. Jelbert and Captain Tooms for their enthusiastic help and valuable support throughout the year and wish the teams every success in the future.

Denzil Jelbert

The end of the 1990 Summer Term saw Grove very confidently winning the Inter-House Shooting Cup, contested by all eight Houses. At the beginning of the Christmas Term, teams from both the Army and the R.A.F. sections entered the Skill At Arms Competition with the Cadet Rifle on Strensall Common. Although we were unable to zero the rifles properly both teams did very well, with the 'A' team being beaten in the quarter final of the competition by Welbeck.

Next to come on the shooting annual calendar was the Colts Canter March and Shoot Competition at Catterick.

The contingent fielded two teams, one from the Army and one from the R.A.F. Both teams had an excellent shoot, with the R.A.F. team coming second overall.

Unfortunately other elements of the competition stopped either team winning. Since these competitions the School has been issued more cadet rifles, bringing the total to twenty-eight. This offers greater opportunities for younger shooters and therefore greater hope for the future.

The Summer Term saw St. Peter's shooters on a winning streak. In preparation for the North East District Target Rifle Competition, Captain H. A. Tooms organised a day on Strensall Ranges to zero the rifles, and after having fired in excess of 1,000 rounds, both teams were

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DRAMA DRAGONS The advent of this production attracted more than usual interest through the 'Government Health Warning' attached to its language and its setting in the 'new' drama centre: how many of the audience would be shocked into early departure (taking advantage of the thoughtful advice in the programme about the easiest exit), and would the producer utilise all the potential of this building on its first public occasion?

In the event, both the language and the situation were brought together to produce a memorably disturbing piece. Ian Lowe's thematic exploration of Miller and Orwell provided us with a powerful expression of the dangers latent in fundamentalism. The building, still a bare and unadorned church hall, offered a good setting for the action and contributed to the portrayal of the 'community'.

The black cross, stark texts and — a nice touch — the service leaflets with the words of the hymn all served to engage us. It was surely appropriate that this plain and austere ambience was matched by the rudimentary state of the electrics: Jim Butler worked several miracles in making the effects as good as they were.

The Elizabeth, Proctor, Abigail triangle contributed substantially to the power of the piece, with compelling performances from these members of the cast. Vicki Gill was impressive in her command of the forceful and uncompromising language and expression associated with Abigail. Sally Hamilton's dark brooding and cold conviction enhanced the focus of the play, and, towards its conclusion, her meeting with the Co-ordinator was set in striking contrast by the embracing Abigail and Proctor.

The Reverend (Antony Dunn) presided over the unleashing of the forces bent on finding a scapegoat for the predicament faced by the 'community'. The meeting of the four men with the Co-ordinator and the solution proposed, re-inforced by the following sermon, deepened our disquiet.

The lighter moments, such as they were in this dark drama, were well received. Ann (Sarah Durham), cautioning against leniency and organising the children, was superb.

'Enjoyable' is hardly appropriate to describe the experience of those present, but all involved — too many to mention individually — gave us an excellent production.

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FOOLS GOLD — A SKETCH The man with the long hair came up and told me that he could make me a star. But I could see he didn't have one of those big fat Havana cigars like you see in the movies and I knew he lived on Bankhead Road not 42nd Street. I wasn't going to fall for this one.

Seven weeks later a big beer-bellied man in a cap was shouting at me and this tall bloke in a tweed jacket (my daddy apparently) about something called 'stage presents'.

But it didn't look like he was going to buy me anything at the moment; and to make matters worse this little man was following me around and asking for messages. I thought he was the brother of a short, fat person. But the fat one was sitting at a table off stage whispering sweet nothings down a microphone to some sinister men in black who were always stealing the table from my new dad's office only to put it back a few minutes later. Then they told me that the man with the long hair was now my brother whereas the person I thought was his brother was a loan-shark's 'assistant' in a bad suit and no relation at all. So you can see it was all very confusing.

Next these other two people appeared. They had been brother and sister and happily for my security they looked like staying that way. Now they did live near Broadway: but that was now in Fulford. Oh dear!

'Fools Gold' was performed by the Teenact Theatre Company in April 1991.

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and Hannah Fieldsend, Daniella Lipman and Katy Pittman all intensely involved despite their paucity of lines) and the backstage crew (led by Andy Collier and Miles Layram) were all crucial to the play's success through the very selflessness of their contributions.

Cast and crew clearly believed in the play — the first and usually most difficult task of any producer. They performed it with a unity of style and purpose — the second most difficult task. Drama is not about winners and losers but some people are more successful and talented than others. In his own self effacing, modest way Antony Dunn, as both playwright and producer, demonstrated this very clearly in "Resurrection". /. M. K. Lowe

RESURRECTION I've mixed feelings about competitions — they stimulate and initiate but they also introduce concepts of winning and losing which are dubious enough in sport (where the result has now become more important than the performance), even less appropriate to Drama.

Without the National Theatre Schools Challenge, Antony Dunn might never have written and produced "Resurrection" but I'm glad to be writing this review before we learn if the play has been selected for a London showing, before the experience of the performance has been tainted by ideas of "success" or "failure".

"Resurrection" is set after nuclear devastation. The first half of the play takes place in a fall-out shelter where the attempted ordered survival, led by the government regulation obsessed Leonid (Chris Braganza) is beginning to disintegrate. Deaths by euthanasia and suicide (the last of which bordering on melodrama despite a powerfully intense performance by Steven Clegg as the deranged Alex) led Leonid and the forceful if insubordinate Nikita (Elena Clegg) to venture outside in the false hope that the air may have cleared. The rest of the play follows this second generation Adam and Eve to the sole sign of growth amid desolation — a tree bearing a single apple.

Here play becomes polemic (though no less powerful for that), with Nikita asserting the right to seize this symbol of life for her own survival in the face of Leonid's arguments that they are, in effect, already dead and should not interfere with nature's renewal. The ending is deliberately ambiguous (or obscure?). The eating of the apple is followed (causally?) by the appearance of a rape victim and this, coupled with Nikita's final cry of "What have I done?", suggests that by her resurrection of human life this latter day Eve has also resurrected man's inhumanity to man (and woman), leading inexorably to a repeated cycle of devastation.

VIDEO COMPETITION "The Legacy" — last year's entry in the Focus Multibroadcast National Schools' Video Competition — reached the regional semi-final stage. This year St. Peter's has again entered the competition with a short film entitled "Reconciliation".

Tim Dunn wrote the script and Charlotte GravesTamvakis drew the storyboard.

AWARD FOR JON Congratulations to Jon Lacy-Colson on the award of a licentiateship by the Victoria College of Music and Drama in London. Jon is one of the youngest actors in the country to receive this award, for which the normal minimum age is eighteen.

Grim, intense stuff then, with no room for laughter, and it is the very highest tribute to the production and playing that there was none from the audience despite the desire for a release from tension (even when the writing occasionally slipped towards bathos). The style of the production had been carefully thought out to create atmosphere: an austerely bare central stage, minimal props and costuming, and simple but haunting flute and drum accompaniment (from Claire Altman and Matthew Williams) helped minimise the barrier between actors and audience. With the cast on stage from the start, entering into the theatre was like entering the bunker itself. The risks of the play, teetering as it does on the brink of the symbolic and the absurd, were considerable but such was the conviction of the ensemble playing that not even a key prop rolling off stage broke their, or our, concentration.

Individual performances were good (with Chris Braganza vocally impressive and Elena Clegg achieving a ferocious intensity of characterisation that was particularly moving) but the power of the evening came from the way the individuals cohered to make the overall experience of the production greater than any of its individual parts. To that extent the other roles (Tim Dunn's anguished doctor, Angela Rosindale's despairing and dying victim and James 33

"CONFUSIONS" The task was a tough one. Could J. A. O-B. and I. M. K. L. really coax three Ayckbourn mini-plays out of a group of novice third years? The answer, surprisingly enough, was yes.

Opening, to an expectant hush, in an untidy sitting room for "Mother Figure", the play began to take shape, with Lucy Robertson and Cathy Dixon giving creditable and convincing performances as Lucy Compton on their respective nights. Roger Lakin played a cool and understated Terry, and the sense of witful muddle was there from beginning to end.

Lucy Compton's husband Harry, masterfully portrayed by Steve Whalley, took us into "Drinking Companion". Steve gave a truly excellent performance, working through his mammoth set of lines without once dipping out of his delightfully philandering character. Julia Toms was equally convincing and life-like as the profoundly uncomfortable Paula, and it was a shame when it was left behind as Graham Kershaw took us into "Between Mouthfuls" — a classic example of Ayckbourn stagecraft which the lighting crew were more than a match for.

Michael Tildesley gave us a gruff, irritable Pearce, and conveyed perfectly the sense of superiority Ayckbourn intended. Rachel Hancock, as his suspicious wife, provided a perfect foil, and never lost her dramatic poise.

Ben Oakley and Fiona Watt gave us a perfect, upwardlymobile couple, with Ben handling the news of his wife's infidelity with considerable aplomb. Fiona Watt's performance was perhaps the most promising for the future, but it would be unfair even to single out individuals in a performance like this, where everything depended on teamwork and all-round effort.

J. A. O-B. and I. M. K. L. must get their share of the credit not only for their prompting(!) but also for their dedication which was so richly rewarded with three fine presentations. Acting and drama at St. Peter's, on this evidence, can look forward to a bright future.

Richard Ambrose

MUSIC The string orchestra continued to perform well as their performances of Handel's Concerto Grosso in G and Leroy Anderson's 'Jazz Pizzicato' in February demonstrated, and Kathryn Wood's leadership has been first-rate. The symphony orchestra's accounts in the Summer Concert of Eric Coates' 'Westwards' and Ronald Binge's 'Elizabethan Serenade' were lively and controlled.

The provision of proper rehearsal time for a symphony orchestra is still a problem and an experiment of placing this early on a Monday evening next Easter term will be tried.

The visit of the Royal Artillery Band at the end of May was exciting; the two concerts during the day which many pupils from the Senior and Junior Schools attended were exhilarating affairs and with Sousa marches like 'Stars and Stripes' and film music like 'Lawrence of Arabia' they could not fail to please.

This year has seen a healthy increase to eight pupils studying 'A'-Level music in the sixth form. With this increase has come a greater awareness and wish to have influence on the music performed which is to be welcomed.

In all areas of the music department the work of the full-time staff is greatly valued — Roger Carrington's help with the String Orchestra and string tuition, Keith Pemberton's continual administrative and accompanimental help, but especially this year Jeffrey Gray's extra help with band work and orchestral work resulting from our being short of one member of staff.

Many of our senior pupils are increasingly becoming involved in decision-making and the day to day running of the music department which is a most pleasing development. We hope that those who leave us this year will continue their music involvement and interest and thank them for all their contributions to the musical life of the School.

The music annexe (Methodist Building) is now used in an increasing variety of ways — for teaching, rehearsing both during the day and the evening and by a wide variety of groups including choirs, bands, pop groups, orchestras and jazz groups. This demonstrates the need for areas specifically designed for these activities.

The Choral Society's main concert this year was a performance of Handel's 'Messiah'; the School orchestra's ability to cope with the demands made by this was excellent to see and the experiment involving all the Junior School's J4 classes in most of the choruses proved a success. Schubert's Mass in G was the main work in the Autumn together with two large-scale anthems — Mendelssohn's 'Hear my Prayer' and Bairstow's 'Blessed City' — both conducted with authority by Jeffrey Gray and sympathetically accompanied by Keith Pemberton on the organ.

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GENERAL NOTES Much of this year has been spent in looking forward to the tour to Germany by the School Choir and Senior Band in late summer. In practical terms this has meant rehearsing and preparing repertoire and focusing our attention on raising the level of performance ready for touring.

During the year there have been some notable performances including Tifanny Richards' account of Hoffmeister's viola concerto with the School orchestra, Charles Barlow conducting Purcell's Chacony for strings, Martin Kershaw's performance of a set of variations for clarinet by Jean Francaix and Andrew Moxon and Claire Altman playing Vivaldi's double flute concerto; also the success of Six Appeal — Christopher Braganza, Timothy Dunn, James Fieldsend, Miles Layram and Stephanie Sanderson — in the Daily Telegraph's Jazz Competition, testifies to the high standards achieved by our musicians.

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After the first Choral Evensong of the year in October when the choir sang Stanford's 'Magnificat' and 'Nunc Dimittis in C and Herbert Howells' anthem 'O Pray for the peace of Jerusalem' (the words of which became increasingly significant in the following months) it was clear that the choir was reaching new levels of achievement. The confidence and range of the sopranos has.been one of the most encouraging features of the choir's performances together with the increasing richness of the sometimes over-enthusiastic bass section. The tenors are also developing and some of the younger voices here bode well for the future. The alto line has had problems but by the end of the year was returning to good form.

The Carol Service in the Minster went especially well and our experiment of thirteenth century chant sung in antiphonal procession down the nave with brass organumlike interludes together with tabor from the west end gave an exciting start to the service. What was especially pleasing was that at the end of the service it was very clear that the choir understood clearly the high standards that they had just achieved.

During the year the repertoire for Germany had to be learnt or relearnt. The John Rutter folk song arrangements were revived at the Germany Plus evening together with the first presentation of 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' whose haunting delicacy was immediately appealing to the choir.

At the Christmas Concert one of the carols 'So gentle the donkey' with its simple rhythm but beautiful line was perhaps the highlight of the singing that evening.

In March a gospel choir from Bremen, who were going to be our hosts in Germany, came to stay with us.

They sang a whole range of spirituals together with some folk-song arrangements while the School choir joined in with 'Joshua fit the battle' and a real winner — Rutter's 'Down by the riverside' where the choirs joined together.

In the Summer Term the choir performed in two concerts. The first in May saw a performance of Kodaly's 'See the gypsies' which stretched the choir in new directions and Elgar's 'As torrents in Summer' displayed its increasing fullness of sound. In the Sommer Musikfest — a concert anticipating our tour to Germany — the choir's performances of 'The Hills' and 'Greater Love'

by John Ireland together with 'Hail, gladdening light' by Charles Wood were some of the outstanding features of the evening.

The Commemoration Service also saw the choir in excellent form but perhaps the most satisfying performance of all in that last week was of Charles Wood's 'O thou the central orb' at the Leavers' service.

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The Senior Band, like the choir, has during the year had its mind set on the Germany tour. The reading ability of the band has developed greatly as new repertoire was prepared; in fact, of the fifteen pieces performed during the year, twelve were new to the band including complicated arrangements such as Gershwin's 'American in Paris', Bernstein's 'West Side Story Suite' and Malcolm Arnold's 'English Dance'. When confronted with some of these new pieces the band faltered, groaned then accepted the challenge and displayed their real potential as the year progressed.

Some of the most enjoyable performances were of 'Allied Honour' where the band's enthusiasm was clearly evident, 'Sandpaper Ballet' where the sandpapers provided novel entertainment and Edward Gregson's 'Prelude for an occasion' which saw the band tackling difficult, original modern music in a professional way.

An arrangement of the Bach chorale 'Our Father' posed real problems of precise slow counting which were overcome as another area in the band developed. A workshop with the Royal Artillery Band, when they visited the School in May, was a real tonic for our band.

Being coached by real professionals and seeing what standards we are all aiming at was a very special experience.

In the Sommer Musikfest, 'Unter der Admirals Flagge' was revived and proved a blockbuster start to the programme and this together with the 'West Side Story Suite' saw Jeffrey Gray getting the very best out of the band.

My thanks go to Janus Wadsworth whose help and band expertise has been invaluable and to Jeffrey Gray whose conducting of the band in the Summer Term in preparation for Germany has been so evidently successful.

This year's Music Competition was adjudicated by David Bowman, former Director of Music at Ampleforth College. His ability to get straight to the heart of each performance and discuss it with special perceptiveness made this a particularly memorable event this year.

CELEBRITY CONCERTS Three celebrity concerts have been promoted this year.

In the Autumn Term the Ryedale Festival Wind Ensemble gave us a delightful evening including Mozart's Serenade in C Minor and Gounod's Petite Symphonie for Wind.

In the Spring Term a most versatile group of singers visited us — the Balfour chorus. All ex-choral scholars from Magdalen College, they managed to produce a remarkable range of sounds. Their arrangements of sixties and seventies pop music was quite dazzling in complexity but tremendously effective. It was high quality stuff.

Towards the end of the Summer Term Roundelay, two musicians specializing in early instruments, gave an intriguing concert, the title of which was 'Battles, Prayers and Lamentations' from the Crusades to the Civil War. We heard the beautiful sounds of the gemshorn, the gentle grind of hurdy gurdies, an array of drums including nakers and a range of string instruments culminating in delightful performances on lute and bass viol.

The audiences for these concerts have not been large but have been most enthusiastic.

MUSIC STAFF Bill Riley's serious illness just before the beginning of the School year was a major cause of worry but fortunately Bill left the danger list fairly soon and embarked on a gradual recovery. Bill Riley has given notable service to the Music Department over many years and will be remembered with special regard by many Peterites who either studied brass instruments with him or played in one of the bands. We wish him a very happy retirement.

My thanks go to Charles Brewer, Janus Wadsworth, Ian Davies and Christopher Bacon who all helped fill the gap in brass teaching. Also to the new staff who joined us this year: Christine Hodson ('cello), Sharon Brown (percussion), and Diana Chapman (flute). At the end of the Summer Term we bade farewell to three of our instrumental teachers: Malcolm Brown ('cello), Colin Honour (clarinet), and Brian Richards (clarinet). We wish them all well and thank them for their work for the department.

The third annual Music Staff Concert in June showed what a talented and dedicated group of instrumental teachers we have and we thank them for their hard work in developing the musical life of the School.

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PERSPECTIVES or to ask questions. They seem to have direction to all they do. To borrow a quote from a speech I gave at the Clifton House Leavers' Dinner — "There is nothing original in an echo". I am pleased to note that there are very few echoes in your School.

Finally then, thank you to all of you for making me feel a part of your School. I have really appreciated it and take back with me many happy memories of my time at St. Peter's.

Neil Malherbe

IMPRESSIONS OF ST. PETER'S Before returning to South Africa, Neil Malherbe addressed the School...

The day before I left to come to St. Peter's I got hold of Dylan Perlman and Philip Bartlett (who had visited St. Peter's over the past two years) and asked them about the place. When Dylan heard that I had received a letter from Mr. Bulcock of The Manor, he said that The Manor was definitely the best House. Philip, however, who had been in The Rise, was adamant that The Rise, being better at sport, was the best. Dylan's retort was that The Rise couldn't sing properly in Chapel, blurting out "RISE!" whenever it occurred in a hymn. Now, this intrigued me, so I listened out for it when I arrived, but never heard it. On enquiry I was told that "The Rev." never chose hymns with the word in them or simply omitted the harmful verse!

Before I left, Philip told me to look out for a great teacher called Paddy. I laughed and said I could just imagine what he looked like — this large, red-faced Irishman who drank too much! When I arrived, the third person I met was Paddy Stephen — how wrong I was!

Here I was confronted by an articulate charming man!! (surely some mistake here? The Editor).

I have learned many things about your School and your country during my stay. Firstly, I don't believe you have what one could regard as weather. Rather, it seems as if you have all seasons crammed into one day, just to keep everyone guessing. Before I left South Africa I said to everyone "Enjoy your winter — I'm off to enjoy summer". Little did I know what awaited me!

Secondly, you have a superb mimic in Joel Hopwood.

I had been here for only a few days when I walked into the fourth form prep, room at The Manor, only to see Joel doing his impersonation of "The Rev.", complete with sound effects and "First hymn this morning. . . . 2 1 1 " .

Another thing that I learned was that cricket comes in all types. I umpired several games but my last was particularly amusing. It ended in a draw, agreed upon by captain's Gordon Gibb and Nick Hales, when both balls ended up lost in the surrounding hedge. I still wonder whether the fact that it was 4.00 p.m. had anything to do with the sudden finish!

An interesting bit of terminology I learned was that "Dressers" are not people who know how to dress in the latest fashions! While filming a video around the School a few days before I left I was asked by Dickie, a third former from The Rise, whether I would like to film a fight. When I asked where the fight was, he replied that he would gladly beat up some "Dressers" who happened to be crossing the Peter's fields at the time.

Most importantly though, I have learned that Peterites are individuals — they are not scared to give their opinions

AN OLD BOY REMEMBERS Gerald Vero joined St. Peter's in 1935. Recently he returned after being away for nearly half a century. These are his recollections....

So, here I am, back again after almost fifty years.

From the front anyway the place hasn't changed a bit!

Like most small boys going to boarding School for the first time I remember the misery of saying goodbye to my mother and father. I longed to call them back.

Someone hovered in the background and I was taken away to unpack and meet the rest of my dormitory — Hobson, Greenwood, Smythe, Graham, Milburn, Parker, Jefferson, Smith, Killick.... It was quite a jolt to read, for the first time, the names of some of my contemporaries in the Roll of Honour in the glass case beside the Chapel entrance.

Our Junior Common Room was somewhere on the first floor, on the right just before you got to Kenneth Rhodes' study. A gentle, kindly Housemaster if ever there was one. We crept past his door to reach our dormitory.

I remember the two oars over his fireplace and the not unpleasant aroma of pipe tobacco. I remember being caned for some silly escapade, moonlight bathing I think, in the freezing cold outdoor swimming pool. At the end of the Summer Term he organised a Swimming Display and we, the Swimming Team, did somersaults off the high board and dived through flaming hoops.

S. M. Toyne had been Head Master for many years.

He was a great personality, and under him the School had a good games reputation. I think we were one of the first of the Northern Public Schools to build squash courts.

Our academic record was not so good. Mrs. Toyne was charming and motherly and it was quite an event to be asked to tea on Sundays. Sally, their daughter, was a good squash player like her father.

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Early on Sunday morning, when it was your turn, you raced to Chapel, often in your pyjamas, to ring the bell for early service. One foot in the loop and then three sharp tugs before the bell began to sound. The rope is still there, the hole in the stonework polished smooth, just as it was then.

School Monitors had their own studies, House Monitors usually shared, studyites were three or four to a room. Everyone brought their own furniture or bought it from the previous occupier. None of it would have brought a bid at a Jumble Sale.

Is there still a Corps Band and does it still practise in the quadrangle behind the Assembly Hall? We buglers had to practice for half an hour before lunch on the verandah of the old wooden cricket pavilion.

The Assembly Hall is longer than I remember and now sticks out further into the tarmac quadrangle. This was a favourite pitch for lunchtime hockey. Sticks so worn down by the rough surface that the ball was continually being hooked through study and dormitory windows — l/6d a time, a fortune in those days.

K. G. Chilman, second Master to Mr. Ping at St. Olave's, now has a building named after him.

Immensely strong and with a good eye he would hit six after six during the Staff v 1st XI cricket match. The ball would soar over the pavilion, crash against the Chapel wall or bounce over the roofs. He was seldom in for long but it was exciting while it lasted.

In my day, the Library was a Gymnasium in the charge of Company Sergeant Major Puddick. He was a jovial, red-faced, retired Infantry Warrant Officer. He issued us with our scratchy, uncomfortable O.T.C. uniforms and showed us how to roll our puttees and polish our boots and buttons. Parades were a bore but battles over the playing fields firing blank ammunition and letting off thunder flashes were great fun. I enjoyed being a member of the Shooting VIII, competing against other Schools, firing live ammunition on the open ranges at Strensall Camp.

Then the War came and we Sixth Formers wore armbands on our uniform sleeves bearing the letters L.D.V. (Local Defence Volunteers; later to be re-named the Home Guard). We patrolled the river bank and the Ings, in the evening and at weekends, keeping an eye out for German parachutists. If the authorities thought this would keep us out of mischief, they were wrong. We used binoculars to spot the courting couples in the long grass and then would creep up and practise shouting out, "Halt, who goes there?". The screams of some of the girls. It's a wonder we weren't lynched by their boyfriends.

I joined my regiment in the middle of the Christmas Term and suddenly School days were over. Several years later in the Far East I was introduced to a tall young officer who had recently arrived from home. He smiled as we shook hands and said, "We've met before Sir, I was in the junior dormitory the night you came up to say goodbye".

of fruit, baked beans, chocolate etc. My mother used to make a mouthwatering "Yorkshire Parkin" — moist, dark gingerbread.

Discipline in the boarding houses was a hierarchical tyranny and we, the juniors, were at the bottom of the heap. Only School Monitors could cane, but everybody else could beat us, and they did. First our own dormitory Captain and his Deputy. Then the Middles, followed by the Studyites and finally the House Monitors. To get to assembly or prep you had to pass the Middles Common Room. Woe betide the boy who failed to knock and ask permission to pass. You were beaten, in turn, by each boy. There could be as many as twelve of them.

Pocket money. Some people got as much as £1 a term.

I was given half a guinea (ten shillings and sixpence), which was about average. One term, I remember blowing the whole lot on a secondhand ukelele. What did we buy with it? Penny bars (old pennies) of Cadbury's chocolate; hot, greasy sausage rolls.

The Tuck Shop, a small brick building, more attractive than the present one, could pack in about forty small boys at breaktime. It also stocked white bianco for our cricket boots and green bianco for our O.T.C. (Officer Training Corps) equipment, bottles of ink, shoe laces, notepaper and envelopes, and many other things besides.

In the Summer Term a popular punishment was having to dig plantains out of the cricket field, '100 plantains' being the unit of punishment. These were dug up with a special fork which could be bought from the Tuck Shop for 1 /6d (7 '/2p). One cardboard shoe box held one hundred plantains. Inevitably a Black Market sprung up and boxes were traded at 3d to 6d. Boxes that passed through many hands were 'watered' to freshen them up but this ploy was seldom successful and the Monitors were not fooled.

"It takes a thief to catch a thief."

I wonder, does each form still take its turn at dragging the horse roller up and down the 1st Eleven Cricket pitch at lunchtime?

The food wasn't bad. Long tables in the House dining room covered with heavy linen table cloths. Big bowls of sugar, other big bowls full of salt. If you mistook one for the other you could be very sick. At least one new boy would be caught. I still remember Sunday lunch — boiled beef and carrots, onions and onion sauce; large, greasy dumplings that stuck to the roof of your mouth.

"Dead baby" for 'afters', a grey, glutinous boiled pudding studded with currants and raisins, full of jam, which spurted out when you stuck in your spoon. Big enamel jugs of custard.

Fagging. A fag had to be in the dining room half an hour before teatime to make toast for his 'Monitor'. It had to be evenly browned and thickly covered in butter and jam. If your Monitor was in a good mood you got a piece too. Rugby boots had to be washed, blacked, dubbined and the laces scrubbed white. Cricket boots and pads were blanco-ed. The bath had to be just the right depth and temperature, the towel kept hot on the pipes.

You cleaned his shoes before you had your breakfast, swept out his study, removed the ashes from the fireplace and relaid the fire ready for lighting. Life in the Army was a canter after all this.

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POEMS AND PICTURES YORK LOVESONGS I (for Charlotte) One morning, when stepping outside was like walking into sunlight through a billion pink flowers, I spiked a girl's drink at breakfast with poems.

But she never noticed until she choked on orange-blossom.

XIV (for Isla) Summer comes and your dresses bloom pink, white, blue; and we sit breaking smoke-rings on our fingers.

XX (for Rachel) Coloured petals fall around us like the gentlest of reminders, so May will always smell of peaches (the cosmetic fruit in the glass) and the bright blossom will always mean this is the right time.

X They fined me a hundred pounds for the handful of daffodils I took from around the city walls, so don't say I never buy you flowers.

Antony Dunn "York Lovesongs" Skrentny Folder.

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A GRANDMOTHER'S LULLABY I hear music on the wind as the fly brushes the strings of the spider's web, across fields the dull thud of hawk-talons bursting through the sparrow's chest, and blood flowing to earth, laughter as the river rushes home to the sea, whose murmuring tides chase the sweet voice of the moon. I hear the song of a crowd of stars hiding love's lonely face, the rolling of silent wars between the dark clouds and the sun, the skies repeat the stories that candle-smoke whispers to the eaves.

Dawn breathes into morning, dusk speaks to the night, and clear through the air, where the trees bow down to me, I can hear the secrets of all men's hearts blowing through the leaves.

I have heard all things, my dear; heard all since the day the good Lord softly came to me and took my sight away.

Antony Dunn Antony was awarded the Crook Prize for Poetry for this poem.

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RAINFOREST IN SUBURBIA Balsa parrots and toucans — green, yellow, orange — chemical flames among the tropical leaves of suburbia's jungles.

Rainforest mist shrouding plants and birds in heady opiates of wet dog and net curtains.

The hunter hacks boldly through webs of foliage, and spills onto the road through his own front door. Stalking drunkenly across the street, elephant-gun in hand, he bursts into the pub and takes shots at a plastic gnome on the hardwood bar — "see, you damn monkeys — see what I've invented..."

The apes around the watering-hole turn sad brown eyes towards him, yawn, and vanish into the green and grey of the forest.

All except one one stays behind, laughing.

Antony Dunn

HER BIRDS Jellyfish float like bruises on the green shore-battered waves; the salt waste dries tongues to silence and tokens to ashes.

I scatter the red soft dust in clouds which shock the water pink as the sunrise.

The white birds drag themselves free of her wire, and stagger up into the sky and across to me, fly blindly into the wire along my shores; I see them coming, I see them tangled, bloody, crying out to be rescued. And I can not rescue them, can not send them back.

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REQUIEM TO A DAYDREAM I just can't run fast enough to get away from me and if I turn round quick enough it's still that familiar face I see.

It's hot again; that cool desire to find someone who'll be somebody I can try to love who'll always want to love the best of me: don't mind too much to hold it close to feel my hands get burned — these hands that were before so strong have now against me turned and I knew that I could be there I knew I was the one to see it all so certain I could be the one the one forever standing tall and I wonder as I fall did I ever really know at all.

I just can't climb high enough; I can still see the ground — and if I listen hard enough I can always hear that raining sound.

A fool was I to use my eyes to leave unblocked my ears: I heard the echoing emptiness there was nothing to stop that flood of tears; don't mind too much if you want to go I'd do the same too now that I know it hurts so much to love through pain and truth and I knew that I would be there.

I knew I was the one to be it all so certain I would be the one the one forever standing tall and I wonder as I fall did I ever really know at all?

Richard Jarmain

Sculptor: Sarah Durham.

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but he has retained considerable pace over fifteen metres (thanks Karl Schoeman!). He was excellent in the tight and provided much needed penetration from the lineout and in the loose. He worked hard at his lineout throwing having started the season weakly. The experience he will carry into next season will be invaluable. Angus Gowthorpe made the step up from U. 16 to 1st XV with little difficulty. His work in the tight was always given at 110%. He is aware of the need to build up his mobility and made significant strides in this direction as the season progressed. Again his work at the front of the lineout enabled us to gain vital possession for much of the season.

Andrew Ludiman locked the scrummage all season except for the Durham game when a bout of flu prevented him starting the game, even if he actually came on due to injury! A lack of mobility early in the season was outweighed by his excellent work at No. 4 in the lineout and in the tight. As he gained more confidence he became more valuable in the loose. With added strength and mobility he will provide a formidable opponent next year.

Nobody was under any illusions about the task that faced the 1st XV this season. With only four old colours available the side was always going to show inexperience and weakness in specific areas. However, the boys approached the job with genuine determination. This desire to make progress was emphasised by the presence of over forty players at the three days of pre-season training before the beginning of term in September. This time was tremendously valuable as it helped to give the whole squad a feeling of purpose. The trial games on the Saturday highlighted the possible strengths up front whilst showing the lack of depth outside the pack.

Bar the final game v's Bradford when Paul Carvosso was away at an interview the front row remained unchanged all season. Paul Carvosso showed just how much a sound technique and real courage make up for physical stature. Certainly with added weight, allied to his real ability, and determination in the loose Paul could make a success in club rugby. At hooker Gareth Silverwood was ever present. Not only has be bulked out 49

Barnard Castle and made the position his own showing courage both in attack and defence. Adam Waters played the whole season on the right wing showing as much genuine ball skill as anybody. He developed into a fine tackier and had quite outstanding games against Ampleforth and Durham. His infectious enthusiasm was never dampened. It is essential to have players in a side who give their all, win or lose, and still smile at the end.

At full-back Mike Forrester established himself early and was an essential organiser. His line kicking improved after early hitches and he became a most useful reliever of pressure. Simon Powell, Robert Crossley, Graham Wood, Paul Reavley, David Batty and Edward Savage also represented the side during the season.

I will leave the final words on the season to Mr. L. Bentley, Chairman, Youth Sub-Committee Yorkshire R.F.U., who said of the Bradford Grammar School game in a letter to the Headmaster, "May I say immediately that it was certainly not the one-sided game the score would suggest and I write merely to compliment your boys representing St. Peter's on their tremendous team spirit and individual skills.... Above all, perhaps, was the exemplary sportsmanship which was a credit to both Rugby Union and their School. To your captain, I think, goes special credit for his outstanding commitment and leadership which regardless of his undoubted ability must have been an invaluable asset to his side. It is relatively easy to skipper a winning team but it takes great character to bring out the best in a relatively young and inexperienced side.... I was, as an uncommitted spectator, proud of your team's sustained endeavour and commendable attitude." These words encapsulate my feelings on the season and explain why it was a real pleasure to be involved with coaching this side. Jason Morris and the vice-captain Paul Carvosso always behaved in an exemplary way giving tremendous support to both myself and the squad. For this I thank them. The squad of players made great progress during the season and at no point let their standards fall even in the most difficult circumstances. As young men great credit is due to them, and success cannot merely be measured by results themselves.

Robert Bell took over from Lawrence Patton as the other lock. His speed, commitment and extra weight provided us with a most valuable player in the loose, as well as a tower of strength in the tight. Robert will continue to bulk out for several years and could become a most accomplished club player should he wish to continue in this sport.

In the back row Jason Morris and Jason Mariyappan provided us with a real contrast in shapes and sizes! Jason Mariyappan quickly established himself as an excellent front jumper in the lineout and was only truly bettered in the game against Ampleforth. Jason was a 110% player whose non-stop tackling and support play will be sadly missed next year. Jason Morris captained the side in a most mature and inspirational manner. He provided our most dangerous player in attack with pace and real penetration. Despite his desire to become a back we all agreed that he was better off with the donkeys!! Paul Mulryne and Clifford Coggrave shared the other position in the back row. Both made significant progress especially in attack. With both back next season we will look for much from these players.

Behind the pack we had three scrum halves during the season. Sadly Alex Deighton, having returned from an ankle injury, broke his collar bone badly against Hymers and took no further part in the season. This was a critical blow as he had an excellent understanding with his back row, built up over the past five years. Mike Davies deputised well and made good progress early on.

However, the crushing defeat by Ampleforth following two house match semi-finals, and the physical battering against Worksop convinced us that a confidence building rest in the 2nd XV was needed for a boy who was yet to pass his sixteenth birthday. Simon Davies entered the fray and had a splendid end to his rugby career at St. Peter's. He was fearless in attack and tackled with real guts at the base of the scrummage and lineout. His absence for Oxbridge interviews for the Bradford game enabled Mike to return and have his best match of the season.

With the changes at scrum half it was not always easy for Jamie Rigby to establish an attacking pattern of play at fly-half. However, his cool head in defence was invaluable. As a pound for pound tackier I have personally never seen a more effective nor brave individual. Those who watched the Durham game will fully understand why Jamie was awarded his cap. In the centres Chris Richardson and Adrian Robinson were always in the firing line. It says much for their determination that despite playing the majority of the season in a defensive role they finished the season at Bradford playing their best attacking rugby. Certainly they gained much confidence from this and were ever present on tour setting up several quite excellent backs tries. I hope Adrian now has the confidence to push himself in club rugby and I am sure we will see C.J. showing us much more of his attacking flair next season. He has weathered the storm and emerged a much better player.

Sadly, apart from two early appearances, we were deprived of Chris Caldwell through injury until the final game of the season. Richard King also found his asthma too much and was advised not to play in the second half of the season. Dominic Bell came into the side against

Caps were awarded to: Jason Morris, Paul Carvosso, Jamie Rigby.

The Morris McGrath Trophy was won jointly by: Jason Mariyappan and Robert Bell.

Finally I would like to thank Messrs. Lawrence, Morris and Allen for their invaluable assistance, and also all the parents who watched and gave much positive encouragement and support throughout the season.

Players representing 1st XV: P. Carvosso*, G. Silverwood*, A. Gowthorpe*, A. Ludiman*, R. Bell*, J. Morris*, J. Mariyappan*, C. Coggrave*, P. Mulryne*, A. Deighton, M. Davies, S. Davies, J. Rigby*, C. Richardson*, A. Robinson*, D. Bell*, A. Waters*, M. Forrester*, C. Caldwell, R. King, R. Crossley, D. Batty, E. Savage, L. Patton, S. Powell, P. Reavley.

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1st XV Results 1990 Sixth Form College Retiring Captain's XV Leeds Grammar School Silcoates Barnard Castle School Hymers College Denstone College Ampleforth College Worksop College Pocklington School Durham School Ashville College Bradford Grammar School

Home Home Home Away Away Home Home Away Away Home Home Away Away

Lost Draw Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost

The following players represented the 2nd XV: A. Dean (Captain), E. Savage, A. Killip, P. Reavley, C. Barlow, G. Walker, L. Patton, J. Fieldsend, G. Wood, P. Mulryne, C. Coggrave, C. Martin, S. Davies, M. Davies, D. Batty, R. Crossley, J. Higginson, S. Powell, O. Gardner, J. Ward, M. Ludiman, J. Swallow.

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3rd XV Played: 12

Won: 3

Lost: 9

Despite the strengthened team resulting from the incorporation of the Under 16 squad into the senior teams, the 3rd XV had a difficult season against a mixture of Under 16 and true 3rd XV opposition.

The best performance was in beating Worksop's 3rd XV by 26—6. Heavy losses in other matches showed deficiencies in physique and team cohesion.

Individuals who played regularly with distinction include Charles Pugh, Matthew Pittman and Anthony Curtis.

G. Lawrence

2nd XV The season got off to a poor start when our rather makeshift side came up against a strong Yarm 1st XV. In the end we did well to hold the score to 0—15. Against a well-organised, but not particularly gifted Leeds side we again failed to impress and were well beaten. Silcoates (away) marked the turnaround for the 2nd XV. A spirited performance was given by all against a very powerful, efficient side and the scoreline did not do our courageous efforts justice. Against Barnard Castle, in appalling weather conditions the side's determination for success was rewarded. We spent the entire match in their half, but despite relentless forward pressure only managed to score fifteen points. Our good form continued against Hymers at home and in a free-flowing match 16—16 was a fair result. Against Denstone the pack continued to show good control in the set-piece play, and for the first time started to run directly at the opposition, keeping the ball alive and setting up good second phase ball for the backs.

A convincing victory (31—3) was well deserved. Against Ampleforth we did not play to our strengths and spent the first two thirds of the game defending. When we did start to attack the blind side with back row moves and swift forward support we scored two fine tries in quick succession and ended up dictating the play. Alas it was too late and the side was left to reflect on what might have been.

U.15 COLTS The Under 15 Colts had a season of mixed fortunes winning just over half their matches. The squad contained talent but they rarely played to their full potential as a team largely due to slow decision making and the unwillingness to release the ball early when support was available. When they did, the quality of the rugby was of a high order as was evidenced in the match at Worksop.

The other major limitation of the squad was the arrogance of some leading players who believed they were a lot better than they were which occasionally resulted in complacency. When this happened against Durham, a side who clearly were highly motivated, the defeat was fully warranted.

The season opened with two undistinguished wins against Silcoates and Barnard Castle which was followed by much sterner opposition at Hull. Hymers, thirty-six points up midway through the second half, were playing fast, strong running rugby whilst the School were slow to the break down and weak in the tackle; however, in the last quarter of the game a more determined approach produced two good tries and salvaged some pride.

In the first match after half-term at Ampleforth, the School did well to hold the opposition to 14-4 playing upfield in the first half. Unfortunately, wasted possession in the second half did not produce the territorial advantage expected and instead of the margin being closed the reverse took place. Despite this defeat, there was greater cohesion in some of the team play and this was rewarded the following week at Worksop when the backs for once were able to get good early ball to run in some fine tries.

The match against Pocklington was the most exciting of the season. The visitors led 18-6 just after half-time

The substantial victory at Worksop led to complacency in the preparation for the Pocklington match and against a poor side we produced our worst performance of the season to lose 9—13. Durham at home provided good opposition and we lost in a close encounter.

The highlight of the season was against Ashville when everything we had practised worked like a dream and unselfish fifteen man rugby brought an outstanding seventy point victory. The final match was against Bradford Grammar away and it was a measure of the side's progress that we were only narrowly defeated having played by far the better rugby.

The results throughout the season showed that we were a match for all of our opponents. The squad was enthusiastic, playing and practising in the right spirit and it was only our slight lack of confidence and occasional mental indiscipline that prevented greater success.

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but three superb penalties by Gordon Gibb and a try by Michael Hunter put the School ahead with minutes to go.

However, Pocklington with the fastest man on the field, scoring with the final move of the game, snatched victory.

Whilst this encounter had a lot to commend it, the following game against Durham was the nadir of the season. The final match of the term at Ashville proved too one sided, for a much stiffer test would have been to the team's advantage.

After Christmas, only the return game against Ashville was played due to cancellations caused by the weather.

There was undoubtedly considerable talent in the side but those in key positions were not always motivated to work hard for victory.

Higher standards will only be achieved with greater maturity, effort and determination.

Edward Backhouse came into the squad and filled the problem position of full-back with good positional sense and a strong boot. The team spirit, sound forward platform and flair in running the ball in attack were the key areas in an enjoyable season. Well done to you all.

Team from: A. Fotherby (Captain), M. Abbey, E. Backhouse, R. Bailey, F. Black, R. Clark, S. Clegg, J. Forde, D. Gair, A. Hall, R. Inns, D. Lyons, S. Mcllhinney, R. Maddison, R. Pugh, C. Pyne, P. Ravailhe, A. Roy, J. Sleight, N. Strong and D. Sumpton. ^?. G. Shread Results: Barnard Castle Hymers College Ampleforth College Worksop College Pocklington School Durham School Fyling Hall School

Team selected from: T. Duncan (Capt.), T. Cockcroft (V-Capt.), P. Taylor, G. Gibb, N. Middleton, S. Clegg, J. Beaufoy, N. McBride, N. Walker, R. Pugh, A. Rigby, M. Inness, R. Silverwood, D. Greeves, R. Clark, S. Parry, M. Hunter, B. Councell.

Results: Silcoates School Barnard Castle School Hymers College Ampleforth College Worksop College Pocklington School Durham School Ashville College Ashville College

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Under 14A XV

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As the results show, this was a very good season despite the lack of any Easter Term fixtures, due to the weather, as notable oppositions were unplayed — Bradford Grammar and Woodhouse Grove — which would have put an unbeaten season into greater perspective. However, unbeaten they were, and such a record happens all too rarely these days and many congratulations must go to all the players involved.

An average of seven tries a match with all but two of the regular players scoring and with so few points conceded all goes to show the strength, in depth, in all departments of the game. A successful ex-Olavite group were splendidly topped up with five players from local Prep. Schools so that each position was filled with a player of sound individual skill who has much potential for the future.

In the opening match against Silcoates each three quarter scored but perhaps Jonathan Noble's try exemplified the team effort when a lineout some thirtyfive yards out was won by us and each back passed just before being tackled for Noble to run some fifteen metres to just touch down as he was tackled; the timing of passes and the determination shown by Jonathan was to become a hallmark of our play. As we got used to Ben Oakley he would not be denied and a No. 8 pick up from the halfway line saw some splendid interpassing with blind side wing forward Lee O'Keefe for Oakley to score — another recurring element in the progress of the team's performances.

Against Barnard Castle in the next game a well worked back passing move with the full-back Neil Forshaw entering the line on the burst, to score himself, exemplified our ability to counter attack so confidently

Under 15B XV Excluding the fixture against Fyling Hall School, which turned into a mixed A and B match, the season's record was three wins and four defeats. The team developed by experimenting with twenty-one different players in a number of positions! However, the side eventually settled and the strengths began to show.

The forwards paved the way with some strong scrummaging work, especially when one considers their lack of bulk in the front row. The two David's (Gair and Lyons) in the second row developed throughout the season. There was also a strong partnership in the back row with the craft of Christopher Pyne, the mauling of Amit Roy and the all round skills of Selwyn Mcllhinney.

Nicholas Strong and the Captain Andrew Fotherby played well at half-back together.

In the backs there was a sound blend of strength, size and pace. Fraser Black and Steven Clegg were solid in midfield and worked well together. The try scoring potential lay out on the wings with Phillipe Ravailhe's elusive running and Richard Maddison's speed and power.

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and another burst of speed later on by Nicholas Wight saw an individual try of some sixty yards as he took the loose ball and sprinted through tackles almost all the length of the field to score against Hymers. The score that stuck out in my mind came from the captain, Matthew Dodgson, a fly-half of unequalled ability and potential in my opinion, who from a scrum just inside the opposition's twenty-two sold two of the most perfect side-steps to score under the posts, untouched despite some eight players trying their hardest to grab hold of him.

Against Ampleforth scoring some five tries in the first twenty minutes stifled the counter-attack that they are so noted for, but perhaps this game's most memorable score came from Simon Rivis from a pivot penalty involving Richard Brown who took on nearly all the opposition's pack to make the ball available, for it to be passed down the line through four forwards' pairs of hands and then all the backs with the outside centre scoring in the corner.

Our next game against Worksop was played in very wet conditions and to suit the weather the forwards rose to the occasion, visibly enjoying the close encounters that the conditions dictated. Prop Michael Helme opened the scoring with a robust effort after a mixed backs and forwards ruck, bursting through tackles to score in the corner after the kick-off had been fumbled and the pursuing players relished the opportunity to bruise their way forward. Second row Michael Catling and back row Lee O'Keefe put in crunching tackles with splendid regularity to stifle any movement forward by the opposition and the win was secured by their valiant efforts.

Our opening score in the opening minutes of the game against Pocklington showed further proof, if any was needed, of the maturity in unselfishness by Oakley after a No. 8 pick up just inside the opposition's twenty-two, when he drove into two players to make the ball available for the scrum-half, Tom Archer — though he himself showed individual skill in side-stepping opposition to score under the posts. Some thirty-six points later, and without a personal score, Oakley again unselfishly cleaned up a ruck, took the ball on but committed opposition players for second row James Hiles to get on the score sheet — at the expense of himself perhaps — the hallmark of real potential in No.8 Ben Oakley, hardly seen in someone of his age.

I am sure the way ahead will have its setbacks, the future looks extremely promising as the forwards and the backs, under their leadership, looked the most complete and balanced units I have seen here at School and so long as they wear their success well they all look to be a formidable force for the future.

J. A. Owen-Barnett Results: Silcoates Barnard Castle Hymers College Ampleforth Worksop College Pocklington Durham School Ashville College

Home Away Home Home Home Away Away Home

Won Won Won Won Won Won Won Won

42- 6 2 8 -- 0 2 6 - -10 3 6 -- 7 2 2 -- 0 4 6 -- 0 2 0 -- 8 4 2 -- 0

U.14 B XV Played: 9 Won: 1 Lost: 2 Drawn: 0 For: 188 Against: 52 This year's U.14 B XV squad proved itself to be talented and able to score points. In only four matches were points scored against them.

Throughout the season Barefoot and Whalley propped with determination and talent, and demonstrated good mobility. Mosby cheerfully offered a reliable back-up service. At hooker, Lakin was fleet of foot and effective in defence. The second row combination of Cox and Milne became quite formidable, offering strength and power in the scrum, and more determination than height at the lineout. In the back row Bradley and Williams covered much ground and attacked and defended with guts. Bradley's skills with the boot were invaluable, the highlight of his season being the drop-kicked conversion from the touchline against Pocklington. The pack was led by Pitt, at No.8, whose vision and skill were an example to the entire unit.

From the scrum-half position Metcalfe captained the team courteously and by example, always giving 100%.

Dowds, at stand-off, had a good season developing both handling and kicking skills, and had to work hard not to lose his place to the up-and-coming Brierley. In the centre, Drysdale and Atkinson became a formidable team creating many scoring chances with their speed and handling.

Leveson, Midhage, Falconer, Clark and Erkut willingly took turns to fill the wing positions, each able to attack with certain speed and defend stoutly. Marlow found himself out of position at the start of the season at fullback, but swiftly learned to fulfill the role with great ability in every respect. With eight tries he was this year's top scorer.

Many thanks to all those who played this season and also to Mr. John Owen-Barnett for his invaluable advice and assistance.

M. J. Grant

Ben made up for not scoring in the next game against Durham by getting three of the five tries we scored, often by sheer individual drive and determination, ensuring a win we might not otherwise have got.

In our last game against Ashville, the constant backing up by David Todd was rewarded with an early try, and penetrating running by flying-wing Scott Bradley who was also our very successful goal kicker, set the seal on a most rewarding term and season, as it turned out, due to the weather.

It is not easy to pick out individuals who deserve particular mention as all of them played some exceptional rugby at one time or another through the season. But Ben Oakley and the captain Matthew Dodgson showed themselves to be, in my opinion, a couple of the best allround players we have had here for some time. Though 53

HOCKEY The latest season was distinctly one of two parts. In the early weeks of term the weather allowed practices to occur and all three teams began to settle and to develop.

Much was promised by all team players and the quality of the hockey shown by everyone in the club was excellent. It was very pleasing to see that as injuries and illness took their toll any player who was selected for a team more than did justice to that eleven. The standard of hockey played by non-team players as well was as high as I can remember and many will, I hope, grace club sides when they leave.

Then came the snow and the rain and hockey stopped for over two weeks and the momentum was lost. After the enforced break the hockey was again of a very high standard but just failed to reach the heights which the early season had promised and of which it was capable.

The First Eleven under the leadership of John Higginson was, I think, a vintage side. There was no position in which weakness was displayed and both individually and as a team they played a level of schoolboy hockey of which they have every right to be proud. In defence they were solid and calm, in attack innovative, exciting and most importantly, hungry for goals, and in the mid-field they dominated by hard work and a high level of skill and support. What to me was even more important was that by their attitude to the game they brought credit to School hockey, and more important to themselves as sportsmen.

The Second Eleven had a sadly curtailed fixture list because of the weather but every player who was selected played with a quality of hockey and attitude which was most commendable. Many players in the seconds would have been regular members of many First Elevens and many who did not have an opportunity to represent the School would have done so in previous years. Perhaps the result of which they should be most proud is the draw against Hall Cross School, Doncaster.

Colts Elevens continue to develop year by year and this year was no exception. The steady improvement in senior hockey in the School stems from the hard work done with the Colts. It is here that the ground work is laid and I was much impressed by the skill and determination of those who played for the team. They too should have most pride in a draw, the one against Worksop College, again no mean feat. I look forward to the players from the Colts joining the senior players who return.

My thanks to all who played for any teams, to those who just played for fun and particularly to John Higginson and my colleagues who worked so hard.

Results: First Eleven Barnard Castle School Pocklington School Worksop College Ashville College Hall Cross School Easingwold School Pandas H.C. Styx H.C. Retiring Captain's XI Wellensyans Retiring Captain's XI

Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home

Won Drawn Won Won Lost Won Lost Lost Drawn Won Lost

2--0 2--2 2--1 7--0 1--4 8--2 2--3 0--3 2--2 3- -2 3- -4

Second Eleven Barnard Castle School Worksop College Hall Cross School Pandas H.C. Q.E.G.S.

Home Home Home Won Away

Drawn Won Drawn Home Lost

0--0 1--0 2--2 3- -1 1--4

Colts Eleven Worksop College Barnard Castle Pocklington School

Home Home Away

Drawn Drawn Won

3- -3 3- -3 3- -2

The Stick was awarded to John Higginson.

The Burn Trophy was awarded to John Sutcliffe.

The following represented the First Eleven: J. D. G. Higginson*, T. W. Brassington, C. M. Caldwell*, A. C. Deighton, M. P. Forrester*, S. R. Forsyth*, I. Ghosh, S. J. Gildener, G. N. Kay, M. J. Mitchell*, J. S. Powell*, C. D. Pugh*, G. Silverwood, J. D. Sutcliffe*, A. L. Waters*.

Caps were awarded to J. D. G. Higginson and A. L. Waters.

The following represented the Second Eleven: R. A. Bell, A. C. Deighton, I. Ghosh, S. J. Gildener, R. J. Hiles, R. W. Hudson, G. N. Kay, J. Mariyappan, T. J. Mcllhinney, A. C. Moxon, B. R. Neary, T. Reid, R. J. Stout, M. J. G. Williams.

The following represented the Colts Eleven: A. S. Ashworth, J. Ballantyne, J. R. Brooks, B. C. Butler, M. J. Davies, T. G. Davies, A. J. Foster, S. Khanna, A. J. Killip, M. G. Kirk, M. A. Lang, M. J. J. Layram, M. D. Ludiman, D. Millen, H. I. Shedden, J. E. Swallow, M. G. Todd, J. Ward.

R. H. Hubbard

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SQUASH 1st V

Kesults: Christmas Term Old Peterites Bradford G.S. Ampleforth Pocklington Leeds G.S. Silcoates Worksop Woodhouse Grove Ashville Pocklington Leeds G.S.

In a season which promised so much, the team's performance was slightly disappointing. Although we only lost to two School sides (Leeds G.S. and Durham) we never actually won a match 5-0. That we won as many matches as we did was due to the consistency of the top three players, all of whom won more than 70% of their matches and were awarded colours. Rugby and hockey commitments once again affected team selection causing an unusually high number of changes this year, and it was unfortunate that we never seemed to strike top form together. However, improvements were made — a spirited fight against Leeds in the Dunlop National Schools Tournament after a disastrous away performance is the most obvious example.

James Harding had a second full season at first string and played in a more experienced manner, the highlight of the year being the defeat of the Leeds No.l. Oliver Gardner played throughout the season at No.2 and was by far the most improved player, if a little chatty during practice. His concentration and determination in matches was unquestionable and in fact he only lost to one opponent. James Stephenson played at No.3 and once again exploited his opponents with his slow game of lobs and drops. His record is also very impressive, each of his ten victories being 3-0. At the start of the season, John Higginson was an automatic choice for fourth string, but after last year's consistency he lacked confidence in his game. Richard Pipes was the first choice No.5, but illness accounted for the first half of his season. Perhaps the player with most potential, it was disappointing to see him lose last year's self-discipline. Marc Mitchell played seven matches and was very effective before Christmas. He was remarkably calm on court which paid off in his close, exciting game at Pocklington. Towards the end of the season David Baldry played three matches. If he is keen to play squash next year, I am sure he will be very effective.

2—3 Lost 4-1 Won Won 3-2 4—1 Won 0-5 Lost Cancelled Cancelled Won 3-2 Cancelled Won 3—2 /National 1-4 11 Schools Lost \Tournament

Easter Term Won 4—1 Ampleforth Lost 2-3 Durham Won 3-2 Woodhouse Grove Cancelled Leeds G.S. Pocklington Won 3—2 Cancelled Oakham Cancelled Harrogate G.S. Won 4—0 All Saint's (teacher training college^1 Played: 13 Won: 9 Lost: 4 Personal performances: Played Won James Harding 13 9 Oliver Gardner 13 11 James Stephenson 13 10 John Higginson 7 0 Richard Pipes 5 2 Marc Mitchell 7 3 David Baldry 3 1 Simon Powell 2 0 Michael Lang 1 0

Lost 4 2 3 7 3 4 2 2 1

% 70 85 77 0 40 43 33 0 0

Individual competition — for the Burdass Trophy.

Final: James Harding beat Oliver Gardner.

9 - 3 , 10—8, 6—9, 7 - 9 , 9—2 Losing semi-finalists: David Baldry and James Stephenson.

Many thanks are due to the staff who have helped with the squash this year: Mr. Harvey, Mr. Newman, Mrs. Shepherd and especially Mr. Boardman who set aside so much of his time for the 1 st team. He also tried to organise a tour this year, but it proved impossible. A thank you as well to James Stephenson who so generously helped me coach the Olavites. Finally, I hope that everyone enjoyed their squash this year, and continues to do so, whether at St. Peter's or beyond.

James Harding

U.14 V The U.14's had a good first season in the senior School, winning their matches against Pocklington and Ashville. The team consisted of Michael Catling (1), Matthew Dodgson (2), Scott Bradley (3), Ben Oakley (4), David Todd (5) and Tom Archer (6). They suffered from the fact that few Schools on the St. Peter's games circuit seem willing to field an U. 14 team. However, all members of the squad trained hard and played with enthusiasm and commitment. They have laid a good foundation upon which to build further progress.

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6.3.91. v Woodhouse Grove (Away) 1st VIII St. Peter's 13 pts Woodhouse Grove 28 pts U.15 Woodhouse Grove 13 pts St. Peter's 23 pts

CROSS-COUNTRY The First VIII had yet another difficult season with the fitness and availability of our runners being the main problem. Nevertheless the team ran with devotion and was always high-spirited, despite the only win coming once again against Woodhouse Grove by 13-28 points.

The York Schools' Cross-Country Championships saw all our runners in the Over 17 category coming inside the first ten places. They were Richard Shaw, Bruce Neary, Tim Cordier, Ali Marks, Dave Baldry, Dominic Todd and Anthony Curtis. In the Under 17 race Gordon Gibb came a very commendable sixth place. The following also represented the School at the 32nd Midland and Northern Independent Schools' Cross-Country Championships: Richard Shaw, Andy Berrington, Anthony Curtis, Nigel Johnson, Ali Marks and Simon Davies. Out of a total of thirty-one teams which were entered we came a creditable twenty-first.

The Under 15 team won two matches out of three with quite a promising team for years to come. Gordon Gibb captained the side and proved to be their best runner.

Despite the disappointing results in the School matches, everyone enjoyed the season and ran their best in both teams.

13.3.91. v Barnard Castle (Home) 1st VIII Barnard Castle St. Peter's U.15 St. Peter's Barnard Castle

Seniors 1. R. Shaw (Q) 22m49s l. Queen's 42pts 2. B. Neary 2. The Grove 104pts (G) 3. N. Johnson 3. The Rise 115pts (Q) 4. School 4. T. Cordier 117pts (Q) 5. A. Berrington (Q) 5. The Manor 145pts 6. Clifton 177pts 6. J. Doncaster• ( G ) 7. Temple 246pts 7. J. Lacy-Colson(C) 8. D. Todd (Q) 9. A. Curtis (G) 10. J. Taylor (S) Juniors 1. G. Gibb 2. M. Lane 3. N. Strong 4. M. Dodgsori' 5. A. Martin 6. N. Forshaw 7. M. Catling 8. N. McBride 9. C. Beckett 10. T. Williams

The following represented the First Team: A. R. T. Marks, A. G. Curtis, S. G. Davies, A. P. Berrington, R. G. Shaw, T. J. Cordier, D. H. Baldry, D. A. Todd, N. C. Johnson, M. A. Bean, B. R. Neary, A. M. R. Wallis.

The following represented the U.15 Team: G. S. Gibb, M. Lane, M. C. Dodgson, N. Forshaw, N. S. Middleton, D. P. Greeves, R. Nadian, M. J. Catling, G. A. Williams, T. P. Williams, O. T. W. Milne, E. G. Drysdale, N. J. Ogden, T. J. Archer, N. W. W. Strong, A. G. R. Martin.

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28 pts 55 pts 34 47 35 45

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INTER-HOUSE CROSS-COUNTRY

Colours were awarded to the following: Simon Davies, Tim Cordier, Dominic Todd and Nigel Johnson, and re-awarded to Ali Marks (Captain), Anthony Curtis, Andy Berrington and Richard Shaw.

Results: 26.1.91. v Durham (Away) 1st VIII Durham St. Peter's 6.2.91. v' Silcoates (Home) 1st VIII Silcoates St. Peter's U.15 St. Peter's Silcoates 23.2.91. v Pocklington (Home) 1st VIII Pocklington St. Peter's

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School 36.9pts Queen's 37.9pts The Manor43.2pts The Grove 45.8pts The Rise 64.7pts Clifton 67. Opts 92.4pts Temple

ATHLETICS Inter-House Results

INTER-HOUSE SWIMMING Under 14 Age Group Individual Medley M. Clarke 50 yds Backstroke L. Hoggard 50 yds Breaststroke O. Marlow C. Atkinson 50 yds Butterfly M. Clarke 50 yds Freestyle Clifton Medley Relay The Manor Freestyle Relay Under 15 Age Group Individual Medley Cockcroft 50 yds Backstroke McBride 50 yds Breaststroke Councell 50 yds Butterfly Councell 50 yds Freestyle Silverwood Medley Relay Clifton Freestyle Relay Clifton Under 16 Age Group Individual Medley J. Lacy-Colson 50 yds Backstroke J. Swallow 50 yds Breaststroke J. Ward 50 yds Butterfly M. Ludiman 50 yds Freestyle S. Shepherd Medley Relay Temple Freestyle Relay Temple Girls Open Age Group Swallow 50 yds Backstroke Highet 50 yds Breaststroke Hoggard 50 yds Butterfly Hoggard 50 yds Freestyle Dronfield Medley Relay Queen's Freestyle Relay Senior Age Group Individual Medley B. Butler 100 yds Backstroke P. Mulryne 50 yds Backstroke L. Patton 100 yds Breaststroke J. Hague 50 yds Breaststroke A. Alton 50 yds Butterfly J. Meaden 100 yds Freestyle B. Butler 50 yds Freestyle D. Baldry Medley Relay Queen's Freestyle Relay Queen's Inter-House Standards Cup 1. School House 8.04 average 2. The Rise 7.81 average 3. Clifton House 6.98 average 4. The Manor 6.69 average 5. Queen's House 6.51 average 6. Temple House 6.30 average 7. The Grove 5.58 average Inter-House Gala Results 1. School House 85pts 2. The Rise 83pts 3. Clifton House 75pts 4. Queen's House 63pts 5. = The Manor 46pts 5. = Temple House 46pts 7. The Grove 30pts Girls Winners: Queen's House * School Record

(R) 73.1s (T) 34.1s (C) 34.2s (M) 32.2s (R) 28.6s 60.8s* 53.7s

Junior Age Group: B. Oakley lOOmts S. Rivis 200mts M. Dodgson 400mts M. Dodgson 800mts N. Forshaw 1,500mts High Jump Long Jump Discus Shot Putt Javelin Relay

(R) 82.6s (C) 33.0s (C) 32.8s* (C) 33.3s (R) 26.9s 58.5s 50.1s

Intermediate Age Group: lOOmts J. Ward 200mts M. Hunter 400mts M. Lane 800mts M. Lane l,500mts G. Gibb 3,00mts A. Wallis

(C) 75.3s (S) 32.9s (R) 35.4s (T) 31.4s (T) 26.1s 56.3s* 49.6s

High Jump Long Jump Discus Shot Putt Javelin Relay

(Q) 35.2s (G) 37.5s (T) 33.2s (T) 29.8s 65.7s 57.6s

M. Lang M. Inness M. Ludiman D. Greeves J. Ward The Rise

Senior Age Group: lOOmts J. Morris 200mts J. Morris 400mts T. Reid 800mts J. Mariyappan 1,500mts R. Shaw 3,000mts R. Shaw

(G) 71.8s (Q) 81.6s (Q) 31.5s (Q) 80.2s (Q) 33.1s (S) 30.8s (G) 63.3s (Q) 26.7s 55.3s 48.3; per per per per per per per

B. Oakley N. Wight R. Brown B. Oakley S. Bradley Manor

High Jump Long Jump Discus Shot Putt Javelin Relay

A. Waters R. King S. Roberts S. Roberts P. Mulryne Queen's

(M) (S) (M) (M) (M)

12.2s 27.3s 60.0s 2m 26s 5m 17s

(M) (C) (R) (M) (Q

lmt 68cms* 5mts 15cms 27mts 22cms 9mts 78cms 32mts 95cms 52.8s

(R) (C) (S) (S) (S) (M)

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(S) (Q) (T) (S) (R)

lmt 55cms 5mts 29cms 27mts 80cms 9mts 78cms 36mts 40cms 49.6s

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(R) (Q) (Q) (S) (Q) (M) (M) (Q)

lmt 60cms 5mts 69cms 31mts 30cms llmts 4cms 38mts 85cms 48.5s

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The Grove

Shield 81 pts 80 pts 71'/2 pts 68 pts 64 pts 28 Vi pts 25 pts

A handful of athletes went on to represent the District after the York Schools' Trials; special mention should go to Paul Mulryne, Emma Copley and Ben Oakley who represented the County in the North-East's annual InterCounty Championships. On winning his event there, Ben was selected to take part in the high jump at the Schoo' ' National Track and Field Championships.

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CRICKET Retrospect Sadly the bowling did not come up to our expectations.

One reason for this was the unusually high number of injuries. In a team whose enthusiasm for practice during the winter was admirable, back injuries affected several players and the sports centre floor has much to answer for. Andrew Ludiman and Tim Davies were two opening bowlers who suffered most and were unable to do themselves justice. Both have much to offer and will, I hope, have more luck next year. Once he had recovered from his back problems, Richard Musgrave was the most reliable bowler. He perhaps lacked the life to be really effective, but he swung the ball and did a good job for the team. Michael Forrester had a disappointing season with the ball. He was not able to find a consistent line and length and hard as he tried, he had little success. Bruce Neary started the season well. He bowled a nagging length and it was good to see him recover from some excessively severe treatment in a club match and bowl well at the festival. In a team with perhaps a surfeit of medium pacers, Oliver Gardner, Tom Reid and Charles Roberts all bowled quite well on occasions. Early in the season the spin bowling was left to Dominic Bundy. He tried very hard, but never bowled his leg-spinners as steadily as in the previous season. He was not helped by the cold weather and the slow pitches. Midway through the season Naithan McBride joined the team and his off-spinners gave us welcome variety. He worked hard to improve his action and in the last few matches he showed that he could become a good spin-bowler.

The 1991 season will probably be remembered for being the coldest for many years. It is a most unusual state of affairs when the best weather of the term was at our away match at Bradford G.S. in April. Fortunately the sun put in a long overdue appearance at the festival. From a cricket point of view the season was rather frustrating with too many drawn matches. This was not the result of a defensive attitude. The team had batting in depth, but disappointed in run chases and the bowling was not strong enough to bowl a team out on a good pitch. It was, however, a happy and workmanlike team and great credit must go to the captain, Jamie Rigby, and the vice-captain, Michael Forrester. Together they did an excellent job.

One of the more disappointing aspects of the season was the attitude of some of the club teams that visited us. It did seem at times that the interests of the boys' cricket was not high on the list of priorities.

All the first five batsmen from 1990 were still at School. Paul Carvosso and James Harding worked hard at their game, but neither had the success that they — and I — had hoped for. Defensively very sound, Paul found it difficult to develop his stroke-play and often batted too slowly for the team's cause. James looked likely to make a big score all season, but it never really happened. His 66 at Cranleigh was his only half-century in the 1st XI, a poor reward for a dedicated and enthusiastic team man.

Jamie Rigby had problems with his eyes and had to revert to wearing glasses. After a fine 83 in the first match, he lost confidence and never really did himself justice.

Michael Forrester had a very good season. In the early matches a lack of patience let him down, but later he applied himself more carefully and he finished the term in prime form, making centuries against Ampleforth and Pocklington. It was good to see him achieving his potential in his last few weeks at School. Another to have a good season was Michael Davies, next season's captain. He had clearly learned a lot from his first year in the XI and he played a number of impressive innings. His century at Bradford G.S. on a difficult pitch was a fine performance.

In pre-season practice Richard Hudson earned a chance at No.6, but in a difficult position his approach was too loose and casual. His place was taken by Charles Roberts, who played some promising innings without making a big score. Oliver Gardner was a valuable member of the middle order. I hope that his natural ability to hit the ball will not be sacrificed in his laudable attempt to improve his technique. Bruce Neary showed in two fine innings that he is a powerful striker of the ball, but there is still work to be done on his basic technique before next season.

Richard Musgrave has lots of ability and could bat high in the order, but if he is to do so he will have to play with more determination and application. In his few innings Naithan McBride showed considerable promise and a good temperament. Dominic Bundy remains a confident and under-rated (he says) No. 11; after being top scorer in our disastrous innings against the Emus Club, he may be right.

The fielding was better than for several years. The close catching was not tested too much but the out-fielding was good apart from a short spell mid-season. The Fielding Cup was awarded to the excellent Michael Davies, but the general standard was much improved.

The Inter-House competitions produced unexpected winners. The Senior Cup was won by Grove. With few School team players they beat the favourites Queen's in the semi-final and Temple in a closely fought final. The Rise won the Junior Cup, largely thanks to some fine allround cricket from Toby Cockcroft.

Finally a number of thank you's. To Keith Mohan, who has continued to make every effort to improve the technique of players throughout the School. To Paddy Stephen, whose help during the term and especially at the festival was invaluable. To the head-groundsman, Robin Scarce and his staff. In his first year, Robin worked very hard and did a first-class job. To Bruce Rigby and the other members of the Social Committee for their continued help and encouragement. To our many supporters; some of them like Mr. and Mrs. Davies have covered huge distances to watch our matches. It was a particular pleasure on the Monday of the Cranleigh Festival to have six sets of our parents watching us. Finally to the Cranleigh staff, Clem Williams and Neil Bennett, who did so much to make the festival a success.

D. Kirby

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Bowling

1st XI selected from: J. D. Rigby (Captain) 1989-90-9It*, M. P. Forrester (Vice-Captain) 1989-90-911"*, P. F. Carvosso 1990-91*, M. J. Davies 1990-91*, G. J. Harding 1990-91*, B. R. Neary 1991*, D. Bundy 1990-91*, O. Gardner 1991*, R. F. T. Musgrave 1991*, N. P. R. McBride 1991, C. D. H. Roberts.

Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Average 34 453 21 21.57 R. F. T. Musgravel47 T. Reid 54 12 206 9 22.89 A. M. W. Ludiman 37 7 6 24.83 149 264 O. Gardner 71.3 15 9 29.33 22 B. R. Neary 128 561 19 29.53 C. D. H. Roberts 37.4 6 160 5 32.00 M. J. Davies 65.3 6 282 8 35.25 21 427 12 35.58 D. Bundy 106 N. P. R. McBride 67 8 314 8 39.25 M. P. Forrester 161 22 572 13 44.00

t — Cap, * — Colours.

2nd XI The 2nd Xl's final tally of two matches won, two lost and nine drawn may give the wrong impression of some tedious cricket. This certainly was not the case and many of the drawn games were exciting matches when the opposition failed to dismiss us or we thern only in the final over. The drawn games against Ampleforth and Pocklington produced particularly exhilarating conclusions. Every player made his contribution this season, though particularly noteworthy were the unbeaten 108 and 58 of Robert Crossley and John Belton respectively against Yarm, and Richard Stout's unbeaten 74 against Bradford. Tim Davies' bowling was consistently accurate, with fine support from Andrew Wildblood, Andrew Moxon, Andrew Ludiman and Hugh Shedden. Finally a special mention for Tom Reid whose vigorous and skilful batting and bowling have been the hallmark of a fine captain who has led from the front.

Also bowled: F. J. Black 14-0-90-1; P. F. Carvosso 1-0-4-1; T. G. Davies 20-2-58-2; G. J. Harding 3-0-17-1.

Results: ST. PETER'S v YORKSHIRE GENTLEMEN C.C. Played at home on Sunday, 21st April.

Result: Lost.

St. Peter's 181-8 dec. (J. D. Rigby 83, M. J. Davies 35, S. Edwards 5-35) Yorkshire Gents 184-5 (E. Stephenson 88 not out, R. Brewster 35) ST. PETER'S v BRADFORD G.S. Played away on Saturday, 27th April.

Result: Drawn.

St. Peter's 242-7 dec. (M. J. Davies 101 not out, P. F. Carvosso 50, O. Gardner 45, A. Barker 4-68) Bradford G.S. 135-7 (B. R. Neary 3-13)

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2nd XI selected from: T. Reid (Captain)*, R. J. Crossley*, T. G. Davies*, H. I. Shedden*, D. A. Batty, J. E. Belton, B. S. Dickson, R. J. Hiles, R. W. Hudson, A. E. Iveson, A. M. W. Ludiman, C. M. R. Martin, A. C. Moxon, R. J. Stout, A. J. Wildblood.

Also played: A. S. Ashworth, A. C. Deighton, S. J. Gildener, A. J. Killip, M. A. Lang.

ST. PETER'S v M.C.C. Played at home on Wednesday, 1st May. Result: Drawn.

M.C.C. 197-9 dec. (T. Lerwill 41, S. Kippax 40, R. Wilkins 32, A. M. W. Ludiman 4-42) St. Peter's 109-6 (S. Kippax 3-42)

* Colours

ST. PETER'S v SEDBERGH SCHOOL Played at home on Saturday, 4th May. Result: Drawn.

Sedbergh 189-8 dec. (S. Lewis 57 not out, D. Player 35) St. Peter's 162-6 (P. F. Carvosso 59 not out, M. J. Davies 44)

1st XI Averages Batting No. of Innings M. P. Forrester 20 M. J. Davies 20 P. F. Carvosso 19 O. Gardner 17 J. D. Rigby 19 R. W. Hudson 6 G. J. Harding 19 B R Neary 13 C. D. H. Roberts 9 N. P. R. McBride: 5 R. F. T. Musgrave 9 5 T. Reid

Not Out Runs 1 5 2 8 0 2 0 4 4 3 4 1

744 582 342 167 349 73 305 139 76 22 49 32

Highest Score Average 116 101* 59* 45 83 28* 66 57 28 12* 14* 28

39.16 38.80 20.12 18.55 18.37 18.25 16.05 15.44 15.20 11.00 9.80 8.00

ST. PETER'S v YORK C.C. Played at home on Wednesday, 8th May. Result: Drawn.

York C.C. 218-5 dec. (C. Harrison 150, S. Mayes 50) St. Peter's 156-4 (M. J. Davies 43 not out) ST. PETER'S v WORKSOP COLLEGE Played at home on Saturday, 11th May. Result: Drawn.

St. Peter's 244-5 dec. (M. P. Forrester 84, M. J. Davies 64 not out, M. Czernek 3-65) Worksop 202-5 (J. Rowe 73, D. Smith 34)

Also batted: F. J. Black 9, 6, 0, 10; D. Bundy 4*, 9, 1. * = Not out.

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ST. PETER'S v THE FORTY CLUB Played at home on Wednesday, 15th May. Result: Drawn.

Forty Club 220-5 dec. (P. Jackson 97, W. Cooper 44, F. Taylor 36) St. Peter's 172-5 (G. J. Harding 46, M. P. Forrester 42, S. Anderson 4-66)

ST. PETER'S v OLD PETERITES Played at home on Sunday, 23rd June.

Result: Won. Old Peterites 193-7 dec. (P. Burdass 75, R. Hutchinson 44, M. J. Davies 3-13) St. Peter's 194-3 (M. P. Forrester 65 not out, M. J. Davies 53 not out)

ST. PETER'S v BARNARD CASTLE SCHOOL Played away on Saturday, 18th May. Result: Drawn.

Barnard Castle 229-4 dec. (S. Riddell 88, K. Lowe 52 not out) St. Peter's 119-5 (M. P. Forrester 39)

ST. PETER'S v SAINTS C.C. Played at home on Tuesday, 25th June.

Result: Drawn.

Saints C.C. 187-7 dec. (J. Heaseman 55, A. Jefferson 42, N. P. R. McBride 4-21) St. Peter's 172-9 (M. P. Forrester 62, J. D. Rigby 45, G. Fowler 4-29)

ST. PETER'S v PRESIDENT'S XI Played at home on Wednesday, 29th May. Result: Drawn.

President's XI 203-3 dec. (R. Taylor 73 not out, S. Robinson 51 not out, J. Wright 32) St. Peter's 112-5 (C. A. Robinson 3-9)

ST. PETER'S v CRANLEIGH SCHOOL Played away on Sunday, 30th June.

Result: Drawn.

St. Peter's 193-6 dec. (G. J. Harding 66, M. J. Davies 41) Cranleigh 113-7 (G. Atkinson 38, D. Bundy 3-28)

ST. PETER'S v LEEDS G.S. Played at home on Saturday, 1st June.

Result: Drawn.

Leeds G.S. 244-1 dec. (D. Gait 104 not out, T. Walton 88 not out, R. Atkinson 46) St. Peter's 210-7 (B. R. Neary 57, M. P. Forrester 47, R. Atkinson 3-46)

ST. PETER'S v MERCHANT TAYLORS', NORTHWOOD Played at Cranleigh on Monday, 1st July.

Result: Lost.

Merchant Taylors' 187-7 dec. (C. Jaggard 83, A. PowellWilliams 38, R. Hawkey 33, B. R. Neary 5-15) St. Peter's 44 (J. Roberts 6-26, P. Knowles 3-18)

ST. PETER'S v AMPLEFORTH COLLEGE Played at home on Saturday, 8th June.

Result: Drawn.

St. Peter's 238-5 dec. (M. P. Forrester 116, J. D. Rigby 40, M. J. Davies 35, S. Pilkington 4-72) Ampleforth 210-7 (N. Lamb 47, R. Wilson 35, R. Gilmore 32)

ST. PETER'S v THE EMU CLUB, N.S.W. Played at Cranleigh on Tuesday, 2nd July.

Result: Lost.

The Emu Club 277-5 dec. (B. Germon 84, D. Amos 83, D. Hobden 47, M. Essery 35 not out) St. Peter's 34 (C. Bates 7-5)

ST. PETER'S v DURHAM SCHOOL Played away on Saturday, 15th June.

Result: Drawn.

Durham 191-3 dec. (R. Weston 100 not out, P. Weston 54) St. Peter's 152-7 (B. R. Neary 55 not out, N. Darling 4-50)

ST. PETER'S v BRYANSTON SCHOOL Played at Cranleigh on Wednesday, 3rd July.

Result: Drawn.

St. Peter's 179 (M. J. Davies 66, T. Tuckwell 3-26) Bryanston 143-9 (J. Friesenbruch 39, T. Reid 4-25, R. F. T. Musgrave 3-36)

ST. PETER'S v POCKLINGTON SCHOOL Played away on Saturday, 22nd June.

Result: Drawn.

St. Peter's 193-7 dec. (M. P. Forrester 101, J. Dowling 3-38) Pocklington 104-6 (D. Edwards 51, R. F. T. Musgrave 3-15)

ST. PETER'S v LORETTO SCHOOL Played at Cranleigh on Thursday, 4th July.

Result: Won. St. Peter's 88 (M. P. Forrester 35, J. Bedi 7-31) Loretto 79 (R. F. T. Musgrave 4-26, B. R. Neary 3-15) 62

One of the problems of a successful season is that the lower order batsmen do not have sufficient opportunities to develop their batting and such was the case with Nicholas Strong and Alistair Rigby. They both fielded enthusiastically and with time should develop into very competent cricketers. Their contribution to the team's performance along with Edward Backhouse's was significant in terms of the season's successes.

Finally, congratulations to Naithan McBride who after a few games as captain of the side was promoted into the 1st XI and made very good progress. There is no doubt that several of the side will eventually play at the highest level at St. Peter's and all should make a worthwhile contribution to Game 1 next year.

In addition to Naithan McBride, Senior Colts colours were awarded to Toby Cockcroft and Fraser Black.

Summary of Results Opponents Yorkshire Gents C.C. Bradford G.S. M.C.C. Sedbergh School York C.C. Worksop College The Forty Club Barnard Castle School President's XI Leeds G.S. Ampleforth College Durham School Pocklington School Old Peterites Saints C.C. Cranleigh School Merchant Taylors, Northwood The Emu Club, N.S.W. Bryanston School Loretto School

Ground Home Away Home Home Home Home Home Away Home Home Home Away Away Home Home Away

Result Lost Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Drawn Won Drawn Drawn

School Opponents 181-8 dec. 184-5 242-7 dec. 135-7 197-9 dec.

109-6 162-6 189-8 dec.

156-4 218-5 dec.

244-5 dec. 202-5 172-5 220-5 dec.

229-4 dec.

119-5 112-5 203-3 dec.

210-7 244-1 dec.

238-5 dec. 210-7 152-7 191-3 dec.

104-6 193-7 193-7 dec.

194-3 187-7 dec.

172-9 193-6 dec . 113-7

Cranleigh Lost

44

187-7 dec.

Cranleigr 1 Lost Cranleigll Drawn Cranleigh Won

34 179 88

277-5 dec.

143-9 79

St. Peter's 151 for 6 dec. (T. Cockcroft 40, M. Inness 42) Bradford 133 for 4 St. Peter's 173 (M. Inness 41, P. Taylor 39, T. Cockcroft 32, F. Black 29) Sedbergh 150 for 7 Ashville 121 (F. Black 3-25) St. Peter's 123 for 6 (T. Duncan 52)

SENIOR COLTS

St. Peter's 187 for 8 dec. (T. Cockcroft 78, F. Black 33) Mount St. Mary's 116 for 2

The U.15 Colts had a highly successful undefeated season with victories against Ashville, Barnard Castle, Leeds and Durham, whilst in matches drawn the School were generally on top. Despite prolonged spells of cold weather throughout most of the term, low rainfall during May and early June allowed good batting tracks on the Wightman to be produced which led to some fine batting displays and concentrated the minds of the bowlers on the need for line and length. They also permitted attacking batsmen such as Tom Duncan who scored three fifties and Magnus Inness who scored two forties to accelerate the run rate if necessary. The most profilic scorer was Toby Cockcroft who scored 426 runs in ten completed innings, whilst the most cultured batting came from Fraser Black who played a gem of an innings at Worksop scoring 72 runs with superb timing and little effort through a wide range of shots.

St. Peter's 169 for 3 dec. (F. Black 72, T. Cockcroft 40, N. McBride 35) Worksop 25 for no wicket — Match abandoned — Rain Barnard Castle 90 (P. Taylor 5-7, F. Black 3-20) St. Peter's 95 for 3 (T. Cockcroft 64 not out) Manchester Schools' C. A. 178 for 5 dec. (F. Black 3-35) St. Peter's 125 for 7 (F. Black 44, T. Cockcroft 27) Leeds 38 (T. Cockcroft 4-16, F. Black 4-22) St. Peter's 40 for 1 wicket St. Peter's 103 (P. Taylor 29) Ampleforth 55 for 9 (F. Black 7-33) Durham 153 for 1 dec.

St. Peter's 154 for 3 (T. Duncan 51, T. Cockcroft 49, F. Black 36)

The bowling attack was spearheaded by Fraser Black and Toby Cockcroft and it was the former's outstanding performance of 7 for 33 against Ampleforth which nearly cost the opposition their unbeaten record. The best bowling analysis of the season goes to Paul Taylor with five wickets for seven runs against Barnard Castle. Not only was Paul a consistent bowler but a batsman with a dogged determination. He was also one of the best slip fielders seen at St. Peter's for several years, ably supported by the athletic Nick Walker behind the stumps who also took several good catches. Other major bowling contributions came from Tom Duncan, Nick Middleton and Andrew Fotherby. Nick's leg spin bowling was under used and he was never able to show his full potential, whilst Andrew's bowling improved impressively as the season developed.

St. Peter's 137 for 9 dec. (F. Black 49, M. Inness 25, N. Middleton 23 not out) Pocklington 50 for 4

Other matches: St. Peter's An XI 217 for 2 dec. (A. Rigby 50 not out, T. Duncan 53 not out) Yarm 61 for 9 (N. Middleton 5-22) Bootham 144 St. Peter's An XI 128 for 8 (T. Cockcroft 36,.N. Strong 27, N. Middleton 21 not out) J. W. R. Hutt and P. D. Northfield 63

U.14 COLTS CRICKET In many ways this was a most pleasing season. Many U.14 'B' players made the grade and had games in the 'A' team. Despite their loss we turned out a genuine 'B' XI v's Bootham instead of an 'A' XI. Certainly Tom Archer developed as a fine captain. His willingness to listen and learn about field placings does him credit. He must remember those points for next year.

Tom also deserves credit for accepting that if you win the toss at this level you should bat first. This will lead to a game being lost occasionally but it also leaves you in a better position to win and most importantly to learn how to bowl sides out. However, to maintain the momentum the side batting first must take the initiative and in two games we batted slowly and in the end declared far short of a genuine target.

The first match at Bradford was played in the "sun"!

The last time we saw it until we played Leeds six weeks later! After a good, if slow, start on a very "low" wicket we appeared to be taking control with a fine 31 from S. Bradley. Sadly his dismissal led to a collapse. We then bowled well with Bradford having to go all the way in the final twenty overs before running out winners. The maturity of their batting was a good example to follow.

We were at home next against Sedbergh who were pinned down by fine bowling from S. Bradley, ten overs 1 for 20, T. Archer eleven overs 1 for 14 and N. Forshaw four overs for 6. A more than sporting declaration enabled us to bat well to win by nine wickets, T. Archer 66 and S. Bradley 35, sharing an unbeaten partnership of 100.

A new and welcome fixture against Mount St. Mary's provided another win with S. Bradley batting very well to score a fine undefeated 67. The declaration gave us time to bowl Mount St. Mary's out for 66 with T. Archer taking 5 for 25 and S. Rivis 2 for 1. Worksop provided the low point of the season. We fielded badly, despite taking several good catches. We batted without real enthusiasm except for S. Rivis and T. Archer. We behaved in an unacceptable fashion whilst both 'A' and 'B' sides were batting. I hope the boys learned from the incidents that day and the following suspension of two of our leading players. No player is bigger than the game and good manners and sportsmanship are a prerequisite for playing for St. Peter's. At Barnard Castle we bowled well to have them all out for 151 on their artificial surface, K. Midhage taking 4 for 35 in his first match. We had a go at the target but two large fast bowlers made it very difficult and we gave up the chase to finish 113 for 5.

If Worksop was the low point, Leeds Grammar School was the high point. In nine years of taking the U.14 this was one of the best performances I have seen. We batted very well with M. Dodgson 25, S. Rivis 18 and N. Ogden 19* giving fine support to a splendid not out 103 by T. Archer. Declaring at half-time gave the boys time to bowl Leeds out. The spinners, D. Leveson 3 for 20 and N. Ogden 4 for 12, used the pitch well and bowled out the opposition with three overs to go. (The sun shone, the wicket was good and outfield well cut, a credit to Leeds.) Fine bowling and introverted batting led to St. Peter's eventually declaring at 105 for 8 against Ampleforth. If you win the toss and bat first you must

score quickly enough to make a game of it. We could have batted on and killed the game, but perhaps a loss taught the boys more than a draw! At Durham fine bowling from their only two bowlers kept us down to 93. We bowled well and had we scored another twenty runs, I think we would have won. The innings of the day was a fine 56 from Omar of Durham. ..

The final game saw us hosts to Pocklington on yet another wet afternoon. Having started at 2.40 p.m. and had a lengthy tea due to rain, St. Peter's declared after thirty overs at 127 for 6. Pocklington made a fine attempt to go for the target making fifty without loss. Again the introduction of spin-bowling made the breakthrough with N. Ogden taking 4 for 24 and S. Bradley 2 for 33. Fine tail-end batting saw Pocklington through with nine wickets down.

Next year should provide the boys with greater challenges. T. Archer must learn to work the ball off the front foot, N. Ogden to keep the runs coming even if in ones and twos. Both S. Bradley's need to learn which ball to hit. They are both fine cricketers but with a touch more humility and concentration on the task in hand they could do very well next year. M. Dodgson improved a great deal in his batting and providing he applies himself will become a fine upper order batsman. M. Catling has the ability, along with N. Forshaw, to strike the ball hard off the back foot but both are weak on the front foot. The steadiest batsman in middle order was S. Rivis who showed a real maturity amongst his peers, many could do to take up his example of good manners, sportsmanlike attitude and a fierce desire to succeed. The left arm bowlers are all capable of turning a game. N. Forshaw must learn to keep his bowling arm up and S. Bradley to take advice about both run up and delivery stride. When on form he is a match winner as his nine wickets in the junior House match proved. N. Ogden's slow left arm bowling was of a high quality especially on pitches which gave him the assistance of turn and bounce. However, he must learn to vary his pace and bowl a good arm ball if he is to maintain his progress. S. Bradley and D. Leveson both took wickets bowling off spin and must persevere, learning the finer points of this art. K. Midhage has the ability to give variation with his leg-spin and must listen to Mr. Mohan to give him the variation necessary.

D. Todd and O. Marlow both developed well this year.

David must remember to bowl closer to the stumps and with more control in his run up, whilst Oliver needs to remember that he is at his most effective when bowling a nagging line and length rather than trying to bowl too fast. I was pleased to see both M. Helme and J. Metcalfe develop into competent wicket keepers. However, M. Dodgson made great strides and as long as he keeps working at the basics will provide a fine U. 15 keeper next season.

I would like to thank the parents who came to support in this cold and wet season. Their attention and help was much appreciated by both boys and staff. My thanks also go to Mr. D. Watkinson for all his efforts with the squad this season.

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Results: 1991 Midland Bank/National Schools' Championships 1991 for the Glanvill Cup. 1st Round St. Peter's awarded a bye 2nd Round St. Peter's v Pocklington School 5—1 W St. Peter's v Hymers College 1—5 L

Results: St. Peter's 109 all out (S. Bradley 31) Bradford Grammar School 110 for 6 Sedbergh 112 for 6 St. Peter's 113 for 1 (T. Archer 66*, S. Bradley 33*) St. Peter's 139 for 3 (S. Bradley 67*) Mount St. Mary's 66 all out (T. Archer 5 for 25)

1991 Schools' Tennis Team Competition for Senior Students 1st Round St. Peter's awarded a bye 2nd Round St. Peter's v Lady Lumley's 5—1 W Regional St. Peter's v Durham Johnston 1—5 L semi-final St. Peter's v King James's 1—5 L R. G. Shread

Worksop 151 for 5 St. Peter's 60 for 3 Barnard Castle 151 all out (K. Midhage 4 for 35) St. Peter's 113 for 5 (T. Archer 32)

1st VI

St. Peter's 183 for 2 (T. Archer 103*, M. Dodgson 25) Leeds Grammar School 103 all out (N. Ogden 4 for 12, D. Leveson 3 for 20)

This season was a moderately successful one with six wins, three defeats and an abandoned match due to the rain! Simon Powell led the team well with his commitment to play attacking and Uncompromising tennis. It must have been a daunting feeling for his opponents this season to face such ferocious serves, volleys and ground strokes on both wings. Adam Waters developed into the best player in the School with his mature matchplay, there were few opponents who got the better of him. He managed to increase the power of his service from last year and was best when playing passing shots from the back of the court. When he did come to the net he produced many superb overheads and volleys. John Higginson did not do himself justice in matches when he allowed weaker opposition to get the better of him. He has probably the best all-round racket skills of anyone else in the team but did not achieve his true potential through lack of consistency. David Jones was another stalwart of the team who showed great determination in match-play. He has a good all-round game but when at the net he is unshakable while he plays his powerful angled volleys. David Baldry continues to develop as an all-round player. He had a disappointing season overall which started off well enough, progressing through to the Alcuin Trophy final, but from that defeat he lost a good deal of confidence.

Finally Michael Hunter, the 'junior' of the team, who has quickly risen to the first team standard and has also represented North Yorkshire Schools at under fifteen level in the first pair. He is a fine prospect already with no visible weakness in his game. If he can add a little more power to his service and show greater consistency in general he will encounter few defeats .next season.

St. Peter's 105 for 8 Ampleforth 106 for 3 St. Peter's 93 all out Durham 94 for 4 (N. Forshaw 2 for 9 off 11 overs) St. Peter's 127 for 6 (T. Archer 39, S. Bradley 25) Pocklington 100 for 9 (N. Ogden 4 for 24) * denotes not out.

9 matches played: 3 won, 3 lost, 3 drawn.

The following represented U.14 Colts XI: T. Archer (Captain), B. Brierley, S. Bradley, S. Bradley, M. Catling, M. Cox, M. Dodgson, N. Forshaw, M. Helme, D. Leveson, O. Marlow, J. Metcalfe, K. Midhage, J. Noble, B. Oakley, N. Ogden, S. Rivis, D. Todd.

TENNIS 1st IV The first four is a special team which participates in the National Competitions run by the L.T.A. and sponsored by the Midland Bank. Unfortunately, last year's winning run came to an end in the second round of the Glanvill Cup this year at Pocklington School. Although the team convincingly defeated the home side, Hymers College proved to be just too strong at both first and second pair. Simon Powell and Adam Waters gave a great display going down in a tie-break at first pair doubles to the North of England under eighteen champions. Michael Hunter played even better by winning his singles at number three.

In the Senior Students Competition the team had an easy passage through the first and second rounds.

However, in the Regional semi-finals, St. Peter's found both Durham Johnston and especially King James' School far too strong.

Results: Opponents Poppleton Tennis Club Bradford Grammar School Ashville College Hymers College York University II Worksop College Ampleforth College Barnard Castle School Woodhouse Grove School

The 1st IV team: Simon Powell (Captain), Adam Waters, Michael Hunter, David Jones with David Baldry, Mark Davies and John Higginson making appearances.

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Venue Home

For 58

AGS W/D, 50 Won

Home Home Away Home Home Away Away

6 8 1 8 5 1 9

3 1 8 1 4 8 0

Away

3.5

5.5 Lost

Won Won Lost Won Won Lost Won

Colours: These were reawarded to Simon Powell and Adam Waters and awarded to David Jones.

The First VI Team: J. S. Powell (Captain), A. L. Waters, D. R. Jones, M. T. Hunter, D. H. Baldry, J. D. G. Higginson.

R. G. Shread Individual Competition — for the Alcuin Trophy Final: Adam Waters defeated David Baldry.

6—0, 7—5, 6—0 Losing semi-finalists: David Jones and Simon Powell

INTER-HOUSE TENNIS COMPETITION 1st Round

Clifton Manor School Temple

6- -3 8--1 5- -4 5- -4

Dronfield The Rise Queen's Grove

Semi-Finals Clifton Temple

5- -4 5--4

Manor School

U.15 VI

Final

4- -5

Temple

The squad made great progress over the term because the players enjoyed their tennis and were eager to improve. Apart from a one-sided affair against a weak Ashville side, all the matches were well-contested. The 5-4 victory at Giggleswick was particularly thrilling for the crowd of (three) spectators, who watched our second pair win three tie-breaks, the last of which clinched the match in heavy rain. It was good to see the boys gaining in confidence as the season progressed. All members of the squad were called upon to represent the School at some stage during the season, on one occasion at very short notice because of illness; and all played their part in making it an enjoyable season.

Clifton

2nd VI At full strength, the team provided convincing opposition in all its fixtures. A very good win against Pocklington was followed by a sterner test against Worksop: a draw was probably a fair result, although victory would have been secured if the third pair had been able to find form. A weakened side struggled against Ampleforth, the only defeat of the season; this was followed by the disappointment of a last-minute cancellation of the match against Bootham. The long journey to Giggleswick was rewarded with a thrilling match on grass, with victory decided in the final game in very slippery conditions. An unfinished match at Durham was frustrating for all concerned, especially when a win had seemed the most likely result.

James Stephenson led by example, his very sound allround game providing the base for success. Mark Davies found his form later in the season and played exciting tennis. Andrew Buisson and James Swallow enjoyed varying fortune: both were capable of good tennis when in confident mood but were let down in particular by their service.

The regular team members were joined by Tom Kitchingman, Matthew Bean, Matthew Todd, Stewart Berry and Matthew Pittman as availability dictated.

Results: Opponents Pocklington Worksop Ampleforth Giggleswick 1st VI Durham * unfinished match

Venue Away Home Away Away Away

For 7.5 4.5 1.5 5 3

AGS 1.5 4.5 7.5 4 3*

Squad: A. Martin, M. Hallam, C. Pyne, J. Dunn, N. Palta, C. Beckett, D. Gair, D. Sumpton.

D. S. Newman

OXFORD CUP (Holders : Rise) Points School Awarded Clifton Grove Manor Queen's Rise House Temple Senior Rugby Junior Rugby Senior Cricket Junior Cricket Senior Rowing Junior Rowing Athletics Sports Cross-Country Junior Long Run Swimming Sports 15 Swimming Standards Tennis Shooting Squash

W/D/L Won Drawn Lost Won Drawn

P. Taylor

TOTALS

66

20 10

20 10 NO COMPETITION NO COMPETITION

15 10 10 15 10

NO COMPETITION

35

10

30

60

BOAT CLUB

The Head Season Our first Head race was the Ancholme Head. We entered two Senior III fours and one Novice four. Our Senior HI fours finished first and second in their division and so we picked up our first "pots" of the season.

We took eight boys and two coxes across to the Runcorn Head and they all raced in both divisions. Racing at Senior III level in the first division they were well matched with only five seconds between the crews. They finished third and fourth in Senior III. After a rearrangement of crews for the second division they raced at Senior II level and the faster combination succeeded in coming second in this class.

In November we headed down to the Tideway for the Head of the River Fours Race. One girls' crew and two boys' crews raced and enjoyed the experience of such a big event; racing some of the best crews in the country.

I saw the crews out but before they had landed I was on my way to catch a 'plane to India (see Travel Section!).

In my absence the captains coped admirably with the paperwork and administration for three hectic weeks and the coaching load fell on the capable shoulders of John Ward and Jacqui Finney.

Several crews entered the York Small Boats Head which took place in even worse conditions than usual!

There was another first as a St. Peter's School Staff crew entered and.... survived! Most of the sixth form boys raced twice. One of our Senior III fours came well up in the finishing order, in twenty-sixth place overall (out of 300 crews). Our Junior four raced well and finished fifty-eighth to win their event.

We then travelled up to the Tyne for the Rutherford Head. The boys' Junior 1.8 crew won their event easily whilst the girls' Junior 18 crew and the boys' Junior 16 crew both came second in their events.

The floods in the Easter Term were more dramatic than in 1990 but we actually lost less time on the water.

Our boathouse was three feet deep in water at one stage but fortunately there was very little damage. When we were forced off the river Jacqui Finney joined Gary Lawrence to devise various land-based tortures.

At half-term we were unable to raise a full Viking Longship crew but four of the girls were able to team up with Tonbridge School. They formed a formidable combination and knocked out the unbeaten champions, York City, in the semi-final. They just lost in the final but won the prize for the most successful Junior crew.

Tonbridge have promised to return next year!

We travelled to Nottingham for the Head of the Trent.

The girls' Junior four won their event and the boys' Novice four were second in theirs.

In the Yorkshire Head our Senior III eight finished in eleventh place overall (out of 117 crews). The girls' raced in a new bow-stroked combination and came second in the Senior III class.

We raced two eights in the North of England Head (at Chester); some of the oarsmen doubling up to make it possible. The Novice eight raced particularly well and finished second in their class, beating several university crews.

The day that term finished we headed south for the 67

Head of the River Race. It is a long time since St. Peter's raced in this most prestigious Head on the Tideway and it was great experience for those who raced in the eight, although it was one of those races when not everything went right!

We raced in enough Heads to be able to do some analysis of the results. The really encouraging thing about the Sixth Form Boys' Eight in its various combinations was that, although it wasn't winning events, it was improving and moving up through the field very quickly.

They were managing to beat a few more crews each week and get closer to the winning times. It was the speed at which the boys were learning and improving that kept the idea of Henley kindled, rather than the straight results, at this time.

The Sixth Form Boys' got together for a few days in the holidays and did some training alongside Churchill College which was mutually beneficial.

On the first day of Durham Regatta we raced a Senior III four and a Senior II four. The Senior II four had to cope with the "long course" which goes through the notorious Elvet Bridge. They raced hard and only lost by three feet!

The Sunday of Durham Regatta was to be critical. We had entered Senior Open Eights, in order to measure up our Sixth Form boys against the fastest in the North of England and we had drawn Durham University in our first race. On the result of this race we would decide whether it was worth putting an entry in for Henley this year. The crew responded well to the pressure and really "went for it". They pushed Durham right up the course, never letting them get clear water and lost by only three-quarters of a length. It is rare for a crew to lose and be quite so happy about the race! The entry went in.

On the same day the girls' Novice crew raced at Loughborough Regatta. They came a respectable fourth in their event and gained much from the experience of multi-lane racing.

The next weekend at York we again made several finals but it was only the girls' Novice four who managed to win their final which they did in fine style to win a very competitive event. The crew was Elena Clegg, Polly Evans, Emma Brown, Esther Williams and, cox, Markus Buckle.

At Leeds, a week later, we put in a very big entry; everything from mixed doubles to open eights! We won Senior III eights (Chris Rowland, James Hague, Joby Taylor, James Butler, Chris Richardson, Jeremy Doncaster, Tim Cordier, Roland Carnaby and, cox, Matthew Taylor), Senior III fours (Chris Rowland, James Hague, Joby Taylor, James Butler and, cox, Lindsay Daniel), Girls' Novice Fours (Nicola Andrews, Pippa Merritt, Caroline Murphy, Diana Wooding and, cox, Michelle Griggs) and Women's Open Sculls (A.J.H.).

However, we just fell short of retaining the Victor Ludorum (by two points!).

We were delighted to hear that our entry for Henley had been accepted and that we weren't required to do a qualifying race. We went down to Henley on the Monday so that we could get a couple of outings in on Monday and Tuesday to prepare for the first round of the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup on the Wednesday. Henley is a completely unique regatta with an atmosphere like no other, for which crews travel worldwide. We were glad of a couple of days to get used to the activity and excitement as well as the river conditions. Their race was scheduled for 3.05 p.m. which gave our supporters' coach time to get from York. The crew gave everything in their race against Emmanuel School and Emmanuel were only able to take half a length lead by the mile. The final verdict was 3% length. It was a very creditable performance and a real pinnacle of achievement for the crew and for their coach, John Ward, who was the real driving force behind the crew's bid to get to Henley. We hope to be back again next year.

There is just one venture left this School year. As this goes to press we have a St. Peter's/Bradford Grammar

The Regatta Season We have had a very hectic season, racing most weekends and sometimes at two places in the same weekend. We could not have done so much if it weren't for all the tolerant and helpful parents and friends who have driven buses and trailers and put up with our unsociable departures and arrivals. I would like to thank Mr. Birch, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Brown and Mr. De Boer, in particular, for their help with getting us to regattas.

The first regatta was York Spring. We put in a big entry and made a few finals but the four week holiday took its toll and we didn't win any "pots".

Three crews represented the School at Nottingham City Regatta and one of the boys' crews (Chris Richardson, Alistair Birch, Stuart Clarke, Chris Lloyd and, cox, Lindsay Daniel) beat fourteen university and club crews to win a very competitive Novice event.

The following day at Durham City Regatta our boys' eight got through to the final of Senior III eights.

At Bradford, a week later, several crews raced and much deserved success came to both the girls' Senior III four (Becki Ingledew, Anne Suttill, Charlotte Berry, Sally Hamilton and, cox, Steve Harryman) and the boys' Senior III four (James Butler, Joby Taylor, James Hague, Chris Rowland and, cox, Matthew Taylor).

At half-term the Boat Club completed a 24-hour sponsored row in aid of the School's charities and the Club's Henley Fund. Jeremy Doncaster did a great job co-ordinating and organising the event. Also on the fundraising front Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Hague have put a tremendous amount of energy into setting up a St. Peter's 100 Club to help fund-raise for future Henley crews. (If you want to join contact Ann Hodgson or David Hughes!)

Also at half-term the Senior III eight raced at Northwich and lost by just two-thirds of a length in the final.

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School composite eight training for the National Championships in a week's time.

As ever there are a great many people who have made our successes this year possible. I have already mentioned our gratitude to the parents. On the coaching front we have been joined by Jacqui Finney, a Cambridge blue, who is a knowledgeable coach with a deep understanding of the sport. The sixth form boys have also got their work cut out trying to beat her round the three bridges! Gary Lawrence has again done a great job with large numbers of novices this summer, tirelessly explaining to them the motivation and discipline they will need if they are to succeed in this demanding sport. He has been helped by the enthusiasm of David Hughes, Chris Hall and Arthur Ellis-Davis. There has been more administration than ever to cope with and these colleagues have taken on various jobs throughout the year for which I am personally very grateful. John Ward has been the motivating force behind our Henley bid for the last two years. He has put in many extra hours and made himself available to coach whenever possible. He has put a great deal of thought into selections of crews and events and we would not have got to Henley without him. Becki Ingledew, James Butler and Chris Rowland have done a wonderful job as captains this year.

They have motivated and organised and we have been able to rely on their willing help and support at all times.

ST. PETER'S AT HENLEY July 1991 The mild panic that sets in before racing normally arises on arrival at the Regatta and lasts right up to the moment you race, an interval of about three hours.

Henley Royal Regatta was no exception to this rule; we just had three days to worry. The world's top rowers were gathered there and, being very close to the bottom of the pile, no amount of posh printed tee-shirts or sweatshirts could have steadied our nerves. However, being accommodated in a boarding house (where I am sure members of The Rise would have felt at home) next to a horde of Italian students helped to fortify some of our party.

Henley, being in the south, and such an important place has replaced old fashioned northern expressions such as "please", "thank you", "excuse us" and "after you" with "outo' the way", and "we're next" but mostly with aloof silence. At best, I would say, a highly critical professional atmosphere prevails.

Fortunately there were many redeeming features. We shared our boat rack with the Canadian National Squad (claimed to be the best in the world) who gave us the honour of a side by side practice start — we kept with them for at least seven strokes. Also, of course, there was the spectacle of the most fantastic rowing skills surrounded by the picturesque town of Henley, and a course flanked by over two kilometres of marquees and stands.

Our practice outings up and down the course were extremely tense, as each tiny wobble of the boat was a show of imperfect rowing for all to see, but the pressure we placed upon ourselves was beneficial in that our technique improved and James Hague managed to keep his in-boat commentary to himself — quite an achievement.

Apart from the main event the only other significant parts of race day were our heroic coach turning up in a jacket and tie (shock, horror!) and our heroic coach driver leaving our supporters behind at the motorway services.

Otherwise half-hourly time-checks from the Boss kept us on our toes — thanks a lot John — until we paddled off towards the start.

Like your first perspective drawing at School the booms marking the Henley course stretch away converging to a dot on the sky-line. I am sure the whole crew took a good long look as we turned the boat round before coming onto the start.

Whereupon a rather large grey-haired gentleman sporting a tasteful pink jacket, and, standing in his grand launch along with numerous officials and odd-bods (Miss Finney), set us off on seven minutes of sweaty toil.

As far as I was concerned, until the boat was put away and my legs and arms returned to near-normality from a wobbling mass we might as well have been on the Ouse.

Totally oblivious to the attention given to us we thumped up the course, finishing well pleased with our efforts.

None of us will forget those three days at Henley and I am very envious of the crew members who get a chance to do it all again next year.

James Butler

Despite our fund-raising attempts we have still had to rely heavily on the School for financial backing. Without this support we could not have bought the second-hand eight that made so much of this year's racing possible.

Looking back it has been a good year. We have competed in higher status events and we have entered more than ever. There are still plenty of challenges for next year; some better results in the Tideway Heads, some wins at Junior 16, a girls' crew to Women's Henley, a boys' crew through a round at Henley Royal Regatta, to name but a few.

A. J. Hodgson

SILVER MEDALS AT NATIONAL ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS St. Peter's School and Bradford Grammar School joined forces and entered a joint crew in Junior Eights at the National Championships of Great Britain.

There were four crews in the final. The composite crew racing under Thames Colours went off hard and were a length clear of the other crews at 500m. At 750m the Bradford Grammar School/St. Peter's School composite pushed and started to pull away from the Bedford School eight and the Scottish Composite crew.

The Yorkshire crew pushed again at 1,250m and went back at the Thames eight and reduced Thames' lead to just three-quarters of a length at the finish.

The crew was Charlie Barlow, Joby Taylor, Richard Taylor, Dominic Hill, Stuart Clarke, Alistair Birch, Chris Conroy, Markus Robst and, cox, Matthew Taylor.

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GIRLS' GAMES Under the captaincy of Melanie Gibb the 2nd XI had a good term, winning half of their matches. At times it was difficult to give as many players as possible a game while retaining a nucleus of players to give the team stability. The first two games of the season were high scoring wins over Manor and Fyling Hall — in both Sarah Durham was very strong in attack. They continued undefeated until the middle of the season when the team suffered a 0—5 loss against Mount St. Mary's. Here they failed to concentrate under pressure and silly mistakes crept into their play. Losses by one goal against Hymers and Worksop were close games which could have gone either way. On the plus side there were two convincing wins against Durham and Queen Mary's, Baldersby Park where they showed some good teamwork. Particularly towards the end of term Eleanor Bowling displayed promising stickwork in attack; Laura Clark, Emily Strong and Pippa Smith played well in defence throughout the term.

HOCKEY 1st and 2nd XI This has been a very successful season for the 1st XI, but more important than that they have enjoyed their hockey, playing the game in a friendly yet competitive spirit.

Early on in the term four girls were selected for the York Area Under 18 Squad. These were Sophie Jackson, Angela Rosindale, Julia Thompson and Nic Westwood — a commendable achievement which proved to be a very worthwhile experience for the girls concerned; however, towards the end of term this commitment, plus school matches, demanded much of them.

The team had a run of wins which carried on, interrupted by only one draw, until the 13th(!) match. This success was triggered in the second game of the season where the girls had a good win against Leeds High School, and it was immediately evident that Sophie Jackson's workrate, skill and captaincy were going to be the deciding factors in many close games. Perhaps the best win of the first half term was over York Sixth Form College, a strong team against whom we played intelligent hockey, making good use of our wings Emma Ward and Angela Rosindale, which countered the Sixth Form College's domination of the centre of the pitch. Up to this time the good weather had contributed to the high standard of skilled hockey played by the side. However, against Giggleswick the wind almost took over, but with the defence showing characteristic determination, allied to Nic Westwood's strength in attack, both conditions and opposition were overcome.

Many thanks are due to the groundstaff for the superb condition of the pitches; this has a great bearing on the type of hockey played and adds enormously to the enjoyment of the game.

P. Fletcher The following represented the 1st XI: E. Bowling, L. Clark, C. Cooper, S. Durham, S. Jackson*, C. Morris*, S. Musgrave, S. Pitt, I. Pollard, A. Rosindale*, H. Sans, L. Sans*, P. Smith, A. Suttill*, J. Thompson*, C. Walker, E. Ward*, J. Webster, N. Westwood*. * Colours

With a good team it was perhaps disappointing that they made a comparatively poor showing in the 1st XI Tournament. However, on reflection the team tended to be slow and methodical in build-up and short tournament games were not their forte. After endless 0-0 draws they scraped into the semi-finals where they lost by a penalty corner to Queen Margaret's, the eventual winners. Anne Suttill made some excellent saves in goal, and continued to play consistently well throughout the term.

After half term there were some more good wins, notably those against Mount St. Mary's and Ackworth.

Only towards the end of term did the momentum run out.

Away at Worksop a jaded team gave a lack-lustre performance and the resulting loss was no surprise. On their heavier pitch our lack of power, especially in hitting, was very noticeable. Indeed the team were to make hard work of the last few games of term. Fortunately a good result at the beginning of December against Barnard Castle revived the spirits, so it was a shame to play against a strong Scarborough College with a below strength team.

Despite losing, Connelee Morris and Louisa Sans played with determination, as they had done from the start of the season.

Caps awarded for excellent play to Sophie Jackson.

The Jackson-Pacey Cup for most improved player to Julia Thompson.

The following represented the 2nd XI: E. Bowling, L. Clark, E. Copley, S. Durham, J. Ensor, C. Farrow, M. Gibb, C. Lawson, C. Malster, S. Pitt, R. Robertson, V. Robinson, S. Sanderson, H. Sans, L. Sans, D. Smith, E. Strong, G. Taylor, S. Tilston, C. Walker, J. Webster, S. Williamson, D. Wooding.

Results 1st XI Tadcaster H.C. Leeds High School Fyling Hall York Sixth Form College Giggleswick Under 18 Tournament Pocklington St. Aidan's Queen Margaret's 2nd XI 70

Home Away Home Home Home Away Home Away Home

Won 1—0 Won 2—0 Won 5-0 Won 1—0 Won 3—2 Semi-finalists Won 2—1 Drew 1—1 Won 3—0

Bootham Mount St. Mary's Ackworth Tadcaster H.C. Worksop Durham Barnard Castle Scarborough College Retiring Captain's XI

Home Away Away Away Away Home Home Home Home

Won Won Won Won Lost Drew Won Lost Lost

3—0 2—1 1—0 3—1 0—3 1—1 3—1 0—3 0—2

Results 2nd XI Manor Fyling Hall York Sixth Form College Giggleswick Queen Margaret's 3rd XI Mount St. Mary's Queen Mary's Ackworth Hymers Worksop Durham Scarborough College

Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Away Home Away Home Home

Won Won Won Drew Won Lost Won Lost Lost Lost Won Lost

3—0 5—0 3—2 2—2 3—0 0—5 3—1 0—3 0—1 0—1 3—1 0—3

Results: v Giggleswick v Manor v Queen Margaret's v Bootham v Mount St. Mary's v Queen Mary's v Ackworth v Hymers College v Worksop College v The Mount v Fyling Hall v Scarborough College

Away Home Away Home Away Home Away Home Away Away Away Away

5—2 0—7 1—3 3—0 0—0 2—0 1—1 3—0 0—3 1—1 2—3 0—3

Won Lost Lost Won Drawn Won Drawn Won Lost Drawn Lost Lost

The following represented the team: C. Alton, R. Gill, R. Gilbert, A. Mulryne, K. Walsh, P. Whiting, J. Swallow, K. Charman, H. Clark, L. Francis, S. Marshall, E. Metcalfe, C. Taylor, C. Tong, S. Richards.

W. M. Shepherd

U.14 The U.14 hockey team began the season with an excellent 3-2 win over Leeds Girls' High School. Lisa Thompson, a new player to the forward line, scored all three goals, a job made easier for her because of the welltimed forward passes into the circle by the rest of the forwards (notably Rachel Owen-Barnett).

Unfortunately the next match against St. Aidan's was played on a 'redgra' surface, something our girls are completely unfamiliar with. The team found it very difficult to adapt their game. Consequently their hitting and tackling let them down badly resulting in an 8-0 defeat.

A deflated U.14 team lost their following two games against Manor and Queen Margaret's. It has to be said, however, that after being 4-0 down in their match against Manor, they fought back brilliantly, playing some excellent attacking hockey, and pulled back to 4-2. They could well have earned themselves a draw in this match, but for some "off target" shots on goal.

The girls seemed to pull together and really play as a team in their next three matches. The defence was solid.

Some sound hitting and tackling by Hannah Fieldsend and Cathy Dixon at the back meant that Daniella Lipman had very little to do in goal. The halves particularly showed their expertise in these matches; always there for a tackle when needed, and almost always in the right position to support the forward line and feed the ball through to them.

Because of this fine team work, the forwards were able to score goals, resulting in a 3-0 win over Bootham, a 6-2 win over Mount St. Mary's, and a 3-0 win over Hymers.

Despite these fine wins, the U. 14's lost their last three matches, which lacked the positive team work we had seen previously. The defence in these matches was put under pressure by strong attacking opposition.

U.15 XI The U.15 XI had an unfortunate start to the season with the first two fixtures against Leeds Girls High School and St. Aidan's both cancelled. This meant that the first match was not until October 6th, when they had a fine 5-2 win over Giggleswick. This was followed by a 0-7 defeat by Manor School who had an excellent team with strong hitters. Although we tackled well the passing was slow and of insufficient depth. Heidi Clark scored the goal in the 1-3 defeat by Queen Margaret's. By this stage of the season the girls had started to play as a team and provide more support for each other whilst defending. The hitting was still not good, but improving as was general confidence. The game against Mount St. Mary's was very good with everyone" giving 100% in a well-contested match. A draw was a fair result although there were many near misses at the goal. A combined U.15/U.14 team played the Hymers U.15 team and Rachel Owen-Barnett scored a well-executed goal. The team were outclassed

by Worksop who scored all three goals in the first half.

The journey seemed to send many of our players to sleep although there was a big improvement in the second half!

The next two matches against The Mount and Fyling Hall were played on very bumpy pitches — a great leveller as we mostly had the ball in our attacking half on both occasions.

The general standard of play improved greatly during the season, especially the accuracy of the hitting. The middle link players of Ann Mulryne, Kathryn Charman and Penny Whiting did a particularly good job, as they were often under a lot of pressure.

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Although the spring term is our netball term, the U. 14's were entered in the York & District Hockey Rally in March. After a three month break from hockey, they fought well in all their matches, again displaying some constructive and positive team work. They did not lose any of their matches in the rally, but unfortunately failed to qualify for the semi-finals, finishing third in their section. Matches against Joseph Rowntrees, Bray ton High and The Mount resulted in 0-0 draws, but the team beat Sherburn 1-0 and York College 2-0.

2nd VII The 2nd VII had a successful season losing only one of their eight fixtures. The standard of the 2nd VII is improving yearly and the team presents a good opportunity for the Vth as well as the Vlth to gain match practice.

Other than the fixture against Queen Margaret's which was well contested and of a good standard none of the other teams came near to beating the 2nd VII and this was due to superior passing by all players. The shooters of M. Gibb, A. Farley and V. Robinson played with consistency and determination. C. Cranston was an able defence and captained with enthusiasm.

Girls who represented the U.14 Hockey team in the 90/91 season were: D. Lipman, H. Fieldsend, C. Dixon, L. Evans, K. Pittman, C. Hook, A. Zimmermann, R. OwenBarnett, L. Thompson, J. Toms, M. Tyler-Childs, V. Jelbert, J. Tetlow.

D. M. Westgate

Results: v Giggleswick Away v Queen Margaret's Home v Mount St. Mary's Home v Worksop College Home v Bootham Home v Scarborough College Home v Woodhouse Grove Away Barnard Castle their 1st v St. Peter's 2nd Home their 2nd v St. Peter's U. 16 Home

NETBALL 1st VII Netball continued to flourish during the Spring Term although several matches were cancelled due to poor weather conditions. The 1st VII had only three colours from the previous year and it took a while to select the eventual team. It was promising that three Vth years played regularly and will give the team stability for two more years. A weakened team were unlucky to lose 16-22 to Giggleswick who had two very tall shooters. They also lost narrowly to Mount St. Mary's by one goal(!) in the final seconds. A notable win followed over Worksop College, who had previously beaten Mount St. Mary's soundly. Everyone played very well and morale improved greatly from this point. The defence of S. Pitt, I. Pollard and E. Strong played particularly well throughout the season with Shelagh winning most of the rebounds and Isla making excellent clearance passes. C. Morris was a strong centre making many good interceptions. Isla proved to be as competent a captain as player and her organisation and enthusiasm were an inspiration to others. I thank her for all her help and congratulate Emily Strong who is next year's captain.

Kesults: V Giggleswick V Queen Margaret's V Hymers College V York Vlth Form College V Mount St. Mary's V Worksop College V Bootham V Scarborough College V Woodhouse Grove

Away Home Home Home Away Home Home Home Away

16--22 14--12 15-- 7 13--19 15--16 16--14 2 1 - -10 23- - 8 28- - 9

2 3 - - 7 Won 13- -15 Lost 27- -19Won 18-- 7 Won 12-- 4 Won 17--12Won 27- -19Won 17-- 5 Won 29- -14Won

The following represented the team: R. Robertson, C. Cranston, V. Robinson, A. Farley, M. Gibb, M. Crowe, G. Taylor, K. Wood, H. Sans, L. Sans, D. Small, V. Rayment, K. Kealey.

U.15 VII The U.15 team had an excellent season, not losing a fixture. They played netball weekly in the Autumn Term and had two matches, beating both Manor School and Bootham with ease. The team was strengthened with the addition of Cenan Erkut in defence. Margaret Wood and Lucinda Francis, who played the shooters, did consistently well all season and were helped by accurate passing into the circle by Heidi Clark. Several matches in the Spring Term were cancelled but all seven fixtures were won, most by a large margin. Improvement was made throughout the term and the last four games were easily won. Jenifer Swallow as goalkeeper was outstanding and her marking ability contributed greatly to the lack of goals from the opposition. The season ended with the York Rally at Joseph Rowntree School. There were seven Schools to play in the section and the girls did well to win five of the matches and draw two. This resulted in a place in the semi-final as section runners-up. After a well contested game they lost to Huntington School, the eventual winners.

Lost Won Won Lost Lost Won Won Won Won

The following represented the team: S. Pitt*, I. Pollard*, E. Strong*, C. Morris*, K. Wood*, J. Thompson*, M. Gibb, V. Robinson, G. Taylor, A. Farley, M. Crowe. * denotes Colours.

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Results: v Manor School v Bootham v Giggleswick v Queen Margaret's v Mount St. Mary's v Worksop College v Bootham v Scarborough College v Woodhouse Grove

Away Home Away Home Home Home Home Home Away

1 3 -- 5 2 5 -- 2 1 8 -- 7 16- -12 1 3 -- 8 2 2 -- 7 3 2 -- 7 2 8 -- 4 2 1 - -13

SQUASH

Won Won Won Won Won Won Won Won Won

It has been an enjoyable season with six victories and five losses. As the team entered the new season, three first team players remained from last year.

Amanda Daniels entered the team and improved tremendously throughout the season, both in fitness and skill. Juliette Webster also played several matches and produced fine shots, if the ball was within reach! Sarah Gibson played some matches for the first team and made a very encouraging start, showing determination and enthusiasm which will hopefully carry through to next season. On the whole the team was reliable with only a few lapses of concentration. The first match against Queen Margaret's for which Emma was absent saw a 5-0 loss, but in the re-match in the Spring Term with the captain present, there was a reversal of the score, and everyone pulled their socks up and a deserved 4-1 victory was obtained.

Friendly matches were played against Durham and Bradford Grammar in which ability was matched, so that the games were fairly even, giving an opportunity for the third formers to play their first matches. Two promising victories were obtained. Similarly the first team played a friendly match against Trinity All Saints College, where both girls and boys played. Despite a 4-1 loss everyone tried hard and enjoyed the competition.

Sophie and Emma playing at first and second string played with equal determination and consistency throughout the season. The fourth form players, joined also by Katy Pittman and Rachel Owen-Barnett made a promising beginning, and it was encouraging to see new talent developing, hopefully securing depth to a future team.

Our thanks go to Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Boardman, and Mr. Harvey for the commitment they put into the girls team, especially Mr. Boardman who skilfully coached the girls and boys together on a Wednesday afternoon.

I would like to thank Emma for performing a very good Captain's role. She always played with great enthusiasm and tried hard to get full commitment from all the players.

The following represented the team: J. Swallow, C. Erkut, C. Alton, K. Charman, H. Clark, L. Francis, M. Wood, R. Gill.

U.14 VII The U.14 VII had a disappointing season and although they did show progress throughout the year, morale suffered from early defeats and the team were often beaten before they went on court. Katy Pittman and Rachel Owen-Barnett played consistently well all year but for inexplicable reasons some matches went very much better than others. The girls always seemed one step behind the opposition and whilst we often matched the centre court play we invariably lost the ball in the attacking circle.

However, against the two Schools we played in both terms, although losing both times the score did improve during the main netball term. I'm sure more matches will be won next year if they are approached with enthusiasm and commitment.

Results: v Manor School v Giggleswick 'A' v Giggleswick 'B' v Bootham v Queen Mary's v Giggleswick v Queen Margaret's v Hymers College 'A' v Hymers College 'B' v Hymers College ' C v Mount St. Mary's v Worksop College v Bootham v Scarborough College v Woodhouse Grove

Away Home Home Home Home Away Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Away

7— 9 4—18 13—11 5—26 5—11 8—12 11 — 11 7— 8 13— 7 16— 6 12—13 12—16 4—20 14—10 5— 11

Lost Lost Won Lost Lost Lost Draw Lost Won Won Lost Lost Lost Won Lost

Results: v Queen Ethelburgas Away v Queen Margaret's Away v Queen Margaret's Away v Giggleswick Away v Durham Away Away v Trinity & All Saints v Harrogate Ladies CollegeAway Home v Ashville Home v Woodhouse Grove v Green Head College Home v Barnard Castle Home

5--0 0--5 4--1 2--3 4--0 1--4 1--4 5--0 1--4 1--4 5--0

Won Lost Won Lost Won Lost Lost Won Lost Lost Won

The following represented the Girls' team: Emma Ward* (Captain), Sophie Jackson*, Nicola Westwood, Juliette Webster, Amanda Daniels*, Sarah Gibson, Kathryn Kealey, Linda Elliott, Cenan Erkut, Katy Pittman and Rachel Owen-Barnett.

Colours* W. M. Shepherd and Emma Ward

The following represented the team: R. Owen-Barnett, K. Pittman, H. Fieldsend, C. Dixon, A. Zimmermann, M. Tyler-Childs, L. Thompson, J. Tetlow, L. Evans.

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TENNIS

1st VI

Westwood and Julia Thompson played particularly well all season both in their doubles and singles matches. Julia lost only one of her singles. Due to their steady play they often had better results than the first pair. Rachel Robertson and Eleanor Bowling always used attacking play and hit a deep ball, often a little too enthusiastically!

However, when all was going well they played impressive tennis and lost few games. Rachel was an able captain and a pleasure to have in that role. She was always enthusiastic and I would particularly like to thank the U. VI who made every effort to play once the exams started.

The 1st VI had four colours returning from the previous year and competition for the remaining places was keen. Finally Eleanor Bowling and Jane Mindenhall from the fifth year were selected to play with Emma Ward and Susie Musgrave becoming the first pair for the second team. However, both of them played several times for the 1st VI and Susie was awarded colours due to her enthusiastic play and commitment particularly during and after exams. The initial three matches were easily won and finally the team beat Queen Margaret's, for the first time, with consistent and attacking play. It was unfortunate that the best four players had to play in a Senior Students match for the Giggleswick fixture as they were the strongest opposition of the term. Scarborough College was the only cancelled match and this was abandoned due to heavy rain when we were leading 2-1. It was disappointing to lose 4-5 in the last match to Leeds Girls' High School, again with a weakened team, but also pleasing to learn that their best player will be joining us in September! The girls' did well in the Senior Students Competition.

Triangular matches were played in each round and they beat Rossett High School, Scarborough Technical College, Pocklington, King James', Harrogate Grammar School and WakefieTd*before losing to Queen Margaret's, who they'd previously beaten. They also played in the U.18 York league and had wins over York Vlth Form College, The Mount and Dunnington T.C. but lost to strong sides from Tadcaster and Bootham Schools. Nicki

Results: v Hymers College v Worksop College v Barnard Castle v Queen Margaret's v Mount St. Mary's v The Mount v Giggleswick v Ackworth v Scarborough College v Pocklington v Leeds Girls' H.S.

Away Away Away Away Away Home Home Away Home Away Home

7--2 8--1 7--2 6- -3 8--1 6- -3 3- -6 9- -0 2- -1 9--0 4- -5

Won Won Won Won Won Won Lost Won Won Won Lost

The following represented the team: R. Robertson*, E. Bowling*, N. Westwood*, J. Thompson*, S. Jackson, J. Mindenhall*, E. Ward, S. Musgrave*, V. Robinson, E. Strong, S. Pitt, A. Farley, J. Webster. * denotes Colours.

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ROUNDERS

This year we were able to field our strongest ever 2nd VI but unfortunately several Schools decided at the last minute that they could only produce one senior side and matches were cancelled as a result. Again two Vth years, Emily Strong and Vicky Robinson, played regularly for the team and this gave them valuable experience for next year. Against Queen Margaret's it was decided to determine the result on games rather than rubbers, although some of the team were unclear about this, and were disappointed to lose 39-41 although 'winning' 5-4 on rubbers. The following two fixtures offered little opposition and the term finished with a two couple friendly against Barnard Castle for the L.VIth. The teams couldn't have been better matched as they drew not only on sets but also on games (17-17). Shelagh Pitt and Amanda Farley played well in this match and have made good progress through the term.

The U. 15 rounders team played only two matches this term, mainly because tennis matches dominated the fixture list for this age group.

The first match against Hymers resulted in a 15-3 rounders win for St. Peter's, who batted and fielded well in both innings against a much weaker team.

The second match against Queen Margaret's was much closer, and could have gone either way. Both teams fielded particularly well, resulting in a low scoring game, but Queen Margaret's just clinched the match in the second innings with some fine batting and a few missed catches from the St. Peter's fielders.

The U.14 rounders team played a total of seven matches, winning two and losing five. Their first two matches against Hymers and Queen Margaret's, respectively, ended in defeat, mainly because of uncertainty within the St. Peter's fielding.

The third match against Mount St. Mary's saw a more confident St. Peter's team. They batted well and sprinted to score rounders, and followed this up with sound fielding against a very good batting side. Mount St. Mary's clinched the match in the second innings 11 lA-9lA, despite some accurate throwing from our deep fielders.

The next match necessitated a change of team, as some of the original team were playing in tennis matches. This was a low scoring game because of competent fielding by both teams, and some especially good 'backstopping'

by Samantha Carter. St. Peter's beat the Queen Mary's team by 5 rounders to 3 Vi with some positive hard hitting in the second innings.

The next two matches against Giggleswick and Ackworth ended in defeat. Both of these teams had some outstanding batsmen who were able to 'place' the ball between our deep field, no matter where they positioned themselves.

It could well have been a despondent U. 14 team that emerged for the final match on a very wet day against Scarborough College. However, this was definitely the team's most notable victory. The fielding was outstanding in every area. Some playing positions had been changed for this match and these changes certainly made a difference. Rachel Owen-Barnett played backstop for the first time and Rachel Hancock first post. This combination linked with Lisa Thompson's hard bowling meant that many of the Scarborough players failed to hit the ball and were then stumped out at first post. Those who did hit were often caught out by the post fielders or the deeps, all of whom performed magnificently in this match. This was a low scoring game, mainly because of a wet and heavy ball, but it was certainly the teams best performance, resulting in a 4-3 Vi rounders victory over a previously unbeaten Scarborough team.

The following represented the team: E. Ward, S. Musgrave, V. Robinson, E. Strong, J. Mindenhall, J. Webster, C. Farrow, C. Cranston, A. Farley, S. Pitt, H. Sans, J. Stephenson.

U.15 VI The U.15 VI generally played well and gained good results when they were all able to play, which wasn't often enough! The team was strengthened with two newcomers to the School, Ann Mulryne and Cenan Erkut. Ann, in particular, showed much improvement over the term and not only thought about her shots intelligently but also stayed calm enough to play them. After a poor start against a strong Worksop side and a closely contested game against Mount St. Mary's, the girls' went on to win five of the six remaining matches. Although the Scarborough College match was abandoned due to the weather they also gained a result here. A team was entered in the W.T.A./Midland Bank League but due to a number of cancellations, and difficulty in re-arranging them only three matches were played. They beat York College 6-0, lost 2-4 to Manor School and drew 3-3 with Sherburn.

Ann played in two of these fixtures and did well to win both the singles and doubles with different partners.

Kathryn Charman and Heidi Clark are to be congratulated on being selected for the York and District team. They played in a North Yorkshire Area Tournament where they gave a creditable performance.

Results: v Worksop College v Mount St. Mary's v Pocklington v The Mount v Queen Margaret's v Giggleswick v Ackworth v Scarborough College

Away Away Away Away Away Home Away Home

1-8 4-5 9-0 6-3 2-7 8-1 5—4 6-0

Lost Lost Won Won Lost Won Won Won

Girls who represented the School rounders team were: U. 15 — K. Charman, L. Francis, J. Swallow, S. Marshall, M. Wood, H. Clark, R. Gill, C. Erkut, A. Mulryne, C. Alton.

U.14 — S. Carter, L. Thompson, M. Tyler-Childs, J. Toms, S Lewis, L. Hoggard, R. Owen-Barnett, H. Fieldsend, K. Pittman, J. Tetlow, A. Zimmermann, E. Pope.

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The following represented the team: H. Clark, K. Charman, J. Swallow, A. Mulryne, C. Erkut, M. Wood, S. Marshall, R. Gilbert. . en1 W. M. Shepherd 75

CLUBS and ACTIVITIES thanks go also to the other seven teams for a most enjoyable contest.

J. W. E. Shaw

COMMUNITY SERVICE 1990-1 The hard work of Mrs. Holt last year, ably assisted

by Mr. Shuttleworth, meant that taking over the Community Service Group was like jumping onto a moving bus. A large number of pupils give generously of their time during the week to visit people locally in the area. (Tea and cakes are, I'm told, a regular fringe benefit!)

During the Christmas term there was a mystery coach trip (to Coxwold) for afternoon tea. In order to fund this the members of the Community Service Group raised money by a variety of ingenious ways such as cake stalls, a raffle, a treasure hunt, a temporary undercutting of the School shop's trade in soft drinks, and a hand painted Christmas card! It was very pleasing to see the group's commitment and the end result meant that an enjoyable afternoon tea was had by all.

Other events have included the termly tea where entertainment was provided by a well-known Physics technician, the Junior School Choir and a rendering of Albert and the Lion complete with horse's head handle.

These contributions have been much appreciated by our guests and even some of the pupils!

As always certain highlights stick in one's mind such as the combined choirs(?) of The Rise and Dronfield Upper Sixth plus a group of Third Formers who went to Fothergill Homes to sing carols. Even Hilda Sweeting who is deaf appreciated the quality of their singing.

The heavy snowfall in the Easter term saw a group of School House Third Formers work very hard to clear the main driveway into Fothergill Homes, a job rewarded by chips cooked by the Warden and much appreciated by those who until then had been unable to walk to the gate.

It is great pleasure to note how many of all ages in the School take a delight in helping others and on behalf of those they visit may I say thank you to them.

D. M. Paterson

UPPER SIXTH LECTURES Six or so lectures for the Upper Sixth are arranged in the course of each academic year. Their object is to inform and to stimulate interest in current and relevant matters as well as to give our senior pupils a taste of good and experienced public speakers in action.

This year's lecture programme was as varied as ever.

Juliet Solomon, writer on green issues, came up from London to challenge and provoke us about 'Your Environment and You'. Later in the Autumn Term our local M.P., Conal Gregory, told us about his life as a backbencher at Westminster.

We had three speakers in the Easter Term. Our Chairman of Governors, John Southgate, delivered a brisk and comprehensive survey of various current cathedral crises including Hereford with its attempt to sell the Mappa Mundi and Lincoln with the ill-fated visit of its copy of Magna Carta to Australia. Paul Quartey, a surgeon doing research at the University of York, spoke about cancer, and Gilbert Gray Q.C., considered by some to be England's best after-dinner speaker, entertained and informed us about the Law and the legal profession.

FRIENDS OF ST. PETER'S On Sunday 7th October the Friends had the pleasure of hosting the new parents' evening after Evensong. This was followed, later in October, by a cheese and wine evening during which the A.G.M. was held.

In April 1991 we held a very successful Spring Ball in the Memorial Hall, at which School did the catering and the music was supplied by the Mardi Gras Jazz Band.

As it proved to be a sell-out, with 244 people attending, it is hoped to repeat the exercise in 1992.

Due to the inclement weather (snow) in February the School dance for pupils had to be postponed and money returned. This was rearranged in May and because numbers had dropped it was held in the Memorial Hall.

Those who attended this disco evening thoroughly enjoyed the "cabaret" provided by Licensed Premises, the School group comprising several members of the lower sixth.

Although the Friends feel that their function is not particularly to make a profit, any money that is raised from events like these is given to various departments in School, which have recently included Drama, Rowing and Chapel. As a contribution to Appeal '89 the Friends gave six oak chairs to the new School library. In 1991 the contribution will be to purchase new equipment for girls' sport.

The F.S.P.S. has parent representatives from each year in School and they, along with members of staff (Chris Hall and Robert Jeffs) have all contributed a good deal of time and effort which has resulted in a very friendly, hard working, successful Committee.

Ann Musgrave

TOP HOUSE QUIZ 1991 The dark winter evenings saw the return of Mastermind to our screens and the revival of our own Inter-House general knowledge competition. The question master discovered that the trophy had been kept safely in The Manor over the past few years. Was this a good omen?

What is the School motto? This opening question sharpened the reflexes for the buzzer rounds and four weeks of battle began. March 14th saw the Grand Final between The Grove and, yes, The Manor. The competition was fierce and the lead changed with each round. Indeed the teams were level on points as the final and deciding question came. Which famous rock musician was born Reginald Dwight? The Manor hit the buzzer and Elton John placed the trophy back in their hands. The winning team of Michael Catling, Joel Hopwood, Timothy and Antony Dunn receive our congratulations; but our 76

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TRAVEL NEWS Mathew Sumpton and Marc Mitchell are the recipients of this year's Barry Daniel Award for adventurous travel.

They are planning a trans-Africa expedition by Land Rover. Two other Peterites on the move are Jamie Rigby and Tom Kitchingman (pictured above), who have been selected for Project Trust ventures. Tom is spending a year on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia, and Jamie is teaching English at Prince Royal School, Chiang Mai, in Thailand.

The Selborne Connection has continued to flourish.

This year we welcomed Philip Bartlett as a guest in The Rise and Neil Malherbe as a visiting member of staff.

During the summer holidays Paul Reavley and James Hague spent time at Selborne College, following in the footsteps of Sam Forsyth who went there last year. Sam gave a talk to the School on his experiences there. Travel talks were also given by Stephen Harryman (British Schools Exploring Society in Spitzbergen), Lawrence Patton (China visit) and Tim Cooper (E.S.U. Scholarship).

Sam Forsyth at Selborne.

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I was in took Crib Goch, a ridge that runs from the Pass of Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon. The ridge itself resembles a knife blade and it certainly makes you concentrate hard upon what you hold or stand on. It was exciting, exhilarating, nerve racking, etcetera... words don't mean anything until you've done it. We made the summit by about one o'clock and the view was stunning.

We all felt a degree of satisfaction looking back along the ridge which now looked even more terrifying. Chris Bonington would have been proud of us.

"On the second day a small group of us went to try our hand at some climbing on the Idwal Slabs. We had all done some climbing in the sports hall at School, and we soon began to notice the subtle differences, e.g. six hundred feet. The only thing to do was take every hundred feet as they came. In groups of two (one adult experienced climber in each group) we began to climb. It soon taught us fundamental aspects of climbing which we had overlooked in the relative safety of the sports hall. The first hundred feet was enjoyable, with pleasant views, fresh air, peace and quiet. At two hundred feet I began to wonder what heaven might look like. The thought of falling sent a shiver down die spine. Near the top I'd lost count of the number of feet below. The lake down there was now very small. There was no need to try and imagine what heaven might look like: I was nearly there! Again we felt very satisfied, having climbed the face.

SNOWDONIA 1990: WINTER HILL-WALKING As ever, a group of us — twelve pupils and an odd mixture of staff and old boys — dispelled the end-of-term stupor to assemble at School on the first day of the Christmas holiday. Euan Drysdale describes the trip from the point of view of a complete novice — soon to be converted to everyone else's fanatical devotion to this lunacy.

"Never having been to Snowdonia before with a School expedition, I set off with some trepidation about what the next few days would bring.

"The hut where we stayed was warm and we slept on bunk beds. The meals were very big and much better than I had been led to expect by the people who were there the previous year.

"On the first day we climbed Snowdon. It was really good. There was a great sense of satisfaction when we finally reached the top.

"Half way up the mountain we were given a brief description (and a few minutes practice) of how to use our ice axes, should we fall. The pack-up we were given was substantial but the chocolate bars had a tendency to freeze (as do most things in these temperatures).

"In the evening when we arrived at the hut I went straight to sleep, only to be woken for a meal — which I thought was breakfast the next day but was really supper.

"In the mornings we were woken by Simon shouting as loud as he could and banging on all the walls, which is how I imagine soldiers to be woken in barracks.

"On the third day the youngest in the party went up a snow gully above a huge lake which had iced over. First, we walked round the edge of the lake and the ice was at least six inches thick. After we passed the lake we started going up the side of the gully where we used ropes. At lunch time I found myself sitting in snow half-way up a mountain, sipping a cup of lukewarm chocolate and thinking, "What am I doing here?" On the way down we were still attached to the ropes, and we slid down on the snow.

"It was a truly amazing trip, but definitely not for the faint hearted."

"On the last day we scaled Try fan. It is an instant mountain. You pile out of the bus with packs and ice axes and start the climb/scramble to the top. The weather was poor until a moment when we were about to traverse a gully near the top. The cloud suddenly disappeared. It was amazing how high we were. We finally reached the summit and had to get down promptly as it was just getting dark.

"The Welsh holiday is not expensive. It is good fun and a challenge. The accommodation is basic — indeed, the hardest thing is getting used to the cold and the infestations of micro-organisms and fungi which will quite happily propagate in your sleeping bag... It is a holiday not to be missed."

For myself, I would like once again to thank all those who helped make the trip so successful, and to repeat the invitation: if you would be interested in joining us for all or part of the trip just before Christmas 1991, please get in touch with David Hughes at School.

From the other end of the pupils' age-range, John Sutcliffe's impressions follow: "The Christmas hillwalking holiday is the perfect excuse to scramble all over a rocky outcrop to the west of England (called Wales). A party of intrepid explorers sets out each Christmas for what is an excellent insight into mountaineering. The party is a mixed bunch: there are third formers right the way up to Very Old Peterites, and from the word go, everyone gets along and pulls their own weight.

"Basically, there are three full days. On the first day (the weather was superb) we tackled Snowdon. The group

"St. Peter's School Mountaineering Club"

There is now a formal "St. Peter's School Mountaineering Club", affiliated to the B.M.C.: membership is automatically open to all pupils. All old pupils and friends are invited to apply for membership, which will currently cost £3.50 per year. Contact David Hughes for further details.

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the form of excellent hospitality at the university and several other watering holes.

Our first game started at 7.00 that evening so we all met at 5.00 p.m., minus C. Martin who made his "own" way to the ground!! The side was picked to meet what we knew to be the best opposition we would play. At halftime the score standing at 4-3 the team realised that winning was there for the taking. Inspired by excellent play in the loose the backs removed much of the season's frustrations by scoring several remarkable tries including C. Caldwell's final try for the School before dislocating his shoulder again! We ran out 30-15 winners which was a moment to be savoured by all those who had gone through the trials of last season. The after-match hospitality was quite excellent with the university club putting on an excellent meal. Sadly the coach found his grasp of Portuguese somewhat lacking by 10.30 p.m.!!

A good sing was had, led by our own acapella specialist Mike Johnson.

1ST XV TOUR TO PORTUGAL

The following morning was spent running, waddling or simply stumbling through our training in order to run off the previous day's game. Again excellent hospitality was provided for both team and staff at lunch on Sunday.

Peter, our host, realised Mike Johnson and I were not on a diet and he and his girlfriend did not disappoint us with a splendid lunch. The second match was played after watching the Portuguese National XV beat Andorra (not a brand of sheep, Smash!). Sadly on leading 12-6 we needed to change pitches as it was getting dark!! With the disruption came a rather long second half!! and we finally went down 12-18 well into injury time.

Our next day was a rest day. Our run up the front was accomplished with considerable grumbling. However, a brief sandblasting on the beach spruced us all up except

Tour Party: P. Carvosso, A. Dean, A. Killip, G. Silverwood, E. Savage, A. Gowthorpe/ R. Bell, A. Ludiman, G. Walker, J. Morris, P. Mulryne, C. Coggrave, G. Wood, P. Reavley,.C; Martin. M. Davies, T. Reid, D. Batty, C. Richardson, A. Robinson, O. Gardner, C. Caldwell.

Tour Results Academica (Coimbra) Northern Portugal Select XV (Coimbra) C.D.U.L. (Lisbon)

Won

30—15

Lost Lost

12—16 15—16

The tour party departed from Manchester on the final Thursday of term. We thank Anthony Killip for providing us all with some excitement on the outward journey! On arrival at Lisbon we embarked on an interesting coach trip of 200km north to Figueira da Foz. Sadly Mike Davies failed to enjoy the evening meal stop and felt a little "green" for the remainder of the evening. As good British tourists the party left for our day in Coimbra, after early morning training, dressed for the beach. Sadly we had brought our own weather with us and the residents of Coimbra looked with some pity on the tourists in shorts and T-shirts with the temperature below 10°c and precipitating heavily. Fortunately warmth was at hand in 80

fact that they only wanted to take twenty-one of our party home. However, veiled threats of airport riots and our charm on the phone cleared the matter up. (Many thanks go to Judy at school for getting the message to all concerned on the home front.) Our last evening was a quiet and subdued affair with the hotel barman persuading "Smash" to sing Flower of Scotland and the party to return the favour with "Swing Low". The captain, accompanied by his faithful followers, braved the marble stairs for the final time. Jason's balance was most commendable!

So the tour ended with Angus, David and Robert all grateful for their E.E.C. subsidies! Any tour report is merely a reminder of some of the small incidents and many pleasant memories. That the party enjoyed their stay in Portugal after a hard season is fair reward for their efforts. It only remains to say how friendly our hosts were and how well organised our stay was. My thanks go to Mike Williams, of Sevenoaks School, for his organisation, Mike Johnson for his tremendous help and support and the boys for their efforts.

P. J. Stephen for Mike who managed to return having caught a very nasty 'dose' of something. He provided a number of hotel guests with an uncensored exhibition of his ills!! Peter met us for dinner and helped save "Manuel, Keith and Simon" from Graham and Gareth's evening plans, Jason's apology in Portuguese not being exactly what was intended! A splendid evening was had by all, and some of us had the scars to prove it. We left Figueira the following morning having said our goodbye's to Peter, a most charming and hospitable host.

The journey to Estoril was achieved without an accident but only just. Our coach driver clearly had a psychopathic dislike for mopeds and was not afraid to vent his feelings on these unfortunates.

Estoril provided a much bigger hotel, but equally as pleasant service and hospitality. Another brief visit to the beach saw some unconvincing 7's and a slightly damp occasion for yours truly! The next morning we were up early and trained properly for the final game.

A couple of plates of local sausages gave Ed. Savage and Paul Carvosso a good idea of what it is like to have cholera!! This meant that we were at full strength if a little less than full fitness for the C.D.U.L. match. All the U.6 played and as a result we left out our only kicker, 'OH Gardner"; sadly this was to cost us the game. We came back from 16-3 down to lose 16-15, missing three relatively simple kicks during the game. "Serge" Wood took over die full-back's role with all the flair but not quite the pace. A. Killip, the day before his sixteenth birthday, scored two splendid tries. Special thanks go to Mike Johnson our "Ref' who managed to avoid a diplomatic incident whilst discussing the laws with their very "mature" front row! On returning to the hotel we had a most pleasant evening sampling the local food and wine.

Mike Davies appeared very taken with Chicken Piri Piri and Blue Curacao! The final day found TAP airways informing us of a seven hour delay to our flight and the

Delhi 19/11/90 We travelled all day and arrived at Delhi in time to go to the Son et Lumiere at the Red Fort. We had quite a long wait and it didn't seem to have the same dramatic impact that the show at Gwalior had had.

PASSAGE TO INDIA Ann Hodgson recalls her experiences on the North-East Independent Schools' Trip to India in November.

Delhi 11/11/90 On the journey from the airport to the hotel we got our first glimpse of Indian City life; cows and bullocks on the roads, the poverty of those living in tents and huts, the crumbling blocks of flats. Our hotel (Vasont Continental) seemed an oasis of Western luxury; very incongruous amongst its surroundings.

The next day we were taken around the sights of New Delhi and then given the opportunity to do a little more exploring and shopping independently. It was a good way for us to acclimatise and get used to some of the strange sights and sounds.

Himalayan Foothills 20/11/90 Again we travelled through the day, catching fascinating glimpses of village life and the changing countryside. At dusk we arrived at the camp, by the Ganges; such peace and beauty after Delhi. The camp was on a grassy slope above a thundering rapid. There were steep hills all around, covered in rough vegetation. The sky was clear and deeply spangled with stars.

We had two exhilarating days white-water rafting, covering most of the 40km from the camp down to Rishikesh. The craft took eight of us with one guide. It was wonderful to be doing something energetic and exciting in such fantastic surroundings. On the third day some of the group went for another day's rafting whilst some of us went trekking. We walked for seven hours, our guide taking us along tracks and paths far from any road. The views were spectacular and the villages and hamlets tucked into sheltered pockets were fascinating.

The villagers live a simple life; the family upstairs, the stock below. They build the most beautiful terracing that traces the contours with lovely sweeping curves. From above, the river is stunning; milky blue-green with brilliant white sandy beaches.

On the last day we went up to Deprayav, a town at the confluence where the river takes the name Ganges.

The views all the way up the valley were fantastic.

Gwalior 13/11/90 We were up very early the next day to catch the Shatabdi Express to Gwalior. At the station we were met by the very charming boys and staff of Scindia School.

I was delighted as we wound our way further and further up onto a fantastic plateau. There were several defences and gates making a very formidable fort indeed. The School itself is in the barracks that the British built; probably some of the most noble and gracious barracks I have seen. After the seething mass of people, animals and vehicles in Gwalior below, the interior of the fort was amazingly tranquil. There were temples, flowers and bushes, games fields and tennis courts.

We spent four days at Scindia School. Some of the highlights were; the visit to an adopted village where the School had built a community centre, the powerful singing in assembly, the dramatic "green ballet" the School performed for us, the "Children's Day" which was a junior sports day with some brilliant gymnastics, the matches (cricket, football and squash) that we engaged in, the deeply moving and simple ceremony that all the boys attend every evening at sunset, the lively and amusing debate and the Son et Lumiere at the beautiful Man Singh palace. The School itself was run on the lines of a British Public School but succeeded in retaining a strong sense of Indian culture. We were all impressed by the quiet dignity of the boys and the beauty of the place.

Dehra Dun 24/11/90 We arrived at the Doon School, Dehra Dun in the dark. Two of us had rooms in the cricket pavilion which was a novel experience. The boys were divided into groups and taken off to different houses. Daylight showed just how extensive and attractive the campus is. The malis take great pride in their work and the gracious buildings and lawns are surrounded by a very colourful selection of flowers, shrubs and trees. We felt very much at home at the Doon School and we were able to spend a rather more relaxed week there; joining in activities, visiting local Schools and meeting lots of people. We played hockey, cricket, basketball, squash and football against well-matched teams. We spent half a day at Massori where we got spectacular views of the higher Himalayas. The visit to Welwyn Girls School was a delight, largely thanks to the intelligent and charming girls who showed us round with great enthusiasm. The "cultural evening", when we exchanged music and drama, was a success despite several of our more talented musicians being unable to play. On the whole we found the Doon School rather more familiar to us than any of the other places we had seen. The most memorable things for me were the many fascinating and enlightening conversations that I had with interested, wellinformed and intelligent boys and staff.

Agra 16/11/90 I found Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal the two most impressive buildings that we saw in India. Agra Fort is tremendously imposing and formidable in its defences but some of the beautiful, elegant and delicate buildings inside its walls are a complete contrast and quite stunning. I have never been moved by a building as much as the Taj Mahal moved me. I saw it at sunrise (fragile and tinged pink), at mid-day (irredescent against a bright blue sky) and at sunset (warm, gold and tranquil). The day that we were due to move on to Delhi one of the boys was ill and was so badly dehydrated that he had to be on a drip. I stayed with him in Agra whilst the others moved on and we caught up with them the next day. Between hospital visits I was able to explore more of Agra and return to the Taj again in the late afternoon.

Delhi 30/11/90 We returned to Delhi and were treated to an excellent (and very English) meal at the British High Commission.

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to the Beer Store and also plans were being made for the major Canadian holiday, March break.

The first of my three trips was to a little island the School owned, in the frozen wastes eight hours north of Toronto. The Northern Campus, or Temagami was where the School ran its Outward Bound course. Nothing could have prepared me for this experience, which at various points I couldn't believe I had actually specifically requested to go through. In retrospect though, once you got used to your breath crackling at -28 degrees plus wind chill, the frostbite, the snow-shoes, the claustrophobic snow shelters, the horrendous dehydrated food and the unusually unpleasant toilet facilities, you realised it was a fantastic and worthwhile trip, full of camaraderie, which I'm glad I went through.

My next trip was a huge contrast to this one. A friend asked me if I wanted to spend sixteen days sailing his father's yacht in the Bahamas, and after hours of hesitant contemplation I reluctantly agreed.

The first week of the final term took the School band and a "limey roadie", on a coach from Toronto, down the length of the United States, to New Orleans for the Jazz Festival. We spent four days around the city which just never seemed to shut, exploring the delights of Bourbon Street and we had what was generally termed "a most excellent time".

The Summer Term sped by and though Christmas seemed just like a blink ago, Graduation and the end of term quickly approached. At the type of School Appleby was, the end of term formalities were never going to be just mere formalities. The Graduation Ceremony was outside in the School's natural arena, aptly named the Salad Bowl, and the fifteen hundred people present were upstanding as the Graduation Class of '90 were led in by a kilted bagpiper! The Formal, a huge Ball for the Graduation Class and their parents, entailed being chauffeur driven from the champagne pre-party in a stretched limousine to a huge hotel downtown, then on to a breakfast post-party near School in the morning.

Suddenly, as quickly as it had all begun, it was over.

I had to leave all the friends that I had made and spent the year with, and I was as distressed about that as I had been ten months before, when I had left York. The beginning had been hard, I've learned that all new starts are, but when you get over the early difficulties the rewards of an experience like the one I had are invaluable.

It is a great reflection on the whole episode that the hardest part was finishing it all and leaving. It was so enjoyable that I'm doing it all again this summer, this time through B.U.N.A.C. The only thing I regret is that I'm not still in the sixth form to be able to benefit from the opportunities the scheme offers again.

Tim Cooper

E.S.U. SCHOLARSHIP Tim Cooper, O.P. sent us this report....

As I sit here in my University digs, writing a report for The Peterite on my Year-Out as an English-Speaking Union Scholar, I realise that at this time last night I was signing a cheque for another flight to Canada. I guess that shows how much of an impression the country and its people made on me in the ten months that I stayed there.

The English-Speaking Union is an educational, charitable organisation, in London, which runs many schemes to promote fellowship between English-Speaking countries. Scholarships to a number of North American Schools are just one of these schemes and are mainly for pupils between the end of their A-Level studies and the beginning of their further education.

I departed for my Canadian School, Appleby College, on the 8th of September, 1989. I had just got my results and had a place for the following year which I merely deferred. Until the day that I left England, I had not begun to even comprehend the enormity of the task I was undertaking.

I arrived in Canada with two other E.S.U. scholars but my welcoming committee had broken their name card and so we didn't meet up for about three quarters of an hour. As we pulled up at the School, I was left on my own for about three hours and began to realise what I had done. Over the next four weeks, as this "limey" struggled to find new friends and received letters from old ones telling him about how great University life was, I thought only of the difficulties I was encountering and whether or not I had made the right decision.

My parents came over after about four weeks which was a help. They quickly reminded me of something that Alistair Fernie, an E.S.U. Scholar of the previous year, had said to me just before I left; that every experience that you have over here, no matter whether pleasurable or unpleasant is good experience. From that moment on everything was a lot easier, as I realised that I had to make the best of the opportunity that I had been lucky enough to have offered to me.

In the first term I enjoyed playing soccer, which enabled me to tour Montreal with the competitive and friendly team, took part in the School's first dramatic production of the year and enjoyed subjects I had been forced to drop earlier on in my academic career, which the School's varied programme now re-offered me.

With a place already secured at Loughborough University, the trip had little academic relevance other than my new subjects of Art, Public Speaking and Politics.

For me the intention was to give as much to my new society as I could manage, whether this was socially or dramatically, on the sports field or in the classroom.

After Christmas the whole pace of my experience quickened, I had a decent set of friends and was beginning to learn what it was like to be a young Canadian, in affluent Oakville, just outside Toronto, Ontario. The rugby season was beginning, parties were becoming more and more frequent, or at least the invitations were, as I was now one of three people in the School who could go

Footnote: Stephen Brown, O.P., has been spending six months at a School in California, also as an EnglishSpeaking Union Scholar.

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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES THE ALCUIN LIBRARY

THE ARCHIVE DEPARTMENT

The first year of the new Alcuin Library has been a time of increased use and consolidation. 1,925 books have been added to the various sections, and an increased number of pupils have been using the facilities for study and leisure. Others, however, do not appear to realise the advantage of having a comfortable, quiet and attractive area to benefit their studies. It is hoped that during the summer holidays the shelves will have been corrected, and some sections re-positioned. It is also hoped that a full catalogue under the Dewey Decimal System will be completed.

We have been pleased by the help and interest shown, and are grateful to Ian Sharper, library monitor, for all his assistance, and to Dominic Todd who has cared for the magazine section. Mr. Hodgin has been most kind in supplying copies of magazines on electronics and computing, which have been very popular and useful. If other friends would like to pass on their magazines when they have finished with them, they will be gratefully received.

We are also extremely grateful to parents and pupils for the gift of books as leaving presents. Bookplates recording the names of the donors have been fixed into each volume. Other friends have been kind enough to offer us books which they had finished with. Our special thanks go to Mr. John Denison and to the following pupils and their parents:

Much work remains to be done in the sorting, collecting and cataloguing of the archive material we have, and help with these matters would be most welcome, especially with the indexing of "The Peterite".

Interest in the archives is certainly growing, and the many visitors that we have had have been impressed. The number of enquiries we receive by post is also increasing, and we are glad to be able to help enquirers whenever we can.

Work has continued with the preservation of items from the past. Disintegrating colours books have been rebound, and even a detention book has been strengthened and bound for posterity. Visitors enjoy checking on their past crimes. The old Visitor's Book, first begun in 1919, has also been restored and rebound, and brought back into use. Because of the kindness of friends in the Swap Shop who gave us a most generous donation for books we have almost completed the rebinding of past numbers of "The Peterite" magazine. Apart from inexplicably missing numbers from 1957 to 1963 we now have a handsome set, beautifully bound by Messrs. Aste & Smith, until 1980 when the size and shape of the magazine was altered.

We are, as ever, extremely grateful to those who have given items for our collection. In addition to the generous donation from the Swap Shop already mentioned, we thank the following:

Justin Brayshaw Roland Carnaby Richard Griggs The Jarmain family Gareth Kay Alexander McPhail Sarah Masterman Marc Mitchell Ben Millar Lawrence Patton

Guy Bailey for Peterite magazines, and items of corps uniform.

George Alderson for photographs, play programmes, Science exhibitions, reminiscences and a wooden shield bearing the School crest.

Richard Harland for his Old Peterite Club blazer, two O.P. bow ties, silk square, photographs and rowing zephyr.

Guy King-Reynolds for letters and items concerning his uncle, killed in the First World War.

Simon Powell Gavin and Stephen Proudley Tifanny Richards Christopher Rowland James and Robert Stephenson The Torlesse family Adam Waters Philip Watson Matthew Williams

We were particularly delighted by a telephone call from the aunts of Old Peterite Lieutenant Hugh Lister Taylor, R.N. whose plane was shot down over the Pacific in the closing stages of the Second World War. Thanks to the kindness of his surviving aunts we now have his framed set of war medals, photographs of him as a boy and as a naval officer, a cup won by the winning crew of 1940 when he was captain of boats, and his lucky mascot which accompanied him during his war service.

Even though our collection of archives is growing we are still anxious for more — anything and everything.

Uniforms, games, books, trophies, medals, letters and diaries, photographs, magazines, old reports and bills — all the stuff of history — so please do not dispose of any items connected with the School without first giving us a thought.

We were also delighted to receive a most generous sum of money from the profits of the Swap Shop. With this we were able to add to the library a most handsome and useful fifteen volume set of the Oxford History of English Literature. Some money remained, and with this, as reported in the Archive Section, we almost completed the re-binding of back numbers of "The Peterite". Even then some money was left with which it is hoped to have specially designed bookplates to designate book donors.

We are indeed grateful to Buff and Dick Reid, and all who help and support the Swap Shop.

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FORGOTTEN FAME No. 3

Edward Oldcorne 1560—1606 Robert Middleton 1570—1601

Robert Middleton was the son of a York tiler, and may have been related to St. Margaret Clitherow, another York martyr. He was the same age as Guy Fawkes, so would have attended the School in the Horsefair with him.

Although at one time he was a protestant, "Conscience and reading books" brought his conversion to the Catholic faith.

After leaving School he worked for a London merchant, and may have helped to smuggle priests into England. On 14th April 1597 he entered the English College in Rome, returning to England as a disguised priest in 1598. He was quickly arrested near Ripon, but managed to escape, although he was later detained in Lancashire. Another priest, Father Thurstan Hunt made a valiant rescue attempt, but was himself arrested.

Both priests were closely examined by the Privy Council in London before being returned to Lancaster for execution. Whilst in the cells their patience, cheerfulness and holiness impressed even their jailers, and their fine example converted five of their fellow prisoners. Just before his execution Robert's sister was able to smuggle in to him the news that he had been accepted in the Jesuit Order.

In March 1601 both priests were hanged, drawn and quartered. On 22nd November 1987 with other English martyrs Robert was beatified.

Edward Oldcorne was the son of a prosperous York builder who had accepted the reformed faith, but his mother remained firmly Roman Catholic, was imprisoned several times for her faith, and eventually died in York Castle. Edward is described as being well educated, sturdy in faith, affectionate, self-effacing and zealous. His personal saintliness was noteworthy.

In 1582 he entered the English College in Rome and was admitted to the Jesuit Order in 1588. After his return to England his ministry was centred in Worcestershire where, despite suffering from cancer, he worked constantly to minister to the Catholics of the region. He became one of the most hunted priests in England, and had many narrow escapes from government agents.

Finally, after being hidden in a priest hole for eight days, starvation drove him out and he was arrested with Father Henry Garnet.

Every effort was made to implicate the two priests in the Gunpowder Plot, but they denied all knowledge of it. Edward remained constant, despite suffering appalling tortures for five hours a day on five consecutive days.

Having failed to force any confession out of him he was condemned, not as a plotter, but as "A priest and Jesuit, well known to have gained many souls to the Catholic faith". He was executed in Worcester on 7th April 1606 and declared Venerable in 1886.

OLD PETERITE SECTION M. F. H. Hjort (The Grove 1974-79) has returned to York, after spending four years with the Roux brothers. Last June, he opened a restaurant at 7 Scarcroft Road, York, which he has called Melton's. As one might expect, his food may be described as Anglo-French.

We wish him well in his new venture — will he invent a special Old Peterite menu?!

LATEST NEWS OF SOME OPs A. D. M. Barrell (Temple House 1974-79) has recently graduated from the University of St. Andrew's with a Ph.D. His thesis was on the Papacy's relations with Scotland and Northern England in the fourteenth century. He has already been published in some journals and hopes to expand the material into a book.

We congratulate him on his academic success — and hope that he will let us have a copy of his book for the new School library!

Tom Kitchingman (The Rise 1986-1991) is going to spend a year on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia. He has been trying hard to raise £2,000 to contribute towards the cost of his venture, sponsored partly by Project Trust.

This is an organisation which sponsors School leavers for practical projects abroad.

Dr. Tom Boulton (The Manor 1940-1943) was awarded the O.B.E. in the 1991 New Year Honours List.

R. D. Harding (The Rise 1960-1966) has been awarded sabbatical leave for the Easter Term 1992 by the Governors of Repton School. Based near Lake Geneva, he will be researching into glacial activity in the Swiss Alps and hopes to witness some of the Winter Olympics while visiting the French Alps.

He has also recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Jamie Rigby (Queen's House 1986-1991) is going to Thailand, also with Project Trust. He has been trying to raise the same amount of money as Tom. He will be teaching English at Prince Royal School, Chiang Mai. 86

It is a pity that Tom's and Jamie's request for help came too late for the wheels of Old Peterite generosity to be put in motion. Future such adventurous spirits would do well to understand that we only communicate twice a year — the President's letter in May and the Newsletter in August. By August Tom and Jamie will be on their way abroad. It would be good to see what we can do to back up such adventures in future years.

Anyone care to organise some event?

Marc Mitchell (School House 1986-1991) and Mathew Sumpton (School House 1986-1991) It is not too late to help two OPs who are planning to cross Africa, starting at the end of this year. They are crossing the Sahara, going to the valley of the Niger and across to the valley of the Congo, finishing up in Kenya.

This looks pretty tough and they will be very grateful for any finance, help or expert advice which any OP can give them. What about it?

John Raylor (The Manor 1947-1952) has been appointed Provincial Grand Master of Freemasonry in the Province of Yorkshire, North and East Ridings. It is a high honour and we congratulate him on his appointment.

In this connection, the Old Peterite Lodge holds Open Days at regular intervals for members of the Sixth Form and others interested. To see what it involves you can contact the Secretary of the Old Peterite Lodge, Brian Watson, at 1 Scawton Avenue, Huntington, York Y03 9JA. Jonathan Robinson (The Grove 1980-1985) has just received his M.B., Ch.B. from Dundee University and is to take up his first hospital post in September.

His sister, Emma (The Grove 1986-1988) married Mr. Luc Vanhal, The Walt Disney Corporation's Middle East and European Director of Finance, in the School Chapel in October 1990 and now resides in Paris.

Younger brother, Simon (The Grove 1985-1989) works for Croft Hotels and is working at the Elm Bank Hotel in York.

FOR SALE The following are available from the Secretary: E. G. Thompson, "West Winds", 4 Moor Lane, Haxby, York Y03 3PH. Please send your cheque made out to 'The Old Peterite Club'. Please include a normal postage stamp for all items except books, for which two stamps should be included.

O.P. Shields O.P. Club Ties O.P. Club Brooches/Tie pins O.P. Centenary Spoons O.P. Centenary Brochures Chronology by R. Harding

£25.00 £ 5.00 £ 4.00 £ 2.00 £ 0.50 £ 3.00

CHANGES OF ADDRESS C. T. Brockbank, Esq., 10 Stanhope Road, Darlington, Co. Durham DC3 7AR. P. A. Critchley, Esq., 18 Park Avenue, Sherburn-inElmet, Nr. Leeds LS25 6EF. D. W. Fulbrook, Esq., The Coach House, Oakwood Hill House, Oakwood Hill, Dorking, Surrey RH5 5PY. M. Hepworth, Esq., The Lawns, 23 Shipton Road, York.

C. E. S. Monro, Esq., 41 Lebanon Park, Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 3DH. R. W. Peel, Esq., 24 Colwood Gardens, Collier's Wood, London SW19 2DT. W. N. Richards, Esq., The Rectory, Martley, Worcestershire WR6 6QA. S. Ryder, Esq., Trent College, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire WR6 6QA. R. P. Shouksmith, Esq., Red Roof, Lords Moor Lane, Strensall, York Y03 5XF. T. Stead, Esq., 6 Park Square, Leeds 1, Strensall, York.

D. A. J; Thomas, Esq., Greencrest, Sellick's Green, Taunton, Somerset TA3 7SD. C. W. Thompson, Esq., Croft House, Main Street, Milton, Nr. Tuxford, Nottinghamshire NG22 0PP. N. G. Townsend, Esq., 11 Easby Close, Whitebridge Park, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE3 5LW.

OLD PETERITE LODGE No. 6412 Installation The annual Installation Festival of the Old Peterite Lodge No. 6412 was held at the Freemasons Hall, Duncombe Place, York on Wednesday 19th June 1991 when W.Bro. Charles William Knowlson (School House 1970-75) was Installed as Master for the ensuing year.

Further information regarding the Lodge can be obtained from the Secretary, B. J. Watson, 1 Scawton Avenue, Huntington, York Y03 9JA. Provincial Grand Lodge On the promotion of the present Provincial Grand Master to Deputy Grand Master, the new Provincial Grand Master for the Province of Yorkshire, North and East Ridings, will be V.W.Bro. John Malcolm Raylor (The Manor 1947-52). He will be Installed at a Ceremony at Scarborough Spa on Wednesday 2nd October 1991.

WANTED Old Peterite Blazer, approx. size 38".

Contact: Peter Oglesby, Old Thatch, Hampshire. Telephone: (0252) 616760.

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RECOLLECTIONS

We have had several interesting letters this year from ex-pupils or the family of ex-pupils.

E. O. Hillyard is to celebrate his 101st birthday this August. When we spoke to his family at Northallerton in February he was hale and hearty, and we sent him the best wishes of the OP Club. He recalls that he came to St. Olave's at the age of nine, which was below the usual age of acceptance. He arrived at School in a pony and trap, driven by a groom, who returned to collect him after School.

Mornings were taken up with formal education and afternoons with sports.

Early morning service left a strong impression on him.

The service was always conducted by the Headmaster.

A popular and very athletic member of staff took them in the gym and having given an excellent demonstration of vaulting over the horse (older OPs will remember the horse!), the teacher repeated it with great gusto and fell flat on his face, raising a lot of dust from the matting and some sympathy from the pupils.

After cricket, junior pupils were recruited to find lost cricket balls from the long grass surrounding the playing area. Games were either rugby or cricket — he has no memory of any soccer.

(Editor's note — It is interesting how the odd behaviour of members of staff remains outstanding for the rest of our life. How many will remember Wentworth Ping swinging fire-buckets of water over his head to demonstrate centrifugal force?!)

Pietro Limpivas came from Hawaii and arrived in York as it was celebrating its 1,500th anniversary in 1924 (sic).

He died at the age of eighty in 1986, but his son has a record from copious notes which Pietro kept.

He remembers the daily routine: wake and wash — breakfast — chapel — class — lunch — class — sports — clean up — tea — prep. — supper — bed.

Toilets and bathrooms were on the ground floor, away from the House.

There were bath tubs, half filled with water, for the cold bath in winter. Sometimes there was a thin sheet of ice on the surface, when the students would lower themselves backwards for a few seconds to comply with the requirement to take a bath.

Food was less than plentiful. He was not sure whether this was to toughen the pupils or to save on cost! Fresh bread was not given because the School claimed that it contained harmful chemicals, it had to be at least a day

old. Many of the vegetables were grown in the School garden. Dessert was mainly rice pudding. The Housemaster and his wife always joined the students for lunch.

Pocket money was two shillings and five pence (12p) for younger, and five shillings (25p) for the older students.

Once a week there was a hot bath and a clean towel.

Pyjamas were changed once a fortnight.

Sport was — in winter — rugger and cross-country obstacle races. In spring rowing and hockey. In summer cricket and swimming.

Students were allowed to keep bicycles to ride into York.

John McCowen came to the School in September 1921.

He recollects how his brother, Angus, and he came to the School as despised 'Day Bugs'. They lived at 4 St. James Terrace, Clifton. They both went on to Cambridge.

John was at Caius and Angus was at Christ's.

John's twin grandchildren have just had two years in the Sixth Form (1987-1990).

Back in 1922, there were two charming Siamese Princelings at the Grove, answering to the name of Chimbo, who got to know them well and they came regularly to tea with the McCowens on Sunday.

Their particular friends at School were two Parkinsons, three Storrs-Fox and Peter Young, all of whom went on to Oxbridge.

John got a First at Cambridge and went on to work for ICI. St. Peter's O.T.C. led him to obtain a T.A. Commission at Cambridge and he later served as a halfColonel in the war in Military Intelligence.

He has a print of the School as it was in those days with the Headmaster's house on the left and the form-room which he remembers best ('Remove'), where P. S. Sykes was the form-master. He used to be called 'Pissy Sykes' of course.

So there we have a few memories for some other 'Oldies', as John calls himself. He is still proud of the great history and traditions of the School and we thank him for the remarks and wish him many more years of happiness in Devon.

The above reminiscences are somewhat abridged, but they do give a flavour of what life was like at St. Peter's at the start of this century.

There are some old ways which should never be changed — discipline (both academic and personal), Christianity and morality are a few of them. But one imagines that many of the present-day boys and girls at the School are heartily glad that some of the old ways (e.g. the cold bath?) are no longer with us!

We thank those who sent us the articles and hope that, now that we have a resident archivist, John Mitchell, contributions of memories and memorabilia will continue to arrive in ever greater numbers.

T. J. Lewis (The Rise 1923-1926) Tom Lewis who died on 21st November aged eighty years at his home in Sway, Hampshire was undoubtedly the most loyal Peterite of his generation. He came to St. Peter's from Stratheden Preparatory School in Blackheath, where the Headmaster was an Old Peterite and the father of Kenneth (Rhoddy) Rhodes. Tom was placed in The Rise, the House where 'Rhoddy' had been first monitor.

His stay at the School (1923-26) was short, leaving at only sixteen years of age, he had at that early age found a place in the 1st XI cricket team under A. B. Sellers. Leaving School he studied law, whilst his cricket abilities were recognised by an offer of professional terms from Essex County. As an R. A.F. Volunteer Reservist he was called up in the early days of the Second World War 'demobbed' with the rank of Squadron Leader, 'Mentioned in Despatches' and later awarded the R. A.F. Long Service Decoration. Continuing in the legal profession after the war he became Chief Executive to Runcorn U.D.C. He became President of the Society of U.D.C. Clerks and awarded an O.B.E.

IN MEMORIAM Patrick F. Bach (1917-1919) Died, aged eighty-seven, in November last year. He was a life member of the OP Club.

Chris Bodington (Temple 1941-1943 : The Rise 1943-1945) I see from a copy of Steel News that Chris Bodington has died at the age of sixty-three.

He was a former British Steel Senior Legal Adviser.

He retired in 1987 but still continued to advise British Steel on special legal matters. His main expertise was in European Community law.

At School, Chris was a House Monitor and was in the 2nd XI Hockey team in 1942.

David N. Brocklebank (Manor 1952-57) David died on 13th November 1990.

Harold Burton (1919-1921) It was announced in the Yorkshire Evening Press last October that Harold Burton had died on 2nd October, 1990.

Harold came from a farming community and lived at Tollerton.

His services to the School and OP Club were legion: OP Hon. Secretary 1955-64; OP President 1964-65; School Governor; Assistant Secretary Old Peterite Lodge of Freemasons. An indefatigable worker on many appeal committees, he was the driving force in the financing of the Memorial Hall by the OPs. His affection for the School was shown when he sent his son Clive to St. Peter's — the son did not let the father down, becoming Head of School in 1955. Lewis represented the School in negotiations with the Charity Commissioners when a new scheme was established (in 1981).

Committee meetings, on the few occasions when Tom Lewis was missing were worthwhile yet possibly dull and prosaic. To be present when the young (comparatively) innovators led by Bill Thompson were battling against the implacable defence of the Establishment by Tom Lewis was sheer delight.

Dr. A. M. Michael Can (Manor 1949-1954) Michael emigrated to Newfoundland, Canada in 1961 where he practised as a medical doctor. In 1967 he was voted Mayor of his local town, with the biggest majority in the town's history. He somehow got caught up in the misuse of drugs and suffered a prison sentence on June 1976. After his release, he made a successful*return to medical practice and social respectability. Unfortunately, he still suffered nervous stress, and finally, aged fiftyfour, took his own life in October last year. He left a wife and four children.

A letter in the local paper describes him as being:— "a dedicated, caring and competent physician who brought ease, comfort and relief to many who sought his service. He was a good man: he tried very hard to be good...."

Those of us who knew him as a boy were sad to hear of his misfortunes but pay tribute to his finer qualities.

Steve Pettinger Steve suffered a heart attack and died earlier this year, at the age of thirty-six. He was a cameraman with YTV and worked on prestigious YTV productions around the world. He came to the School in 1963.

George W. Harding (1932-1939) George was killed in a recent plane crash whilst returning from Blackpool.

He was associated with the well-known linen retailers in Ousegate.

He was a Day Boy at School and played for the 1st and 2nd XV, and was awarded his colours in both. He was in the Shooting VIII and was a corporal in the O.T.C.

Dr. A. G. Wilson (Day Boy 1909-1911) A much-respected medical practitioner, Dr. "Peter" Wilson served in the forces throughout both World Wars, first in the army, then the R.F.C. and finally in the R.A.F. He was awarded one of the last Military Crosses given for air service before the R.A.F. and the D.F.C. came into being.

Brought up in Haxby, he spent most of his life in the south of England, but never lost his love of the School and of the county of Yorkshire.

Eric Kaiser (Temple 1941-1946) Eric was in the jewellery business in York and died in January of this year. His death was reported in the Evening Press of January 11th 1991.

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LIST OF THOSE PRESENT AT THE TYNESIDE DINNER 1991 The Head Master T. Bletcher R. Brammall D. L. Brown Dr. H. G. Brown J. F. Brown N. Chippendale J. L. Clarke J. T. Harding R. D. Harding W. G. Huntley

LIST OF THOSE PRESENT AT THE EAST RIDING DINNER 1991 J. Abbey B. Allen C M . Atkinson D. P. Atkinson J. S. Atkinson P. S. Atkinson J. P. Banks D. L. Brown N. Brown F. D. Browne C. M. C. Burdass James Burdass J. U. Burdass R. Burdass D. E. Byass D. P. Coles C. Cromack J. Dawson C. C. Dee M. Dee J. Dent R. D. Ellis J. Farnsworth A. Fenton C. Frank J. Frank F. Gooder P. Gooder D. H. Hamilton R. F. Harding

G. M. Jobling R. L. Jobling J. Laverack J. Pearson R. Pickersgill E. Potts S. Proudley M. E. Robson D. T. Rumfitt N. G. Townsend D. G. M. Young

THE OLD PETERITE LONDON DINNER The Great Western Royal Hotel, Padding ton, London Friday, 2nd November 1990 David ADAMSON John ADDEY William ADLER Darley ANDERSON Chris BEAUMONT Tim BEAUMONT Nigel BRINDLEY Anthony BRINDLEY David Leslie BROWN (President O.P. Club) Hugh BROWN David BURTON Richard CAWOOD Robert N. COLLIER John COSSINS Keith COULTHARD Patrick CRAVEN George CROWTHER Nigel DAWKINS Allan DODDS T. Philip N. FAWCETT Simon FENWICK Robin A. FIELD Michael FIRBY Doug FLEMING Peter FLETCHER Archie GARBUTT Paul GITTENS Alan GOMERSALL Richard HARDING (Hon. Sec. O.P. Club) Robert F. HARDJNG (Past President) John Trevor HARDING (Past President) Graham HART

John HAYES J. M. HOLT Peter HYETT David JAMES Peter JOWSEY Christopher KING Ian KIRKUS Tim LAYFIELD Stephen LISTER Fiona McCRIMMON Peter MIDGELEY Tony MILLER Richard MOSS Frank NEWDICK P. A. NEWDICK Neil PARKIN Graham PATTIE Carl PATTISON Robin N. PITTMAN Andrew POWELL Colin J. QUICKFALL

R. Hopkinson N. Hopton F. Howie D. P. Johnston S. Jordan I. Leedham J. S. Megginson P. R. B. Megginson S. Megginson T. Mulryne J. Newdick J. Newitt T. Nichols R. W. Peacock A. Ray lor S. Ryder G. M. Shuttleworth N. Squire T. H. Stead P. Stephen C. W. Thompson E. G. Thompson A. Thornton J. S. R. Tindall N. E. Tomlinson D. Ward T. Ward P. H. Whitaker R. D. Wood

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The Old Peterite Club Officers and District Hon. Secretaries 1991/1992 President: D. L. Brown, "Ashcroft", Ashcroft Road, Darlington, Co. Durham DL3 8PD. Past Presidents: J. A. Hanson, C. W. Thompson, P. S. Atkinson, F. N. Newdick, R. F. Harding, D. T. Rumfitt, J. T. Harding, J. A. Denison, E. M. H. Ranson Vice-Presidents: The Head Master, K. G. Chilman, Brig. C. C. Fairweather, Sir John Rodgers, Bt. Hon. Secretary: E. G. Thompson, "West Winds', 4 Moor Lane, Haxby, York Y03 3PH. Hon. Treasurer: S. M. Burn, 11 Lendal, York YOl 2AQ. General Committee 1990/1991 Ex-officio: — The President, Secretary and Treasurer. The Head Master. Past FIVE Presidents, all Vice-Presidents.

Elected 1988-1991: D. P. Atkinson, C. Frank, C. E. Gilman, D. W. Grice, J. C. M. Rayson.

Elected 1989-1992: V. M. Black, G. E. L. Graham, G. Grant, G. M. Jobling, G. M. Shuttleworth.

Elected 1990-1993: J. E. Burdass, P. M. Darley, V. L. J. Inness, I. P. J. Leedham, R. W. Oliver, S. Ryder, D. Tunstall.

Note: The A.G.M. of the Old Peterite Club is now to be held at the Old Peterite Weekend, this year on the 14th September.

At the meeting the Committee will elect three new members to replace those whose three-year term of office has elapsed.

Younger O.P.'s are particularly welcome to come to the A.G.M., to take an active part in the running of the Club and to be elected to the Committee.

Finance and General Purposes: Ex-officio:— The President, Secretary and Treasurer. The Immediate Past President.

Elected 1990-1992: R. W. Oliver, G. D. Smith.

The following dinners have been announced:— Friday, 31st May: The East Riding Dinner — 7.30 p.m. for 8.00 p.m. at The Bell Hotel, Driffield. Tel: 0377-46661.

Organiser: Peter Atkinson. Tel: (Home) 0377-42212. (Office) 0377-43151.

Friday, 4th October: The Tyneside Dinner — at County Hotel, Newcastle (opposite the Central Station). Organisers: Richard Pickersgill. Tel: (Home) 091-2843770. (Office) 091-2611481 and Michael Jobling. Tel: (Home) 0661-24924.

(Office) 091-2615298.

Friday, 9th November: The London Dinner — 7.00 for 7.30 p.m. at The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, London Wl Y 2ER. Organisers: Richard Harding. Tel: 0283-702694 and David Raymond. Tel: 071-262-7059.

Friday, 22nd November: The West Riding Dinner — at The Bradford Club. Organisers: Chris Gilman. Tel: 0904-646313 and Bill Hudson. Tel: 0943-874504.

1992 Friday, 29th May: The East Riding Dinner — 7.30 p.m. for 8.00 p.m. at The Bell Hotel, Driffield. Tel: 0377-46661.

Organiser: Peter Atkinson. Tel: (Home) 0377-42212. (Office) 0377-43151.

Other dates to note 1991 Weekend 13-15th September: Old Peterite Sports and Commemoration Weekend.

Friday 13th: Sporting Programme.

Saturday 14th: 12.00 noon Service in Chapel, followed by Buffet Lunch (Tickets needed).

All afternoon. Sporting and other events.

4.00 p.m. Tea in the Memorial Hall (No Tickets needed).

6.30 p.m. A.G.M. of Old Peterite Club.

7.30 p.m. Bar in Memorial Hall for:— 8.00 p.m. Annual Old Peterite Dinner (Tickets Needed).

Sunday 15th: Sporting Events. Tea (No Tickets needed).

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