THE 1350th COMMEMORATIVE PLATE The School is most grateful to Mr. M. D. B. Sinclair (a member of the Governing Body) for arranging for the issue of a most attractive limited edition Commemorative Plate. The issue was restricted to 500 numbered plates and was sold out within a few days of being offered to parents and O.P.s, and other collectors of limited edition plates. The School benefited by the sum of £1,800, which was most generously donated by Mulberry Hall as a royalty on the sales of the plate. This sum has been placed to the credit of the Development Fund Appeal. DEVELOPMENT FUND APPEAL, PHASE II As part of our 1350th Anniversary Year, Phase II of the Development Fund was launched on March 18th by the Headmaster addressing a gathering of parents in the Drama Centre. The aim of Phase II of the Appeal is to raise £40,000 to pay for the building of a Centre for Design and Technology. So far the response from parents and O.P.s has been extremely generous and £24,000 has been promised providing the balance can be raised. We are now going all out to raise this balance in order that the building of this new Centre may commence in 1978. J.P.F.A.
PRESENTATION OF PRIZES 2nd October, 1976 For this occasion we were honoured by the presence of His Grace the Lord Archbishop of York, who distributed the prizes and gave an address. The Chair was taken by Mr. Walter Smith, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Governors. The Headmaster, after greeting the large gathering of parents, listed highlights in what he called a bumper year: I
The successes of the cricket season. The performance of The Caretaker in the old gym. The large number of representative teams (at least 12 sports in the Easter term). The formation of the Chapel Committee. The large crop of Duke of Edinburgh Awards. The success of the fencing team. The success of four internationals in the School. The work of the Crossed Keys Printery. The teamwork of Iolanthe. He expressed the School's thanks to three men recently retired, who had worked for twenty years or more in the School—the Chaplain, Noel Kemp-Welch; the Clerk of Works, Jack Coates; the chef, Joe Franks. Finally he turned his attention to the School's relationship with the outside world, in these words: 9
