The Suttonian 1963 (Summer Term) by Sutton Valence School

THE

SUTTON IAN

SUMMER TERM 1963

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CONTENTS

Editorial .. School Officials School Notes .. Valete Salvete Our Contemporaries .. Chapel Notes .. Library Notes Music Notes .. The " Kent Messenger " Walk Music Examinations Society Notes Saturday Society •• Films .. The Jazz Band Speech Day .. Prize Winners Lectures •• Ashford Dance Original Contributions •• Easter Holidays Hockey .. •• The Duke of Edinburgh's Awards Scheme Initiative Exercises C.C.F. Notes .. Shooting Notes Cricket Athletics Swimming Tennis Fencing Judo .. The Public Schools Old Boys' Golf Association Golf Notes O.S. Notes Correspondence •• Rugby Fixtures, 1963

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No. 251 (No. 9 of Volume XXX)

Editorial

T the moment the entire educational system of this country is under review, and the next few years are likely to see a number of important changes in this sphere. While the eleven-plus has come in for a certain amount of criticism from various sources (some authorities having dropped it already) we at Sutton Valence are more concerned with the" eighteen-plus" and the increasing difficulty in obtaining university places. Mr. Harold Wilson has pledged that if Labour is returned in the next election, a great many more universities will be built. However, whichever government is in power, it will have to improve the situation in our primary schools, secondary schools and places of further education. A great deal of money is being spent on education, especially scientific education— but to what end ? To win the hot war or to maintain the cold ? What do we mean by education ? It is not enough for schools to turn out more technically proficient men and women. Getting someone through G.C.E. may mean that we have produced merely a more efficient scoundrel. We surely do not need to be reminded that a Communist or Fascist regime can produce all the paraphernalia of the welfare state, whilst at the same time coming within an ace of destroying civilisation itself. While, therefore, the passing of examinations is certainly important, there are other things even more necessary for the good life—things often overlooked in state secondary schools—personal integrity, understanding, social responsibility, an appreciation, in the widest sense, of the arts. I say " overlooked "—rather they are foregone out of necessity. Lack of time, lack of opportunity and lack of facilities make anything other than " education" in the narrowest sense of the word, virtually impossible. The ties which bind members of public schools before and after their schooling is completed, often do not exist elsewhere. This brings me to the institution of the public school. It is widely criticised and always has been. But the interesting point is that in recent years the grounds of criticism have changed. In the past, the content of its curriculum was called in question. Today it is widely accepted that the public schools take in a pretty mixed lot so far as intelligence or even environment, is concerned, and instil the values which we have referred to as being difficult to attain elsewhere. The only human relations that have value are those that are rooted in mutual freedom. Freedom is the ability to be responsible for oneself. The best public schools teach this selfdiscipline, and many who begin by hating it end by knowing it and valuing what they know. Now, the criticism is that the public school, expensive and exclusive, is the prerogative of a few and thus is the perpetuator of a " class" society. There is truth in this. In the long run the freedom of a nation is measured by the freedom of its lowest class ; every forward step of that class to the possibility of possessing higher things raises the standard of the nation in the scale of civilisation. One of the biggest advances that could be made in the reorganisation of education in this country would be to make available to a much wider section of the community the best features of the public schools.

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Athletics :

School Officials Head of School. N. J. Latimer School I 'rejects :

P. A. B. Hukins N. P. Watkins C. R. Byng-Maddick S. J. Lyne R. L. &mailman House P rejects : Westnlinster : St. Margaret's :

C. J. Chitty R. J. Waugh R. Clarke R. S. R. Langley P. L. G. Browne C. D. Nickolds S. E. Marsh Lambe' s : J. C. Murrells

D. J. Luget J. P. Rutter R. Memmott N. L. A. Cook A. C. Beglin J. H. Jackson R. M. R. West

M. 0. Hoppe F. Y. C. Hung N. J. W. Page P. C. Hodges J. S. Dudbridge V. D. Sones D. I. A. Johnson N. B. Houghton Founder's :

R. C. Bristow D. Shaughnessy G. G. Cooper J. Ashley-Smith D. I. F. Kelleher

Cornwallis :

D. V. Hole Q. W. Tweedie T. J. Eames J. L. Cox

R. J. Harvey W. A. Cairns G. S. Farrow R. I. Midmer

Sports Committee :

The Headmaster (President) E. A. Craven, Esq. (Chairman) N. J. Lattimer (Hon. Secretary) P. S. W. MacIlwaine, N. P. Watkins P. A. B. Hukins Esq. C. R. Byng-Maddick D. A. Simmons, S. J. Lyne Esq. F. R. Ball, Esq. Cricket:

N. P. Watkins (Captain) D. I. F. Kelleher (Hon. Secretary)

P. C. Hodges (Captain) Tennis : S. J. Lyne (Hon. Secretary) Swimming : V. D. Sones (Captain) Shooting :

J. P. Rutter (Captain) R. J. Lynden-Bell (Hon. Secretary) Library Committee : The Headmaster (President) L. N. Harvey, Esq. (Librarian) R. L. Smallman (Hon. Secretary)

N. P. Watkins C. J. Chitty R. C. Bristow

N. J. Lattimer R. J. Harvey N. J. W. Page

Suttonian Committee : J. Holt (Editor) N. J. W. Page

V. D. Sones S. J. Lyne

R. J. Harvey R. W. Fisk B. E. Cleghorn

School Notes

G. S. Farrow and R. I. Midmer have been appointed House Prefects in Cornwallis. R. M. R. West has been appointed a House Prefect in Lambe's. J. C. Murrells, R. Mennnott, A. Barr, H. L. Evans, R. V. Cant, D. J. Allawav and T. R. Goulden have been awarded their Cricket Colours. D. J. Luget, T. J. Epps, R. J. Penfold, J. R. Parsons and H. W. Wiggins have been awarded their Shooting Colours. K. .J. Spear, W. E. Lucy, G. B. L. Harrison and R. Malkin have been awarded their Under-I5 Colours.

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A. F. Pacey, C. J. Woods, D. M. Ball, K. L. Stewart and A. P. Montgomery have been awarded their Junior Swimming Colours. N. Neal, C. J. Buzzard, R. J. LyndenBell and E. C. Coller have been awarded their Junior Athletics Colours. D. J. Luget, M. G. F. Hudson and M. J. R. Sealey have been awarded their Tennis Colours. Valete N. J. LATTIMER (St. M.-1957).—Head of House, Head of School, "0," "A," " S " Levels, 1st XV Rugger (Hon. Sec.), 2nd XI Hockey, School Athletics and K.C.A.A.A. Schools Youth Championship, Kent and Public Schools Seven-a-side Tournaments, i/c House Drill Squad, Sgt. in C.C.F., Guard of Honour, Dramatic Society, Sports Committee (Hon. Sec.), Library Committee, Chapel Committee, Entertainments Committee, Vth Form Prize, Headmaster's Prize for the Head of School. Goes to Guys Hospital, London University, to study Medicine. N. P. WATKINS (F., H. & L.-1955).--School Prefect, Head of House, 0" Levels, " A " Levels, 1st X V Rugger, 1st XI Hockey, 1st XI Cricket (Captain, Colours), Colour Sgt. C.C.F., Guard of Honour, Hunting Society, Literary Society, Music Society, Madrigals, Choral Society, Choir, History Society (Hon. Sec.), Geography Society (Hon. Sec.), Sports Committee, Library Committee, Entertainments Committee, Chapel Committee, Dramatic Society, Music Prizes (2), Bossom Prize for Spoken English. Hopes to go to Toronto University. P. A. B. HUKINS (F. & W.-1956).—School Prefect, Head of House, " 0" Levels, " A " Levels, 2nd XV Rugger, 1st XI Hockey, Under-14 Cricket, Captain House Hockey, Captain House Tennis, Sgt. in C.C.F., R.E. Classification, Literary Society, History Society, Natural History Society, Bee Keeping Society, Horticultural Society, Sports Committee, Entertainments Committee, IInd, Lower IVth, Upper IVth, Vth Form Prizes. Goes to Wye College, London, to read Agriculture.

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R. L. SMALLMAN (W.—l958).—School Prefect, Entrance and Clothworkers Scholarship, " 0," "A," " S " Levels, 1st XV Rugger, Seven-a-side Rugger, Captain House Rugger, Captain House Assault Course Team, K.C.A.A.A., Signals Classification and A/I R.E. Classification, Corps of Drums, Colour Sgt. in C.C.F., Hon. Secretary Library Committee, Chairman Hunting Society, Choral Society, Choir, Orchestra, Madrigal Group, Jazz Band, Music Society, Geographical Society, Literary Society, Dramatic Society, Wood Prize for Physics. Goes to King's, London, to read Mathematics and Physics. N. J. W. PAGE (B. & W.-1958).—House Prefect, Organ Scholar, " 0," "A," " S " Levels, First Aid Adult Certificate, Colour Sgt. in C.C.F., Drum Major, School Choir, School Orchestra, Literary Society (Hon. Sec.), Music Society (Hon. Sec.), Hunting Society Committee, Dramatic Society, Madrigal Society, Choral Society, Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble, Entertainments Committee, Chapel Committee, Head of House Music, Suttonian Committee, Library Committee, Producer of Prefects' Concert, Music Prizes (2), Derick Prize for English Verse Speaking. Goes to Durham University to read Music. N. L. A. CooK (L.-1959).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, Fives 2nd IV, Shooting Cadet Pair, Cert. "A," Parts I and II, Cpl. in C.C.F., Hunting Society, Literary Society, Geographical Society, History Society, Photographic Society (Hon. Sec.), School Choir. To study Civil Engineering at Lausanne University. D. I. A. JOHNSON (B. & W.-1958).—House Prefect, 0 " Levels, " A" Levels, 1st XI Rugger, 1st VIII Cross Country, K.C.S.C.C.C., K.S.A.A.A., Under-14 Cricket, Water Polo, Chess Team, Junior Soccer XI, Captain of House Cross Country, Basic Test and A.P.T. Signals Classification, A/1 Cpl., History Society, Geography Society, Chess Club, Astrological Society, School Choir, Choral Productions, School Orchestra. J. L. Cox (C.-1962).—E.S.U. Exchange Student, House Prefect, " A " Levels, Captain House Music, Hunting Society Committee, Literary Society, Geographical Society, History Society, Music Society, Choral Society. Goes to Yale University. V. D. SONES (W.-1959).—House Prefect, Music Scholarship, " 0," " A," " S " Levels, Captain of Swimming (Colours), Cert. "A,"

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Parts I and II, First Aid Advanced Certificate, First Aid Instructor in C.C.F., Corps of Drums, School Orchestra, Jazz Band, Music Society, Literary Society, Hunting Society, History Society, Suttonian Committee, Bloxham Prize for English. Goes to London University to read Law. J. H. .JACKSON (H. & L.-1956).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, under-15 Cricket, 1st XI Hockey (Colours), Blue Lanyard, Cpl. in C.C.F., Hunting Society, Literary Society, Geographical Society, History Society, Choir and Choral Society, Drainatic Society. Proposed Career : Banking. J. DUDBRIDGE (W.-1958).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, Cross Country VIII, 2nd XI Hockey, Swimming Team, Sgt. in C.C.F., Dramatic Society, Chairman Bee Keeping Society, Literary Society. G. G. COOPER (F.-1956).—House Prefect, " 0" Levels, " A " Levels, Eastern Command Leadership Course, Cpl. in C.C.F., Secretary Bee Keeping Society, Astronomical Society. Proposed career : Accountancy. P. C. HODGES (H. & W.-1959).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, "A " Levels, Captain of Athletics (Colours), 1st XI Hockey (Colours), 1st XV Rugger, Junior VIII Cross Country K.S.A.A.A. 100 yds. Champion 1962, Captain House Athletics, Signals Classification and A/I, Corps of Drums, Cpl. in C.C.F., Hunting Society, Literary Society, Dramatic Society, Geographical Society, Music Society, Natural History Society, Choir, Choral Society, School Orchestra, Vocalist in Jazz Band. Goes on to study Technical Photoprinting. J. C. MURRELLS (L.-1958).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, 1st XI Rugger, 1st XI Hockey, 1st XI Cricket (Colours, Hon. Sec.), Signals Classification, A/I and i/c Signals Section, Colour Sgt. in C.C.F., Hon. Secretary Conjuring Club, Hon. Secretary Meteorological Society, Geographical Society. Hopes to go to Carnegie College of Physical Education. R. CLARKE (B. & St. M.-1956).--House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, Junior Soccer XI, 2nd XI Hockey, L/Cpl. in C.C.F., Geography Society, School Choir, Choral Society. Hopes to join Mobil.

D. V. Ilom: (F. & C. –1956).-11 °use Prefect, " 0 " LuveI,'' A " Levels, Golf VI, School Swimming Team, 3n1 X I I lockey, Under-14 Cricket, 2nd XV Rugger, Captain House Swimming, Cert. " A," Parts I and II, Cpl. in C.C.F., Dramatic Society, Guardian of the Gavel in Hunting Society, Literary Society, Treasurer of Bee Keeping Society, Geographical Society, Astronomical Society, Photograph ical Society. Goes to Westminster Hotel School. T. J. :EAMES (11., NV. & C.-1959).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, 2nd XI Cricket, 1st IV Fives (Colours), 1st VI 'I'ennis, Junior Cross Country VIII, Captain of Golf, Senior Chess Team, Captain House Cricket, Captain House Fives, First Aid Advanced Cert., L/Cpl. in C.C. -F., Geographical Society, Literary Society, Bridge Club, Bee Keeping Society, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, Choir and Choral Society, School Orchestra. R. J. WA UGH (H. & St. M.-1959).--House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, Basic Test, Dramatic Society, History Society, Hunting Society, Vth Form Prize, Garside Prize for History. Proposed career : The Paper Trade. J. P. RUTTER (11. & L.-1958).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, 1st XV Rugger (Colours), Seven-a-side (Captain), Captain of Shooting, 2nd IV Fives, Captain of House Assault Course Team, Signals Classification and A /I, Sgt. in ('CF., Hunting Society, Literary Society. (F.-1 957).—H ouse Prefect, J. A STILE Y-SAI " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, Cert. " A," Parts I and 11, Signals Classification, School Choir, Choral Society, Form Prizes (II and III), Wood Prize for Physics. Goes to Technical College and University. R. J. H ABNEY (W. & C.-1958).—House Prefect, '' 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, School Fencing Team (Captain), Tunbridge Wells Hockey Festival, Preliminary First Aid Certificate, L/Cpl. in ('CF.. Suttonian Committee, Library Committee, Chapel ( 'ommittee, Hunting Society, Literary Society, Geography Society, Chess Club, Dramatic Society, School Choir, Choral Society, Madrigal Group. Proposed career : Journalism. C. J. CHITTY (St. M.-1958).--House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, Senior Cross Country VIII, Captain House Cross Country, Captain House Music. Music Society, Literary Society,

THE SUTTONIAN Library Committee, School Orchestra, Guardian of the Gavel, Clerk of the House in Hunting Society, Dramatic Society. D. J. LUGET (L.-1958).—House Prefect, "0," "A," " S " Levels, School Tennis Team, Shooting VIII (Colours), Captain House Tennis, Signals Classification and A /I, i/c R.E. Troup, Sgt. in C.C.F., Chairman Conjuring Club. Hopes to read Aeronautical Engineering. R. I. MIDMER (St. M. & C.-1959).—House Prefect, 0" Levels, " A " Levels, L/Cpl. in C.C.F., Signals Classification, Assistant Instructors Certificate, School Choir, Stage Manager, Geographical Society, Literary Society, Music Society. Goes to Brighton College of Art to study Architecture. D. SHA LTG HNESSY (F.-1956).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A " Levels, 2nd XV Rugger, 3rd XI Hockey, Junior Athletic Team, Sgt. in C.C.F., Eastern Command Leadership Certificate, Geographical Society. Goes to W. H. Smith Lk Son. • M. D. HorrE (W.-1958).—House Prefect, " 0" Levels, " A " Levels, 2nd XV Rugger, 2nd Fives, Senior Athletics, Grade A.A.A . Standards, K.S.A.A.A., Kent Inter-County Athletics Team, Captain of House Fives, Sgt. in C.C.F., First Aid Adult Certificate, Eastern Command Leadership Course, Hunting Society (Hon. Sec.), Literary Society, History Society, Modelling Society (Hon. Sec.), Music Society, Natural History Society, Madrigals, Choral Society, Bee Keeping Society (Hon. Treasurer), VIth Form Distinction Prize. Goes to St. Thomas' Medical College. R. MEMMOTT (L.-1958).—House Prefect, " 0" Levels, "A " Levels, 1st XV Rugger, Captain of School Hockey, 1st XI Cricket (Colours), Triangular Match, Athletics, C.C.F., Parts I and II, Signals Classification and A /I, Literary Society, Geographical Society, Motor Car Club. Proposed career : University and Commercial. A. C. BEGLIN (L.-1960).—House Prefect, " 0 " Levels, " A" Levels, Shooting VIII, Signals Classification, A /I, Corps of Drums, L/Cpl. in C.C.F., Natural History Society, Hunting Society, Literary Society, History Society. Goes to Bristol School of Osteopathy. R. H. CARPENTER (F.-1957).—" 0" Levels, " A " Levels, Under-14 Hockey, 1st Cross Country VIII. Signals Classification and

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Assistant Instructor's Certificate, L/Cpl. in C.C. F., Astronomical Society. Goes to Reading University to read Agricultural Science. M. G. L. BUGGE (F.-1957).—" 0" Levels, Under-14 Cricket, Cert. "A," Parts I and II, Form Lower-IVth Prize. Proposed career : The Chemical Industry. A. RArs (M.-1961).—" A" Levels, 2nd XI Hockey, Captain House Swimming, Astronomical Society, Bridge Club. Goes to American University of Beirut. A. KANTARAT (L. 1061).—" 0" Levels, 3rd XI Hockey, C.C.F., Parts I and II, Preliminary First Aid Certificate, Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, Archreological Society, Geography Society, Photographic Society. Goes to Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. M. P. J. ORMROD (St. M.-1960).—" 0" Levels, Hon. Secretary of Fencing, House Captain of Shooting, A.P.T., Parts I and II, Modelling Society, Archwological Society. Goes to Davis' Crammers. A. M. C. SKINNER (L.-1960).—" 0" Levels, Senior Colts Rugger, Senior Cross-Country and Colours, Senior Athletics, A.A.A . Grade III, Conjuring Club, Modelling Society, Photographic Society. Goes to Worthing College of Art and Graphic Design. M. R. BOND (F.-1958).—" 0" Levels, C.C.F., Parts I and II, Bee Keeping Society, Choir, Choral Productions. Proposed career : Hotel Management and Catering. A. M. CATT (W.-1959).—" 0" Levels, Under-16 Rugger, 2nd Hockey (Under-16 Colours), Blue Lanyard, First Aid Preliminary, L/Cpl. in C.C.F., Astronomical Society, Natural History Society, Horticultural Society, Bridge Club. Proposed career : Agriculture. J. C. G. BROWN (W.-1959).--" 0" Levels, " A " Levels, Signals Classification, Assistant Signals Instructor, L/Cpl. in C.C.F., Astronomical Society, Bridge Club. Proposed career : Accountancy. J. J. SIMPSON (B., L. & 0.-1960).—" 0" Levels, Under-14 Rugger, 3rd XI Hockey, School Choir, Choral Society, Bridge Club. Goes to Folkestone School of Art and Crafts.

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1'. R. JACKSON (H. & L.-1958).—" 0 " Levels, Under-14 Hockey, C.C.F., Parts I and II, Choir, Choral Society, Photographic Society. Goes to National College of Agricultural Engineering. C. K. ATKINSON (H. & St. M.-1959).— Under-16 Rugger, Under-16 Hockey, Swimming Colours. J. F. THIELE (W.-1962).-" 0" Levels, " A " Levels, 2nd XI Hockey, Astronomical Society, Science Society, Bridge Club. Goes to University of California (Los Angeles). S. J. BARNARDISTON (St. M.-1960).—" 0" Levels, Under-16 Hockey (Colours and Captain), C.C.F., A.P.T. Parts land II. D. A. TODD (L. & C.-1961).—" 0" Levels, Junior Cross Country Running, C.C.F., Cert. A, Parts I and II, Photographic Society. Proposed study of Surveying. R. J. MILLER (L.-1960).----" 0" Levels, " A " Levels, Under-14 Rugger, C.C.F., Parts I and II, Choir, Modelling Society, Painting Society, Junior Art Prize, Senior Art Prize. Goes to Wimbledon College of Art and Theatrical Design. NE. INDRITAT (W.-1961).-" 0" Levels, 2nd XI Cricket, Natural History Society, Archaeological Society.

NA. IN ORATAT (W. --1961). D. Mu N RO (W.-1961). M. C. MOORE (F. & C.-1960).

Sal vete UPPER Barber (M.). LOWER IVA.—N. Bance (C.), N. J. Elgood (H.), P. 1). Grant (L.), A. R. Lowe (L.), C. R. Oswald-Jones (C.). Kampman (C.), L. G. LOWER 'A . B.—P. Price (B.). LOWER IVC.-D. T'. R. Coatesworth (L.), C. J. Western (B.).

Our Contemporaries The Editor gratefully acknowledges the receipt of the following magazines and apologises for any omissions :The Aldenhamian, The Blundellian, The Cantuarian, The Doyorian, St. Dunstan's College Chronicle, The Elizabethan, The Fettesian, The Gresham, The Portcullis, The Roffensian, The School Tie, The Sennockian, The Tonbridgian.

Chapel Notes ON Friday, May 31, the Lord Bishop of Maidstone once again visited the School, to confirm forty-seven boys. The visiting preachers we have welcomed this term have been : The Rev. Canon C. W. Norwood, who was then Vicar of Sutton Valence, but has since moved to his new Parish at Southend ; The Rev. M. J. Saward, Edgware Parish Church ; The Rev. C. H. D. Cullingford, Chaplain of St. John's School, Leatherhead ; The Rev. Stanley Good, Senior Divinity Master at Maidstone Grammar School ; The Rev. I. D. Bunting, of St. Leonard's, Bootle ; The Yen. Gordon Strutt, Archdeacon of Maidstone ; The Rt. Rev. R. D. Say, Lord Bishop of Rochester ; and The Rev. L. M. Schiff, Fellow of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. Collections during the term were for the Flying Doctor Service, Nigeria ; the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund ; and the Chapel Fund. On Whit Sunday and July 14 we celebrated School Communion, and on July 21 there was a Combined Service in Sutton Valence Church. During the term the table tennis table for Gillingham Youth Club was completed and sent to them. Mrs. Evers has kindly presented some new offertory bags to the chapel.

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Library Notes

HE Library Committee would like to thank G. E. Benbow, Esq., for "Cross-

country Running," by D. Canham ; Maj.-Gen. J. L. Moulton, 0.S., for a copy of his book" Haste to the Battle" ; and J. G. Halliday, Esq., for" Wages," by M. Dobb, and "An Economic History of England." The following books have been purchased by the Library during the term :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; " My Childhood," by M. Gorky ; "Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable " ; "The Decline and

Fall of Lloyd George," by Lord Beaverbrook ; "The Times Atlas of the World," by J. Bartholomew ; "Le Chien Jaune," by Georges Simenon ; "Les Carnets du Major Thomson," by P. Danois ; " Archeologicae Cantiana," "The Kon-Tiki Expedition," by T. Heyerdahl ; "Anatomy of Britain," by A. Sampson ; "Rutherford at Manchester," by J. B. Birks ; "The Complete Aquarium," by D. Vogt and H. Wermuth ; "Field Guide to Archeology," by E. S. Wood ; "Advanced Organic Chemistry," by L. F. and M. Feiser ; "Encyclopedia of Furniture," by J. Aronson ; "Chrome Yellow" and " Eyeless in Gaza," by A. Huxley ; "Judo Complete," by Pat Butler ; " Selected Works," by F. Hebbel ; "Agriculture," by Watson and Moore ; "The Weald," by S. W. Woolridge and F. Goldring ; "Animal Life in Fresh Water," by Helen Mellanby ; "Geology for the Young Naturalist," by A. White ; "All-in-One Camera Book," by W. D. Emanuel ; "Survey of the Moon," by P. Moore ; " Litchens," by Kershaw ; "Landmarks in French Literature," by Strachey ; "Relativity for the Layman," by Coleman ; "The World of the Soil," by Russell ; "Crystals and Crystal Growing," by Holden ; "The Universe at Large," by Bondi ; "The Neutron Story," by Hughes ; "The Watershed," by Koestler ; "Magnets," by Bitter ; "The Physics of T.V.," by Fink ; "The Restless Atom," by Romer ; "The Birth of a New Physics," by Cohen ; "Errors of Observation and their Treatment," by Topping ; " Sherston's Progress," by Sassoon ; "The Poems of Matthew Arnold " ; "The Poems of Robert Browning " ; "Handbook to the University of Oxford" ; "The Inspiration of Science," by Thompson ; "The Atom and its Nucleus," by Gamow ; "Physiological Approach to the Lower Animals," by Ramsay ; "The Outline of History," by Wells ; "From Ape to Homer," by Mellersh ; " 100 Master Games of Modern Chess," by Tartakower ; Roget's " Thesaurus " ; "The Release and Use of Atomic Energy," by Allibone,; "Science Survey No. 3," edited by Haslett and St. John ; "Ripple Tank Studies of Wave Motion" by Llowarch.

The second instalment of Prof. Howard's gift will be used to improve the amenities of the Library. R. L. S.

Music Notes HE last five years have seen great advances in the music of the School. These

T have included the foundation of the " Madrigal Society," a group which meets twice a week purely for the experience of singing the most beautiful of all vocal music. Apart from this there are three other groups which meet periodically to practice for Chapel services--a plainsong group, a sung evensong group, and a modern church music group. Instrumental music has also taken a number of leaps forward. A recorder consort has been started, and now all the lower forms are taught to play the descant recorder, so that in a few years' time nearly everyone leaving the School will be able to read music. The number of pianists and violinists in recent years has more than doubled. The Jazz Band continues to go from strength to strength, having recently stepped into the embrace of " modern " jazz. However, for those who prefer their

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harmonic progressions to be slightly more conventional, there is now a truly excellent Guitar Group to sustain their needs. It is indeed comforting to know that there are members of the School who have the ability to do more than gyrate to the strains of commercial music. Besides all this, the Orchestra has enlarged itself and is now capable of performing in public. There is also a wind ensemble which tackles quite difficult works arranged by Mr. Foulkes, and members of the School now give regular recitals in the Chapel. What does all this amount to ? There are, without doubt, few schools in Britain which can boast as many musical organisations as are to be found at Sutton Valence. From this, one would expect the entire School to be regularly employed in some musical activity or another. But, no. All of these activities are run by a faithful and industrious hard core of boys. The members of the Madrigal Society are to be recognised as the Orchestra, the Recorder Consort, the Corps of Drums. etc. An overwhelming majority of the School regard the ability to read music as unimportant. The most popular form of hypnosis is the dayroom record player. " Music should be heardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not performed" is a dangerous doctrine. This is by no means the fault of the music staff who are all doing an excellent job working overtime to help the School. The musical situation is extremely promising, yet it can never flourish without greater interest from all parts of the School. N. J. W. P.

The " Kent Messenger " Walk I UST one week after the end of last term, Friday, April 5, 1963, several thousand people massed at Dover for the start of the " Kent Messenger's " Dover-Maidstone 50-mile walk. The walk had three " check-points "--the first, fifteen miles away at Canterbury, the second, a further fifteen miles at Ashford, and the third twenty miles further at Maidstone. At each town the competitors were given a card with the distance so far covered and time taken. Among those taking part were a number of Suttonians who had managed to drag themselves out of bed in time for the midnight start. Saturday was certainly Founder's day, for it was the only House to be represented at the finish. Five boys from Founder's completed the walk in under the required time of twenty hours. These were :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R. H. Carpenter (14 hrs.) T. G. Knight (14 hrs.) C. R. Byng-Maddick (14 hrs. 15 min.) T. J. Epps (14 hrs. 15 min.) C, J. Yonge (18 hrs. 25 min.)

C. R. Byng-Maddick and T. J. Epps at the end of the Dover Maidstone " Kent Messenger" Walk. Photo by courtesy of the " Kent Messenger."

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Music Examinations AST term, ten boys took examinations organised by the Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music. All passed. Names, grades attempted and instruments played are as follows :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Piano Grade I D. J. Molyneux Flute Grade III T. J. Griffiths Clarinet Grade III G. S. Farrow Clarinet (with Merit) Grade III .. A. Prebble Oboe Grade III .. M. C. M. Pipe Flute Grade IV D. F. Moss-Gibbons Clarinet (with Merit) Grade IV M. J. D. Wills Clarinet (with Merit) Grade IV J. Holt .. Singing (with Merit) Grade IV N. P. Watkins Organ Grade VI N. J. W. Page

Society Notes THE HUNTING SOCIETY

President : The Headmaster. Vice-Presidents : M. H. Fairbank, Esq.

R. H. Hanworth, Esq. Rev. S. R. Beesley. Chairman : R. L. Smallman. Hon. Secretary : M. D. Hoppe. Clerk of the House : C. J. Chitty. Committee Members : S. E. Marsh. N. B. Houghton. W. A. Cairns. Guardian of the Gavel : ROM the debating point of view, the Summer Term is always a quiet one for the Society. There is usually little time for debates because of examinations and other functions. Consequently there has been only one debate so far this term. In the near future the Society will hold its fourth Bi-annual Dinner. The motion of the debate was "This House would not have a Complex" and the speakers were Mr. N. P. Watkins and Mr. M. D. Hoppe for the proposition and Mr. C. J. Chitty and Mr. S. E. Marsh for the opposition. The motion was defeated by 14 votes to 17. This debate could have been a very good one ; for the speakers were, for the most part, experienced and could have made the debate really interesting. But as anyone who has spoken in public will know, the speaker draws his " inspiration " from the audience facing him. If this is missing, or small, he might just as well attempt to win over a brick wall--the result would be the same. This is just what occurred at this debate ; there was no response from the few who attended.

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It must be tedious to keep seeing this caustic " lack-of-response-from-the-School " theme continually occurring in the Society Notes, but it seems necessary to repeat it. The Hunting Society is one of the most useful in the School and if boys would only contribute to it by attending meetings and speaking, this general lack of confidence over public speaking would be dispelled. It is surely important to be able to speak confidently in public ; it is a great asset both at school and in the outside world. Why throw such a tremendous opportunity away ? With almost all the senior members of the Society leaving this term, there will be a considerable gap to fill up at the top. It is up to next term's members to do this and to inspire others to take part in the proceedings. LITERARY SOCIETY Owing to the pressure of examinations, there has been only one meeting this term, at which members listened to recordings of speeches made at the last two XL Club Dinners at the Dorchester Hotel in London. This impressed upon all who were present the fact that good timing and breadth in outlook are among the greatest requirements of an after-dinner speaker. On Wednesday, July 24, the Society will be attending a play in London which is yet to be decided upon. It is once again my privilege to thank R. H. Hanworth, Esq., for his continued hospitality to the Society over the past year. N. J. W. P. HISTORY SOCIETY There has been one meeting of the Society this term, on June 23, when Mr. J. Petropolous (0.S.) read a paper on " Ancient Athens." in his interesting talk, Mr. Petropolous examined thoroughly the philosophies of the great thinkers of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Socrates and Plato amongst others- - and finished by showing some excellent slides of Athens in all its glory. He ended with a final plea for the restoration of the Elgin Marbles. Prospects for the future are good. There are a number of outside speakers ready for next year, and some talks have been promised from members of the School. N. P. W. PHOTOG RAPHIC SOCIETY At the beginning of the term, R. D. C. Willis was elected President of the Society. The darkroom has seen many improvements including the installation of a Universal Enlarger, kindly lent to the Society by S. J. Lyne. In addition to this, hot water has been installed. The activities of the term have been centred around the Speech Day Exhibition, which, it is hoped, was enjoyed by all. The aim of the exhibition was to show fewer photographs, but more of the actual equipment which goes towards the manufacture of the photo. Also on display were numerous photographic magazines. Next term it is hoped that several competitions will be held in order to add more interest to the Society. R. D. C. W.

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MODELLING SOCIETY

After a term spent in model making, the Modelling Society put on a display of control line flying on the central School lawn on Speech Day. It was by kind permission of the Headmaster that we were able to use this lawn, for at the last moment it was found to be too windy to fly on the prearranged area on Stony. The exhibition proved most successful, although only half the total number of 'planes was used. T. R. N. S. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY President : N. J. Bennallack-Hart, Esq. Hon. Secretary : M. P. Strange. The activities of this term have been connected, almost entirely, with preparations for the Speech Day Exhibition. Although the bulk of the exhibition was less than last year's, owing to the non-participation of the Sixth Form, the standard of the projects was very high as usual. Those who carried out the projects must be thanked for all the hard work they did and congratulated on a very good effort. Once we had come to terms with our new neighbours, work on the plot proceeded as usual. A great deal of hard work has been put in by those concerned and the results are very promising. It has proved difficult to do anything with the pond as we are hampered by falling leaves, flowers and twigs from some trees, which give no shade to keep the algae under control. Frequent cleaning has meant that neither water-weed nor fish has been properly established yet. The greenhouse has been in use again this term, though under rather more favourable conditions than last ! A crop of tomatoes and melons is expected. In addition to the usual activities next term, we hope to be able to show several films and perhaps have another lecture. MUSIC SOCIETY There has been only one meeting of the Society this term, owing to other activities. This took the form of a recital which was held in the Chapel after Evensong on Sunday, June 2. The programme was as follows :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; . J. S. Bach Organ Solo : Fugue in G Major G. F. Handel Soprano Duet : " 0 lovely peace" . F. Durante Baritone Solo : " Vergin lullo amor" Ernest Walker Organ Solo : Prelude on" Windy Peak" . Those taking part were N. J. W. Page (Organ), N. P. Watkins (Baritone) A. C. S. Fry and C. M. Molyneux (Sopranos). This was the first time for some years that a recital of this nature had been given solely by members of the School. Over eighty members of the School attended. It is planned to hold a second recital at the end of term, this time to be given by members of the staffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a report of which will appear in next term's edition of the SUTTONIAN. N. J. W. P.

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The films chosen for this term's programme were " The Nun's Story," " Henry V " and "Animal Farm." After a year's trial run the Society is now firmly established, and I would like to thank all those who have helped to make its evolution so successful. I sincerely hope that the Society will not eventually die out through lack of support, but rather that it will continue to prosper through a growing demand for good films. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY After several years of inactivity, the Society has now been revived and we already have eighteen members. Members have taken part in " digs" at the site of a Roman Villa at Eccles (10 miles from Sutton Valence). An exhibition was held on Speech Day at which were displayed a number of finds, mainly Roman, including some from the site at Eccles. M. C. Saturday Society MAY 18, PIANO RECITAL BY MR. JOSEPH COOPER

Saturday, May 18, the distinguished concert pianist Mr. Joseph Cooper gave an O Ninteresting and varied recital in the Hall. He began his programme—which included many of the well-known pieces in the piano repertoire—by playing two of Bach's Chorales, " Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and " Sheep May Safely Graze." He played the pieces neatly and brought out the chorale well in both. Mr. Cooper then proceeded to " the poet of the piano "— Chopin. He played first the F Major" Ballade," which was followed by The Waltz in C Sharp Minor. In the last piece by Chopin, the " Polonaise " in A Flat, Mr. Cooper brought out the heroic and sad moods embodied in the music very well. After a short interval, Mr. Cooper went on to play music by modern composers. The first, Ravel's " Jeux d'Eau," was beautifully executed and was possibly the best of the evening. Debussy came next, the two compositions performed being " Claire de Lune " and " Reflets dans l'Eau." Both these were played well, but not with the same lightness as was the piece by Ravel. Mr. Cooper finished his recital with two compositions by Granados. Judging by the number of encores Joseph Cooper received at the end of the evening, he succeeded in opening the realms of piano music to many who until then lad not known them—an admirable thing in itself. M. D. H. Films SCHOOL AND ARTS SOCIETIES FILM: "HENRY V"

HE School has now had the privilege of seeing the complete Shakespeare film T trilogy. " Henry V " was the first, and it is obvious that it is an experiment to see how well Shakespearean drama could be adapted to the screen. The progress

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made, through "Hamlet," and on to "Richard III," is marked, but nevertheless I feel that the superb acting of Laurence Olivier, Max Adrian and Robert Newton pulled this above many of the films of the early 1940's when the film was made. It is the weakest of the three, but it undergoes the heavy handicap of outdoor scenes being shot in the studio, and of being the initial "guinea-pig." However, what the scenery lacked was amply made up for by the high standard of acting. Laurence Olivier, in the title role, gave a masterly performance, although one felt he was more at home calling his men" Once more into the breach" than in the rather more tender love scene with Katherine, suitably played by Renee Asherton. The intelligent casting of Max Adrian as the Dauphin was well rewarded. His portrayal of the arrogant French prince, was as strutting and facetious as anyone could wish for ; he was well supported by Leo Genn and Harcourt Williams as Charles, King of France, who I felt, though, was rather too rapid in losing his timidity and senility : he seemed almost sane at the end ! The clowning of Robert Newton as Pistol was adequate, but Shakespearean wit never seems to come off in the twentieth century, as the humour is peculiarly Elizabethan. However, the School seemed to appreciate the slapstick of Bardolph and Nym rather more. The battle scenes were good, and the views of the Globe were good, but otherwise Art Director Paul Shirreff seemed to be doing the best job possible with the worst materials. The film, though generally good, with much excellent acting, was scenically poor. R. J. H. ARTS SOCIETIES FILM: "TEE NUN'S STORY"

"The Nun's Story" starring Audrey Hepburn, Dame Edith Evans and Peter Finch, well illustrates all the aspects of life in the cloisters of that fascinating historical relic, a nunnery, and further, what goes on beneath that seemingly serene countenance of its inmates. By following the calling, faith and work of one nun, the story incorporates the sentimentalities of the veiled life yet at the same time incorporates an interesting and original plot. Full play is given of course to the final good-bye to family and the outside world, and to all the young nuns-to-be who, one is tempted to think, are about to waste their lives. The basis of the plot is set by the Mother Superior's (Edith Evans) wise warning : "It is not easy to be a nun. It is a sacrifice against nature, a struggle for perfection." The young nun around whom the story revolves (played by Audrey Hepburn) finds this warning only too relevant to her work as a nun. She had set her hopes on working in the Congo, yet she finds herself purposely placed amongst the horrors and depression of a mental asylum, a sudden descent into cold reality. Being almost strangled to death by a raving schizophrenic seems to the disillusioned young nun a far cry from the dreams of working serenely amongst the unknown tribes of the Congo. Once in the Congo, however, both life and faith take a more colourful turn through the friendliness and energy of the natives. Yet again why should it be that a young nun seemingly doing such good work should be fated to be struck down by tuberculosis ?

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Disillusionment indeed, seems to be the theme of " The Nun's Story," the heroine finding the eternal " struggle for perfection " a human impossibility. It is, perhaps, to the relief of all, that she eventually rescinds her vows and returns to the outside world. One is left with all superficial romantic ideas about the serenity of a cloistered life shattered, leaving in its place only an irritating doubt as to just how perfect a young nun would have to be to succeed in her vocation. V.D.S. ARTS SOCIETIES FILM : " ANIMAL FARM The cartoon film " Animal Farm " was shown to the members of the Arts Societies on Sunday, July 14. The film, based on George Orwell's book of the same name, is an effective burlesque of Communist ideals and government. The three central characters, Major, Snowball and Napoleon, correspond to Marx, Trotsky and Stalin in the Bolshevik hierarchy. In the film, the character of Major is the most vividly etched ; the obese old gentleman succeeds in rousing his fellow animals from their apathetic stupor by conjuring up for them the delights that lie in store, if they will only rise against their oppressor. At the climax of his hortative harangue he collapses and dies-- the animals, stunned for a moment, flee in terror. Of the other characters, Napoleon is perhaps a trifle overdrawn. His ambition is so manifest that it is slightly amusing in its intensity, instead of horrific, as Orwell intended it to be. But it is in its finale that the film differs most from the book. Orwell leaves his reader with the depressing thought that both the pigs and the Communists are still in power, and that their crimes are now as monstrous as those of their predecessors. The film on the other hand mistakenly permits the " pig " regime to be overthrown by another rising of the animals, thus defeating one of Orwell's original aims in writing his book. B.E.C.

The Jazz Band T the beginning of the term, inspired by records of Gerry Mulligan's pianoless Quartet, the group made a jump across perhaps thirty years to become the first band in the School's lifetime to play modern jazz. Thus, in a small way, history has been made at Sutton Valence. No longer confined within the inhibiting structure of the twelve bar form, and finding, as did Mulligan, that the piano hinders rather than helps the development of free improvisation, the musicians found themselves able to produce a marvellous and fresh-sounding music, with harmonised or unison ensemble passages combined with plenty of improvised solos. The result ? That which Whitney Balliett has so perfectly described as " the sound of surprise." Length of solos has been left to the individual to decide, while in this music more than in any other, each instrument, be it in the front line or rhythm section, whilst being an integral part of the group, is given maximum opportunity for detaching itself from the ensemble and taking a solo.

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Jay Holt is on clarinet, Vic Sones, tenor saxophone, Roger Penfold, drums, while Les Smallman has put down the banjo he played last term and returned to his beloved bass. With the acquisition of two new drums, Penfold now has a complete set ; of these he makes full use, not a skin remaining unscarred at the end of a solo ! Many of the tunes used have been standard modern numbers such as Mulligan's " Decidedly," Miles Davis's " Milestones" and Gershwin's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." In addition, the Band has featured compositions by Bobby Timmons, Ray Charles, Milt Jackson, and two by Holt. Certain macabre effects have been employed, such as Sones' strange knack of completely enveloping the microphone with the bell of his trumpet (besides the two instruments already mentioned he plays bass, cello, French horn, clarinet and piano) and the invention by Holt of a weird instrument composed of a clarinet mouthpiece on a treble recorder barrel : who says Roland Kirk is unique ? Despite the fact that this term has offered unequalled opportunities for "having a blow" (Speech Day, when the Band played to a full house, the O.S. Social, the School Dance and the Ashford Dance) it has a strong undertone of sadness. Smallman and Sones, both stalwarts of the School jazz scene since 1960 and 1961 respectively, are leaving. Our thanks to them for their services to music in general and to jazz in particular. Speech Day N his speech, the Headmaster began by pointing out that, although the length of the parents' stay at the School on this Speech Day had been shortened, it "in no way means you are less welcome. How glad we are, in fact, that you are able to come here so often for other occasions in the School's year and how grateful we are for your support at our plays, our concerts and our matches . . . Certainly the Governors would be distressed, as we should be at the School, if anyone felt that the curtailing of today's arrangements was in any sense due to an unwilling welcome on our part. After all, you are gaining something in exchange, not only a rather longer half-term holiday, but, we all hope, an easier and safer journey home by road." The Headmaster continued : "It would be wrong if I did not pause to welcome the Governors en bloc . . . and Professor Michael Howard in particular. Colonel Hillersdon, when he was our immediate Chairman, sowed the seed of our expansion : it has grown and blossomed through his work and that of our present Committee Chairman, Professor Howard. I have good reason to know that nobody has worked harder on our behalf. Professor Howard has detached himself from the busy life of London University, emerged from the fastnesses of his hide-out in the Cabinet offices, hurried back from his high-powered talks and discussions at home and abroad on matters of our vital defence policy, torn himself from his own literary lucubrations, to devote what time he has left to the intimate affairs of this Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so much so that when he was awarded the Duff-Cooper Prize for his historical work on the Franco-Prussian War, his immediate thought and act was to present the proceeds to us for the improvement of our Library. This year we have found our own V.I.P. to give the prizes away and our invitation to him to do so is a mark of our gratitude."

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After referring to the retirement of Lord Bossom from the Board and welcoming the new Clerk and Receiver, Mr. Weedon, who had replaced .)lajor Gurling, whom he thanked for his work over the last twelve years, the Headmaster went on : " Academically the year has been noteworthy for the award of two exhibitions at Oxford and Cambridge in a single year and also for the more full-scale introduction of intelligence tests in the lower part of the School. These have served to confirm what has been more or less common knowledge, that independent schools admit a good many boys who are below the level of entry to a grammar school, and that this School has rather more than the average share of such boys. In the circumstances I repeat what I have said before, that an average of over five G.C.E. passes at 0 'level for our leavers, many of whom if they had gone to State schools might have achieved only one or two, is not really so bad. This is largely due to the efforts of the staff whom I should like to thank for their hard work. "It is possible that if the proportion of sub-grammar school boys who come to the School continues at its present level we may see fit to introduce a rather more practical and technical course of study for the weakest brethren : we have already gone a little way by providing woodwork as a G.C.E. subject at ' 0 ' level, and an extension of this will be actively considered during the next terms. Examination results and their importance are a necessary evil and will have a decisive bearing on the future of those who leave school, here or anywhere else, but I cannot believe that the world is such that there is no place left (even though combined with an only average academic brain) for integrity and loyalty and discipline. I believe that lack of these could have far worse results than lack of scholastic or even technical excellence. And I am not sure that many of the troubles of present-day society are not due to things being got in the wrong order of priorities. That is a dull, bureaucratic way of saying what the ancients put more strongly and more positively in the Holy Shrine at Delphi, Know Thyself' and Nothing in Excess.' cc . . . This is one of the occasions when it is possible to stress what ought always to be in the minds of staff and parents, that we are partners in making the best possible job of the raw material with which you provide us. Neither you nor we ever ought to lose sight of this, but of course where you are blessed with only one or two, or three, or four, such problems, we have to deal with a far larger number and have therefore to frame rules and standards which may appear to some of you unnecessarily demanding." Speaking as a parent himself, he thought there was a danger today of parents being over-indulgent in detail, referring particularly to drinking, smoking and dress. " And that brings me to the quality the lack of which, I think, lies behind almost all our present-day difficulties, that of loyalty. It is a modern habit to debunk, to criticise established order . . . and to find old ideals and standards faintly amusing, to pull them to pieces and have nothing to put in their place. The ordinary worker in a factory, I have read, has no loyalty to his firm or company ; the plans and purposes of his employers, the service they give the public, even the profits they make hardly seem to impinge upon his consciousness. The modern satirist is apt to be an undergraduate with a warped sense of humour, who negatively criticises everything but

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positively believes in nothing. But I do not think it is he that should drink the hemlock, like Socrates, for corrupting the youth but rather we of the older generation, who for fear of seeming over-Victorian have merely been over-indulgent." Referring to the recent Government crisis, the Headmaster continued : "These words were in the hands of my secretary before the political disclosures of last week. I believe we are all of us to blame for what has happened . . . by demanding too low standards from others and from ourselves, whether in money or morals or discipline or any other aspect of our common life : and if any good can come of conduct which we have deplored, it should, I think, be the realisation that if such things are not to recur we must all set ourselves the high standards which we demand from others, and while aware of our own shortcomings and earnestly striving to correct them, not be afraid to speak our minds." In conclusion, Mr. Evers said : " . . . I have been Headmaster here now for ten years during which our numbers have gone up by nearly a hundred and many improvements have been made in our buildings. But these are not the important things. The important thing is that we should try to educate those whom you entrust to us, and equip them in mind, body and spirit for their part in the world, for its increasing times of leisure as well as for its work. We all want the same thing and I pray that our combined efforts will succeed." Professor Howard began his address by explaining that he thought that it was a useful thing for the Chairman of the Board of Governors to render a report, direct to parents, and then went on : " For the last ten yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ten years of Mr. Evers' period of office hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we have seen a period of great expansion and building which has been, I think, good for the School and highly enjoyable for us in doing it. We have enlarged the School ; we have enlarged its amenities ; we have transformed this Hall ; we have transformed the Chapel ; we have added a House ; we have added a new dining-room ; we have tried to improve the existing Houses ; we have enlarged and improved our playing fields ; we have done jolly well." After speaking of the need for even more new buildings, Professor Howard pointed out that "as the Headmaster quite rightly said, all this building by itself means nothing. We did not undertake it simply in the way that the Pharoahs built the Pyramids, for our greater glory to posterity or to get into the newspapers. We did it because we thought, after a great deal of reflection, that it was only by improving and expanding the School that we could keep Sutton Valence in a position to do the job which it has been doing for so many generations and centuries ; that is, providing the sort of education which is needed for the boys of today. "Without the essential qualities of loyalty ; of honesty ; of courage ; of gutsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the world cannot hold together, and this country cannot survive. That cannot be too often stressed. And those are the things which boys teach one another. "The Editor of the SUTTONIAN, in the last number . . . made the very sage remark that whatever the Governors could do in providing the new buildings, it is the boys who make the life that is lived inside it. And, to talk to the boys for a moment, you know it is quite extraordinary how little any of us know about your life. Your parents know nothing about it, do they ? Your schoolmasters know remarkably little about it ! You lead a private, secret life ! Now, it may be a good one or it

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may be a bad one, but quite often it ean be a very had one indeed. It is possible in a school which is beautifully provided with wonderful buildings, an intelligent staff, an energetic Headmaster, for a few nineoinpoops ' to ruin the entire happiness of everybody around them by bullying and corruption, simply because nobody else has got the moral guts to stand up and tell them to shut up,' and not do it. Whether that happens or not, I do not know, and nobody here knows except you. If it does happen anywhere, the first thing you have got to do is to have the guts, however small you are, to stand up and say : 'Shut up. We're not going to stand for this. This is not the sort of thing that happens in Sutton Valence. The sooner you learn this, the better.' "Another sort of life you can lead is thoroughly amiable, happy, day-to-day drifting along, tolerable to one another's faults, easy, happy-go-lucky, rather despising the sort of boy who does well, especially the sort of boy who does well intellectually. I would like to think that the days have past when the boy who was good at work was regarded as a swot, and, if not bullied, at least regarded as a sort of monster, regarded certainly as something very inferior indeed to the boy who is good at games. The boy who is good at anything is to be admired and copied, whatever it is ; whether it is looking after beetles ; whether it is doing Greek iambics ; whether it is playing cricket. One of the things you ought to be learning here is what you are good at, and however off-beat and extraordinary it is, learning to be even better at it . . . "When public schools like Sutton Valence were founded, Britain was the wealthiest country in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the centre of a vast empire. Britain was a country so rich, so powerful, that she could afford to make mistakes, and it was in that sort of society that the tradition of the amateur, the 'good chap,' the man who could muddle through, grew up. It was in that sort of society that the men who worked hard, the man who used his intelligence, the man who burnt the midnight oil, became sneered at slightly, regarded as being inferior. This is the sort of thing the Germans did. This is the sort of thing the Americans did. The British do not have to do this, because the world is at our feetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we can afford to make mistakes.' We have made too many mistakes, and we cannot afford to make any more. That nice fat margin of the Victorian age has gone for good. " Now, as I said earlier, the main things you have got to learn here are these moral qualitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;courage, honour, guts and the classical virtues. To those, you have got to add qualities which the public school tradition has not always inculcated. You have got to learn the capacity to work like the devil.' You have got to learn the capacity to develop your intelligence and your imaginations to the uttermost. You have got to know when to abandon tradition and when to hang on to it. You, in fact, have got to be pretty intelligent people and on your feet. Now this is a very much harder job than people of our generation had to learn. You have got, in fact, not only to be as good as your parents, but you have got to be better if you are going to keep in the same place. And this is something that you boys can develop among yourselves and whatever the staff do is going to be useless unless you do it also. The compliments which the Headmaster paid the staff were richly deserved. I know as well as anybody how much they have been putting into their teaching in the last two years and it is wonderful to see the results which they are now getting.

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• If there is among the boys, and again I do not know whether there is . . . if there is a sort of tradition that the boy who works hard is really rather odd, that the best thing to do is to slope along easily, not get into trouble, maintain a general mean level—if that tradition exists--then all the work which the Headmaster and his colleagues are doing is going to be wasted. Your parents' money is going to be wasted. And you are the only people who can ensure that the money your parents spend on sending you here, and the work which your staff and your Governors put in to try and make this a decent, inhabitable place, is worthwhile. "The world of the future is going to be in your hands. The School of the present R. W. FISK. is in your hands."

Prize Winners FORM III S. E. Le Grys F. R. Abbott . R. S. Weedon READING PRIZE FORIM UPPER IV FORM LOWER IV M. P. Fox (and 2 Distinction Prizes) S. P. Clarke (and Distinction Prize) K. L. Stewart (and Distinction Prize) P. A. Wills J. P. Sanford DISTINCTION PRIZES (UPPER IV) DISTINCTION PRIZES (LOWER IV) A. M. Mortimer A. M. Dunbar K. J. Abraham N. C. Whitlock T. J. Griffiths N. A. Jenner B. R. Head A. P. Montgomery . READING PRIZE FORM V R. G. Spear I. A. Partridge P. Medway S. R. Pooley (and Distinction Prize) FORM VI DISTINCTION PRIZES M. D. Hoppe B. E. Cleghorn D. G. Lovelock M. Couchman R. J. Lynden-Bell J. Holt C. J. Knight GRIZELLE PRIZE (History) . C. J. Hobbs R. L. KAY PRIZE (German) A. C. Baldwin R. C. Bristow WHEELER PRIZE (French and Distinction Prize) R. S. R. Langley KITCHENER PRIZE (Mathematics) M. P. Strange BIOLOGY PRIZE R. J. Miller ART PRIZE . J Ashley-Smith WOOD PRIZE (Physics) . • R. L. Smallman R. J. Waugh GARSIDE PRIZE (History) . V. D. Sones BLOXHAM PRIZE (English) . C. R. B3rng-Maddick KINGDON PRIZE (Latin) . C. R. Byng-Maddick GEOGRAPHY PRIZE . . . . N. J. W. Page DERRICK PRIZE (English Verse Speaking) ( N. J. W. Page MUSIC PRIZE . • N. P. Watkins N. P. Watkins Bossom PRIZE (Spoken English) . N. J. Lattimer HEADMASTER'S PRIZE FOR HEAD OF SCHOOL. FORM II A. F. King L. N. Day

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Lectures "ROYAL ENGINEERS" N May 26, Capt. Hardy and Capt. Thomson of the Royal Engineers talked to the Sunday Club about their experiences in different parts of the world during the last few years. After a short introduction by Capt. Thomson, Capt. Hardy talked about his trip with eight men to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands last year. The party was picked from many volunteers, after training in the mountains of Northern Spain, and flew out to Tarawa, in the Gilberts, via Singapore, Sydney and Fiji. Their job was to clear channels through the coral reefs to sonic of the islands to let boats through, and to map sonic of the islands which had not previously been surveyed. They also worked in the Solomon arid the Phoenix Islands. They then spent ten days' holiday in New Zealand before returning home. Captain Hardy illustrated his talk with slides of the sights they had seen. Captain Thomson then showed a film of his work in the British Honduras, rebuilding the army barracks which had been blown down by Hurricane Hattie when it struck the colony in 1962. He and his party worked under contract for a civilian, and despite the lack of port facilities and the inherent laziness of the British Honduran labourers, finished the work fairly quickly, as the buildings were all prefabricated. After this they had a short holiday, motoring into the hills behind Belize, and swimming and boating in the harbour. They also took part in an athletics match, and captured the British Honduras javelin record. I. A. P. " MARRIAGE GUIDANCE " HE Rev. Charles Davv's lecture to sixth form leavers on Monday, 22nd July, on Marriage Guidance turned out to be neither a pious sermon on beloved principles nor the other extreme of a wordly chat on the facts of life. Mr. Davy first exploded any mistaken ideas that the purpose of his movement's work was to pry, interfere and scatter kindly hints and offer wise advice. Its function, instead, was to help people by getting them to talk openly about their problems and then to analyse their relationships and difficulties. The speaker went on to illustrate the physical, emotional and " total " relationship aspects of the married state, condemning the existence of any such romantic phenomena as " love at first sight," and claimed that it was pure selfishness that dominated much of " emotional romance." He referred to an almost amusing case that he had had to deal with where a couple had married within four weeks of first meeting, only to find that one party had a weakness for ballroom dancing, while the other favoured an evening reading Plato in a comfortable armchair. Mr. Davy stressed the importance of the seemingly most trivial things, for instance, bow some people can be intensely irritated by a spouse who squeezes the tooth-paste tube in the middle, not the end. He quoted a young upper-class newly-wed as saying " I never thought the way he holds his knife and fork would matter."

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After a very interesting and balanced talk, well punctuated with amusing witticisms Mr. Davy proceeded to deal wisely with an onslaught of questions, ranging from how many children one should have to why there should be such a thing as marriage anyway. V.S.D.

Ashford Dance ON Friday, July 19, the Sutton contingent descended on Ashford Girl's School for a dance to celebrate the end of exams, only to find Mr. Douglas and Mr. Benbow already there with a tennis team which had been playing mixed doubles in the afternoon. Several lively dances started the evening very well in the hall decorated in a floral scheme. Refreshments were served in one of the dining rooms when the jazz band played, after which the dance continued to the music of the Adelphi Band with the aid of R. L. Smallman on bass. The last waltz came all too soon, it seemed, and after thanks were expressed to Miss Nightingale and her girls, Mr. Bates herded the troup into the coach. Gratitude and appreciation must be given both to those who gave us their delightful partnerships and to those whose organisation made the enjoyable evening possible. J.L.C.

Original Co ntributions First Impressions

The Burial

It is a town of bells and dogs and old crepe women ; of tall houses and towers stark against the midnight sky.

A man stands, his eyes fixed On that which once was you, But now is spent and sparkless, A placid dummy, lacking the thing We know as life. The heart out ran its metre Yesterday, and now the years Have silenced it for ever, The unknown quick is flown, The body now is cold, unending. Is this occasion one of happiness or sorrow ? Should I be sad at this, the obvious, Shedding the same unnatural tears As those who cry for someone Dying young ? Should I who now live on To see some other death like this, Weep for those who herald my demise, Or do my friends who now in silence lie, Cry in the darkened tomb, for me ? J. HOLT.

Round my ebony room the blackbird flies caring for nothing but the embryo moon and his own wild voice. My eyes step out into the street to see Men who are blind to the day seeking a sudden truth among the shadows. This house is cold and so I go to find some delicate flame under the falling snow. .T. HOLT. (" First Impressions " was awarded First Prize by Mr. Richard Church in the 1963 annual competition of the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society.)

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Above me, Tawny birds flap With parched wings, Flopping into the long dry grass. Warm wind makes spiked bush Bounce over hot red sand, A dead lizard fries in the sun ; Ants scuttle into crusty holes. From scorched earth to the stone-white sky, The world is filled with heat that sings ; A high-pitched, cutting, never ending ring. The shimmering landscape plays Armageddon. Fires crackle in my brain Shouting for a tormented mind Wracked by the presence of eternal agony, Under the Sun. R. AV. FISK.

The Oracle

again into quiet thought, and the diving boards stand erect in sad solitude. Classrooms are dim and deserted. The penetrating emptiness is cold and eerie bereft of emotion ; only the inscriptions on depressing rows of forlorn and ink-stained benches bear witness to brighter moments. Stillness, peace is everywhere. The melancholic stillness pervades into the gloomy dayrooms. The atmosphere is one of quiet application and contemplation. Round dark, dirt-ink-grease ingrained and strangely familiar tables sit the cultured of tomorrow. Boasting now only a place in the Upper Fourth, or even the Fifth, he sits, contemplation troubling his weary brow :-" Lucky I got that good seat in history today, that one by the window and just behind the chest, so that when the podgy fingers stopped throwing the chalk up and down while a slick question was snarled at me, the book was conveniently placed."

0 God that dries the limpet and the rose The five throw metal of the gun, Spin to my spinning tune the waters' roar The brilliant corners of the sun.

The stark absence of an essay under the title—the patient history essay book suddenly makes its presence felt, radiating a distinctly unpleasant feeling.

Taste in my fettered lymph the unpupped mother's tears The sap of trees in flood, Fly to my wincing gall a summer's tale Along the spring-heeled channels of my blood.

" The Revolt in the Netherlands.—So they revolted, so what ! No good living in the past nowadays, with the world in its present state. But then there's the 0 ' levels to consider. 0 ' levels. Not all that important, I suppose. Nothing to worry about really. Bet that man in the illustration never got any. Nor George Orwell, nor Shakespeare, nor Hamlet, even. Purely an insignificant material convention " —(he sits back, idleness justified)—" But I might as well try while I'm about it "—(he sits up, disillusioned)—" But then they're quite easy, English a ' cinch ' with a bit of concentration, History with a bit of hard work. Latin, too, if I learn off the old conjugations, and French the same. Six. Six ' 0 ' level G.C.E.'s. Well, say five. All done with a bit of work in prep. time. Yes, prep. Work in prep.—Mm.

Here on my heart where a sad girl bites My flesh between her tears The message of the tolling bell Creeps grey through all my years. Here where the wine from the cup is sweet, The pale limbs parted in flight, The twice rung hammer of the holy man Creates a centre of light. I hear her eyes as one who has Under the long tower trod And found in his white Sunday praise The presence of another god. J. Hour.

An Evening Dusk descends with peaceful sloth. The smug evening air lulls contented rest over happy fields and tired towns. The warm quiet is harmed only by twilight twitterings and the murmuring of gathering swarms. The tennis courts are deserted ; the weary nets sag depressed, and the cricket pitches stand a lonely vigil. The pool settles once

But then with the five 0 'levels, I'm away. Sixth Form. P.S. periods. Current Affairs, the lot. 'Might even be a prefect the year after if quite a few people leave. And if Smith doesn't overtake me, of course. Don't see why he should. Maybe he is good at sport, but that's not everything, there's always, well, other things to be good at. But then there was that business with the Housemaster about Matron. How was 1 to know she was walking behind ine on the way back from the dining hall ? She didn't have to listen. And it wasn't

THE SUTIONIAN my fault that a hole got burnt in my pocket when I caught it on a nail, and that my tie got ripped off when I tripped up in the quad. Yes, there's something wrong with the whole constitution, Prefects, Matrons and history lessons. Never mind, only six weeks to go before the holidays, forty-five days, six of those Sundays, four sermons and twenty-one history lessons.—' The Revolt in the Netherlands '— ah, yes, I'm forgetting that exeat next week— but that will go quickly—" Yes, all too soon he'll be back in the quad on Sunday evening in the gloom of dusk. There'll be the final farewells. " Now enjoy yourself and work hard." The car doors will thud shut, and it will slowly depart down the

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drive. It will stop at the end, then slowly turn with a final wave, then once again he'll see the glowing red lights disappear for the last time up the hill. As he stands there for a moment a chilly gust disturbs some leaves on the quad, they rustle. He will look up and see the outline of the gaunt, dark chapel against the evening sky. " Enjoy myself. Work hard." He shivers, picks up his bag of tuck, and a sad little figure will turn round and slowly go back in, to finish that essay he hasn't done on the Revolt in the Netherlands.

V. D. SONES.

Easter Holidays Hockey THE OXFORD HOCKEY FESTIVAL OR our four-yearly visit to Oxford, we were "in situ" at Hertford College, one of the oldest colleges in the University (we could tell it was old by comparing the steps with those in Lambe's). After a breath-takingly fast drive from Sutton Valence, we were in no mood for our first encounter with the " enemy " on the Tuesday of our arrival. This resulted in some very shaky hockey against our old rivals, The Royal Belfast Academical Institute, and we subsequently lost 7-1 !

After a celebration in Oxford and its environs that night, it was painfully obvious that some of us were not quite so fit as we might have been, and indeed this was apparent to a greater or lesser extent throughout our stay. On the Wednesday we played Welbeck, the army training school, with whom we drew 2-2, when we should have easily won. There is no doubt in my mind that the forwards' mid-field work was some of the best seen at Sutton Valence for some time ; the defence, too, was good. However, back to the -story. Thursday was our hardest day, for we played twice--in the morning against Bloxham with whom we drew 1-1, and in the afternoon against Campbell College another Irish school. Here we lost, this time 2-3, a good result, for they beat R.B.A.I. In our last match we beat Trent College 2-1, our first school win, and so we left for home, contended. All in all, it was a most enjoyable, if a little energetic, stay. I would like to thank Mr. MacIlwaine, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Hanworth for putting up with us, and also the other masters who came along to watch. Colours : Jackson and Hodges. R. Memmott (Captain).

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ROBABLY many more have heard of the Duke of Edinburgh's Awards Scheme

than really know what it is about. Certainly publicity tends to concentrate on one aspect, the expenditure, and even presumably intelligent persons have talked of the foolishness of giving gold medals for walking barefoot up Snowdon. In fact the scheme is an idea, of which youth organisations are invited to make use, designed to stress the various requirements of a citizen, and to provide an incentive, not in one field but in a combination. Thus to gain an award—and the gaining of the award is the least important part of the scheme—one must qualify in four sections—Public Service, Adventure, Pursuits and Fitness ; and in each case the standards are set so as to lay greatest weight on persistence and enthusiasm. This introduction is perhaps necessary in view of the fact that the School only became an operating authority in January when the first groups started using the scheme, fifteen in the second series and four in the first. Since then five more have started at the second series and two more at the first—which is for the younger. Others have inquired, but it has been found difficult to handle more than a limited number, especially while the scheme is starting. In the Public Service section two adult and fifteen preliminary certificates have been obtained ; expeditions ranging from 16-35 miles and covering twenty-four or forty-eight hours have been undertaken, fairly locally but mainly in poorish weather ; an incomplete list of pursuits would include Marksmanship, Golf, Chess, Fishing, Radio, Ornithology, Numismatics, Radio Engineering, Photography and Philately. Fitness trials have on the whole been successfuly held and some at least have found themselves capable of more than they expected. During the term P. S. Bennett, G. S. Farrow, C. C. Haves, J. I. Kellie, D. G. Lovelock, R. J. Lynden-Bell, D. J. Molyneux, J. R. B. Percy, S. R. Pooley, D. H. P. Simpson and D. J. Venediger have qualified for the second series award. D. M. Ball and J. B. Wilkinson have qualified for the first series award. Initiative Exercises NE W venture was tried at the end of term. Ten of the scientists who had finished " A " levels were dispatched to various destinations, ranging from Ipswich to Southampton. Each pair was given three objectives and forty-eight hours in which to complete their task ; the shortest time taken was twenty-one hours, and all were back well inside the limit. Those taking part agreed that the scheme was a success ; little difficulty was found in getting from place to place ; two were given lifts by the Vicar of Wakefield. Some were lucky enough to be given all the necessary food by travellers and agents, one pair returning fourpence to the good. Temporary sleeping accommodation ranged from haystacks and police stations to ditches and aquaria. At a meeting later, various helpful suggestions were put forward for making the scheme more testing, especially of initiative and endurance, and it is hoped that this idea will become a regular feature of end-of-term aeti viLies in the Summer. The winners this year were Cook and Rutter, though the prize given was designed merely

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C.C.F. Notes HE Summer Term is for the contingent a tangle of bits and pieces. It is also, as the end of the training year, a time for surveying the achievements or failures of that year—but more of that later. Overshadowing the first half of the term is the General Inspection. This year we were fortunate enough to have as our inspecting officer Brigadier W. A. Smallman, to whom we are most grateful for coining and for carrying out such a full inspection. The parade was extremely capably commanded by R.S.M. Byng-Maddick, the Corp of Drums under C.-Sgt. Page provided a most impressive display, the standard of turnout seemed good, and even the marching was better than it has been. On the same day the Inter-House Assault Course Competition resulted in a tie between Lambe's and Westminster, and a challenge race between a team of N.C.O.s' and a team of Cadets was—fortunately for discipline—won narrowly by the N.C.O.s'. Earlier, the House Drill Competition, judged by Capt. N. H. Thomson and R.S.M. Wood of 36 Squadron Regt. R.E.—to whom we are most grateful—had been won for the second year running by Cornwallis. As well as this, an experiment was made in increasing the amount of training done during the term and small squads at various odd times were trained with varying success for Recruits, Basic and Army Proficiency Tests. Finally, Cpl. West handled a large number of trainees for First Aid with great competence, so that thirteen Preliminary and eight Adult Certificates were obtained in the term. The above is a fairly full list of activities—and it is bound to occupy a considerable amount of time —but in my view, at least, the function of the C.C.F. in the School is to provide as many different activities as possible. We are not solely concerned with military training or problems of turnout, though we must be able to meet requirements of this nature. We have experimented this year in a number of ways, speeding up the training for Basic and A.P.T., adding a first aid course to the Junior Leaders' Syllabus, changing the nature and timing of the Recruits' test, introducing a new style of arms drill, and we hope to experiment more. We have still a long way to go to keep pace with the times and develop all possibilities to the full, though I was, myself, encouraged by the speed of the response to the request for volunteers for Camp. We must not, however, lose sight of the revised aim of the C.C.F., stated by the Minister of Defence in the House of Commons : To provide the opportunities within a disciplined framework for the development of qualities of endurance, resourcefulness, self-reliance and responsibility, as well as to provide a background knowledge of military methods and materials.

Shooting Notes

T The scores obtained by individuals were higher than expected and R. J. Penfold HE Easter Camp gave an encouraging start to the season's open range shooting.

topped the averages with 32.3. The Inter-House Match, shot on the last day of our stay, was won by Lambe's with a score of 130, 6 points ahead of Westminster. J. P. Rutter won the Donegal Badge (in the morning) with 66, and first prize in the Sweepstake went to R. J. Penfold with 66 in the afternoon.

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Our resulting high hopes for the season were justified by our outstanding success at the Kent Schools Rifle Meeting. We retained the VIII's Cup and both the Cadet and Reserve pairs won their respective competitions. T. J. Epps won the medal for the highest individual score of the day with 67, including a possible at 500. It is the first time in the history of the meeting that one school has taken every single prize, and the team arrived home with two cups and thirteen medals. The Sussex C.R.A. Schools Meeting came as an anti-climax as the scores obtained here were not as high as might have been hoped. Neither the VIII nor Cadet and Reserve pairs were placed in their respective competitions. The VIII this term, for the Kent County Rifle Association Schools' Meeting, Hythe, consisted of :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; . J. P. Rutter R. J. Lynden-Bell T. J. Epps A. C. Beglin I). J. Luget G. S. Farrow R. J. Penfold . H. W. Wiggins .

200 yds. (ex 35) 29 24 32 32 32 31 30 29 239

500 yds. (ex 35) 30 31 35 29 32 31 30 29 247

Total (ex 70) 59 55 67 61 64 62 60 58

Grand Total 486

SUSSEX COUNTY RIFLE ASSOCIATION SCHOOLS' OPEN MEETING, BISLEY 200 yds. 500 yds. Grand Total (ex 280) (ex 280) (ex 560) VIII . 249 246 495 60 Cadet Pair 53 113 (ex 70) (ex 70) (ex 140) Reserve Pair 59 64 123

A very successful season's shooting was brought to a close when the VIII scored 514 in the "Ashburton." This gained the School 4th place, our highest position ever, and the highest score ever achieved by the School in any competition. It also won us the Cottesloe Vase for the smaller contingents. D. J. Luget shot magnificently and made the highest score of over 1,000 cadets. The Cadet Pair shot well, being placed 6th, and look promising for future years. J. P. Rutter T. J. Epps D. J. Luget A. C. Beglin R. J. Penfold H. W. Higgins ,T. R. Parsons . J. G. Alexander

200 yds. (ex 35) 31 33 34 30 32 33 33 31

500 yds. (ex 35) 33 32 35 31 31 30 32 33

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Total (ex 70) 64 65 69 61 63 63 65 64 -Grand Total 514

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33 30

31 32

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Total 126 9th Man : G. S. Farrow 37 (ex 50). School Open Range Individual Cup : D. J. Luget, 69. Marksman of the Year Trophy : D. J. Luget. School's Hundred : D. J. Luget, 69 (placed 1st). Inter-House Open Range Competition : 1st : Lambe's, 130. Runners-up: Westminster, 124.

First Eleven Cricket

HE School were moderately successful, winning five of their eleven games. They were a good but variable side. At times the batting failed badly, only R. Memmott showing any consistency. There was a lack of determination needed for big scores, and two hundred was reached only once. However, the younger players advanced well, so the prospects look good for next season. The side owed much to the shrewd and enthusiastic captaincy of N. P. Watkins ; he always had the game in control, and used his limited bowling strength extremely well. The bowling was mostly indifferent, but on occasions was good, particularly that of H. L. Evans, who was sometimes very dangerous. The medium to fast attack was not suited to the prevailing slow wickets encountered. The feature of the side was its fielding, undoubtedly the best for many years Very few catches went astray. The slip fielding of A. Barr was outstanding throughout the season. The opening partnership of 129 against King's School, Rochester—Memmott and Watkins—must surely be a school record. Lunch was taken at 188, and the School declared 273 for 7, before three o'clock. D.A.S. The following have represented the School this term :— R. Memmott, N. P. Watkins, T. R. Goulden, A. Barr, D. I. F. Kelleher, M. E. King, J. C. Murrells, D. J. Allaway, H. L. Evans, A. W. Dixon, M. G. F. Hudson, R. V. Cant, N. B. Houghton and T. J. Groves.

Cricket Results School v. D. A. Simmons XI Played Saturday, May 4, on Upper, and won by 7 runs. School 134—T. R. Goulden 62, D. A. Simmons 127—T. R. Goulden 7 for 23. School v. Sutton Valence C.C. Played Saturday, May 11, on Upper, and won by 35 runs. School 175 for 8 declared—A. Barr 39; Sutton Valence C.C. 140.

School v. King's School, Rochester Played Saturday, May 18, on Upper, and won by 185 runs. School 273 for 7 declared—R. Memmott 65, N. P. Watkins 64; Rochester 88—H. L. Evans 6 for 37.

School v. St. Lawrence College Played Saturday, May 25, at Ramsgate, and lost by 6 wickets. School 70; St. Lawrence 72 for 4.

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2nd XI Cricket

Played Thursday, May 30, on Upper, and lost by 29 runs. School 93 ; Sevenoaks 122-H. V. Cant 5 for 38. School v. Dover College

Match_ drawn. School 156 for 7 declared C. C. Hayes 51 ; Rochester 84 for 4. v. St. Lawrence College

Played Thursday, June 6, at Dover, and lost by 102 runs. School 121 ; Dover 223—H. L. Evans 6 for 64.

Lost by 85 runs. St. Lawrence 171 for 3 declared ; School 86. v. Sevenoaks School

School v. Band of Brothers

Played Saturday, June 8, on Upper, and lost by 4 wickets. School 194-A. Barr 39 ; Band of Brothers 195 for 6.

Lost by 7 wickets. School 48 ; Sevenoaks 49 for 3. v. Dover College

Match drawn. School 156 for 9 declared--T. G. Groves 41 ; Dover 124 for 7---M. E. King 5 for 25.

School v. The M.C.C.

Played Tuesday, June 11, on Upper, and lost by 137 runs. School 64 ; M.C.C. 201 for 7 declared.

v. St. Edmund's, Canterbury

School v. The XL Club

Played Saturday, June 22, on Upper, and won by 4 wickets. School 157 for 6 —N. P. Watkins 34 ; XL Club 156 for 7 declared. School v. St. Edmund's School

Played Saturday, June 29, at Canterbury, and lost by 6 wickets. School 48; St. Edmunds' 49 for 4.

Match drawn. School 147 for 9 declared--A. R. Ford Si; St. Edmunds 108 for 9. v. Cranbrook

Match abandoned without a ball being bowled. Under-I5 Cricket v. King's School, Rochester

Lost by 6 wickets. School 35 ; Rochester 39 for 4.

School v. Cranbrook School

Played Tuesday, July 2, at Cranbrook, and won by 6 wickets. School 55 for 4-R. Memmott 32 not out ; Cranbrook 54 —H. L. Evans 6 for 12.

v. King's School, Rochester

School v. The Old Suttonians

On Saturday, July 6, on Upper. Match abandoned without a ball being bowled. School v. The Hague C.C. Juniors

Played Wednesday, July 24, on Upper. Match drawn. School 160—N. P. Watkins 51; The Hague 143 for 7.

v. St. Lawrence College

Match drawn. School 148 for 5 declared—A. N. P. Biggs 65; St. Lawrence 97 for 7. v. Sevenoaks School

Won by 7 wickets. Sevenoaks 25— K. J. Spear 5 for 13, G. B. L. Harrison 4 for 8; School 26 for 3. v. Dover College

Lost by 5 wickets. School 123 for 9 declared ; Dover 127 for 5.

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v. St. Edmund's, Canterbury

Won by 2 wickets. St. Edmund's 142— N. T. Richards 1 for 20; School 143 for 8 —W. E. de C. Lucy 52 not out.

Founder's v. Lambe's

Lambe's won by 69 runs. Lambe's 138; Foundei's 69—R. V. Cant 1 for 25.

v. Senacre School

Match drawn. School 70 for 7; Senacre 42 for 8—K. J. Spear 6 for 15. v. Cran brook School

Lost by 62 runs. Cranbrook 110— K. J. Spear 5 for 18. G. B. L. Harrison 4 for 32; School 48.

Westminster v. Cornwallis

Westminster won by 203 runs. Westminster 278—A. Barr 88, Ne Indratat 54; Cornwallis 255—T. R. Goulden 87, M. G. F. Hudson 74. Final

House Matches, 1st Round

Lambe's v. Westminster

Founder's v. St. Margaret's

Founder's won by 2 wickets. St. Margaret's 116—A. W. Dixon 70, H. L. Evans 6 for 40; Founder's 117 for 8.

Lambe's won by 10 wickets. Westminster 85—M. E. King 6 for 27; Lambe's 86 for 0—R. Memmott 36 not out, N. P. Watkins 35 not out.

1st XI Averages, 1963 BATTING

Runs R. Memmott N. P. Watkins T. R. Goulden A. Barr . D. I. F. Kelleher M. E. King . J. C. Murrells D. J. Allaway H. L. Evans A. W. Dixon M. G. F. Hudson R. V. Cant .

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N. B. Houghton T. J. Groves

Overs H. L. Evans N. P. Watkins T. R. Goulden D. I. F. Kelleher D. J. Allaway M. E. King . R. V. Cant . N. B. Houghton T. J. Groves

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12 12 11 12 7 7 12 11 8 6 8 9

65 64 62 39 33 14 25 55 15 24 36 16

1 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 5 0 0 2

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past T -as a result we were not without success. At the Kent Championships at Eltham HE athletes this year have had more competition experience than in the

on May 25, we had six finalists and brought back four Grade III standards and one Grade II, gained by Basser for his half-mile of 3 mins. There have also been visits to Blackheath Harriers' invitation events, the most notable achievement being Barr's win in the Javelin, with a throw of 167 feet. In the Kent Schools Championships at Chatham, we had eleven athletes in the Maidstone Schools Team, four of which reached the finals and three gained standards. The Maidstone Schools Championships brought us a great deal of success. Everyone who went was placed and we won both relays. Neal won the 100 yards in 10.7 secs. -a record--and also the 220 yards in 24.0 secs. In the School Sports, Neal broke the" B " 100 yards record and also" B "Weight and Triple Jump. Barr, as expected, broke the " A " Javelin record with a throw of 161 feet 10 inches. In the Triangular Match, records were broken in five events. Coller gained the Junior High Jump and 440 yards records, and Evans the Senior Javelin with a throw of 162 feet. Hodges achieved the Sprint Double, as did Neal in the Juniors. Lynden-Bell and Pattinson ran a well-judged 880 yards in the Juniors to come first and second. Dover had a convincing win over us in the Senior events but beat us by only three points in the Junior. TRIANGULAR RESULTS v. DOVER AND ST. LAWRENCE, AT RAMSGATE SENIORS :100 yds. : 1, Hodges ; 2, D.C. ; 3, D.C. Time 10.8 see. 220 yds. : 1, Hodges ; 2, D.C. ; 3, S.L.C. Time 24.1 sec. 440 yds. : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, D.C. Time 52.4 sec. (Record). 880 yds. : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, Basser. Time 2 min. 3.8 sec. 1 Mile : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, D.C. Time 4 min. 45 sec. Hurdles : 1, D.C. ; 2, Hoppe ; 3, D.C. Time 16.4 sec. High Jump : 1, D.C. ; 2, D.C. ; 3, Memmott. Height 5 ft. 7 in. Long Jump : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, BegIM. Distance 20 ft. 5 in. Trimple Jump : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, D.C. Distance 42 ft. 7 in Discus : 1, D.C. ; 2, D.C. ; 3, Farrow. Distance 116 ft. 6 in. Javelin : 1, Evans ; 2, D.C. ; 3, Barr. Distance 162 ft. (Record). Weight : 1, ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, Kelleher. Distance 45 ft. (Record). Relay (4 x 110 yds.) : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.V.S. ; 3, S.L.C. Time 46.5 sec. Final Result : 1, D.C. (126) ; 2, S.V.S. (71) ; 3, SIC. (53). JUNIORS :100 yds. : 1, Neal ; 2, D.C. ; 3, Organ. Time 11.0 sec. 220 yds. : 1, Neal ; 2, D.C. ; 3, D.C. Time 24.9 sec. 440 yds. : 1, Colter ; 2, D.C. ; 3, D.C. Time 54.8 sec. (Record). 880 yds. : 1, L. Bell ; 2, Pattinson ; 3, D.C. Time 2 min. 12.6 see. Hurdles : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, D.C. Time 16.9 sec. High Jump : 1, Colter ; 2, D.C. ; 3, S.I.C. Height 5 ft. 2 in. (Record). Long Jump : 1, D.C. ; 2, S.L.C. : 3, D.C. Distance 19 ft. Triple Jump : 1, S.L.C. ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, Wise. Distance 35 ft. 10 in. Discus : 1, S.L.C. ; 2, D.C. ; 3, Harber. Distance 115 ft. 5 in. Javelin : 1, L. Bell ; 2, D.C. ; 3, D.C. Distance 136 ft. 0 in. Weight : 1, ; 2, S.L.C. ; 3, Langrick. Distance 40 ft. h in. (Record). Relay (4 x 110 yds.) : 1, S.V.S. ; 2, D.C. ; 3, Disq. Time 48 sec. Final Result : 1, D.C. (90) ; 2, S.V.S. (87); 3, S.L.C. (51).

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INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS RESULTS DIVISION " A " : 100 yds. : 1, Hodges ; 2, Sinallman ; 3, Lattimer. Time 10.7 see. 220 yds. : 1, Memmott ; 2, Smallman ; 3, Lattimer. Time 25.0 sec. 440 yds. : 1, Basser ; 2, Skinner ; 3, Johnson. Time 53-6 sec. 880 yds. : 1, Basser ; 2, Skinner ; 3, Johnson. Time 2 min. 8 sec. Mile : 1, Johnson ; 2, Skinner : 3, Raiser. Time 5 min. 4 sec. Hurdles : 1, Hoppe ; 2, Farrow ; 2, 31iller. Time 17.3 sec. Long Jump : 1, Skinner ; 2, Begun; 3, Barr. Distance 19 ft. Triple Jump : 1, Macdonald ; 2, Houghton; 3, Hayes. Distance 37 ft. 6f in. High Jump : 1, Memmott ; 2 Jenner/Browne. Height 4 ft. 14 in. Discus : 1, Farrow ; 2, Hollis ; 3, Macdonald. Distance 108 ft. 4f in. Javelin : 1, Barr ; 2, Evans ; 3, Simpson. Distance 161 ft. 10 in. (Record). Weight : 1, Kelleher ; 2, King ; 3, Hodges. Distance 34 ft. 14 in. DIVISION " B " : 100 yds. : 1, Neal: 2, Organ ; 3, Wise. Time 10.7 sec. (Record). 220 yds. : 1, Neal ; 2, Organ ; 3, Wise. Time 24.7 sec. 440 yds. : 1, Coller ; 2, L. Bell ; 3, Buzzard. Time 55.4 sec. 880 yds. : 1, L.-Bell ; 2, Buzzard ; 3, Pattinson. Time 2 min. 11.4 sec. Hurdles : 1, Neal : 2, Pacey ; 3, Feltwell. Time 16.5 sec. Long Jump : 1, Feltwell ; 2, Neal ; 3, Wills. Distance 18 ft. 6 in. Triple Jump : 1, Neal ; 2, Feltwell ; 3, Wise. Distance 37 ft. 2 in. (Record). High Jump : 1, Colter; 2, Barber ; 3, Blaine. Distance 4 ft. 10 in. Discus : 1, Feltwell ; 2, Harbor ; 3, Hewitt. Distance 122 ft. 2 in. (Record). Javelin : 1, L.-Bc11; 2, Colter; 3, Gray. Distance 127 ft. 8 in. Weight : 1, Real; 2, Langrick ; 3, Gulland. Distance 36 ft. 44 in. (Record). DIVISION " C " :100 yds. : 1, Denyer ; 2, Green ; 3, Gray. Time 11.7 sec. 220 yds. : 1, Gray ; 2, Green ; 3, Jesty. Time 26-7 sec. 440 yds. : 1, Molyneux ; 2, Williams : 3, Pedgrift. Time 62.1 sec. 880 yds. : 1, Lowe ; 2, Malkin ; 3, Wardrop. Time 2 min. 27.5 sec. Long Jump : 1, Gray ; 2, Jesty ; 3, Denyer/Malkin. Distance 16 ft. 7 in. High Jump : 1, Bail; 2, Wilkinson ; 3, Macdonald. Weight : 1, Jolts ; 2, Matliin ; 3, Stewart. Distance 34 ft. Si in. (Record). Hurdles : 1, Denyer ; 2, Spear (ml); 3, Moss - Gibbons. Time 13.4 sec. DIVISION " D " : 100 yds. : 1, Grimshaw 2, McKenzie ; 3, Taylor. Time 12.4 see. 220 yds. : 1, Grimshaw 2, McKenzie; 3, Scragg. Time 28.8 sec. 440 yds. : 1, Grimshaw 2, Abraham ; 3, Le Grys. Time 69.0 sec. Long Jump : 1, Taylor 2, Grimshaw ; 3, Le Grys /Harvey. Distance 15 ft. 4f in. High Jump : 1, McKenzie ; 2, Reed ; 3, bcragg. Height 4 ft. 1 in. Weight : 1, Grimshaw ; 2, Taylor ; 3, Stringer. Distance 31 ft. 11 in. (Record). RELAYS :Senior (4 x 110 yds.) : 1, Lambe's ; 2, Cornwallis ; 3, St. Margaret's. Time 47.5 sec. Junior (4 x 110 yds.) : 1, Lambe's ; 2, Westminster ; 3, Cornwallis. Time 49 sec. (Record). 10-MAN RACE (Junior Houses) : 1. Bennetts ; 2, Holdgates ; 3, Founder's. Time 5 min. 28.3 sec. 20-MAN RACE : 1, Lambe's ; 2, Westminster ; 3, Cornwallis. Time 9 min. 3.2 sec.

Swimming Retrospect SWIMMING this season is, perhaps, better judged by 'considering the keenness rather than the success of the teams. The odd fact that the junior team was stronger than the senior and that the senior team relied considerably on technically junior members gives great promise for future years. Pacey, a junior, has proved indispensable to the senior team, while Woods, Ball and Stewart have been able to take both Senior and Junior matches in their stride. Water Polo has also been a brighter aspect of the season, yet again with more keenness than success. Hole made a very reliable centre-half, while Rais and Pacev used speed and agility to score goals. It was most encouraging to manage a draw in a friendly game against a very formidable O.S. team in mid-season.

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The end of term Swimming Sports have testified to both considerable improvement over the season, and shows great promise for next year, several junior records being broken. V.D.S. Results of Swimming Matches

v. Sevenoaks School Lost v. King's School, Rochester Won v. King's School, Canterbury Lost v. Westminster School Lost v. Whitgift School Lost v. Tonbridge School Lost v. Dulwich College Lost Lost v. Forest School The following have represented the School this term :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; V. D. Sones, R. V. Cant, D. J. Molyneux, A. Rais, J. S. Dudbridge, D. V. Hole, A. F. Pacey, G. B. Noble, D. M. Ball, C. J. Woods, G. J. Gulland, D. E. Strange, C. B. Wheeler, A. P. Montgomery, N. J. Litchfield, K. L. Stewart, N. P. J. Aps, S. K. G. Murray, P. P. Gould, R. J. M. Macdonald, R. E. Macgregor and J. N. H. Bette-Bennett. SCHOOL SPORTS-TEAM RESULTS Relays Westminster Westminster Penguin Race Water Polo Westminster Individual Cup Lambe's Tennis Retrospect ENNIS fixtures seem to have been affected by the weather last term more than most and our most dismal experience was travelling to Ardingly to find the rain beginning to tumble down and never looking like stopping. We made no attempt to begin the matches against St. Lawrence and the 0.S., and the match against Eastbourne was played in something like a hurricane : unfortunately our opponents seemed to enjoy the conditions, possibly they were just more skilful than we were. S. J. Lyne, M. G. F. Hudson, M. J. R. Sealey, D. J. Luget, R. G. Batcheller, N. B. Houghton and A. P. Armstrong have been the mainstay of the team, and Hudson, Sealey, Luget and Batcheller will be our team for the You11 Cup, played this year at Eton. Cornwallis won the inter-House matches decisively, and Sealey won the individual singles competition ; the Junior singles was won by Dixon. Results of matches played :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; May 25 v. Cranbrook Won 5-4 v. Eastbourne Lost 8-1 June 4 v. Crambrook Won 5-4 July 2 July 25 v. The Staff Won 5-4

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THE SUTTONIAN Fencing Retrospect Captain : R. J. Harvey

again, the term was hectic for fencers, who had to train and practise for O NCE matches, whilst taking part in cricket, athletics or swimming. We started the term off with a visit to Maidstone Technical College for the Kent Schoolboys' Sabre and Epee Championships. In the Epee, Harvey won through to the semi-finals but went no further (mainly due to lack of caution !). In the Sabre, Ormrod, Kingston and Cleghorn tried hard, but were knocked out early on. Again, Harvey went into the semi-finals, and only after a bitter " duel " with a contemporary from King's School, Rochester, was he prevented from reaching the final. Thus, with little impression made on county schoolboy fencing, we turned our sights on inter-school fencing. Our first fixture was on Saturday, May 11, at King's School, Rochester. Despite a good effort by the School, the longer-practised tactics of Rochester soon began to tell, and thus we came away without victory. On Saturday, June 22, we went to Sevenoaks School for a match of all three weapons, and although we did not quite avenge the trouncing they gave us last time we met, it was a far more closely fought match. Our last fixture of the term was on Saturday, June 29, on the Thames Nautical Training College Ship H.M.S. Worcester. This time, however, everybody struck form, and we came away with victory. Finally, all fencers would like to thank Mr. Vibert for his unflagging enthusiasm and interest, and Mr. Marsh, Mr. Penman and Mr. Porter for transport facilities. The following have represented the School this term in fencing matches : R. J. Harvey, M. P. J. Ormrod, R. J. Kingston, B. E. Cleghorn, R. J. Brooks and J. Batten. v. KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER (A)

2nd III Foil 1st III EpĂŠe 1st III Sabre Lost 7-2 Lost 7-2 Lost 7-2 Lost 6-3 School Victories : Harvey 5, Ormrod 1, Kingston 1, Cleghorn 0, Brooks 1, Batten 1. 181 III Foil

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Judo Retrospect UB, LNG the summer term last year, Peter James, who was then in Holdgate House, was found reading a Judo magazine.

Mr. Richard Lochead volunteered to help and during the following week ten large hop " pockets " were filled with straw and sewn up so that classes could start on the following Sunday. Boys who were promoted to senior houses took their enthusiasm with them and parents were asked, in the Spring Term of this year, if they would be willing to give an undertaking that their sons would complete three terms' Judo instruction. This was necessary so as to be sure to cover the cost of a proper Judo mat. We were expecting that, perhaps, 24 boys would wish to join. In fact, 67 entries were originally made and a large 32 ft. x 32 ft. mat was bought. This term 64 boys have taken part and are registered with the British Judo Association, so that " grading " can begin next term. Several of the senior boys should reach the 6th KYU grade and the juniors who have already done a year or so should, perhaps, progress as far as 2nd or 3rd MON. A very successful exhibition was staged on Speech Day this term and at least two mothers seem to have benefited from the display of methods of self defence. They claimed, afterwards, to have a much clearer idea of what their sons had been trying to show them ! Fathers and housemasters have confessed to mixed feelings. They agree that it is a very good thing for boys to do, but one sometimes detects a faint suggestion that they shouldn't, perhaps, do it too well. Mr. Penman has taken practical steps to keep in touch with the pupils' progress, and we are very grateful for his continuing enthusiasm and support. F.R.B. The Public Schools Old Boys' Golf Association

T is time to draw the attention of Suttonians to an ambitious experiment which

is being carried out in response to a suggestion made by the 0.S.G.S.--the organisation of a truly national Old Boys' Golf Tournament. The Halford Hewitt Tournament which takes place annually at Deal has a limited entry which excludes a large number of schools from taking part ; it was therefore felt that there was a need for a wider competition with greater flexibility of entry, and including some system of regional qualifying for a match play final extending over three days. The organisation of a competition of this size is clearly a most complicated matter, involving correspondence with literally hundreds of schools, arrangements with golf clubs, hotels and so on, and we are very grateful to P. W. Grafton for taking on this enormous job ; moreover, he has set about it with such enthusiasm that much of

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the preliminary work has been completed and a very satisfactory response obtained-over forty schools in this year's entry and a total of over 100 willing to join if the venture appears to be succeeding. Apart from the initial correspondence the first step in the formation of the P.S.O.B.G.A. was a meeting at Woodhall Spa in November of last year, attended by members of fifteen Old Boy societies. A constitution was drawn up and a committee elected under the Chairmanship of Peter Grafton, with members representing such distant schools as St. Lawrence and Stockport, Blundells and Cranleigh. The trophy to be competed for is the Grafton-Morrish Trophy ; regional qualifying rounds are to be held (18 holes, Stableford scoring) before mid-July ; and the final, it is hoped, will be over the Royal West Norfolk and Hunstanton Courses from October 25-27. It has been emphasised from the start that this tournament is in no vay intended as a rival attraction to the Halford Hewitt Competition. The dates have been deliberately chosen not to clash and the Halford Hewitt Schools have been kept in touch with proceedings and invited to participateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;indeed, thirteen of these are among this year's entry. After such a promising start it only remains for us to hope that the venture continues to flourish. We hope, too, that the prospect of taking part in this competition with its exciting possibilities will appeal to those golfers who, for one reason or another, have not managed to attend regularly the Spring and Autumn Meetings of the 0.S.G.S. Anyone interested should write to the Secretary, A. A. Trimming, 4 Heathdene Road, Wallington, Surrey.

Golf Notes HIS term has been a good one for golf. Mr. West, the professional at Ashford,

T has been coming once a week to give lessons to twenty boys. His teaching has been both interesting and instructive, while his idea of having six holes on B.M. has been adopted. This proved very successfulâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the course has been used a great deal and the School competition was played there. It was also Mr. West's idea to play six rounds in the competition and to count the best score for each hole from all six cards handed in, thus giving the weaker players a better chance. T. J. Eames, D. J. Allaway, R. Memmott, J. C. Murrells, D. V. Hole and J. W. A. Hollis represented the School in the Summer O.S. Golf Meeting, and the annual match against St. Lawrence was played at Belmont, with Eames, Allaway, Hollis and A. P. Armstrong representing the School. As usual, two pairs went in for the Kent Schools Championship, but at the time of writing the results are not known. The prospects for the future seem good as a result of Mr. West's lessons and the hard work put in by a number of more junior boys. T. J. E.

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O.S. Notes C. E. Rogers Some of the Old Suttonians who knew Clifford Rogers when he was on the staff, have subscribed to a fund which a member of the Rugby staff has been organising to help his widow and family. Over £30 has been contributed by some fifteen of his friends. This contribution has been sent on by the Headmaster and he has received a grateful letter in reply. If there are any other of his friends who would like to send donations, the Headmaster will gladly send on any cheques he receives ; these can be made out to him or to the "Clifford Rogers Fund." R. M. Beechey (1951.—W.) has won a prize in The Law Society's examinations. After coming down from Oxford he spent three years articled to the Town Clerk of Salford. He qualified as Solicitor last November and is now Assistant Solicitor with East Suffolk C.C. and is Assistant County Prosecutor. He says that he finds East Anglia a pleasant area in which to live and work. G. L. Jones (1948.—W.) gives news of O.S. in Western Canada. R. J. Burns (1941.—M.) who left the west for Ottawa a year or so back has returned to Vancouver and has taken a post with the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation—a government agency. R. H. F. Wylie (1943.--W.) is now in the Peace River District working on the great hydro-electric scheme there. Glyn Jones himself still works for the Laurentide Financial Corporation where he is Senior Programmer." He writes the programmes to make a computer do the work. He sent an interesting news cutting about the work of R. de L. Philips (1930.—M.) who works for the Vancouver Opera Association, of which he is President.

J. R. S. Bailey (1956) has taken his degree at Bristol University in Economics and Government. In his last year he was President of the Junior Common Room at Wills Hall, which he says was a pleasant and enjoyable responsibility. He has finished his graduate training at Rolls-Royce in Derby where he was chairman of the Graduate Committee. He now works in the Personnel Department of RollsRoyce. A note of his marriage appears elsewhere. R. A. Woolf (1960.—M.) tells us that after leaving Sutton Valence he took the French course at l'Ecole de Francais Moderne, Lausanne University. The course lasted a year and gave him the opportunity of meeting people from all over the world. He is now working in advertising and is one of two people in his firm handling French translations. J. A. Carpenter (1960.—F.) has obtained his Honours Degree in Agricultural Science at Reading University. Well done. Starting in November, he is making an overland trip to Australia, passing through Persia, India, Burma, Siam and Malaya in a Land Rover and crossing from Singapore to Western Australia by boat. He would therefore be grateful for any information from O.S. in these countries about advisable routes, the condition of roads, motoring facilities, etc. : -Allingham Farm, Marden, Tonbridge, Kent. K. P. Hadingham (1928) is relinquishing his post as Deputy Chief of Police, Kenya, and returning to United Kingdom this summer. B. N. Bebbington (1929) has given up his post as Chief Constable of Cambridge

THE SUTTON IAN to become one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Police, of which there are six. Bebbington's area is in the south of England where he has charge of eighteen Forces ranging from Gloucester to East Sussex. His headquarters will be in Tunbridge Wells. To mark their appreciation of his work in Cambridge the University awarded him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Congratulations. Captain M. J. Lee, D.S.C., R.N. (1935,—W.), has taken up the appointment of Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Station, Malta G.C. Congratulations. M. F. Beaman (1952.—W.) has returned to U.K. from Peterhouse, Marandellas, and is coming to join the Staff at Sutton Valence in September, 1963. Major-General J. L. Moulton, D.S.O., R.M. (1921.—W.), formerly Chief of Amphibious Warfare, has published an account of 48 Commando Royal Marines which he commanded during the Normandy landings in June, 1944, and later at Havre, Antwerp and Walcheren. His book was mentioned in "Peterborough's " column in the Daily Telegraph in the following words :— " Many old Royal Marines will be glad to know of Haste to the Battle' because it has long been widely felt in the Corps that the 7th Bn. from which 48 Cdo. was developed suffered unduly. "It was shipped to Durban in 1942 to guard Naval Ammunition Dumps. From this lowly task the battalion was ordered to the Sicily landings. Being untrained, it suffered heavy casualties. With a bare four months to prepare for the 2nd front, General, then Lt.-Col. Moulton, arrived to give it new morale soon to be tested in battle."

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General Moulton mentions twice in the latter part of his book a "young Sub-Lt. Lee" who turns out to be N. R. Lee, D.S.C. (1939.—W.). Among other O.S. who served or are serving in the Corps are Lt.-Col. F. F. Clark, D.S.C. (1925.—W.), R.M. retired, Col. J. T. 0. Waters (1935.—M.), Capt. M. R. Marchant (1949.—M.). P. G. F. Norwood (1959.—F.) has been spending a year at Heybeli Island, near Istanbul, studying at a Greek Theological College before going to Cuddesdon. He was visited in the Easter holidays by Mr. and Mrs. Fairbank who say it is an enchanting place with a lovely garden, beautifully quiet as cars are prohibited. Norwood has travelled by local bus and also " hitch-hiked" over much of Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Israel. He speaks modern Greek fluently. R. W. Baker (1962.—L.) is leaving England to study forestry at the University of New Brunswick. His course lasts for five years. A. J. Cruttenden (1958.—W.) gained First Class Honours in Chemical Engineering in the Tripos Examinations in June and is taking up a post in the Rocket Research Laboratories shortly. R. E. Marsh (1962) has completed his year as an E.S.U. Scholar at Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A. He received a certificate recently during graduation exercises. R. C. B. Dixon (1960.—B. & M.). Has taken a printing examination for Wiggins, Teape, Ltd., and produced the best paper for his Stage in the Country. He gained a prize for his work. Dr. H. T. Skinner (1923.— F.), director of the United States National Arboretum, Washington D.C., and president of the United States Horticultural Society, has

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been awarded the Arthur Hoyt Scot Garden and Agricultural Award. He received his award at the 90th commencement exercises at Swarthmore College on June 10. The Washington D.C. Evening Star gave an account of Dr. Skinner's work in U.S.A. since he went to Cornell University in 1931. He has been director of the National Arboretum since 1952. Congratulations. G. H. Wall (1960.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;M.) has finished his course at Westminster College and is going up to Pembroke College, Oxford, next October to read P.P. and E. Captain M. R. Marchant, R.M. (1949.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; NI.), had a most successful time at the Royal Marines Rifle Championship at Eisley, in late June. On the first day he won the Gold Jewel, 338 ex 400: the Prince of Wales Cup, 94 ex 105, and the Colquhoun Cup, 280 ex 300. He followed these successes by winning the Royal Marine Championship for the third time since 1956. He also won the Champion-at-Arms Trophy for the best rifle and machine gun aggregate. It seems rather beside the point to state that Captain Marchant is Chief Small Arms Instructor at the R.M. Infantry Training Centre, Lytnpstone, Devon. Congratulations. P. W. Grafton (1933.--B. & M.) and P. S. Morrish (1943.- -W.) have started something new in golf and the First Annual Grafton-Morrish Cup will be played for this Autumn. The competition is primarily for Old Boys of schools which cannot be accepted for the Halford-Hewitt Competition although several of these teams have entered for the Grafton-Morrish Cup. This year there are forty-three entries and the Finals will be contested at Brancaster and Hunstanton, Norfolk, on October 2527. Sutton Valence has entered a team

and it is hoped that East Anglian 0.8. will go along to support the players. The School is very proud of her " Pioneers." S. W. G. Barton (1933) has returned to U.K. after many years abroad and can now be found at 5 Bow Lane, E.C.4, London. P. R. Anderson (1953 W.) and three fellow Harlequins have been Crewing on the yacht " Sovereign" a possible challenger for the " America's Cup." They have now been taken on as " Regular Crew." Good luck if and when " Sovereign" challenges. R. C. Britton has recently changed his address and now lives at 4 Hillside Gardens, Highgate, London, N.6.

O.S. Social This took place on Sunday, June 30, and luckily we had a fine afternoon during a singularly damp spell. Some thirty 0.5. of the period 1930 to 1945 and their families were present. Besides being entertained at tea, N. J. W. Page gave us an Organ Recital, the Conjuring Club amused children and grown ups alike and the Jazz Band played cheerfully and noisily in the hall. 0.5. were much interested in the changes that have taken place in their old environments and agreeably surprised by them. The thanks of all present go to those who made their afternoon so enjoyable.

School and O.S. Dance After a day of wind, rain and cancelled matches, the School and O.S. Dance was greatly welcomed on the evening of Saturday, July 6. Suttonians past and present danced away the hours to the

THE SUTTONIAN music of Doris Pullen and her excellent orchestra. In the interval refreshments were served in the Dining Hall, while those dedicated enough to postpone theirs, stayed behind to listen to some modern music played by the School Jazz Band.

O.S. Golf The response of Public Schools throughout the country to the newly formed competition for the Grafton-Morrish Trophy has been such that qualifying rounds have been necessary in three regions. The London, South and SouthWestern Region round was played at Addington Golf Club on Saturday, July 13. Our congratulations to the Sutton Valence team in successfully reaching the final stages of the competition to be held at Brancaster and Hunstanton Golf Courses on October 25, 26 and 27. The team with their respective scores in this Stableford round was as follows : R. E. B. Craven and R. G. A. Craven â&#x20AC;&#x201D;30 points. A. Perkins and A. J. Knight-19 points. H. S. Sharp and N. Norman-14 points. The Old Suttonian Golfing Society is seeking members, especially those with low handicaps, from whom we may select a team for October and for future annual Trophy fixtures. Will anyone interested please communicate with the Secretary, Alan Trimming, 4 Heathdene Road, Wallington, Surrey.

75th Annual General Meeting and Dinner The 75th Annual General Meeting of the Old Suttonians Association was held at The Criterion, in Piccadilly, W.1, on Thursday, May 9, 1963, at 5.45 p.m.

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There were present E. W. E. Chapman (Chairman), A. F. S. Cotton (President, Trustee and Governor), M. H. Barclay Jones (Secretary), W. H. Blaxland (Treasurer), C. R. Evers, M.A. (Headmaster and Vice-President), Lt. Col. Sir Mervyn Wheatley, K.B.E., J.P., D.L. (Past President), R. D. Wickham, GroupCapt. R. E. G. Fulljames, M.C., Rt. Rev. Bishop G. J. Walsh, D.D. (0.S. Governors), Capt. N. T. P. Cooper, C.B.E., R.N. (Bursar) and 31 other members. Apologies for absence were received from M. St. J. Candy, J. F. Dixon, J. H. Gray, H. R. Hearn, R. Lillico, R. T. Reeves and J. A. and P. de G. Thornhill. A silence was observed in memory of ten O.S. who had died since the last meeting, after which the Minutes of the 74th A.G.M. were approved and signed. The Accounts for 1962 and the Balance Sheet as at 31st December, 1962, were presented and adopted. Officers for 1963-64 were elected or re-elected as follows :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; President : A. F. S. Cotton. Vice-Presidents : The Headmaster and the Master of the Clothworkers Company. Chairman : E. W. E. Chapman. Hon. Secretary : M. H. Barclay Jones. Hon. Treasurer : W. II. Blaxland. Hon. Auditor : J. B. Pugh. Hon. Keeper of Records : P. A. Fairley. Dinner Secretary : I. F. Kay.

Secretaries of Football and Cricket, E. A. Craven ; Hockey, P. S. McIlwaine ; Swimming, A. G. Foulkes ; Fives, M. J. Beaman. Captain of Golf: R. J. Martin. Chairman of Dinner 1964: I. F. Kay. The Chairman in his address thanked the officers and committee for their work and referred to the long service of most

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of them, observing that in 1964 five vacancies would arise and volunteers to serve would be welcome, as would constructive criticism to aid the Dinner Sub-Committee. He announced that the Oxford and Cambridge O.S. Dinner on October 26, 1963, at Peterhouse, and noted that the Friends of S.V.S. had raised a further ÂŁ1,080 since the 1962 Progress Report. Questions were answered about the cost of producing the Magazine, in which connection a Sub-Committee had been formed and it was established that the present printers gave unequalled service for the price paid ; and R. D. Wickham explained that the War Memorial Fund was represented by the enlarged School Hall (except the stage) as a memorial visible on entering the Hall and commemorated by a tablet. At the Dinner following, attended inter alia by 50 0.S. who had not been in 1962, Sir Mervyn Wheatley was in the Chair. The toast of the School was ably proposed by the Head Boy, N. J. Lattimer (son of a previous Head Boy), and the Headmaster, replying, combined the toast of the Governors who were represented not only by the O.S. above mentioned, but also by Col. E. A. Hillersdon (Chairman of the Board) and Michael Howard, Esq., M.C., M.A. (Chairman of the S.V.S. Committee), guests of the evening. The Rt. Hon. Lord Bossom had been prevented from attending as the result of one of his philanthropic international activities, then being at a Dinner with H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was also associated with that project. The Headmaster entertainingly combined a review of the School's academic and sporting progress with some of his biography and domestic humour and a tribute to the Governors' achievements

in enlarging the capacity and facilities of the School. Two O.S. had inaugurated the Gra fton-Morrish Cup for public school golfers. Mr. Howard (who had recently won the Duff Cooper Prize for his literary work and presented that prize to the School Library) responded for the Governors in an excellent speech which ought to have done much to dispel some illusions as to their honorary functions and qualifications. Bishop Walsh proposed the Chairman of Dinner, having been at the School when the O.S.A. was formed in 1888 and left it at the same time as Sir Mervyn Wheatley in 1898, when the latter was Captain of Rugby and both were in the XV. He handed the Chairman the fixture card of that season, which he had preserved since its return on the death of his godfather to whom he had presented it while at School 65 years earlier, and commented, on the basis of its results, that it had not been a very good season, although the School had, since their leaving, naturally deteriorated. With this the Chairman agreed, while pointing out that in those years only 20 of the 80 boys at School were big enough to be considered as players. During his charming reply, Sir Mervyn read a telegram from Candy, then in the U.S.A., thanked Bishop Walsh for referring to " Who's Who " instead of inventing compliments to him, and entertaining the company greatly by his modest remarks, including a claim to the longest link with the School, where his father attended in the 1850's. The 76th A.G.M. awl Dinner will be held at the same place and time on Thursday, May 7, 1964. Those who had places for dinner (excluding an old boy of Sutton County Grammar School who had mistaken the announcement in the Daily Telegraph

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A. L. Trippett, A. D. C. Turner, P. C. Turner, D. R. Urry, M. C. Vant, A. R. Vidler, G. J. Walsh, H. E. Ward, I. P. Waters, J. T. 0. Waters, J. M. Watson, M. J. Wheatley, J. A. White, R. G. White, R. D. Wickham, C. P. P. Wiggins, J. M. D. Willcockson, E. D. Windwood, J. G. Winter. Births

BARON.—On April 4, 1963, to Susan, nee Walker, wife of D. J. M. Baron (1951) —a daughter, Belinda Jane. PRENTICE.—On April 3, 1963, to Sandra Elaine, nee Atkinson, wife of David S. Prentice (1952—M.) at Kingston Hospital, a son—Mark David Stanley. JONES.—On December 27, 1962, at Grace Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada to Jean, wife of G. L. Jones (1948—W.) a boy—Christopher Glyn. WALL.—On December 11, 1962, to Mr. & Mrs. J. G. L. Wall (1954—M.) twin sons—Jonathan and Christopher. DAHLSTRoM.—On August 4, 1962, in Hamburg to Ebba—wife of H. N. Dahlstrom (1953—W.) a son—Alexander. Marriages GODDARD—NEWMAN.—On April 13, 1963, at Stapleford, Wiltshire, Philip Norman Goddard (1956 Founder's & Lambe's) to Patricia Newman. BAILEY—HERFORD.—On August 4, 1961, J. R. S. Bailey (1956) to Rosemary Anne Herford, of Slough, Buckinghamshire PRENTICE—ATKINSON.—On April 3, 1961, David S. Prentice (1952—M.) to Sandra Elaine Atkinson. HARRISON—CHARPENTIER.— On April 27, 1963, at Notre Dame de France, London, Neville Harrison (1956) to

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Elizabeth Louise Yvonne daughter of E. and Mine. Andre Charpentier of Paris, France. HAMILTON—CROCKER.—On Friday June 12, 1963, at the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Houghton, New York, James Edward Hamilton (E.S.U. 1959— 60.) to Elaine Osborne daughter of Mr. & Mrs. E. Osborne Crocker of New York, U.S.A. LISTER—FUNNEL. On Saturday, June 1, in Charing Church, A. C. B. Lister (1958—F.) to Susan Funnel, sister of John Funnel (1953--M.). HANCOCK—MODENESI.—On March 7, 1963, at City Hall, New York, U.S.A., Theodore Hancock (1942) to Olga Maria Modenesi of Lima, Peru.

Deaths ROE.—On April 17, 1963, Harold Riley Roe (1902) late Inspector General of Police, United Provinces, India. DAY.—On March 30, 1963, Charles Frederick Day (1905-1908) grandfather of present Suttonian D. A. Loder (Founders). LUCY.—In May, 1963, Mrs. Lucy, widow of the late F. W. Lucy, of Langley, late Governor of The School in the '20's & '30's. Mother of H. F. de C. Lucy (1925—F.), the late Lt.-Cmdr. W. P. Lucy (1928—F.), the late A. B. Lucy (1926—F.) [both killed in the War 19391945] and of J. P. Lucy (1931—F.). Grandmother of W. E. de C. Lucy, present Suttonian (St. Margaret's). CULLEN.—On Friday, June 7, 1963, after a long illness, S. W. T. Cullen (1951— F.) aged 30.

Changes of Address of Old Suttonians Overseas 1952 (M) I. J. Lockhart, Box 69, Mufulira, N. Rhodesia. 1962 (L) R. W. Baker, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. 1935 (W) Capt. H. J. Lee, D.S.C., R.N., Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Station, Malta, G.C. 1959 (F) L. E. Parker, c/o J. Carver, Toogimbie Station, Hay, N.S.W., Australia. 1942 (W) R. D. Bentley, 152 Yonge Blvde., Toronto 12, Canada. 1962 (L) M. J. Day, c/o G. L. W. Boswell, Box 6, Nairobi, Kenya. 1941 (M) R. J. Burns, 1252, 21st St. West, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. 1953 (W.) H. N. Dahlstrom, Hamburg 20, Brabandstrasse 22, Germany.

Correspondence Westminster House, Sutton Valence School. To the Editor, The Suttonian.

Sir,--It is time that a new attempt was made to find a more worthy School Song. The present one, though quite suitable for the conviviality of an O.S. Dinner, is just not good enough for a serious School occasion such as Speech Day, and is well known to be a matter of amusement or embarrassment to boys, visitors and staff. Its only defenders, to my knowledge, are certain Old

THE SUTTONIAN Suttonians and to these I would respectfully suggest that they are allowing sentiment to get the better of their judgment. In any case there is no reason why there should not be two or more songs associated with a school, and I believe that this is in fact, the case already in many places. However, it is easy to talk. Who will write us a song ? I would like to suggest that Old Suttonians themselves take this in hand and I am sure that. The Suttonian would find space to print suitable entries. To start the ball rolling, I enclose an attempt of my own. It is not inspired, but I hope it will encourage more talented poets to provide something better, which could then be put to music by one of our musical staff.

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A Song for Sutton Valence On Sutton hill by Maidstone town, Where field and orchard hasten down To join the Weald below, Our School for centuries has stood And formed its sons, for lasting good, Into an endless brotherhood That cannot cease to grow. To it we owe the care and skill That nurture body, mind and will And shows us how to live For hours of study and of sport, Religion and awakened thought, For all the lessons it has taught Our thanks we freely give. And when the years have passed away, Then we can still look back and say, "Those years were wisely spent. Our moral code, our life to be Were formed in that fraternity, We found the truth that makes us free Upon our hill in Kent."

The Editor, As I have given this matter some thought, it may be of interest to list the qualities which seem to me to be required of a school song :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (1) It must be suitable in content and feeling for such widely different occasions as Speech Day and the O.S. Dinner : serious, without being pompous, obscure or over-religious. (2) it must have something in it to associate it with a particular school, and not just schooldays in general. (3) It must apply to both present and past members of the School. (4) It must be easily memorable and singable. (5) (Sheer personal prejudice, this one !) It must under no circumstances contain the words " Floreat Suttona." Yours, etc., R. E.

HORN.

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Sir,--As my year here at Sutton draws to its close, I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to all who have made my year so enjoyable. That a perfect stranger is able to cross 3,000 miles of ocean and receive such a generous welcome as I did is surely a mark of warm English hospitality. That this hospitality has enabled me to see how you live in the " Mother Country" both at school and at home has been one of the most pleasurable experiences that I have ever had. Underneath their bowlers and crew-cuts almost all, especially the young, people are the same in both countries. Surely this is one of the main reasons for the exchange, for a closer appreciation and understanding between the two peoples can only lead to a better world. Many fond memories shall linger of Sutton : Pancake Day and Christmas pudding, your keenness for long runs

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and the beautiful countryside in which to have them, ruggerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which I found to be rougher than most Yanks think---and your attitude towards sport in general, your sense of humour and its application to hours spent over coffee and the inevitable toast discussing our two countries, and most of all the many fine people that I have met here. I must mention a word of praise for the English Speaking Union which has given me this opportunity, and urge those of you who have a chance, to seriously consider taking part in the scheme.

So when I return home to America this summer I shall carry a real appreciation, admiration and affection for Sutton, England, and the English, the benefits of what must be one of the finest years of my life, and many happy memories of your friendships and hospitality which will long remain with me. If any of you are in America may I ask you to contact me so that I will be able to repay the debt I God Save the Queen, and again, many thanks. J. L. Cox. Bethlehem, Pa., U.S. A .

RUGBY FIXTURES, 1963 Saturday October 12 v. Tonbridge Club Colts

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19 v. Wasps R.U.F.C.

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26 v. London Scottish R.U.F.C.

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Saturday November 9 v. Dover College

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12 v. Hurstpierpoint College

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16 v. Sevenoaks

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23 v. St. Lawrence College

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27 v. Cranbrook

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30 v. King's School, Rochester

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Saturday December 15 V. Old Suttonians

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