3na*. A U/14 XV v. King Edward VT. Horn*. Su.

Literary Society 6.30 p m. School House.1st. U/14 ft U/13 XV v Churchers. Away.2nd. 3rd ft U / 1 5 XV v. Churchers. Home.Sixth Form Film Society "Woodstock" 6.'

p.m.

Su. 20 24th Sunday after Trinity.H.C 8,30 a.m. Chapel.Gavin Hall Service 10 a.m. Speaker: The

HeaditMtter.M. 21 CCF. Royal Corp* of Transport Present.

nor, 3.00 p.m. Gavin Hal).Staff Meeting 6.00 pm. Common Room.

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Junior House Match Semi-Finals 300 pmExamination Yean I — IV and Lower VI.Report! availabk for heading.Examination! continueReporti available to subject Misters by 9.00

lit ft U /14 XV v. Otlenhaw. Home.2nd A U/15 XV v. Ottenhaw. Away.

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D. I.. D. Dames, Esq.

Kx.iminalii.nv Heel at Visit. 1.15 p.m. .SchoolHtHIM.

Senior House Match Semi-Finals. 300 p m.R.A.F. Proficiency Examinations, 2.00 p.m.] H. Productions Dres* RehearsalAll Library books in for checking by 6.00

Reports to Form Masters for checking by9 00 a.m.

Y.F.C. Viiit to Smithfield Show. Depart 9.00a.m.

Junior House Match Final, 300 pm.Reports to Tutors by 9.00 a.m.Junior House Production!. " All the King'i

Men" and 'The Goliath Jazz". 7.00 p.m.

Junior House Productions, -All the King'sMen" and "The Goliath Jazz". 7,00 p.m.Gavin Hall.

Gavin H a l l Servke 1000 am. Christmas Mis-cellany,

lit XV v. Old Sternians 11.00 am. Home.Sixth Form Rim Society "Freebie and the

Bean". 7.30 p.m.Reports to Housemaster! by 9.00 a.m.Senior House Match Final 3.00 p m.

Genlral F.lm'̂ s'p^VooVrrt"'Carol Service 6.00 p.m. Gavin Hill.Term Endi.Staff Meeting 9.30 a.m. School House Com-

WEEKLY DIARY

Suwtoy. H.C. i s t ft 3rd Sunday, College Chapel

2nd ft 4(h Sunday. Village Church 8.00 a.m.Gavin Hall Service 10.00 a.m.

Monday: |.I5 p.m. Choir Practice.

Tuesday: M5 p.m. Choir Practice.

Wednesday: t 15 p.m. Initrumental Ensemble!.2.30 p.m. D. of E, Gold Police Service.6.30 p.m. D. of E. Bronze First Aid.6.30 p.m. D. of E, Silver Fire Service.610 p.m. Orchestra.

Thurtday: 1.15 pm. Choir Practice.

Friday: 1 15 p m Choir Practice.6.10 p.m. Band Practice.

Saturday: College Matchei.

EASTER TERM 1978 commence! 6.00 p.m. Tuesday. 10thJanuary, and endi 7.00 a.m. Thursday, 23rd March.

GENERAL

TELEPHONE NUMBERS:

Headmaiter'! Secretary Long Sutlon 412

Main Office „ .. 201

School House ,. ,, 29»

Sutton Home _ „ 241

Hazelveare HOUM .. , . 3 4 !

SummerficliJ Houte ., „ 473.

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Stiff Mtding. 9.30 a.m. School HoUtt

BoC!l^um15<4511' m.CalV-om"?!. Houiei 6M p.m.

General Fflm'The Outlaw Jose WelU" 7.00

C.S.E' Entries Year V — 9.00 un. GavinHall.

Epiphany 11.H C 8 30 a.m ChapelGavin Hall Service 10.00 a.m. Speaker: The

Chaplain.

Meclai v:*il 1.30 p.m. Viool House

Literary Society 6.30 p.m. School House.Crosi Country League. Senior 'A' and 'B'.

Games Committee Meeting 7.00 p.m.Summerfield.

Cross Country Senior, U/15 and U/14 v.Portsmouth G.S., King' Edward!,

St. George'i and Douai 2.30 p.m. Home.U/13 and U/12 XV v, St. Bartholomew's

2.30 p.m. Home.

Septuagesima.H.C. 8,00 a.m. Villaw Church.Gavin Hall Service 10.00 a.m.

Crois Country v. Deiborough U/15 and U/14.3.15 p.m. Home.

Conversion of St. Paul.U/13 XV v. Stubbington House 2.30 p.m.

Home.U/12 XV v. Stubbington House Away.Compline 9.15 p.m. Chapel.

Crow Country. Senior. U/15, U/14. v. Leig-i-ion Park, King Edwards and Barewood.2.20 p.m. Home.

Final p.m.r Combat" 7.00 p.m.ckey Club. 2.30 p.m.

tai. 11.00 a.m. Away,hire College of Agri-

« College 2.30 pm.

dirge 2.30 p.m. Away.'liege 2.30 p.m. Away,ils. 3.00 p.m.ning. 6.30 p.m. Gavin

i Army." 7.30 p.m.

leading.1 Ist XI. 2.30 p.m.

• U/15 XI. 2,30 p.m.

m U/14 XI. 2.30 p.m.

•ay.•0 p.m. Home.MW boys. Gavin Hill.

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Cross Country League. Senior 'A' and 'B.3.00 p.m. Home.

Games Committee Meeting. 7.00 pm. Summ-

U/15 Hockey Final. 3.00 p.m.U/12 XV v. Montgomery of Alamein. 3.00

p.m. Home.SI Patrick.Report! to Form Masters for checking by

literary Entertainment. 7.00 p.m. Gavin Hall.

Oxford Seven!. Dep. 8.00 a.m.Reports to Tutors by 9.00 a.m.Palm Sunday.H.C. 8.30 am Chapel.lit XI v Old Slernian*. 11.00 ».m. Home.Confirmation Servke. 3.00 p.m.

The Rt. Rev. L. Fleming. K.C.V.O.. D D.Report! to Housemasters by 9.00 am.CCF Adventure Training Advance Parly

leaves for Snowdonia. 8.30 a.m.Reports to Headmaster by 900 a.m.Senior Hockey House Finals. 3.00 p-m.General Film: "Where Eagles Dare".Term Ends 7.00 a.m.CCF. Adventure Training Camp un:il 29ih

Match, at Capel Curig. Oep. N.30 a.m.Staff Meeting 9.30 am. School House Com-

mon Room.

3.10 p.m. IV Year. Hockey and Cross Coun-try. Squad Practice, Football or CrossCountry.

V10 p.m. 3rd Year. Cross Country. Th.400 inn Rehearsal "My Fair Lady".

\vcj,,eijay:l.l5 p.m. Choir Practice.2.30 p.m. Protect!.6.10 p.m. Orchestra.6.15 p.m. D. of E. Expedition Training,

ri iursday: 1.15 p.m. Choir Practice. £>3.10 p.m. Senior Rugby Sevens until l l th Feb s-

then Hockey or Cross Country, or minor

J.l'o'pm 4!h Year Hockey and Cross Coun-

3 10 p.m, 3rd Year Cross Country SquadPractice, or Football.

400 p.m. Rehearsal "My Fair Lady". SunJ 'riday: j . j s p.m. Choir Practice.

3.30 p.m. Y.F.C. Room 2,2.400 p.m. Rehearsal "My Fair Lady". M.400 p.m. Senior Hockey Squad Practice until T

l l th Feb. then Rugby Sevens. W.400 p.m 4th Year Hockey Squad Practice. Th.400 p.m. 3rd Year Hockey Squad Practice.

Saturday: College Matches. F.

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Boys return 5,45 p.m.

fe^'-"-D. of E. Silver Expedition New Forest depart

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D. of E, Gold Expedition, Dartmoor, depart1 p.m. returning Sunday 30th p.m.

1st U/15, U/13, Xl! v. Churcher's College.Home.

2nd, U / 1 4 Xlj v, Churcher's College AwayVlth Form Film Society -Shampoo" 7.30 pm.

Gavin Halt Service To a.m.

F. i -S. 6 D. of E Bronze Exhibition (local) depart

CeiKraf Kim "The Gun* of Navarone" 7 p.m.

Sun. 7 Sunday After A'Ccnsi'on.H.C. H.30 a.m. Chapel.Gavin Hall Service 10 am.M. . ;s rsi'/,'?:'""""1 " ••"• °'™ "•"•"My Fair Lady" Dress Rehearsal 6.30 p.m.

T. 9 Senior House Ma:ch Semi-final."My Fair Lady" dress rehearsal 7.30 p.m.

Th. 11 1st and U/15 Xls v, Shiplake College. Away.2nd and U / 1 4 Xls v, Shiplake College. Home.1st VI v. Shiplake College. Away.

F. U "My Fair Udy" 7JO p.m. Gavin HallS. 13 Y.F.C. County Show. Depart 8 a.m. for

Romsey.1*t. U/14. U/13 Xls v. SI. Bartholomew'!.

2nd and U/15 Xls v. St. Bartholomew1!.Away,

1st VI v. St. Bartholomew's. A»ay.U/15 V! v. St. Bartholomew's. Home.D. of E. Bronze Expedition (local) depart

"My Fair Ladv" 7.30 p.m. Gavin Hall.

WEEKLY DIARY

Sunday. H.C. 1st and 3rd Sundays College Chapel S.30T-' 2 H e e l a V n i t 1.30 p.m. School Ho

1 15 p.m. Choir Practice.:.4.< p.m. C.C.F. Parade.J 2 S p.m. 3rd Year Hockey.< i , t n p.m. Chiiral Society.

|.1< p.m. Choir Practice.3.10 p m. Senior Hockey and

Suiiail Practice. Minor (iar

Mam Office

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Sutlon House

Hdzelveare House

Summerfield House

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Swimming Pool open 2 p.m.lecture -Tacitus" — Nero and Agricola 7.30

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Whit SundayI P ^ I I I H i l l Service 10 a.m.Vlth Form Film Society "Frcebie ai

Bean" 7 p.m. Ga.in Hall-M. 15 C.C.F. Annul! Inspection 2.30 p.m.

Stalf Meet ing 6 p.m. Common Room.T. 16 Senior and U/15 Hoim: semi-final.

W. 17 Y.F.C Fam Watt dcpm 1.10 p.m.U / 1 3 Ut XI v. Edgcborough. Home.

U.M5 VI v,reFrenasham'rfeights.°Away.Th. 18 1st Vt v. Pangboime. Home.

U/15 VI v. PaiiBbourne. Aw>7.

COLLEGE

SUMMER TERM1978

SOWER1978

EDITORS

J. L. MERRIMAN

I. S. KERR

Cover make-up by Julian Thorp

L O R D W A N D S W O R T H C O L L E G E

L o n g S u t t o n i n H a m p s h i r e

FOUNDER (1912)SYDNEY JAMES STERN, BARON WANDSWORTH

TRUSTEES AND GOVERNORSSIR HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX, O.B.E., M.A. (Chairman)

C. R. T. EDWARDS, M.A. (yice-Chairman)ROBERT M. MARSH, M.A. F. H. C. PODGER, M.A.A. JOHN B. FFORDE, M.A. THE RT. HON. J. E. RAMSDEN, M.A.

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Contents

Editorial

The Staff

House Notes

Prize and Cup List

Music Report

Sixth Form Drama Society

House Plays

The Modern Languages Evening

The Art Exhibition 1978

Literary Entertainment

"All the King's Men" and "The Goliath Jazz"

My Fair Lady

A Golden Jubilee

Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme

Projects

Rugby

Hockey

Cross-country

Cricket

Swimming

Tennis

Old Sternians

EditorialOUR COVER this year does indeed "cover" the year's activities, in the form of the calendarsfor the past three terms—at least for those whose eyes are, in the words of Sam Weller, "apair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power". However,perhaps some amplification is necessary, and where better to start than with the Headmaster'sAnnual Report:

It is progress and development in so many ways that I have to report. With regard toexaminations, much hard work has been done and a very real concerted effort has beenmade to ensure that all we can achieve as a community to prepare boys for these milestoneexaminations has been undertaken. Regular assessment and, in the case of Sixth Formboys, frank half-term reports and discussion with each boy have taken place, and our staffmeetings and system of work tutorships have all helped boys to make the best of themselvesinside and outside the classroom.

The average number of "O" level passes or their equivalent for all boys currently inour Lower Sixth is just over seven. The French results in June 1977 were some of the bestthat we have had, and I am satisfied that in all other subjects we had a satisfactory passrate and very few instances of boys not achieving the standard that we expected of them.Of last year's "A" level leavers just over 60 per cent went on to read for degrees, and ofthese Simon Hill is worthy of special mention as he is the first boy from this school to gain aplace at Oxford to read Classics as distinct from other subjects that boys have gone toOxford to read in past years.

The business of finding the right level of attainment and guiding a boy towards it iswhat a school must be judged by if it is to be seen to be doing its job. In this context, wefind our connection with the Hampshire Careers Advisory Service invaluable. All boysare seen during their Fifth Year by the Hampshire Careers Adviser with our CareersMaster and Housemasters much involved in the discussions. All boys in the present FourthYear have been given certain careers testing to help us and them to relate ambitions toabilities. A third of the Fifth Year has taken the Independent Schools OrganisationBirkbeck aptitude tests as an extra to the Hampshire service and consultations with boyswill continue into the Sixth Form.

Other matters referred to by the Headmaster are reported on in the pages that follow.No Sower editorial is complete without some mention of the weather, which—apart

from two weeks or so of high summer just before half-term—has been even more abysmallycold and wet than it was last year!

We regret that Mr. Woolstone finds himself unable to continue with the editing of theSower, and are most grateful to Mr. Ian Kerr for coming so willingly to our aid.

A cool and cloudy Founder's Day (Friday, 7th July) was presided over by Sir HumphreyPrideaux, Chairman of the Governing Trustees, supported by a full complement of hiscolleagues.

THE APPEALWe were informed on Founder's Day that the Appeal, for £100,000, launched last

summer, has in fact brought in more than double that sum—£50,000 of it, it is a pleasureto record, from Old Sternians.

Our benefactors can already see physical evidence of the Appeal's success in the newSixth Form Centre, an extremely handsome building (blending in well with the originalones) bordering the "cinder track" at the north end of the parade ground. There is a large

open area downstairs with tables and chairs and an adjacent kitchen for preparing refresh-ments of various kinds, and changing rooms—for both sexes! Upstairs is a good-sizedroom with fitted carpeting, intended for study and meetings of societies.

Within the next few months the swimming pool will be covered and heated, squashcourts will be started, and the new Sixth Form block of 20 study bedrooms at SuttonHouse is promised for use in January.

Apart from the improvements in bricks and mortar made possible by the Appeal, moreboys will be entering through the Foundation owing their places to the generosity of allthose who subscribed.

For the first time for very many years nobody from the academic staff is moving onto fresh woods and pastures new.

Instead, we shall be welcoming in September a new member of common room, Mr.Stephen Stuart-Smith, who is joining us to teach principally English, with some Historyand Geography. He was at school at Denstone College, and took his degree at King'sCollege, London. He is interested in tennis, squash, and choral music, and will be a residenttutor in Junior House.

We offer our warmest congratulations to Mr. John Booth, Art Master here from1964 to 1969. After a happy and fruitful nine years at Oundle School he will be moving toEton College to take up his appointment as Head of the Art Department in January 1980.

Photo by R. NarainSister Hinds

Photo by R. NarainMrs. Hobson

COLLEGE WORTHIES

The maintenance staff at the College are all too often smooth-working parts of acomplex organism least acknowledged. Many of them have been here for over 20 years,and have played an invaluable role in their work. We continue with pen-portraits of someof them:

Mrs. G. Hopson, who lives just outside the School gates, started work at the Collegein 1952. She began her career here by working in the kitchen for six months and thenmoved to Junior House, where she has been doing housework ever since.

We are very sorry to announce the death of Mrs. Winnie Churn. Winnie, as she wasknown by everyone, came to the College 18 years ago. For ten years she did houseworkunder the guidance of Mrs. Wrapson at Summers Farm House, and then she moved onto the sanatorium, where she worked for eight years. At the beginning of this academicyear, she started working in the kitchen and staff room and she kept this job until herdeath a few weeks before Christmas, at the age of 70.

Mrs. Betty Chambers joined the kitchen staff in 1955. She has provided an invaluablepair of hands (and feet!) in the kitchen and is presently still working there, although shelives in South Warnborough. Several generations of boys have reason to be grateful forher good-humoured devotion to her job.

Mrs. Lucy Hooker began working in the College kitchen 23 years ago. At the beginningof the academic year, she retired, and now lives in Odiham. We wish her the very best forthe future.

We sadly say goodbye to Sister Hinds this year. Although she has only been here fornine years, she must feel she has carried the weight of many more than that in the perpetualburdens heaped on her as the Sister of the College sanatorium.

After returning from U.S.A. in 1962, she began working as a surgical ward sister andthen moved on to Birmingham, where she was a matron of an old people's home. In Aprilof 1969, she arrived at the sanatorium where she worked until the end of the presentacademic year. But there had existed a connection between her and the College a very longtime ago, for she used to go to school at Gosden House, which used to be the girls' part ofthe School, and was, in fact, the pioneer of the College. We shall miss her and wish her avery happy retirement in her house in Worcestershire.

Miss Ellen Boyle is joining the College on 1st September 1978 to take over as Sisterin charge of the sanatorium.

She has recently been Assistant Matron at the Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, andbefore that for many years was in the Queen Alexander Royal Army Nursing Corps inwhich she gained the rank of Matron. She served in many Military Hospitals both at homeand abroad as well as the Army Cadet College.

She has recently been living in Sunderland.

RAVI NARAIN

THE DISGRUNTLED TOURIST BIDDETH FAREWELLTO THE ISLE OF SKYE

The Isle of SkyeCan say goodbyeTo me, for IShall never seeThough I should dieAt ninety-threeAnd hie me forthTo travel NorthYear after year,One single peak,One single deer;For though I seekAnd though I peerMy only gainIs mist and rainAnd all I getIs cold and wet.

There may be lotsOf lovely viewsAnd men in kiltsAnd girls in trewsAnd Cuillins highAnd lochans deepAnd noble stagsAnd silly sheep,But all I've seenOf all the sceneIs mist and rainAnd rain and mistWhich gives me pain;And so I've kissedThe Isle of SkyeAnd all the listOf sights I've missedA long goodbye,Without a sigh.

W. L. F.

THE STAFF

Headmaster: C. A. N. Henderson, M.A. (Oxon.)

Second Master: P. Davis, B.Sc. (Birmingham)

School House:Summerfield House:

Hazelveare House:Sutton House:Junior House:

HOUSE MASTERS

J. L. Merriman, M.A. (Cantab.)C. E. Hallows, M.A. (Cantab.)A. G. Whibley, B.Sc. (Lond.)A. J. Woolstone, LL.B. (Lond.)J. A. Matson, B.A. (Lond.)

ASSISTANT MASTERS

W. L. Fryer, M.A. (Cantab.)J. P. Seelig, B.Sc. (Lond.), L.R.I.C.D. F. Bullock (Loughborough and Shoreditch Colleges)F. J. Webb (Army School of Physical Training)R. T. Davies, B.A. (Lond.)D. L. Dames (King Alfred's College; Dip.d'E.Fr., Caen)G. McLelland, M.A. (Glasgow)A. Dyson (Bede College, Durham)I. S. Kerr (St. Luke's College, Exeter)J. L. Baynes, B.Sc. (Aston)P. Y. Booth, B.A. (Exeter)P. H. L. Wightman, B.A. (Cantab.)S. R. Davidson, B.A. (Manchester)A. S. Davis, M.A. (Oxon.)The Rev. R. J. Craig, B.A. (T.C.D.): ChaplainP. P. Stevens, A.T.D., Dip.E.S., F.R.C.A.B. J. Newman, B.Mus. (Dunelm), F.R.C.O., L.R.A.M.P. J. Watson, B.Sc. (Lond.)B. L. Lonnon (Newland Park College)D. J. Mather, B.A. (Leeds)G. R. Smith (Borough Road College of Education1!J. D. Baker, B.Sc. (Aberystwyth)P. F. Taylor, B.Sc. (Lond.)R. G. Walters, B.Sc. (Leeds)S. J. A. Stuart-Smith, B.A. (Lond.)

Bursar:Assistant Bursar:Medical Officer:

Sanatorium:

Lt.-Cdr. K. Williams, R.N. (Retd.)P. G. T. Swainson, M.C.J. E. Haselden, M.B., B.S.Sister E. Boyle, S.R.N.

HAZELVEARE HOUSE

Housemaster: Mr. A. G. WhibleyHouse Tutors:

Mr. D. L. Dames, Mr. P. Y. Booth, Mr. J. L. Baynes, Mr. D. F. BullockHouse Matron: Mrs. P. HowardHead of House: T. D. O'Hare

College Prefects:H. Ferguson, P. Rowland

House Prefects:G. Donald, C. Sharpington, M. Robinson

Every year people join and leave the House but it takes years for the spirit to driftaway. This year the spirit of Hazelveare has grown even greater. This is reflected in thevictories on the sports field from a House which can claim to have few stars. In the seniorage group we won the cross-country and tennis trophies, and shared the hockey honourswith School House. The under-15s did even better with victories in the rugby, hockey,cross-country and cricket.

If a House is to run smoothly, with as little friction as possible, there must be peopleat the top of the House who are concerned with the welfare of the individual as well as thewhole community. I have been exceptionally lucky in having the guidance of our threeresidential masters at the start of the year. Although Mr. Booth has now moved out of theHouse to join his wife, he still plays as much an active part as ever he did when he lived in.

After a term without a caretaker and sewing lady, it was a relief to welcome Mr. andMrs. G. Williams to our House. After two weeks it was transparently clear how much thecleanliness of the House was due to them.

Once again I would like to thank all the members of staff, Mrs. Howard, Mrs.Titley, who stood in as matron for the Spring Term while Mrs. Howard was in NewZealand, and the prefects, all of whose devotion should reflect in the House for at leastthe next five years. It has been a privilege to be the Head of House in such a successfulyear. Thank you.

TIM O'HARE

"Wonder what it feels like to be Head Boy!"

SCHOOL HOUSEHousemaster: Mr. J. L. Merriman

Resident Tutors:Mr. B. L. Lonnon, Mr. D. J. Mather

Matron: Miss PorterAcademic Tutors:

Mr. Fryer, Mr. KerrHead of House: Q. T. R. SandsCollege Prefect: N. S. Couldrey

House Prefects:P. L. Bennett, P. J. Heath, C. P. Hesse, M. A. Hodi, C. M. Mayhew, A. J. Pepper, T. Young-Jamieson

This year School House has been very successful on both sports field and stage, whereboys have represented the House wholeheartedly. On the sports field the Senior teams havebeen dominant, winning the rugby, cricket, swimming and sharing the hockey, while theColts have been less successful but equally enthusiastic, reaching the finals of the rugbyand hockey. On the stage an ambitious House play, "The Singing Door" by Doris Lessing,was performed in style, as was the very entertaining House language entry. Both theseproductions emphasise the wealth of talent existing within the House away from the sportsfields. It is very satisfying to see those who become associated with the rough and tumble ofthe rugby field performing in more delicate areas and in particular I make reference toMy Fair Lady, to which School House boys contributed enormously.

Obviously in terms of achievements the House this year has been outstanding. However,the happy atmosphere one normally associates with such success has not beenaltogether unclouded. Tensions have existed, caused by a minority, and as usual it is themajority that have been made to suffer. However, I am confident that with continuedefforts at the top of the House, the "wild oats" will soon be weeded and School House canlook forward to a very bright future.

Finally I would like to extend a hearty thank you to Mr. Merriman for his considerationand effectiveness as Housemaster over the last year. Thanks also to Miss Porter whohas been a matron of great efficiency and kindness.

For the future I wish the House all the very best and hope that this year's achievements,of which there were undoubtedly many, may be continued in the years to come.

QUENTIN SANDS

SUMMERFIELD HOUSEHousemaster: Mr. C. E. Hallows

House Tutors:Mr. R. T. Davies, Mr. P. Stevens, Mr. A. Dyson, Mr. P. Wightman

Matron: Mrs. Duff-SmithHead of House: A. A. Bray

House Prefects:S. Lowe, Q. Pond, R. Simon

Although it has not been, overall, a successful sports year for the House, the Coltsage group won the tennis cup and the athletics cup and were runners-up in both cricketand hockey. Several boys have been awarded colours—Chris Andreason, Mark Smith,Mark Jermyn and Richard Bradshaw for rugby; Rupert Fallows, Toby Jermyn and MarkJermyn for cricket.

The Seniors have been disappointing, due largely to a small Sixth Form and partly tothe unmotivated outlook of some individuals. The notable sporting highlights have beenMark Harvey's captaincy of the School 2nd Cricket XI and Lester Bailey's record score of117 for the School against the Old Sternians.

On the other hand, academic results have been very pleasing with many members ofthe House receiving plaudits for good work and orders and several academic prizes beingawarded on Founder's Day. Both Senior and Junior boys have been deeply involved inthe C.C.F. and in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and other facets of School life.Indeed it was pleasing to see the award of merit ties to John Dalton, Stephen Lowe andQuentin Pond with respect to these activities.

Over the last year all the House staff—academic, prefects and maintenance—haveworked extremely hard to make the House run smoothly and to engender a pleasantatmosphere inside the disciplinary framework and to all of them I am much indebted. Mybest wishes to Andrew Smith (my successor) and to all the House next year.

A. A. BRAY

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SUTTON HOUSEHousemaster: Mr. A. J. Woolstone

House Tutors:Mr. B. J. Newman, Mr. S. R. Davidson, Mr. J. P. Seelig, Mr. P. J. Watson, Mr. P. Taylor

House Matron: Mrs. A. ColquhounHead of House: R. DaviesCollege Prefect: M. Haas

House Prefects:N. Cheung, M. Downey, C. Easton, C. Haskins, T. McLaughlan, R. Werker, J. Wright

The new academic year saw the settling in of Sutton House's new housemaster, Mr.Woolstone, and his wife Bridget and congratulations were soon due to them both on thebirth of their baby boy whom they named Daniel.

The new Third Form who joined Sutton proved to be an excellent year both on andoff the sports field and with their enthusiastic and energetic help much was done to improvethe somewhat ageing Sutton House. With the help of senior boys, Mr. Woolstone formed aproject group within the House which centred the efforts of the willing helpers towardssuch activities as painting, cleaning and tidying up generally both within and around theHouse and especially in the barn. The boys painted their own prep rooms and, with postersand pictures, gave the barn a more homely and welcoming look; all the broken windowshave been replaced and a toaster and a kettle was provided as an additional comfort. Forthose boys who prefer to play snooker or billiards rather than eat toast or drink coffee, anew set of cues and balls have been provided; a new television game caters for the "sports-men" who like to play their squash, tennis or football without total physical exhaustion!

New additions to the House staff were Mr. Davidson, who joined Mr. Newman as aresident House tutor at the beginning of the Easter Term, Mr. Watson and Mr. Taylor;the latter has been a considerable asset as demonstrated by his involvement with the Houseplays. A most welcome addition was Mrs. Colquhoun, the new Matron, who is greatlyrespected by all the boys for her tremendous efforts on their behalf, ranging from bandaginga cut leg to rinding tins of paint "mislaid" by an "innocent" member of the project group.

I am sure that all of the boys would like to thank the members of staff for all theefforts that they have put into improving Sutton and ensuring that it runs smoothly;special thanks to Mr. Davidson who ran the House bank (a mathematician, naturally)although he hasn't quite hit on a way to make a profit yet!

The Sutton House record on the games field has been outstanding although no inter-House tournaments were won. Perhaps not the greatest athletes in the School, everymember of the sides gave their utmost and surprised supporters and opposition alike withan admirable display of courage, determination and, above all, character. This is a goodreflection of the overall spirit throughout the House with boys thoughtfully helping eachother to ensure good community relations at all times.

Mention must also be made of the improvements which are coming along in the future.A new set of Sixth Form cubicles will be ready for use in February 1979 with amenities suchas showers, baths and drying room close at hand within the unit; Sutton House will alsohave its own call-box telephone so that those long treks in the cold and wet to the phone atthe main block will no longer have to be tolerated.

On the whole, Sutton House has improved dramatically over the last year; Housespirit has become even stronger and the amenities available to the boys more widespread.I am sure that Sutton House will continue along this path for many years to come and Ihope that the House will prosper in the future as I am sure it will.

Special thanks must go to Mr. Woolstone who has done so much for so many inSutton House this year.

ROGER DAVIES

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JUNIOR HOUSE

We can, thankfully, record another eventful and, generally, successful year. The Houseis full, we have had a fine rugger season and played some good cricket, and have made ourmark far beyond the confines of the School. In September we greeted three new members ofstaff: Mrs. Anthony has given us a year away from her native Yorkshire. She has played a fullpart in House life, and was of great assistance with the costumes for the House musicalsin December. We welcomed Mr. J. D. Baker as a resident tutor, and Mr. R. G. Walters andhis wife, Rosalind, who live in the village. Both masters have had major commitments inthe Upper School, but have been actively involved in House games, interests and duties.

We were sorry indeed to part with Mr. S. R. Davidson, who left to become a residenttutor at Sutton House. For three and a half years Mr. Davidson has shared his talents andenthusiasms with the Juniors, and turning himself willingly into a rugger coach has giventhe under-13 teams a run of success that will be difficult to maintain. We are delighted toknow that he will continue to assist with the coaching of the boys in the coming season.As Assistant Housemaster he has been deeply involved in every aspect of House life fromstage managing the musicals to selecting a variety of general films with an eye to Juniors'tastes. His unstinted efforts over all this time are greatly appreciated by us all.

Since many of the Juniors' activities are an integral part of the life of the School as awhole, they are recorded on other pages, but we must note the choral work as a ratherspecial feature. The Goliath Jazz and All the King's Men, which Messrs. Newman and Boothstaged in December, were quite as demanding as the "Joseph" of the previous year. Onceagain, we had every boy in the House on the stage and involved in the productions. In theEaster Term the members of the choir sang evensong in Winchester Cathedral—a memor-able experience for them, and for those of us who could be present; they spent the half-termbreak singing at services in the West Country, where they were clearly much appreciated;and at the Junior Concert the singing of rounds and catches showed the high standard ofchoral work achieved in recent years, and the standard of instrumental work which hasbeen achieved over the year is very encouraging. It is sometimes invidious to single out boys,especially from such a good group, but David Smith, Ian Roach and Hanif Mericandeserve special commendation for their immensely hard work.

We have had a good games season as the results for the individual games show and we arevery grateful to those masters and Senior boys who have coached and supervised Juniors,especially the Chaplain, and Messrs. Dames and Davidson, who have done so much toimprove tennis at this level. In the subsidiary activities, badminton flourished during theWinter Terms, swimming was drastically curtailed by the cold weather and athletics revivedsufficiently for us to run the A.A.A. Star Award Scheme, which has created a good deal ofenthusiasm.

It is pleasing to record that the Head of School for four years in succession has beena former Junior House boy, and we have contributed a full quota of College prefects. Wewish the Second Form every success in their new Houses, and Kevin Martin, Paul Adolphand Richard Horridge all good fortune in their new schools.

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PRIZE AND CUP AWARDS 1977/78

Announced by Mr. J. L. Merriman

Little Cup for Academic Work in Junior SchoolJunior House Champion HouseMyers Memorial Prize for PoetryHall Memorial Prize for ProseLong Sutton Divinity Prizes

Presented by Lady Prideaux

Hyde House D. A. SmithHyde House D. A. Smith

T. D. O'HareR. A. Lucas

Senior: M. P. JewellS. R. Pennington

Junior: D. A. Smith

FORM PRIZES in the Junior SchoolForm flA

iIBJIIA\IIB

A. M. BlowsN. L. LuffN. C. L. GaultD. A. Smith

FORM PRIZES in the Middle SchoolThird Year

Special Prize for Effort

Fourth Year

Special Prize for Effort

Fifth Year

Special Prize for Effort

R. S. BradshawN. J. DaltonA. R. W. LonesR. J. PorterM. J. RandsK. M. Worby

S. J. ClarkeS. J. CotterillA. M. EbornP. W. LeachA. J. PickardC. J. J. SmithK. W. DavisonM. T. Harrington

M. P. BradyT. N. ScofieldS. A. SmithA. P. H. BakerA. P. Orakwue

SUBJECT PRIZES in the Upper SchoolLower Sixth

Upper Sixth

BiologyChemistryPhysicsClassical StudiesEconomicsEnglishHistoryFrenchSpanishGeography

GeologyMetalwork

BiologyChemistryPhysicsMathematics

Classical StudiesEconomicsEnglishHistoryFrenchGeographyGeologySpanishMetalwork

M. P. JewellS. R. PenningtonS. M. MayP. M. WoodwardM. C. B. Reynes

R. NarainI. M. Bulley andM. R. BaynesA. J. MatsonL. P. Bailey

P. J. HeathC. P. SharpingtonC. P. Sharpington andY. N. WongC. M. May hewR. H. JamesA. J. PepperM. DowneyA. A. BrayM. CouldreyT. Young-Jamieson

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MUSIC PRIZES

Announced by Mr. D. F. BullockThe Olver Cup for Young Farmers7 ClubThe Howgrave Graham Cup for PhotographyThe Rayner Clark Cup for MeteorologyThe Europa Award for the Middle School Boy most

promising in Foreign Language conversationThe Fellows Cup for Shooting

The Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Awards

Announced by the Headmaster

Richard Seaton Memorial Prize for DramaticsJames Spoken Word Prizes

Old Sternians Prize for MetalworkWatson Prize for WoodworkOld Sternians Prize for ArtWarner Prize for the most significant contribution

to the well-being of Junior House

The Sandy Henderson Prize for Physical Endeavour

Headmaster's Prizes

Intermediate R. E. D. WhitakerJunior 1.1. Roach and

J. P. Williams

J. C. DaltonR. H. JamesA. J. Matson

P. W. LeachHazelveare HouseCaptain T. D. O'HareC. S. DurlingM. L. EvansR. H. James

Presented by Mr. Clive Butler(Chairman, Old Sternians Association)

M. C. B. ReynesSenior: M. C. B. ReynesJunior: S. J. Cotterill

T. Young-JamiesonP. H. R. BeasleyJ. K. A. Stredder

Commended:

T. J. Hunt andD. P. CoppinD. G. TreziseC. W. M. Easton

Presented by the HeadmasterT. D. O'HareN. S. CouldreyH. C. FergusonQ. T. R. SandsA. A. BrayP. F. H. RowlandC. P. Hesse

SILVER LINING

When the sky is dark and drear, and the stormy clouds appear—Try your best to visualise, just above the gloomy skies,Sunshine flooding heaven's height with a stream of blazing light.All the time, it's there, we know: glorious sunshine, all aglow,Flinging wide its blazing rays, out beyond the murky haze.Though the clouds are thick and black, could we turn their edges back,There's no doubt that we should find every raincloud silver-lined.

Sorrow clouds each life with griefs, darkening the soul's beliefs;Every heart must make its prayer in the shadow of despair.Yet if we had the power to see round each human tragedy,Through the blinding mists that ride—God, upon the other side—We should face with resignation every loss and devastation,Never grieving or repining—looking for the silver lining.

ANDREW EBORN (IVA)

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MUSIC REPORTSHAKESPEARE'S condemnation of "the man that hath no music in himself" would apply tovery few people at Lord Wandsworth College, as more and more boys get involved withmusic. In fact it is difficult not to get involved, even if one's degree of involvement goes nofurther than groaning away at hymns in congregational practice, and those who havefound themselves in the ranks of the choir, choral society, Junior House musical and MyFair Lady have experienced the best examples of music written for their respective forces.For the choir, the experience of becoming Winchester Cathedral Choir on St. David's Dayand singing Evensong to Gibbons' Short Service in such perfect surroundings; for theChoral Society, the performance of two contrasting works such as the intricate cantata"Sleepers, wake!" of Bach and the ethereal Requiem of Faure in a perfect blend of vocalsound from our own resources; for Junior House, the involvement of everyone in twocontrasting musicals, the one very much a romp, the other containing many musicalfeatures to be found in contemporary opera, and for the cast of My Fair Lady—well,to sing those tunes can hardly fail to please!

If the accent is on singing for the second year running in this Report, it is becausesinging plays an important part in the lives of many boys and in school life generally.However, other features of musical life continue: concerts by the Farnham ChamberOrchestra and Messrs. Howard and Newman* as well as home-grown winter and summerconcerts, and a Junior House concert which demonstrated the considerable amount ofmusical potential at that end of the School. The music staff now numbers ten, but weregrettably say goodbye to Miss* Wornham, who has taught brass and piano to manypupils past and present; she is now to look after the music at Barrow Hills School.

This can only be a short summary of music in such a busy year, and more detailedreports appear elsewhere. Meanwhile, if "the man that hath no music in himself" is walkingaround the College, I suspect he may be stone deaf!

B. J. N.

*And what an evening of unalloyed delight that was. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore ?Michael Flanders and Donald Swann ? Pooh! Not a patch on Colin and Bernard.

There lingers in the memory the immensely ingenious play on hymn tunes by ourDirector of Music on the boxful of electrical contacts that he makes sound so like a four—well, three—manual organ . . . the duo's duet on the piano of their own version of the"Poet and Peasant" . . . the flawlessly flying fingers of the guest artist getting throughChopin's "Minute Valse" in 53.7 sees flat. Above all, perhaps, the ad-lib "take-offs" ofsettings of well-known songs in the manner of different composers. Altogether superbmusicianship, and first-rate entertainment.

ED.

CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT

From the "Farnham Herald" of 3rd March 1978

It was a small but brave audience that made its way through fog and black ice to LordWandsworth College on Tuesday, 21st February, to hear the College Choral Society andChoir perform Faure's Requiem and Bach's cantata "Sleepers, wake!" The performancewas to have been held at Odiham Parish Church, but because of heating problems it wastransferred to the College.

The cantata opened the evening with its long opening chorus and two intricatelycomposed duets, admirably executed by the two soloists, Marilyn Sagar and David Dames,and the two obbligato instrumentalists, Neil Henderson (violin) and Michael Gardener(oboe). The famous middle chorale movement was sung by the whole chorus instead of justthe tenors, an arrangement of which Bach, in his capacity as director of music in a boys'school, would surely not have disapproved.

The Faure Requiem is one of the most singable and emotive works in the whole ofthe choral repertoire, and is so full of beautiful harmonies and sounds that it can only bedescribed as a work of sheer inspiration. Under the directorship of Bernard Newman,the chorus brought out the full magic of this work with seemingly effortless singing andcareful use of dynamics, and responded to their conductor with obvious enthusiasm. TheJunior House of the College provided an unflagging top line of the chorus, with two ofthem, David Smith and Christopher Bennie, singing the solos in "Pie Jesu" and "InParadisum" respectively, even though the latter is usually sung by all the trebles. Thesetwo are to be commended on the clarity and confidence with which they undertook thesedifficult solos.

One looks forward to future choral concerts by Lord Wandsworth College, with theweather hopefully being a little kinder to allow more people to reap the benefits of all thehard work that this young and enthusiastic body of singers put into their performances.

CHOIR

The choir has had a very successful and hard-working year, and perhaps the highlightwas the visit to Winchester Cathedral on 1st March to sing Evensong. The opportunityof singing in a building so steeped in musical tradition was a challenge to which the choirrose admirably.

This year we had two Carol Services, one of which was held in Odiham Parish Church,thus enabling a greater number of parents and friends to share our Christmas music.During the year we have sung several services in the College, including Compline and

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settings of Evensong by Gibbons and Stanford, and we are steadily increasing our know-ledge of English church music. Our annual weekend at Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshirerounded off the choir year in a most enjoyable way. Our success as a choir has been largelydue to the enthusiasm of our conductor and his ability to rescue any part of the choirwhich went astray!

MARTYN EVANS

Trinity, Bradford-on-Avon

THE CHOIR WEEKEND—Summer half-term 1978The choir arrived at Monkton Farleigh in high spirits after a long and tiring journey.

For some, it was the first time that they had seen the village. We stepped out, in relief,and breathed in the country air.

It was not long before we got down to business by rehearsing for the evening's serviceat South Wraxall. Our throats were a little dry, but after some needed practice, we sangwith real gusto. We returned to Monkton Farleigh and took our luggage to our hosts, whohad all prepared a warm welcome for us.

The first service consisted of some anthems and a Sung Communion. It was attendedby the Bishop of Ramsbury, who was quite impressed with our singing. A delicious plough-man's supper was prepared for us afterwards.

On the Saturday morning we rehearsed twice, once at Monkton Farleigh's smallbut pretty village church, and once at the Parish Church of St. James, Trowbridge. This wasfollowed by a free afternoon in which everyone found something to do, and preparationswere made for the barbecue which was to follow the service that evening.

Evensong was sung smoothly and efficiently, for, with the acoustics of the old building,the sound was easy to listen to, and seemed relaxed. All the hosts were then invited to thebarbecue in the Rectory garden; some members of the choir had their fill immediatelyafter the hosts had been served, whilst others waited their turn for ages!

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Sunday was crammed with orders, and although the choir felt quite dismal at theprospect of the day's timetable, the bright sun cheered things immensely. Parish Com-munion at Monkton Farleigh was followed in the afternoon by Choral Evensong atTrowbridge, at the end of which all processed out with broad smiles across their faces, forthings had been sung faultlessly. After a brief spell at the swimming pool, we repeatedChoral Evensong at Holy Trinity, Bradford on Avon. It was found that all the Sundayservices amassed together came to a total in length that equalled six L.W.C. Sunday services,but all was worthwhile, for there was a whole free day to follow.

Monday was a Bank Holiday, and whilst the seniors toured local places of interestwith Mr. Dames, a brave Mr. Newman took a minibus full of juniors to the beach at Weston-super-Mare. The sea was warmer than expected, and all were some way or other persuadedinto the murky water. One or two went sight-seeing, enjoying the views that only a beachcan offer, and the day ended with fish and chips.

Our stay ended with a concert on the Tuesday night, after which the seniors left forCollege, although most wished to remain longer. The following morning, after thankingour hosts for having to put up with us for so long, we boarded the minibus, and as ittrundled out of the Rectory drive, we all looked forward to our probable return next year.

DAVID SMITH (1IB)Head Chorister

Sixth Form Drama SocietyON THE EVENING of Sunday, 19th March, the Sixth Form Drama Society treated us to anunusual entertainment—the presentation of two stories by narration and mime.

This is a notoriously difficult medium in which to be convincing especially before aschool audience; the silent stylised movements which it demands only too often excitenothing but foolish laughter. The success of the performance therefore reflects the highestcredit upon all who took part.

Two fantasy stories by Wilde had been chosen; the first, produced by J. O. Olphertwith M. Reynes as narrator, was the well-known tale of The Selfish Giant and his enchantedgarden. S. Pennington, P. Heath, G. Merrick, R. White, G. Pecover and Q. Sands (a burlyYorkshire giant) brought the story beautifully to life and gave it a touching and entirelyacceptable ending. The second was the longer and more complex tale of The Happy Prince,produced by M. Reynes with R. Narain as narrator.

The narration was beautifully done, but here two voices might have been used withadvantage to provide added interest. The mime, centering round the statue of the Prince,was more difficult to sustain but the team of P. Beasley, N. Couldrey, C. Mayhew, N. Hodi,A. Smith, P. Merrick, N. Sanderson and S. Pennington brought it off admirably. Those whosaw it will long remember P. Beasley swooping and fluttering as a swallow about the stage.

The entire performance underlined again that fundamental lesson of all drama; thatif the actors are, and show that they are, entirely committed to what they are doing, theycarry the audience with them. Imagination leaps the gap, even a gap so wide as thatbetween a group of sixth form boys in jeans and a fantasy story set in some remote andunreal land. Let us hope that this success will inspire other ventures in the terms to come.

W. L. F.

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House PlaysTHE PLAYS this year were again of a high standard and divided equally between serious andhumorous drama.

The Hazelveare play A Modem Testament was a reconstruction of the story of Christ,set in a school similar to our own. The play was a highly convincing and professionalpiece written by a senior boy in this House—John Rashid. The concept behind the author'seye was of what seemed to him a parallel between the Christ story and that of the powerstructure and loyalties of a public school. The character Chris(t) rose from being a popular—and ideal—new entrant through to Head Boy. Played with sensitivity by Paul Rowland,his consistent honour and morals, his consorting with the "bad" element, led to his down-fall. The close link with the Christ tale was well received by the audience. Apart from thewell-drawn "prefect" and "rebel" groups, two characters stood out in addition to PaulRowland. Tim O'Hare's Headmaster and Roger White's Chaplain were classic, if slightlyfacile, parodies. A run of brief scenes can often become disjointed, but these were necessaryto present the idea in "Story-Time" allegorical tableaux, and on the whole were not at alldisruptive to the audience's concentration.

School House offered the other serious play—although both were well sprinkledwith subtle humour—called The Singing Door by Doris Lessing. This presented an insightinto a futuristic society trapped in a subterranean world after an atomic war. From beginningto end this play is full of satire and symbolism and it is a tribute to its producer, StephenJones, that this came across clearly, and yet was not over-drawn. Gentle, but searching, funis poked at the "establishment": the upholders of religion, yet who do not accept, really, itstruth. The "Chairman", played perhaps a little too meanly by Malcolm Keynes, was thecompromising and charmingly winning politician. The petty hankering after position waswell brought out by Stephen Jones—the cleric—as "Guardian of the door" in competitionwith the chairman, and by Steven Penington as the diminutive and inflated "Secretary".These "top" men were, of course, opposed by "lesser" men, in which the Mayhew brothersexcelled. Doris Lessing is too modern, or clever, to present any easy moral, and her "lessers"were portrayed as sincere but bickering and stupid; just as bad as the top against whomthey rebel. Despite having a large cast in a serious play, the whole held together very well,and the audience were pleasingly receptive.

The Summerfield Reunion was the story of several burglars who meet whilst tryingto rob the same house. The cast was small, and perhaps for that reason the loud andbrusque characters did not seem too boorish. Apart from the use of situation comedy,the piece had some wit. Each thief being a completely original character sketch, we hadwhat could be called a perverse society in microcosm. Simon Hill was hilariously suave andcalculating as Bow-Tie-Bertie, and Rupert Whitaker, Andrew Smith, Patrick Beasley, DavidFury, Richard Lee and Derek Leybourne were the other thoroughly entertaining anddifferent thieves.

Sutton House put on the Blue Carbuncle. Again and again Holmes delights audiencesand he did so this time. Roger Davies was a caricature Holmes supported by a sympatheticJulian Wright as Watson. The strength and sympathy of the leading parts was apparentwhen Holmes began bluffing his lines, of which the audience was almost wholly unaware,and yet the two lead parts continued with absolute confidence. The only drawback of thisentertaining pair was that after half an hour they began to drag. The cast was well drawnfrom every form and of these James Maclean must be mentioned. He came across as acharacter—a barman—of stature, larger-than-life. The atmosphere of the seamy street-market and the sleazy bar was captured by the thoroughly convincing roughness of thecharacters in them. Altogether an enjoyable yarn of Holmes solving—yet another—foulcrime. CHRISTOPHER SHARPINGTON

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The Modern Languages EveningFOR THE SECOND TIME the Modern Languages Evening took place as an entertainmentinstead of a competition. It was decided two years ago to remove the competitive element,with visiting judges, bitter inter-house rivalry and often tedious extravagances included togain extra marks. Junior forms are now limited to about five minutes; Senior Houses to15 minutes, using French and Spanish only and a minimum of costumes and props. Theresult has been an entertainment of manageable length with quick change-overs and arelaxed atmosphere. Moreover, the fear that House producers might show less enthusiasmwithout the spur of competition has proved unfounded, and all Houses are to be congratu-lated on the standard of both language and entertainment achieved.

This year's evening began with IB being themselves at Junior House and plotting tokidnap the Headmaster. The plan misfires when too large a ransom is demanded, but atleast a holiday is declared for all. Humorous touches included visual caricatures of somemasters. IA gave us a mini-pantomime, "Snow White", in which the heroine is rescuedfrom the clutches of the Wicked Queen (alias Cat-Woman) by handsome Prince Batmanand his Bat-Crew. The cast inter-acted well, except of course Dopey who couldn't under-stand anything that was happening. ("Euh . . . je ne comprends pas.")

As expected, the combined Second Form production "Vacances 78" gave us a blendof excellent French accents and humorous situations—mostly brief interviews with a collec-tion of tourists, fishermen, smugglers and customs men in Biarritz and Butlins of Clacton.

Summerfield's contribution came from their Third and Fourth Forms, ably directed byPatrick Beasley. The hero Fondu le Fabuleux, acted with great confidence and panache byDerek Leybourne, picks a quarrel in a bar with some old fogeys. The latter, inspired by theDutch courage of one aged drinker (Mark Allison), route Fondu's punk cronies, who atleast looked colourful.

Sutton House began with an adaptation of Maupassant's comic story Toine, in whichwe see the downfall of a hearty, brandy-swigging publican (courageously portrayed byJoseph Ganner) who becomes bedridden and is forced by his wife to hatch her chicks byincubating the eggs in his bed! Their "Tintin" showed a delightful touch when two bowler-hatted Englishmen used their Spanish phrase-books with unashamedly upper-class Englishaccents. And a macabre note, not to say blow, was struck in their final sketch re-enactingthe French Revolution and execution of Marie-Antoinette.

Hazelveare's "Bugsy Malone" gave us two versions, one French, the other Spanish,of gangs planning and committing a robbery—the slick Bugsy heavies showed how itshould be done, Sam Gordo's thickies how not. With the interludes for some pleasantsongs well performed, Hazelveare put on a neat, well-integrated programme of which theymay feel proud.

School House's presentation did not perhaps receive the audience's acclaim that itdeserved. It came at the end of the evening and required greater concentration, with itsmore sophisticated dialogue. It was a tribute to their depth of talent that School couldstage two sketches with people who were at once good linguists and experienced actors.Le Premier Rendez-vous (another adaptation from Maupassant) showed a would-be seduceramusingly portrayed by Nicholas Hodi, totally foiled by a series of interruptions in hisattempts to make progress with a young lady (Glyn Hockenhull). Particularly amusing wasCharles Hesse's brief appearance as the off-hand plumber. In the Spanish playlet El Bancowe enjoyed the virtuoso performance of Nicholas Couldrey stomping and growling aboutthe stage as the grumpy, rascally innkeeper who sells fake antiques to the jet set. Peter Heath,the smart young man, impressed with his natural acting and clear enunciation, while hisstuck-up wife (Gerald Pecover) had one or two tricky problems of adjustment. This well-

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conceived programme was rounded off by "Quantanamera", sung softly and with feelingby a large group to guitar accompaniment.

The success of the evening has convinced us that the experiment was worthwhile, andthe competition is unlikely to be reinstated. Parents and visitors said how much they hadenjoyed the evening, often to their surprise, and great credit is due to those who organisedwithin the Houses. Pat Beasley, Giles White, Paul Roland, Jo Ganner, Tim Ford and RaNarain deserve congratulating on their enthusiasm, co-operative spirit and hard work,and we can be grateful to Michael Gregovich and Miles Douglas-Withers for the excellentlighting.

The Art Exhibition 1978THE EXHIBITION OF ART is an important contribution to the College year and gives theopportunity to the Art Department to display the varied collection of work they produce.

Most activities in school are concerned with the acquisition of facts but art morethan most puts the emphasis on original and very personal creative thought. Art is feeling,expression and a personal response to the environment in which we live and is quite uniquein revealing an individual's inner self.

Richard Simon's paintings were particularly interesting as on seeing his work one wasvery aware of his attempt to communicate his response to his environment especially inhis painting "The News". Another, "The Red Admiral", was a well-executed painting withinteresting use of colour and a good composition.

There were a variety of two-dimensional works mainly in paint and pencil. It wouldhave been interesting to see the use of other media such as pastels, collage or pen and inkbut nevertheless there was great variety in the way paint had been used in expressingvisual qualities. This was exemplified in Brady's "Knight on Horseback", Stredder's "Thor"and Rands' "The Hunter". These paintings captured both mood and atmosphere. Othersused shapes and colour to produce decorative qualities as in Moss's "The Fair" and "Atthe Start".

The Third Years revealed some imaginative ideas in compositions and took theopportunity for painting crowd scenes at football and boxing. The repeated shapes offigures making patterns produced a strong decorative quality. Others painted with obviousinterest aircraft and ships, attempting to portray movement.

Exciting images were produced by the First and Second Year boys. Some compositionsmerely used aircraft tails and company symbols, others buses, and because of the simplicityof arrangement had a tendency towards graphic illustration. In contrast there were somefreely painted, imaginative works full of detailed information.

Altogether it was an exhibition which revealed interesting topics, constructive thoughtand a love for the subject.

MARY NELSON

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The Literary Entertainment 1978THIS EAGERLY AWAITED EVENING was once again a great success, despite the initial difficultiesin production due to examinations, and general end-of-term upheaval.

The programme was started by Form IIIB, reciting a poem entitled "And Now . .. ".Split up into five groups, it produced a good stereophonic effect.

This was followed by Stephen Pennington reading William Cole's amusing "Children".Nicholas Ruddick then read very well the poem "Warty Bliggars the Toad" by Don

Marquis, in which there is some good play on words.The next item on the programme was entitled "The Bourgeoisie", consisting of one

poem by Osbert Sitwell "At the Home of Mrs. Kinsfoot", and two by D. H. Lawrence:"How Beastly the Bourgeois is" and "The Oxford Voice", read by Nicholas Couldrey,Malcolm Reynes and Quentin Sands, respectively.

This was very well put over, each reader being well suited to his part.This was suitably followed by "An Invaluable Guide to Vicars", a piece by Richard

Frary, which, read very well by Anthony Orakwue, proved to be amusing, especially to thelower forms of the School.

The next poem, "The Seven Kings of Rome" (Anon), read by Ravi Narain, producedsome wincing humour and groans of anguish from the audience.

On a more thoughtful note, followed Hollenstein's "Progress", read by Gerald Pecover.This was a rather ironic view of progress, and did, perhaps, contain some thought-provokingsentiments.

Returning to a more amusing setting, Miles Bird, Ken Davison and Tony Pickardread a "Garland from 'This England', published in the 'New Statesman' ".

The three Fourth-Formers made up a good trio, adapting themselves well to themood of each item.

The next item, which needed some introduction, was entitled "The 'Dumb Show'from Hamlet"; the performers—"English Specialists". A short introduction on this sectionof "Hamlet" was given by Mr. Matson, making the plot clear to all.

Those two accomplished "literary entertainers", Joseph Ganner and Malcolm Reynes,acted this amusing sketch, on the death of Hamlet's father, very capably, well backed upby Julian Gibbons, Richard Lee and Mark Jukes.

Also on the theme of ghosts and death, Hermione Gingold's "I'm only a mediummedium" was read extremely well by Andrew Eborn. This witty sketch was much appre-ciated by the audience.

"The Owl and the Pussycat" was then performed by Jan Blazak, Mark Tournoff andAshley Thorp, with Simon Marlow narrating. This old classic was put over quite well,though the miming might have been better.

"Little Jim", read by Rupert Whitaker, was once again on the theme of death onlythis time more serious, at least to its intended Victorian listeners.

This was followed by a scene from Henry IV acted aptly by Derek Leybourne, StevenSmith and Simon Moss. This had been well rehearsed and produced a good performance.

The evening was concluded by Nick Hodi reciting an amusing little poem by C. G.Leland, "Hans Breitmann's Party", accomplishing the German accent quite well.

And so, the literary entertainment ended for another year, once more, enjoyed byeveryone.

STEPHEN COTTERILL, JULIAN ROBERTSON-KELLIE (Form IV)

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"All the King's Men" and "The Goliath Jazz"IT WAS WITH great anticipation that the audience settled down for the Junior Houseproduction this year, in view of the tremendous impact that "Joseph" had made the yearbefore—and we were not disappointed. To undertake work of the difficulty of All theKing's Men is itself no mean feat, but to reach the standard we, the audience, were privilegedto see and hear is quite another thing. More of this later!

All the King's Men was first written in 1969 for the Coventry Schools' Music Associa-tion and concerns a true episode in the Civil War during the year 1643. In August of thatyear, King Charles arrived outside Gloucester, where the Roundhead garrison was com-manded by young Colonel Massey. After the unsuccessful attempts to take the town,Dr. Chillingworth, the King's expert in "sophisticated" warfare, suggested creating asiege-engine similar to those used by the Romans. This was a huge machine on wheelswhich would roll down, bridging the Severn and forming a covered way over the walls ofthe city. The troops of both sides in the Gloucester siege christened the engine "HumptyDumpty". Unfortunately, the citizens found out in advance about the siege-engine andwidened the river so that when the machine went into action it could not span the increasedwidth and collapsed into the river from where "all the King's horses and all the King's men"were unable to rescue it: hence the famous nursery rhyme!

Some of the King's Men

There were many fine individual performances. David Smith, as the clever but arrogantDr. Chillingworth, had excellent diction and sang a difficult part with beautifully controlledtone—a fine effort this, from one so young; Jonathan Williams as the King brought realauthority to the part and looked just right; David Coppin, the Queen, lisped splendidlyand had just the right voice to make the part convincing: the night scene involving theQueen's four ladies—Max Coomer, Nicholas Cansfield, Duncan Archer and Paul Isted—was most touching and charmingly done; Tim Boynton as the Drummer Boy did what hehad to so well, especially in his poignant closing solo; Tim Hunt was a clear messenger;the King's Generals—Guy Tresize, Simon Woodcock, Tim Williams and James Leach—made one of the most convincing contributions to the evening; they were in absolutelysplendid voice, every word being clearly heard. The King's Soldiers too lent strong vocalsupport. On the opposing side, Richard Barraclough brought a suitably authoritative airto the important part of Colonel Massey. Adrian Wright as the messenger had little to dobut did it well. The one slight disappointment, for me, was the Chorus of Roundheads, which

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could not always be heard, especially at the beginning. This is a small cavil though in aperformance of quality and distinction.

Earlier in the evening we had been treated to The Goliath Jazz by Herbert Chappell,a most amusing and diverting version of the David and Goliath story. Ian Roach fullyjustified our expectations with a performance of great charm and beauty as David—nodoubt we are going to see a lot more of him on the Gavin Hall stage in years to come.Hanif Merican as Goliath captured just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek humourrequired to make his part convincing. Good support was given by Simon Timms as KingSaul and David Stroud as the Referee. For me, the highlight of the show was the "Mr. G.and Mr. D." song.

As usual, the backstage team had worked with great method and attention to detail.Steve Davidson's customary efficiency was very evident in the excellent stage managership—he was very ably assisted by that veteran of so many shows, David Dames. The value ofMary Matson and Catharine McLelland to the College cannot be overestimated—thecostumes really were beautiful to look at! On this occasion Mrs. Margaret Anthony hadalso given up a lot of her own time to make a valuable contribution. The same can also besaid for the scenery—Paul Stevens' sets are always eagerly anticipated and this one was noexception. The castle walls looked impregnable! It is not often realised how many hoursare required to paint a set—we are lucky to have someone who is prepared to give so muchattention to detail as Paul is. Credit too must be given to David Bullock and his team forbuilding yet another differently constructed set. Bernard Newman, as Director of Music,had obviously put in a tremendous amount of hard work—his enjoyment in tackling thissort of enterprise really came across and he must have felt very satisfied with the endresult. The orchestra, particularly the leader (a certain C. A. N. H.) played very wellthroughout. Our final bouquet goes to the producer, Peter Booth, for two productionswhich had pace, wit and invention, worthy successors to his fine production of "Joseph"the previous year. R. T. D.

Encore!

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My Fair LadyAS A NEWSPAPER CRITIC it falls to my lot to cover a wide variety of events: oratorio, farcicaldrama, big band concerts or madrigal group recitals can follow in quick succession.

If I must state a preference then it is for light operetta with orchestral concerts a closesecond. It has been my privilege to review for my paper lolanthe and La Belle Helene atthe Gavin Hall—two productions which filled me with admiration for the splendid effortsmade by the boys and staff of Lord Wandsworth College.

One of the secrets of success in such shows is to have a first-rate orchestra and in thisrespect the College is most fortunate.

In My Fair Lady the music was of a very high quality. It did not intrude with too muchvolume, as is often the case at amateur productions, and I must congratulate BernardNewman, the musical director, for all he achieved. Obviously, he had excellent assistancefrom Nick Brown. Another asset was to have the services of a good leader in Neil Hender-son.

Being conversant with the ambitious nature of the show it was with some trepidationthat I journeyed to Long Sutton to see how such a young company could cope with AlanJay Lerner's adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

What forebodings I had were soon dispelled by the finesse of the opening scene,staged with colourful scenery and costumes. Here it was that I saw what was an innovationfor me—an exit into the open air through which the hand cart was despatched.

With blackest moss the flower pots were thickly crusted one and all

As the 16 scenes began to unfold, the work of a genius was clearly apparent for theproduction ran so smoothly, with excellent continuity, and with all and sundry showinga true appreciation of the plot and its background. That genius was of course producerRoger Davies.

For a musical to be successful it must be entertaining, have good supporting music,clarity of words to make the plot comprehensible, and, of course, good continuity. MyFair Lady had all these qualities with lavish costumes (for which the ladies responsible,Mesdames Matson and McLelland, are to be warmly congratulated) and most ingeniouslyworkable scenery as an added bonus. I would, however, like to have seen some wigs used tohelp with the characterisations.

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Shut your bleedirf face!

Gin was mother's milk to her

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As to the characters, there were three who did so much to make My Fair Lady somemorable. First and foremost the brilliant performance of Veronica Gedye as ElizaDolittle for her singing and acting was such as to have enhanced any production whetheramateur or professional. By her finesse she betrayed that she had played in higher company.She sang "I Could Have Danced All Night" so convincingly as she really meant it and inthis and other numbers used her wonderful soprano voice to great advantage.

I admired the way in which she alternated between the unpolished lingo of a trueCockney and the perfect English of one who had been through the Professor Higginsschool. Her acting was great during the trying sessions in the Professor's study.

How right Roger Davies was to bring in an accomplished adult to play the part. Somuch would have been lost if an inexperienced singer had been given the lead.

Then of course there was the superb way in which Malcolm Reynes romped awaywith the difficult part of Professor Higgins with huge chunks of dialogue to memorise. Thepart is one to challenge any experienced actor. I have to confess that I could not make upmy mind whether he was a boy or one of the masters. That he was in fact a schoolboyastounded me. He was as good as I have seen in many productions by leading amateursocieties. He played the part with a subtle interpretation of what George Bernard Shawintended.

How did this baggage get here in the first place ?

The other to make up the leading trio was Andrew Smith as Alfred P. Dolittle, forhe was so much in character as a common dustman whose main haunt was the pub roundthe corner. Andrew Smith contributed one of the most amusing episodes and his delightfulnumber "A Little Bit of Luck" was one of the hits of the show. Few people have greatnessthrust upon them by descending to the common rabble—Andrew certainly did as the fatherof Eliza.

I liked the way in which Mark Baynes portrayed Colonel Pickering for it is not easyfor a boy to capture that unmistakable bearing of a retired officer.

One of the great moments of My Fair Lady is the Ascot scene, which was colourfullystaged, with College boys looking far from comfortable dressed in the height of fashionof yesteryear.

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The team who "carted" it all around!

Lots of chocolate for me to eat

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This was the scene in which climaxes were brilliantly conceived with poor Eliza doingher best to live up to the Professor's expectations and in which Freddy Eynsford-Hill wasto lose his heart.

Freddy, played by Rupert Whitaker, did this convincingly, although he almost losthis voice too in "On the Street Where You Live", for he clearly experienced difficulty withthe bottom notes, which served to emphasise the problem of having to cast a productionmainly from young voices.

The one boy cast as a woman was Andrew Dodsworth, who looked a very becomingMrs. Eynsford-Hill at the fashionable Ascot party.

Marianne Fryer was a cosy Mrs. Pearce, Higgins' faithful housekeeper, and VivienneDurrant, the mother of the Professor, typified true matronly love in her tea-table heart-to-heart conversation with Eliza.

As if to remind us what splendid male singers there are among the staff at LordWandsworth College, a quartet, consisting of David Dames, Steve Davidson, Alan Dysonand Peter Wightman, appeared as servants to sing "Poor Professor Higgins". Theirharmony blended exquisitely.

Throughout the 16 scenes the principals were well supported by those in minor partsand in the chorus. All showed a remarkable stage presence and helped considerably tomake the production well in keeping with the best amateur stage. Congratulations too tothe effects department for their speaking machine.

I like the way in which the theatre-in-the-round possibilities are exploited at theGavin Hall with the auditorium used for entrances and exits.

As a College production, My Fair Lady surpassed all that possibly could have beenexpected. The first quality I look for is that of pure entertainment to measure up to whatis demanded in a very competitive world—this I found in abundance.

ARTHUR ATTWOOD

You should have heard the oohs and ahs—everyone wondering who she was!

PHOTOGRAPHS BY RAYMOND THATCHER

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A Golden Jubilee(and some memories of the first 18 years)

BY THE TIME this article is in print and the Sower in the hands of its readers, SchoolHouse (formerly Senior House) will have been open for 50 years and the writer will havehad his 80th birthday.

These recollections of the first 18 years only are merely because that is the periodits first Housemaster remained in charge (1928-1946).

Thinking of the School as it now is, it is not easy to calculate the tremendous stepforward in the history of Lord Wandsworth College that the opening of its first Boys'Boarding House brought about.

The subsequent opening of further Houses, too, has been very different; its firstoccupants have normally experienced already the communal life involved; but September1928 brought under one roof, boys who had been living together in small numbers (two orthree or four) in cottages. In fact, a comparable event would be if at the beginning of theschool year, a House was filled with new entrants direct from their homes.

Apart from allocation to dormitories (incidentally the names South, West, Lowerstill survive), allotment of lockers in common room and changing room, and the necessityto read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the rules for the good conduct of the House,there was the atmosphere of community life to be absorbed by the 40 boys (soon to growto the full complement of 66) who moved into residence.

But teething troubles soon lessened and passed. The writer has always been impressedby the facility of boys to adapt themselves to changed conditions.

Comment on the minor events of life in the House would be only repetitive of thealmost daily routine of any boarding school, but the writer hopes it will be of generalinterest to mention outstanding events, though few, which occurred during the 18 years.

The coronation of King George the Vlth in May 1937 found the boys in that greatwave of loyalty and patriotism which swept the whole of Great Britain (and indeed theEmpire). It was decided to decorate the whole of the interior of the House in red, whiteand blue. Dormitory vied with dormitory, cubicle with cubicle, staircase with corridor. Infact, some prefects in their zeal swathed the pillars at the entrance with red, white and blue—what did it matter that the stains were visible for many months!

Flags and bunting were in ample supply in the shops. At this time there were twostudent-teachers from Southampton University living in the House while doing teachingpractice. The three of us walked to Farnham one afternoon to purchase flags and buntingand pictures of the new King and Queen.

Shopping completed it was time for tea and the writer decided to give the studentstea but made the condition to one of them (an avowed Communist) that tea would bepaid for only if he would carry the pictures of the King and Queen back to School. Hereadily assented to this.

One of the momentous events of Coronation Day was the gift by the Trustees to eachboy of a wrist-watch suitably engraved. The day at School concluded with a fireworksdisplay on the sports field.

The passage of the years with routine following routine brings the writer's memoryto 1939 and the outbreak of the Second World War. From the date of the declaration inAugust, hasty preparations had to be made to meet war conditions before the boys returnedin September. Government orders were that the whole of the School—every window—hadto be blacked-out, and air-raid shelters built. It is a fact that some new boys who enteredin September 1939 and stayed for five years left without having seen the buildings other

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than blacked-out. Just as some boys who entered a Public School which had been evacuatedspent their years without ever seeing the original school.

This School was officially inspected with a view to being taken over as a war-timehospital but escaped that fate, due, it is thought, to our proximity to Odiham Aerodrome.

Of the many hardships which war-time conditions brought in the way of rationing,black-out, power-cuts, restricted supplies of fuel—to say little of leaving warm beds to goto air-raid shelters when sirens sounded—the writer feels that details would be superfluousbecause the whole Country underwent similar hardships.

On an historical note and for the record it is worthy of mention that during the writer's18 years, two masters who did a spell as assistants in the House stayed to give long anddevoted years of service to the School. They were Mr. F. D. Goodliffe and Mr. R. S. Bacon.

Editor's note: The above article was written by "Brown-o" (Mr. O. F. Brown) in thevery rooms into which he moved as Housemaster 50 years ago.

We record the death of Dr. Bateman, who succeeded Brown-o as Housemaster from1946 to 1950. He was in his eighties, and had been very frail for some time. Requiescat inpace.

COUNTRYMAN(The Hall Memorial prize-winning essay)

He is ageing fast: at 54 he looks 70. His face is gnarled and wrinkled. His baldingscalp is smoothed by rough hands which have held nearly all types of farm implements—past or present. His bleary eyes peek out from under folds of sunburnt flesh that sport thefaintest trace of greying eyebrows. His large, pendulous ears stand out from the side ofhis wrinkled head but blend in with the rest of his sunburnt body. The curling tobaccosmoke from his willow pipe rises and wavers near his pocked nose, a bulbous red protrusionthat makes him stand out from the rest of the small crowd in the inn. It peels from the heatof the day; it itches; he rubs it with the thumb of the hand that holds the pipe.

He reaches out for his pint of beer, now diminished to a mere half-pint, sighing withweariness after the day's work the nature of which is evident in his clothes, which aresoiled and smell of his job on the farm.

His worn boots, having gradually shed their caked mud, hang from thin white legs,a stark contrast to his sunburnt arms above. His olive-green woollen socks are collapsedin pleats over straggling boot-laces. His dark-brown corduroy trousers, one leg still tuckedinto a sock (the other loose, and letting a fine draught filter up his leg), are bespattered withmud that shows up faintly now it has dried. His torn pocket reveals a white lining as hisstubby fingers grope for a box of matches to relight his pipe. A grubby white shirt sprawlsover the belt that holds his trousers round the bloated paunch which is revealed at thebottom of the shirt, where there are no buttons. The shirt-sleeves resemble his socks in theway they are bundled, around brawny muscle enveloped in fat that recedes at his wrinkledelbows.

Black grimy hairs peek over the neckline of his shirt, three buttons down from a redneck supporting an ageing head: at 54 he looks 70.

R. A. LUCAS (Lower Sixth)

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ALL THINGS PASSCONCRETE AND GLASS

COVER CORNFIELDS AND GRASS

(The Myers Memorial Prize Poem)

Brick on brick, pane on pane,Stretching to the sky,Cutting out horizons,Blocking up man's eye.

Brick on brick, pane on pane,Where can man now live ?"One more storey on that block,Earth's no room to give."

Brick on brick, pane on pane,Life is grey and red,No more scenes to paint in green,Mother Nature's dead.

Brick on brick, pane on pane,Man's still living on,Babel's tower is growing stillBut now its God is gone.

Brick on brick, pane on pane,Living in a hive,Man has stacked his soul away,His body still survives.

Brick on brick, pane on pane,Each block a single town,Oh, Joshua, blow your hornSo walls come tumbling down!

T. D. O'HARE (Upper Sixth)

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Duke of Edinburgh's Award SchemeTHIS HAS BEEN a year of many highlights for the Scheme within the School. In December,the Director of the Scheme, Mr. Alfred Blake, presented the awards to the Alton andDistrict participants in the Scheme in the Gavin Hall. Amongst these, 10 Silver and 13Bronze Awards were given to boys from Lord Wandsworth College. All involved in theScheme worked extremely hard to prepare the surrounding classrooms with exhibitionsdemonstrating the many and varied aspects of the Award Scheme. Mr. Blake gave a mostencouraging speech and emphasised the importance of adult help in the Scheme.

We are lucky at Long Sutton in having a large number of staff who are prepared tohelp out in many ways, whether in the physical efficiency in the gym in the winter months,taking minibus loads of boys to Basingstoke Fire Station or Aldershot Police Station fortheir service, testing them for their interests, training for and assessing expeditions andarranging community service.

The participants have responded to this encouragement, particularly at the Gold stage,where about 20 have been involved during the year, and at Bronze, where the enthusiasmof the two dozen taking part has been a joy to all those involved. The Silver group weredogged with bad luck, particularly in their Fire Service course, which coincided with thefiremen's strike and so they were unable to complete it in their very busy "O" level year.A small band continues with undaunted determination, however.

Five Old Boys, Shidan Adlparvar, Nigel Barker, Martin Durgan, Colin Matson andDavid Riding, went with Mr. Matson and Chris White, their assessor and mentor for manyof their expeditions, to Buckingham Palace to receive their Gold Awards from the hand ofPrince Philip.

Many more of us, however, had an opportunity to meet with the Prince when hevisited the county in June. About a thousand massed at Peter Symond's College in Win-chester and amongst these were 32 of our lads demonstrating their own involvement insome way. There was physical efficiency, tennis, badminton, Young Farmers' Club withboth pigs and plants, canal preservation, printing, amateur radio and expedition work—and the Prince had time for a few words with every group he met.

This was a fitting climax to a most successful year and it is hoped that the enthusiasmit engendered will remain with us and result in a good number winning through to obtaintheir Gold Awards in the near future.

Awards given in 1977-78

Silver: Philip Au-Yeung, Mark Baynes, Timothy Chan, Roo Davison, Andrew Matson,Paul Merrick, John Olphert, Neil Sanderson, David Smith and Paul Woodward.

Bronze: Tim Coulson, Jonathan Dodd, Chris Fairey, Bob Haldimann, Glyn Hockenhull,Nick Hooper, Tim Horridge, James Hubrecht, Nigel Riley, Steven Smith, Andrew Smith,Tim Patch, Peter Robinson and Oliver Sugden.

Chris Blade, Jan Blazak, Neil Chapman, Ken Davison, Kingsley Drinkwater, AndrewEborn, Bill Fleming, Lionel Hooper, Mark Jermyn, Stephen Jones, Russell Kirby, BobMcGuinness, Chris Morrogh, Charlie Moss, Fred Moss, Toby Moyle, Chris Nott, SteveO'Meara, Tony Pickard, Willy Robinson, Chris Sholl and Peter Tilbury.

Also, Chris Durling, Martyn Evans and Richard James finished their Gold Awardand are awaiting ratification.

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The Director with the Silver Award winners

ACORN CAMP—BROWNSEA ISLAND—JUNE 1978At the end of last term, having finished our exams, three of us, Chris Durling, Martyn

Evans and myself, set off for a week's Community Service with the National Trust onBrownsea Island in Poole Harbour. This was to count for our residential qualification forour D. of E. Gold Award.

We were not sure what to expect as this was a new venture for all of us, but our fearswere soon forgotten as soon as we started chatting to the other members of the camp,including an equal number of girls involved in the Scheme, while we waited for the boat totake us to the Island.

The work was hard and the accommodation spartan, but the general feeling of goodwilland community spirit more than made up for the other hardships. We can honestly say wethoroughly enjoyed ourselves and would recommend it to anyone coming up through theSchool, whether involved in the Gold Award or not.

RICHARD JAMES

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Gold Award winners and Chris White at Buckingham Palace

C.C.F. Camp, B.A.O.R., 1977LAST YEAR in August, 21 members of the C.C.F. met on a platform of Victoria Station atthe start of what was to turn out to be a most enjoyable ten days in Germany.

We took the boat train to Dover and easily caught the Ostend ferry. However, it wasat Ostend that our troubles began. Our seats, which were supposed to be reserved for us,had been taken and it was only due to Colin Paton's linguistic skill that we were given aseat at all—he had managed to persuade the station manager to put on an extra coach.

We arrived at Lippstadt—the home of 22 Signal Regiment, who were our hosts—andwithout any further trouble settled into our accommodation which had been an ex-GermanArmy barracks during the war.

During our stay the programme had been very well worked out and was balancedbetween seeing as much of Northern Germany as possible and also learning about the roleof the Royal Signals in Germany.

We were given a guided tour of Lippstadt, which is a charming market town, and hadtwo coach trips. The most enjoyable one was to the Mohne See dam where the famous"Dam Busters" raid was carried out. We also learnt about the various types of signalequipment that exists in B.A.O.R. and had an extremely interesting morning visiting thelocal German Army Signal Regiment. The day was finished off with some form of activity—physical, i.e., swimming, football, assault course, orienteering, administered by the regi-mental P.T. staff, followed by a trip into Lippstadt to sample the famous but inexpensiveGerman beers (by the older cadets, of course).

I would like to thank members of 22 Signal Regiment for looking after us so well andto Captain Webb for arranging such an enjoyable and different summer camp. I wouldalso like to mention what a thrill it was to have the chance to drive a 109-mm. self-propelledgun.

C. R. MATSON, D. B. RIDING

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C.C.F. Annual Camp, St. Martin's Plain, 1977AT 1030 HRS. on Sunday, 11th July, the first-year Army recruits boarded two M.O.D. busesand were taken to Basingstoke station. Destination—St. Martin's Plain, Shorncliffe Camp.

On arrival, the cadets were allotted their barrack accommodation and given time tosettle in, unpack and find their way around their new home. After supper—which in anyForces establishment is an occasion to look forward to!—the cadets were given the rest ofthe evening off. Many took the short road down to the beach and then walked along thecoast to Folkestone town, to sample the "holiday" town and its offerings. During thewhole of the camp, only one or two boys ever missed the last bus back to camp.

Other cadets spent most of their "free" time in the NAAFI canteen having a late-nightsnack or visiting the "chip" shop outside the camp gates.

The weather on the whole was most kind to us and as many ex-cadets will appreciate,the conditions, weather-wise, are very important when at summer camp. The only wet spellwas when we were under canvas on a field exercise. However, cadets are never perturbedby a little rain, so into action we went. As darkness fell, we sent out patrols, suspectingan enemy in our midst. Cadet Mayhew did manage to creep into the enemy camp—neitherhe nor they knew it, however. At midnight we executed further patrols and eventuallybedded down with a set plan to arise at 0600 and carry out a patrol; unfortunately, the"alarm" system did not function and everyone slept peacefully on, whilst the enemy at0615 caught us with our "guns" down and had no difficulties in finding us, in spite of ourcamouflage.

We had a full day of 303 open range and another of L.M.G. and S.M.G. Other periodswere taken up with a shoot-and-march competition, abseiling, section attacks, radioexercises and orienteering.

A good time was had by all, and I feel that even though the camp is compulsory, thereare very few cadets who can honestly say they do not enjoy their C.C.F. camp. The facilitiesat Shorncliffe are very good, both for training and entertainment.

T. D. O'Hare (W.O.II)

Adventure Training: Snowdonia 1978WHILE THE REST of the College were returning home for Easter, a group of ten boys andfive staff were trying to bump-start the minibus to go to Snowdonia; the first hurdle achieved,we arrived six hours later at Capel Curig Training Camp, our home for the succeeding week.

The first morning, in blizzard conditions, we went to the Col of Tryfan, over theGlyder ridge and down to Pen-y-Gwrdd, taking five hours. It was all rather a shock but wearrived home far too exhausted to feel the rain which had penetrated so many layers ofclothing.

The next day we went up Moel Siabod and for the first time in many years of trying,reached the summit from where there were breathtaking views in all directions. On thedescent, Mr. Kerr demonstrated the construction of a snow hole for survival trainingconditions—rather him than us!

Having got rid of the fine weather and returned to more normal conditions of snow,ice, wind and rain, on Saturday we went up the Devil's Kitchen to Glyder Fach, butbefore we could continue to Glyder Fawr, we experienced white-out conditions, visibilityof 15 feet, with hail and snow driven by gale-force winds. Showing his experience again,Mr. Kerr led us off the mountain down a safe—albeit entertaining—route.

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final ascent from the col (unrecognisable as the place where we lunched on the first day)and made the summit. Our chef, Mr. Seelig, had as usual worked miracles with our "compo"rations and for our evening meal presented us with sweet and sour pork where even hesurpassed himself: we fell into our bunks feeling like the original immovable objects.

We were now ready for the big one—Snowdon, and with the sun making a returnappearance we started up the Snowdon ranger path; the sun stayed until we came too closeto the summit when it rapidly disappeared and the more common conditions of impenetrablemist and minus temperatures returned. The first part of the descent down the Pyg trackwas very memorable with conditions at their worst but as things gradually improved webegan to feel a great sense of achievement and success in the face of the elements.

The final morning was spent on a nearby cliff-face being introduced to basic climbingbut more especially the thrill of abseiling.

Our thanks to Messrs. Baker, Baynes, Kerr, Lennon and Seelig for making the verysuccessful week so safely challenging and gastronomically delightful.

P. NORSWORTHY (Form V)

Y.F.C. REPORT 1977-78It has been another busy and successful year for the Young Farmers' Club.Our members have been particularly successful in county competitions. The team

came second overall in the County Show, just ten points behind the ultimate winners. Wedid have individual first places here and John Parrett and Mark Harris won the JuniorCounty Farm Knowledge trophy with Paul Crago and S. G. Moss winning the CountyTrophy for Horse Knowledge.

Earlier in the year our teams had been highly successful in the County Quiz and outof 24 teams competing, both our "A" and "B" teams reached the final, which took placeat the Hampshire College of Agriculture. In a very close contest the "A" team (JonathanLywood, George Atkinson, Bill Fleming, John Parrett) beat the "B" team (JulianGibbons, John Dalton, Stephen Jones and Andy Maiklem) by four points to win theCounty Quiz trophy.

Also earlier in the year, a hard-working public speaking team (Mark Harris, DavidKendall and Vincent Hunt) gained third place in the County Public Speaking Competition.All third-formers, these boys show real promise for the future.

Throughout the year, a number of visits have been made. These have included atannery, a feed mill, the Forestry Commission at Alice Holt, Marwell Zoological Park, theSmithfield Show, the Royal Show and the South of England Show. During the Christmasand Easter Terms pigs were kept and the proceeds from pork are used to develop clubactivities and to finance visits, etc.

Julian Gibbons, as head of the greenhouse, has made the Summer Term a highlysuccessful one as a group of boys under him have sown, and raised, a number of varietiesof bedding plants, selling them to staff, friends and pupils. House plant, potting plantproduction has continued and it is hoped that an increasing number of varieties will beproduced in the coming year.

In all, then, a successful year with thanks to Steven Pennington, an efficient andhard-working secretary, and to all the committee.

R. G. W.

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Annecy: Haute Savoie 1978FOUNDER'S DAY did not indicate the end of the College year for everyone, and thisincluded a party of eight boys and three staff who were off to the Alps for a mountainwalking holiday, organised and led by Mr. Kerr.

A 3 a.m. start to catch an early morning Hovercraft from Ramsgate did not suit all,and there was one who was still in bed asleep ten minutes before the minivan doors shut.The Hovercraft crossing was quite an experience; a similar motion to a boat, but at50 m.p.h. woke up several slumbering stomachs, but the duty-free allowance helped toquell most. Once in France, it was a two-day drive on surprisingly good roads to reachAnnecy in the Haute Savoie, which for non-geographers is about 30 miles due south ofGeneva.

The weather hadn't been particularly kind during the journey, but as soon as wesettled in for our first night, there was a quite monstrous storm. Lightning vividly lit allthe surrounding mountains, thunder actually shook the ground and rain fell in torrents.I'm sure there were several who wondered precisely what they had committed themselvesto at this point.

The sun woke us next day which lifted many hearts with it. We spent it in Annecy, anold, picturesque, Savoyarde town, set in a deep mountain valley, by the side of ft crystal clearlake. During the afternoon we went swimming from one of the more local beaches, wherethe temperature was certainly not the prime cause for going into the water to cool off.Photographic evidence is available to confirm this!

The rest of the holiday, on alternate days, we went into the mountains where weentered a different world of Alpine chalets, cowbells, yodelling, the most beautiful flowers,snow, ice cold spring water—imagine an Alpine scene—and we were there.

The lowest peak around, climbed on our first outing to the high col of Pertuis, washalf as high again as anything to be found in the British Isles: and that was just the start.Successive outings took us to the col and Plateau des Glieres, a famous and importantFrench Resistance headquarters and the site of many skirmishes with German forces in1944. The final ascent was to a peak of just under 7,000 feet, the Dent de Cruet; the tempera-ture was in the upper 70s and it was over a four-hour climb, but it was worth it, to overlookall around and have a magnificent view of Mont Blanc; to raise the adrenalin level evenhigher, the peak dropped away into a sheer cliff face of 800 feet. In fact, Mr. Smith, whocame on all of the sorties into the mountains, is lucky to be still with us, talking as he oftendid about fountains of chilled beer, when the sun blazed down and there was no one formiles around.

Unfortunately, it all had to end. After buying and "finding" our various souyenirs,we started our return journey, passing through the battlefield and monuments surroundingVerdun. The beauty of the graveyards and memorials was in total contrast to the hideousevents they commemorated and it was all too easy to return and imagine the horrors of60 years ago.

And so to England:I'm sure all concerned would like me to thank Mr. and Mrs. Booth and Mrs. Smith

for lending their own talents around the base camp, and of course to Mr. Smith whosevigour and humour were of immense value to the whole party, especially when in themountains.

And now, talking of chilled beers. . . .I. S. K.

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OUR VILLAGE GREEN AND THE PEOPLE WHO USE IT(An essay from an "0" level paper for the Fourth Form summer examination)

One of the most widely used areas, in any town or village, must certainly be the localgreen.

Our village green in Lower Bourne, a small village outside Farnham, has alwaysfascinated me.

The first question that often enters my mind is the length of time that it has existedfor this purpose.

Of course, there is no village green as beautiful as the one in one's own village. Peopleseem to look with jovial contempt at others' villages, and especially the greens: "Verynice," they will say. Then behind their backs: "But I prefer ours!"

Why is it, then, that the village green represents part of our English heritage ? Probablybecause nearly every village has a green, park or public common, of some nature.

However, an attractive village green certainly "does" something for me. I could siton a green for quite a few hours without getting bored in the least. In fact I have done so,on numerous occasions.

The village green seems to collect people from every corner of society, each using thegreen for his own particular needs or enjoyment.

Our village green is square, and surrounded by a small dusty track, on one side, whichleads into the pine-woods overlooking the village; and on the other side, a road leading tothe village's four shops.

At the far end of the green, a tennis court merges in with a high green bank, whichseems to support the garden of the pub, "The Cricketers"—appropriately named, for everyweekend in the summer the local village cricket team turn out to play down at the oppositeend of the green. Incidentally, one boundary is very short, to make way for the "Bournestream", a tributary of the River Wey, that has, over the years, been a receptacle of manycricket' balls. On Sundays, a small gathering of people will collect to watch the game. Ihave observed one very elderly gentleman, who sits under the same tree each week. LastSunday I talked to him. He could remember Queen Victoria coming to the village.

"I was just a wee bit o' a lad 'en," he said. His eyes had lit up as he remembered theincident. I made a rapid calculation.

"That would make him about 90 years old," I thought to myself.Under the next tree was a brash young woman with two small children; both of them

were grubby and had chocolate smeared around their mouths—I assumed they came fromthe local housing estate.

A few yards further along, a few boys were playing cricket, at the edge of the boundary.Two teenage girls were playing tennis on the court, watched by two boys of about the sameage on bicycles. They laughed, shouted and generally made a lot of noise.

On the other side of the green, two elderly ladies were sitting in deckchairs, knitting.I had seen them before, and they always seemed to be wearing the same clothes; but Icould hardly wonder, as they were always knitting the same garments!

That was the Sunday crowd. There is a different set of people for every day of theweek—a different set, of every creed and colour.

However, it is surely the people who make the village green what it is. They are justsimply fascinating people!

STEPHEN COTTERILL (Form IVA)

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1st XV RUGBYPlayed 12 Won 11 Lost 1 Points for 299 Points against 37

1st XV RECORDv. Pangbourne College Won 12—0v. Bearwood College Won 28—0v. St. Bartholomew's Won 13—9v. Shiplake College Won 50—0v. Portsmouth G.S. Won 48—7v. St. George's College Won 15—0v. Wellington College 2nd XV Won 33—3v. King Edward Vlth Won 15—0v. Churcher's College Won 31—3v. Reed's School Lost 7—10v. Reading School Won 28—4v. Old Sternians Won 19—4

As the results indicate the 1st XV had an excellent season and a very enjoyable onetoo. The team, most of whom played last year, used all the experience gained to provide aseason packed with excitement and entertainment.

Because of good weather early in the season the team was able to play together anumber of times before the first match and in so doing blended neatly into a unit with noindividuals. Every man knew his job and played with inexhaustible determination.

The pack, led by Q. Sands, although small in overall size, proved to be an efficient,hard-working unit winning very good ball in the set scrum, with Ferguson (hooker) notonly winning his own ball but a good percentage of the opposition's as well.

The second row, Young-Jamieson and Pepper, were invaluable as line-out jumperswith good controlled ball being given. The two dedicated flankers were the personificationof fitness, as with never ending stamina they covered every inch of the field. Mayhew withhis deceptive speed often overlapped the wingers to score some well-earned tries, whileO'Hare burrowed and fought for the ball in the loose with ferocity giving good serviceto the threes.

Our number 8, Maclean, although lacking in experience was not lacking in intelligenceas he controlled the scrum, often wheeling to our best advantage and protecting the scrumhalf from marauding flankers.

This year's three-quarters proved to have gained much experience and their hard, fast,direct running posed many problems for the opposing players. Haas, with his huge kickand speed, often made the opening for himself, but after sustaining a badly bruised musclenever really used it to full effect.

Bennett and Knight with good powerful running gave good ball to the wingers Hodiand Wright who used this possession always to its full advantage. "Lightning" Wright witha useful sidestep and good change in pace could outrun most opposition and Hodi withhis speed and weight forced his way through the defence to score many tries.

Rashid (full-back), although a little suspect in his kicking ability, never dropped theball on the full and he is a player who enjoys attacking from defence using his goodsidestep and jinking ability to put pressure on the advancing opposition.

All the matches we played were thoroughly enjoyed and good victories againstPangbourne, Portsmouth Grammar School, Reading and St. George's added to the successof the season.

The only defeat of the season came in the penultimate match of the season againstReed's. With constant pressure and hustling they forced mistakes and capitalised uponthem. Our second-row player Young-Jamieson unfortunately broke a bone in his wrist andHaas sustained further injuries to his leg, gravely reducing his mobility. However, weregained confidence and proved our abilities by beating a good Sternians side the weekafter.

The fundamental reason for such a rewarding season was undoubtedly team spirit;every player was playing for each other, and it proved to be an excellent formula for success.

Thanks must go to both the 2nd XV and Mr. Dyson our coach whose advice andencouragement always motivated the team and produced results.

R. D.

RUGBY SEVENSAfter such a successful fifteens season, to establish a good sevens side was not difficult

as there was such a large pool of players to choose from.The team blended together very well and Sands, Maclean and Mayhew, the

forwards, although lacking in size, proved to be the right combination. Sands and Maclean,hard, fast and powerful runners with good ball control, supported the fast and capablehooker Mayhew who gained the necessary possession to feed the backs. With good intelli-gent play in the line our size did not matter but in the bigger tournamsnts the tight situationsproved to be a much harder task.

With the ball the backs always looked dangerous but it was not until the OxfordSevens Competition that the tackling potential of the backs was so vital on the defensive.Loose ball was not always recovered and this gave the opposition holes through whichto attack. Bennett at fly half always gave good fast ball to his outside Haas. The latternever really used his speed to its full advantage but good ball handling proved to be hisbiggest asset.

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Bennett, a very intelligent and deceptive player, often created gaps through which toattack and apart from a lack in speed he proved to be an essential member of the side.This lack of speed was compensated for by Wright's capabilities; he used his sidestepand jink to evade the fastest of opposition and always proved to be the quickest man onthe field in any competition.

The first competition was the Sutton and Epsom Sevens where size overall told.Losing to a bigger pack, we never gained possession needed to be successful.

The Royal Toby's Sevens proved to be more rewarding and after beating our old rivalsKing Edward VII we reached the final to play a competent Bembridge side which we beat32—18.

The Oxford Sevens Competition was the climax of the season and it was then thatour true form came to light. Playing some much larger physical sides, we used intelligentand basic sevens to overcome them. The semi-final brought out the best of our tacklingand we managed to secure a good victory over St. Edward's, Oxford.

We met Dauntsey's in the final but even though we opened the scoring we could notmatch them on the turn and chase when they kicked over our heads. We lost 12—6 but itwas indeed a memorable final.

Thanks must go to the excellent supporters and of course to Mr. Dyson.

2nd XV RUGBYPlayed 10 Won 7 Drawn 1 Lost 2 Points for 372 Against 100

Haskins, Eckersley, Shawyer, Baker, O'Hare T., Gauld, Werker, Couldrey, Duncan,Hodi, Butchers, Jewell, Williams, Howard, O'Hare, Hesse, White, White, Heath.

This has been an excellent season for the 2nd XV, complementing perfectly thesuperb 1st team. With a settled team, attacking 15-man rugby was always played and nobetter evidence for this can be provided than the 56 tries scored by the three-quartersalone. Obviously, for a three-quarter line to be given full scope an efficient pack is requiredand in this respect the backs were extremely fortunate. Two very powerful props, GuyButchers and Nick Couldrey, supported a quick hooker in Julian Eckersley. Chris Shawyerand Chris Haskins provided a powerful and mobile second row and plenty of possession inthe line-outs. The back row was the particular strength of the pack. Nick Gauld, StuartHoward and Andy Williams were all very fit and very fast. They could be relied upon atall times in attack and defence. In the backs there were three outstanding players, CharlesHesse, Mark Jewell and Richard O'Hare. Few packs could see their hard work put tobetter use than by these three whose speed, skill and strength were rarely equalled. Theirwork in defence also was admirable. Supporting these three were Roger White, whosespeed enabled him to split many defences and score 19 tries, Ronnie Werker and KevinDuncan who both progressed steadily throughout the term.

Many thanks to Mr. Woolstone, our excellent coach, those who also played andTim Coulson the touch-judge.

Half-colours: C. Hesse.Merit colours: C. Shawyer, A. Williams, N. Couldrey, G. White.

GILES WHITE (Captain)

Another fine season by Giles White, a scrum-half of great ability who led this team byexample, and has a fine rugby future.

A. J. W.

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3rd XV RUGBYPlayed 9 Won 5 Lost 4 Drawn 0

On the whole, the season 1977-78 can be remembered as being another successfulperiod for the ever-growing ranks of the 3rd XV. "Ever-growing", I hasten to add, because29 different players were fielded during the season, so the team was never really weakenedthrough the usual loss of talent to the 2nd XV. It was often difficult to select a team fromsuch a large pool of players, especially with so many younger players entering therealms of Senior rugby.

There is hardly enough space allotted to give a detailed summary of the record, but Iam sure that the team would agree to a brief mention of our defeating St. George's, Wey-bridge, for the first time in many years, by the score of 11—10, having been 11—0 in thelead at half-time; no aspect of our play let us down, with true brisk and aggressive 3rd XVgrit apparent in defence, often a factor which tended to let the team down.

As is often the case in Sternian rugby, the "pack" was small but highly mobile, out-running all opposition with the exception of an experienced Portsmouth GrammarSchool side. Professionally led by Paul Rowland, ample ball was provided for exploitationby the three-quarters. Set-pieces often worked out on a 50:50 basis despite lack of weightand height, through sheer enthusiasm. During the season we had several props, all of whompulled their weight, including Paul Rowland, Paul Norsworthy and Bryan Radford. Thelocks we relied on to provide the ball incessantly were Andrew Baker who improvedgreatly over the season, looking like true 1st XV material at the end, and Pete Brady gavehis all when provoked! The back row learned much about tactical covering and benefitedfrom match experience being led by Mark Harvey, the lithe and untenable Tim Patch, andJames Parsons, possibly one of the most improved players in the team, with much futurepotential.

Linkage between pack and threes was sometimes suspect, with problems often occur-ring between pack, scrum-half, and stand-off half, and it took many practices to sort thisout. The threes made sensible use of the ball, with much flair and unselfishness. Many trieswere scored by the wings Tac Au-Yeung and Michael Sholl, showing true perseverance andcourage. Billy Beaman was the shrewdest back and his quick thinking was an example toall.

Many thanks to Mr. Kerr for his often demanding but efficient coaching, not lackingin humorous incidents; and I add my best wishes to the lads in their forthcoming seasons.I hope they benefited as much as myself.

P. J. HEATH

My thanks to Peter Heath, who was an exemplary player and captain both on and offthe field.

I. S. K.

UNDER-16 SEVENSTraining for the tournaments started late, being hindered by the poor weather (though

we did play in the snow twice!). A settled "A" team was not established quickly and onentering the Portsmouth Tournament the team was untested and unsure of its ability. Atthe end of a most enjoyable day, the "A" team, after a slow start, played some excellentand intelligent sevens and was beaten in the semi-final by the eventual winners. The "B"team played well and narrowly lost in the quarter-final.

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only managed to play in one more, at Oxford. So, the annual trek started out for Oxford,that year being a special one as it was 25 years since L.W.C. won the very first tournament.

Our first match was very dismal but, managing to win, we then continued to the final,playing superb sevens. We were beaten in the final by a better "sevens" team. My personalhighlight of the competition was the team coming back from 0—11 down, in the quarter-final, to eventually win 12—11.

The team consisted of Andy Baker, Stu Howard, Paul Norsworthy, Mark Harvey,Bill Beaman, Nick Francis and myself. Thanks go to the "B" team, who were always goodtraining opposition, the members being: Lee Warner (captain), Keith Pepper, Brian Pickett,Julian Eckersley, Nigel Riley, Michael Mayhew, Richard Browne, Mark Norsworthy andJames Parsons. My special thanks go to the parents who came to support and of courseMr. Woolstone, who trained, encouraged and (when necessary) criticised us.

RICHARD O'HARE (Captain)

An under-estimated and seemingly weak team provided a marvellous day's rugby atOxford to reach the final and return with a trophy. My thanks to them all, especially thecaptain, Richard O'Hare, who with his outstanding leadership gave us all a day to remem-ber.

A. J. W.

UNDER-15 RUGBYPlayed 11 Won 4 Lost 7 Drawn 0

The under-15s had a disappointing season in terms of results, although at times theyplayed well. The forwards often worked together as a pack and the threes combinedproducing some excellent moves. The main problem was getting both forwards and backsplaying well at the same time.

The link man, Steve O'Meara at scrum-half, worked hard to bridge the gap; his passimproved with every game. Up front we had a powerful front row with Russel Kirby,Peter Robinson and Bob McGuinness, who always played havoc with the opposition in thetight. The second row of Nick Hunt and Bob Baak, when provoked, were a real drivingforce; they are really better than they realise. Andrew Dickinson at "No. 8" developedoutstandingly early in the season making dangerous breaks and was most effective indefence. Neil Thatcher was a regular team member as flanker until ill. He worked welland imposed himself on several opposition scrum-halves. Late in the season a very tajentedplayer emerged; Guy Merrick's rucking was tremendous. Steve Lucas also played asflanker.

Mark Jermyn as captain played at fly-half. Although small he was fast and agile,kicking well and spinning the ball when required. Another latecomer was Tony Pickardin the centre who emerged as the most fearless tackier in the team. Steve Martin alwaysseemed in the thick of it, and with confidence could go far. Adam Rolfe on the right wingalso played well with some useful chips into space. On the other wing Neil Jolin and NavjotChabra shared the team place. They both possessed speed but need greater physicalcommitment to do well at this sport. At full-back Robin Seaman's handling and kickingcould always be relied upon.

Colours awarded to: Mark Jermyn, Andrew Dickinson, Bob Baak and Guy Merrick.Also played: Toby Moyle, Tim Jaggs, Scott Wishart, Andrew Eborn, George Atkin-

son, Rupert Whitaker.

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My thanks to my enthusiastic captain, Mark Jermyn, and my touch judge and "B"team captain, Toby Moyle. Although we did not have the successes, I hope that teammembers have learned something about the game this season.

P. Y. B.

UNDER-14 RUGBYMissing one or two of last year's stars, the team had a baptism of fire in the first

match against a very strong Pangbourne side, losing 6—16. It was not all despair for themas their defence and cover tackling were superb.

They settled down to play rugger in the next five games and had some glorious wins.When the ball came to the backs, the play was dazzling and a pleasure to watch. Theforwards were always at a disadvantage through their lack of size especially againstPortsmouth, Solihull and St. George's. This led to a rather black patch over half-term withthree losses.

However, they found more aggression in the last four games to finish with four wins.Kicking was always a problem but as the term progressed so too did Michael Hill's accuracyand conversions were made from every position.

Colours were awarded to Sean Jefferson and Richard Bradshaw, always the servantsof others; Vincent Hunt, the most aggressive and effective of props; Simon Clarke, aserious, intelligent and dogged pack leader; Mark Smith, a most reliable full-back andlater scrum-half, always courageous and an elusive runner; and finally Nick Francis, ourcaptain and highest try scorer, who has gained the quiet respect of his own team, spectators,and, above all, the opposition.

All in all a good season, with lessons learned. Our thanks to the staff and the LowerSixth for their help and my thanks to the team for the pleasure they have given me on thetouch-line.

SIMON DODD (Touch Judge)

The thanks of the team and Mr. Davis go to Simon for his dedication and controlledenthusiasm.

Regular team also included: Richard Norris, Robert Porter, Simon Pickett, IanBardwell, Simon Davies, Neil Harvey, Andrew Robinson and Toby Jermyn.

Also played: Paul Maraviglia, Rupert Fallows, David Kendall, Simon Dodd, SimonBentley, Mark Allison, Rowland Gregovich, Chris Andreason, Robert Emmett andWilliam Maclean.

RESULTSPangbourne Lost 6—16 Solihull Lost 6—20Bearwood Won 32—0 St. George's Lost 10—14Reading Won 20—10 Wellington II Won 20—10St. Bartholomew's Won 28—10 King Edward VI Won 18—4Shiplake Won 22—10 Churcher's Won 16—6Montgomery of Alamein Won 24—12 Reeds Won 40—10Portsmouth Lost 8—11 "A" XV v. Ottershaw Lost 4—30

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UNDER-14 SEVENSIndeed, a magnificent sevens team! Two competitions and twice the winners! The

team played superb sevens throughout, tackling doggedly when often a fraction of the sizeof the opposition, letting the ball do the work and running hard when the opening appeared.The reserve strength too played their part—not only in practice, but in their own rightat the Basingstoke and District meeting when lack of speed was their only shortcoming.

1st VII: Sean Jefferson (captain), Nick Francis (vice-captain), Mark Smith, VincentHunt, Neil Harvey, Simon Clark, Michael Hill and Andrew Robinson.

RESULTSBognor Basingstoke and District

v.Bognorll Won 36—0 v. Hurst II Won 30—0v. Chichester Won 12—4 v. Cranbourne II Won 30—0V.Portsmouth Won 10—6 v. Vyne Won 34—0v. Hazlewick Won 6—0 v. Cranbourne Won 30—0

P. D.

UNDER-13 RUGBYPlayed 14 Won 12 Drawn 0 Lost 2 Points for 307 Against 68

RESULTSHomeAwayHomeAwayAwayAwayAwayHomeHomeHomeHome

HomeAway

12—922—018—04—12

11—616—016—054—012—020—016—064—842—9

0—24

WonWonWonLostWonWonWonWonWonWonWonWonWonLost

v. Reading Schoolv. Montgomery'sv. Portsmouth Grammarv. St. George'sv. King Edward'sv. Churcher's Collegev. Stubbington Housev. St. Bartholomew'sv. Stubbington Housev. Reading Schoolv. Montgomery'sv. British School, Brusselsv. Haslemere Heightsv. Stroud

Yet again the under-13s had a fabulous season. The team was hardly changed fromthe previous year's under-12s with the exception of Paul Maraviglia who came into theteam at fly-half and his extra experience proved to be a great boost to the three-quarters.

The pack was comparatively small compared to the packs they came up against butthey still managed to overcome their opponents in every game but one. The front five ofprops Chris Andreason and Boots Morgan, locks Tim Williams and Guy Trezise andhooker Nick Griffiths were all very reliable in the tight and all gave of their utmost in theloose. The back row were always a real force to be reckoned with both in attack anddefence, all of them capable of scoring a vital try and making a match-saving tackle. DaveSmith and Chris Dance were our all-action flankers and Tim Hunt as well as leading thepack was our place kicker.

As has been already mentioned, Paul Maraviglia served us very well from fly-halfand linked superbly with our two centres Bob Ford and Ian Roach. Bob tackled tremen-dously and was a marvellous passer of the ball, Ian was a very strong runner and possesseda devastating side-step. James Leach had a great season on the left wing as he saw a lot ofthe ball and had the pace to trouble even the best of opponents. Max Coomer on the rightwing tackled well and was also always ready to run the ball at the opposition. FinallySimon Timms at full-back who made up for what he lacked in positional sense withcourage in the tackle and a tremendous desire to attack and was often involved in ourflowing back moves.

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Coach and captain (under-\3s)

Our first match of the season was at home to Reading and was indicative of ourgeneral performances over the whole of the first term in that we were very slow to settleand it wasn't until well into the second half that we got going and turned our superiorityinto points. After a good win against an uncompromising Montgomery's side we had ouronly other home game in the first term against an unbeaten Portsmouth Grammar. Wefound ourselves very much on the receiving end for almost all of the first half but a marvel-lous try by Dave Smith on the stroke of half-time turned the tables completely and we ranout easy winners. We then went to St. George's and after conceding two converted triesin the first three minutes went on to dominate much of the game and only some tremendoustackling from their full-back preserved their lead. We were involved in a great game atKing Edward's where we scraped through although there were some desperate momentslate in the game, and from there we went to Churcher's and gained ample revenge forour defeat as under-12s. The term ended with a good win at Stubbington House.

Our first four games in the Easter Term were all at home and were all played in areal variety of conditions. We thrashed St. Bart's in the snow that plagued us all termand then made heavy weather of beating Stubbington on a beautiful spring-like afternoon.Our return fixture with Reading was played on a terribly cold day with the pitch under twoinches of water and players on both sides were pleased to get off the pitch that day. We wonour return match with Montgomery's in a blizzard on a very hard pitch. Over half-term wewent to Brussels and a report of our antics on the Continent appears elsewhere in thismagazine.

Our last home game was against Haslemere Heights and on a day made for flowingrugby with perfect weather, the ground in marvellous condition and a big crowd weproduced our best display of the season in scoring nine tries, six from the backs. We werethrilled to be able to produce this sort of display for our loyal supporters and it was alittle sad that we should lose our match at Stroud. We were hammered up front by amuch bigger set of boys, although it must be said that our backs looked far more dangerousthan theirs given a limited supply of ball. All in all, a very good season.

MARK RANDS (Captain)

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Our biggest problem at the start of the year was in believing that we could possiblybe as good as the fantastic under-13 side of the previous year. Our results speak for them-selves . . . yes we could! It says much for Mark's personality and leadership that we wereas successful as we were and I should like to thank him for the wonderful job that he hasdone in welding the side into such an effective unit. The keyword for our rugby footballthis year was "enjoyment" and if the boys have enjoyed playing as much as I have coachingthem and others have watching them, the season has been even more successful than I everdared wish.

I would like to thank Mrs. Matson who looked after our splendid "Wasps" kit andalways ensured that we went on to the pitch as the best-dressed team and also Messrs.Dyson and Woolstone for their help in coaching the boys . . . although they may notrealise it their guidance has been invaluable.

Colours are always a tricky problem with a successful team because for some boysthe privilege of being in the team is enough reward in itself but over the course of theyear colours were awarded to Mark Rands, Paul Maraviglia, Chris Andreason, TimWilliams, Chris Dance, David Smith, Tim Hunt, Bob Ford, Ian Roach and James Leach.

S. R. D.

THE UNDER-13 RUGBY TRIP TO BRUSSELS—EASTERHALF-TERM

After a superb half-term of rugby in which they won all four of their matches, scoring92 points and conceding none, the under-13 rugby XV went to Belgium to play the BritishSchool in Brussels (B.S.B.).

Naturally, we had to get up early and after sausages for breakfast we set off for Doverafter we had checked that we had everything! The journey was quite comfortable but whenwe got to the other end we had to wait for one and a half hours for the boat and someonewhose initials are S. R. D. had left the packed lunches at J.H. Consequently, when weboarded the ferry we all headed straight for the cafeteria where the forwards ate as muchas they could trying to get even fatter to terrify the opposition. The crossing to Ostend wasvery smooth and the drive from Ostend to Brussels went quickly until on the outskirts ofthe capital we got lost so that Mr. Dyson could practise his French . . . needless to say westayed lost but by a stroke of good fortune we actually found B.S.B. where we met our hosts.

The next day we met at the school for our XV's match. The weather was beautiful andalthough we played on their soccer pitch it was still in good condition if a little sandy. Whenwe got on to the field we realised that one of their players was a girl! Actually she was oneof their best players and a fantastic tackier, which suited Dave Smith who was staying withher, as he took every opportunity of tackling her! The game itself was very entertainingand also extremely tiring after our long journey. We all came off shattered and left with ourhosts and returned to their homes. That afternoon and evening many of the team wentsightseeing in and around Brussels and some even saw Star Wars, which wasn't released atthat time in England.

The next morning we all woke to a Belgian breakfast and after a morning of sight-seeing we met at B.S.B. for a seven-a-side tournament with several local sides as well asthose from B.S.B. and our two teams. Both of our sides started shakily but gradually settleddown and after a few close calls both qualified for the final. We managed to produce agreat exhibition of sevens as there was a lot of pride at stake and although the "B" team

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held the upper hand for much of the first half, it was the "A" team which eventuallytriumphed by 12 points to 4.

The next morning we were all shown around the British School by Mr. Gamble whohad organised everything for us and to whom we are all extremely thankful. It really wasvery kind of him. The journey to Ostend and the crossing to Dover were uneventful apartfrom when James Leach, who had been ill over the weekend and had hardly eaten a thing,fainted in the ship's cafeteria at the sight of Simon Timms eating his third helping of chips. . . we all thought it was very funny but James didn't seem to see the joke.

We were entertained (????) on the drive back to Long Sutton by Messrs. Dyson andDavidson who sang Beatles (who ?) songs for three hours and by Mark (Yarwood) Randswho did some marvellous impersonations of members of staff.

I'm sure the whole squad would like to thank Mr. Davidson, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Gamble,Mr. and Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Williams for making the trip so enjoyable.

BOB FORD AND TIM HUNT

UNDER-12 RUGBYPlayed 5 Won 2 Drawn 2 Lost 1

We have had a season of mixed success. We started well against St. Bart's, but thenlost to a strong Stubbington House team. We then drew against Reading and HaslemereHeights, and finished up by winning, with an incomplete side, against Stroud.

Our front row worked hard throughout the season with props Daniel Morgan and TimLeslie, and hooker James Haselden. The comparatively small second row of Nigel Bradshawand Simon Stenning fought hard in every game.

Our back row was our most strong point in the scrum with outstanding flankersIwian Trezise and Scott Bean. Mark Moss played very well in the season, scoring five tries.Scrum-half David Morris improved remarkably over the season. Charlie Taylor is a fast-running back who was unlucky not to score any tries. Simon Taylor, a small but reliablesecond centre, played consistently throughout the season with wingers David Andrews andPaul Adolph making good use of the ball. Full-back Justin Colman was small but extreme-ly brave and he tackled everyone who came his way.

Finally we would like to thank Messrs. Smith, Davidson and Dyson for their coachingand encouragement throughout the season.

ASHLEY BLOWS (Captain)

Over the course of the season we suffered several setbacks, and were often forced tomake last-minute changes. However, the squad reacted superbly under the inspired cap-taincy of Ashley Blows and I am sure they have learnt much in their first season.

Colours were awarded to Scott Bean, Ashley Blows and David Morris.G. R. S.

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1st XI HOCKEYWith a team of talent and experience, this season was one long awaited. Unfortunately,

our worst enemy, the weather, took its toll preventing many school matches. After weeksof training and hope we visited Bedales for our first match. Hockey was only just possibleand we played badly so a somewhat frustrating game ended in a 0—0 draw, which wecould even have lost.

Next, with a somewhat rearranged team, we met our familiar opposition, the men ofReading Hockey Club. With Peter Heath at centre-half the game was controlled. Alongthe right, Julian Wright, Roger Davies and Roger Knight showed fine form and were ableto move the ball around like professionals. Because we played like a team we won 3—2.Thus, oozing confidence, we faced the D. L. Dames XI. Everybody thought it was goingto be an easy game; indeed it may well have been had it not been for their goalkeeper,David Riding. As a result we played as eleven individuals and lost 2—1.

With much hard work and training we were now ready for our next match. QueenMary's, Basingstoke, were soundly defeated. Our "powerhouse" Quentin Sands playedwith flair and determination and scored two magnificent goals. Giles White worked hard,as usual, and showed strength in attack scoring another. Our centre-forward Charlie Hessealso scored, as he often did whenever near the goal. Q.M.B. may have scored had it notbeen for Philip Bennett in defence who let nothing pass him. Eventually he gave away apenalty by kicking the ball off the line, so the final score was 4—1.

With one game left and many suffering from end-of-season fatigue we played theOld Sternians XI. A magnificent game was played by goalkeeper Tony Pepper who savedmany ferocious shots. Our hard-working half-back Roger Knight ran himself into theground with his hard work. As a result of team-work we won 4—0.

Although there was no change in the team our 2nd XI played a most important role inour successful season by acting as opposition.

Thanks must also go to Mr. Dames, our coach, who made everything seem possible.MICHAEL HAAS (Captain)

My thanks to the very experienced captain who led by example and who, with PhilBennett, was so important in our tight defence. It could have been a dismal season withsuch terrible weather, but through their enthusiasm and spirit the whole squad alwaysgave of their best. My thanks to them all, particularly those who are leaving this year.They will be much missed.

The following colours were awarded:Half-colours to Knight, Wright, Ferguson, White, Pepper A.Full colours to Heath, Sands, Davies, Hesse.Full colours were reawarded to Bennett and Haas.

D. L. D.

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"No play!"

2nd XI HOCKEYPlayed 5 Won 4 Lost 1 Drawn 0

After a disappointing start to the season, due to the poor weather, the side settled downto enjoy a successful term's hockey.

The team this year seemed to be endowed with individuals who, when they workedwell together, produced some devastating play—but had to control their temperament whenunder pressure.

The forwards always looked good in attack and were sometimes unlucky not to scoremore goals as their work in and near the "D" was often skilful and organised. MichaelGregovich and the very hard-working Richard O'Hare showed good stickwork and theability to read the game quickly so they were usually at the centre of our attacks givingthe aggressive centre-forward, John Rashid, room to work. The talented wingers Tak Au-Yeung and Gerald Pecover also found room and were able to make penetrating crosses tothe centre.

The half-backs looked solid: Bill Beaman, Mark Harvey and Nick Gauld always playedwith fire and determination. They cut out many balls and with powerful passes set upnumerous attacks, as well as showing how to use the square ball.

Julian Eckersley at full-back was a determined tackier. Chris Haskins was an equallygiant obstacle and tough opponent. In spite of this efficient defence, our keeper KeithPepper was sometimes allowed to show his fearlessness.

Our thanks must go to our coach, Mr. Booth, whose enthusiasm and encouragementthroughout the season, on and off the field, served as an example to all.

NICK HODI (Captain)

My thanks to Nick Hodi for his boundless enthusiasm that made my task so mucheasier and soon overcame any difficulties in the team, enabling it to function smoothly andefficiently for an enjoyable season.

P. Y. B.

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UNDER-15 HOCKEYAt the start of the season it seemed probable that a very good under-15 team was in

the making and the first game against Bedales, away, confirmed this. It was a fairly easyvictory, 3—1, with Morrogh, Pickard and O'Meara the scorers.

The second game was probably the best-contested match of the season—away toPangbourne. At half-time they appeared to be well on top and were leading 3—1; however,great determination by the team, especially Steven Martin and Chris Morrogh, broughtthe score back to be 4—4 at full-time. The goal scorers were Morrogh (3) and Jaggs.

A slightly weakened side came out to meet Great Salterns, and put on a neat displayof hockey and convincingly beat them 4—0, even though one of our star players, RobertBroadhurst, played for them!

The final match was disappointing—losing 3—0 to Churcher's; however, on the whole,it was a good season.

The forward line played well, with accurate crosses from Chris Morrogh, RobinBeaman and Bill Fleming to the insides of Tim Jaggs, Steve O'Meara and Tony Pickard.

They were ably supported by the mid-field of Steven Martin and George Atkinson,as well as the full-backs, Richard Gooding and Mark Jermyn, both of whom also playedtheir part in attack.

And finally, Robert Broadhurst, who pulled off many a fine save and kept the gameunder control.

We would all like to thank Mr. Whibley for coming out on many cold and wet days,and making it a very enjoyable season.

ANDREW DICKINSON (Captain)

Mention must be made of the part played by Andrew Dickinson in the success of theXL He played with skill, determination and stamina. He fully deserved the award ofColours.

Colours were also awarded to Steven Martin.A. G. W.

UNDER-14 HOCKEYWon 1 Lost 1 Drawn 2

We began our season at Shiplake, having had little practice beforehand, and were alittle unlucky to come away with a 1—1 draw, Simon Clarke scoring our goal.

In our next match, a good team performance, and our forwards' ability to take 50%of their scoring chances, saw us defeat Cheyne easily 6—1, Simon Clarke scoring a hat-trick and Mark Smith, Roland Gregovich and Simon Bentley grabbing one each.

Our next game against Pangbourne was the toughest of the season. Although weplayed the best we have as a team we lost 2—3, having dominated the second half andlosing to a last-minute goal, where a draw would have been a fair result. Michael Hill andSimon Bentley were our scorers.

In our final game against Churcher's we drew 2—2, again having controlled most ofthe match. We let through two unfortunate goals, due, in part, to the rearranging of theteam, several members being away ill.

Due to the bad weather, we rarely trained outside, and with more practice and luckwe could have had an unbeaten season. The side has great potential and with wider ex-perience should prove formidable opposition for anyone.

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We should like to thank Mr. Dyson for his hard work and encouragement and alsoMr. Hallows for umpiring most of our games, who both combined to make this such anenjoyable season.

S. BENTLEY

CROSS-COUNTRYSeniors

Despite miserable weather, injuries and school epidemics the Senior team managedto achieve the standard of previous years. Against our traditional domestic opponentswe beat eight schools but this season were unable to touch Peter Symond's, even whenthey ran a Lower Sixth girl in their scoring four over our gruelling course! In the Hantsand Border League, comprising mainly Sixth Form Colleges, we finished a respectablethird behind Peter Symond's, who won every race, and Portsmouth, whom we beat withsurprising ease at the start of the season at home. In the big Invitation Cup Races wealways justified inclusion, finishing just below half-way—it is a sobering thought that ateam of six James Macleans would not have been sufficient to make the first six, as thetop schools are as strong as some county teams!

Owing to a series of misfortunes no individual emerged as consistently outstanding,though James Maclean showed great potential and had some excellent runs when notdogged by stomach cramp. Chris Mayhew showed promise at the beginning but was struckby illness. Mark Jewell started modestly but ended up most improved runner of the year.George Atkinson added strength when available, and solid loyal support was always givenunstintingly by Tyrone McLaughlan, Martyn Evans, Tim O'Hare and Ronnie Werker.Also took part: Neil Sanderson, Giles White, Paul Woodward, Julian Wright.

Merit ties: T. McLaughlan, M. Evans, T. O'Hare.Full colours: M. Jewell. J. Maclean, C. Mayhew.I would like to thank Chris Mayhew, who has captained with enthusiasm and courtesy,

for the several seasons of dedicated effort he has given the School.P. H. L. W.

Under-14sThis emerged as one of the best groups for several years. In three races the "A" team

scored easy wins over five schools, including Portsmouth, whilst the "B" team managed tobeat Douai's "A". Even in defeat against the much-feared Desborough we put up a toughfight, though the most heart-warming sight was Lord Wandsworth runners filling the firstsix places in one race. Our leading performer was ultra-consistent Michael Hill, whoalways received close support from Nick Francis and Mark Smith. Further determinedreinforcement was given by R. Day, R. Norris, A. Robinson and the Coleman twins. Otherswho represented the "A" team: M. Dodds, S. Jefferson. "B" team: P. Bradshaw. D.Broadhurst, J. Newbery, C. Mason, A. MacFarlane, V. Hunt, G. Silvey, R. Gregovich,R. Hartnett, D. Kendall, T. Jermyn.

Under-15sThe team showed exceptional determination and enthusiasm, achieving impressive

wins over six schools and losing only to a powerful Desborough. The outstanding individual,George Atkinson, displayed a speed and relentless consistency that placed him amongstthe four fastest in the School, and was a considerable asset when available to the Senior"A" team. Bob Baak and David Gilbert gave tenacious support, with further loyal backing

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from Chris Morrogh, Tony Pickard, Neil Jolin, Paul Crago and Charlie Moss. Other teamrunners were A. Robinson, R. Norris, I. Harris, M. Jermyn, S. Lucas, D. Taylor and J.Gibbons.

RESULTS

18th Jan. Seniors: (League) 3rd/7 (Mayhew 4th/50)21st Jan. Seniors: 1st, Douai 2nd, Portsmouth 3rd (White 1st, Mayhew 4th)

Under-15: 1st, Portsmouth 2nd, King Edward's 3rd, Douai 4th (Atkinson 2nd, Baak 4th)Under-14: 1st, Portsmouth 2nd, L.W.C. "B" 3rd, Douai 4th (Hill 2nd, Francis 3rd, Smith 4th)

26th Jan. Basingstoke and District ChampionshipsUnder-16:lst Harriet Costello, 2nd Hurst, 3rd L.W.C. (8 teams, Atkinson 7th/60)Under-14: 1st Harriet Costello, 2nd Hurst, 3rd R. Aldworth, 4th L.W.C. (8 terms, Hill

10th/75)28th Jan. Seniors: L.W.C. 1st, St. George's 2nd, Leighton Park 3rd (Mayhew 2nd, Jewell 4th, O'Hare

5th)Under-15: L.W.C. 1st, St. George's 2nd, Leighton Park 3rd, King Edward's 4th (Atkinson 1st,

Baak 2nd, Gilbert 5th)Under-14: L.W.C. 1st, Leighton Park 2nd, L.W.C. "B" 3rd, St. George's 4th(Hill, Francis,

Smith, Norris, Colemans took first six)31st Jan. Under-15: 1st Desborough, 2nd L.W.C. (Gilbert 4th)

Under-14: 1st Desborough, 2nd L.W.C. (Hill 4th)1st Feb. Goater Cup: 6 x 2i mile relay, Haberdashers' Aske's: 16th/244th Feb. Ranelagh Harriers Schools Cup Race: 9th/11 (Maclean 13th/70)8th Feb. Senior League: 2nd/7 (Maclean 2nd/55)22nd Feb. Oxford University Tortoises 4 x 2J mile Road Relay: 25th/3515th March Senior League: 3rd/6 (Atkinson 4th/40)

Inter-House Races 7th February, held over new courses:Seniors: 1st Maclean (Su.), 2nd Jewell (Hv.), 3rd Mayhew (Sch.), 4th Wright (Su.), 5th O'Hare (Hv.),

6th McLaughlan (Su.), 7th Evans (Sch.), 8th White G. (Hv.), 9th Robinson M. (Hv.), 10th Werker (Su.).Teams: 1st Hazelveare 37.1 Time: 23.23

2nd Sutton 50.33rd School 53.24th Summerfield 74.2

Intermediates: 1st Atkinson (Hv.), 2nd Baak (Hv.), 3rd Gilbert (Su.), 4th Morrogh (Hv.), 5th Pickard (Sch.),6th Hill (Su.), 7th Jolin (Su.), 8th Crago, 9th Francis (Hv.), 10th Smith M. (Sf.).Teams: 1st Hazelveare 46.1 Time: 18.55

2nd Sutton 51.63rd Summerfield 66.24th School 71.4

Juniors: 1st Hunt (H'croft), 2nd Smith D. (Hy.), 3rd Blows (Sh.).Teams: 1st Hyde 36.35, 2nd Sheephouse 37.7, 3rd Hesters 38.6,4th Handcroft 41.9.

P. H. L. W.

1st XI CRICKETPlayed 11 Won 4 Drawn 7 Lost 0

Looking at this year's results it is evident that it has been an extremely successfulseason for the 1st XI. In spite of changes in the team towards the end of the season itsmorale and performances have not faltered and it has maintained its high standard ofcricket throughout.

Concentration and consistency in the batting was at times lacking resulting in thedependence upon one or two batsmen. Of the openers Quentin Sands showed determinationin his batting and enjoyed a mid-season nourish of runs. Guy Fisher also made valuableruns and showed what an improved batsman he was. Giles White, a stylish bat and abright prospect for the future, failed to find true form at the difficult No. 3 spot, but didhowever have a notably fine innings against St. Bartholomew's. Lester Bailey, the top runscorer, hitting a century against the Old Sternians, proved what a steady and reliablebatsman he is. Paul Rowland, who was draughted from the 2nd XI captaincy to the team,proved to be a useful batsman and seam bowler, although he lacked the concentration to

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Charlie Hesse bowling v. Col. O''Hare's XI

make a big score. Tim Coulson kept tidily behind the stumps and also batted soundly inthe late order.

Special thanks must go to the vice-captain, Peter Heath, who not only continued hisfine off-spin bowling this year but also proved himself to be an extremely useful batsmanin the middle order. Of the other bowlers, Stuart May showed fine control with his medium-pace swing bowling and had a very encouraging opening season in the 1st XI. Nick Gauld,another player with the difficult job of coming into the team half-way through the season,also bowled well throughout. Both will be tough customers in the future.

The fielding throughout the season was generally very good, especially the groundfielding, and most catches were taken; however, there seemed to be a touch of over-anxietyin trying to get the batsmen out resulting in far too many over-throws!

My thanks go to all the players who have played for the 1st XI and the way in whichthey tackled various problems with determination throughout the season which so con-tributed to the team's overall success.

My thanks also go to Mr. Dyson and Mr. Whibley, who gave up so much of theirtime for coaching and umpiring on many a cold, windy, and miserable afternoon and finallyto the various scorers we have had.

Full Colours: C. P. Hesse, P. J. Heath.Half-Colours: Q. T. R. Sands, S. M. May, L. P. Bailey.Merit: P. H. Rowland.

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LEADING AVERAGESBatting:

BaileyHeathHesseFisherWhiteSands

Bowling:MayGauldHeathHesse

Innings129

10111112

Overs125.546.483

133.4

Not out132210

Maidens339

2029

Highest score11748*374754*33

Runs288151248377

Runs341100117131133159

Wickets24121923

Average31.0016.6616.6214.5513.3013.25

Average12.0012.5813.0516.32

L.W.C.: 160 for 8(L. Bailey 59, J. Wright 60)

L.W.C.: 105 for 8

St. Bart's.: 103 for 8(P. Heath 7 for 30)

Portsmouth: 145 for 2Bearwood: 99

(S. May 4 for 26)L.W.C.: 162 for 9

(Q. Sands 33, R. Dames 36, G. Fisher 47)L.W.C.: 152

(Bailey 34)L.W.C.: 141 for 9

(C. Hesse 37, P. Heath 48 not out)Peter Symond's: 148 for 6

L.W.C.:96

L.W.C.:207for7(Bailey 117)

Forty Club: 107(S. May 5 for 33, N. Gauld 4 for 14)

RESULTSChurcher's: 76 for 6

Shiplake: 45 for 8(J. Wright 4 for 7)

L.W.C.: 104 for 6(G. White 54 not out)

L.W.C.:59for7L.W.C.:56for9

(Sands 25)Reading: 155

(C. Hesse 4 for 63)Lt. Col. O'Hare's: 84

(C. Hesse 4 for 20)K.E.S.: 137 for 7

L.W.C.: 119 for 7(Bailey 47)

Old Sternians: 153 for 9(S. May 4 for 51)

Old Sternians: 125 for 4

L.W.C.: 111 for 3(Coulson 37)

CHARLES HESSE

2nd XI CRICKET

There have been two distinct 2nd XIs this year. The first, under Paul Rowland'scaptaincy, beat Shiplake, St. Bart's, Newbury, and Portsmouth Grammar School. Then,losing several Senior members to the 1st XI to replace the leaving boys, a weakened teamunder the captaincy of Mark Harvey had a winning draw against Reading, a fighting drawagainst King Edward's, Southampton, and beat Bearwood and Alton.

It is a tribute to both captains that this record was achieved. The wins were for themost part overwhelming with only two or three members of the team bowling and the sametwo or three batting but it is not just their efforts that win or lose a game. The number 11batsman who has not had a bowl is just as vital a team member and his interest and attentionmust be maintained if he is to hold a vital catch when it is offered. It says much for bothRowland and Harvey that they were able to keep their teams motivated and alert. Thefielding and catching of Jim Halls in particular must be mentioned.

So cricket is a team game. But having said that, mention must be made of someindividual performances. Scores of 50 or over were made by Paul Rowland and MarkHarvey. Richard O'Hare had three scores of over 30, and Billy Beaman two. Nick Gauldtook five or more wickets in an innings three times, and Harvey once. O'Hare also developedwell as a bowler over the season and is a promising all-rounder.

We are also grateful to those 3rd XI players who bridged the gap between their gameand ours to give vital assistance towards the end of the season.

School Colours are only awarded to the first team in each age group; other awardsare made after two or three years of distinguished effort. With the change in team member-ship and the youth of the team as it finally stood, no awards can be made this year; thereward therefore lies, as far as the individual is concerned, in being a member of a proudand unbeaten team. Match results: Won 5, Drawn 2, Lost 0.

C. E. H.

UNDER-15 CRICKETPlayed 10 Won 7 Lost 2 Drawn 1

We had a disappointing start to the season by losing to Churcher's in the HampshireCup, in a very closely fought game. Mark Jermyn, one of the openers, got us off to a goodstart, as he did in nearly all our games, hitting a very quick 23. He also saved many runsin the field with his athletic stops and proved to be a useful leg-spin bowler in the latterstages. Robert Broadhurst also proved himself to be a big hitter and a talented limitedovers player.

In the Shiplake match Bill Fleming bowled very economically, as he did all throughthe season; in the St. Bartholomew's game he bowled throughout their innings as did ourother opening bowler and batsman Steve O'Meara. Their figures were 20 overs, 14 maidens,three for 19 and 21 overs, 13 maidens, six for 22 respectively.

In the Portsmouth match, Steve O'Meara won us the game with a match-winning 52not out, and a victory of five wickets. This game was really the highlight of the season.

Notable performances in the next match against Bearwood were from Steve O'Meara(6 for 23), Mark Jermyn with 35 runs and from Tony Pickard, the wicketkeeper, who hasimproved tremendously and made three catches and a stumping. He has batted consistentlyand always according to the situation which faced him.

Robin Beaman's innings of 102 not out against Ottershaw was probably the personalhighlight of the season. He had an unfortunate start to the season, but after half-term he

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put some good scores together. Also in the Ottershaw match George Atkinson bowledwell, collecting four wickets and also bowling us into a winning position in the game againstBedale's.

The most exciting game of the season was against King Edward's, Witley. Bill Flemingbowled accurately and took four wickets, although it could have well been more, TonyPickard, Robin Beaman, Andy Dickinson and Chris Morrogh getting runs, enabling usto win by two wickets. Andy Dickinson has fielded excellently in all the matches, stoppingmany runs in the out-field and taking some superb catches close to the wicket. His stubbornbatting has also been a major factor in the last few games. Chris Morrogh, the comedianof the team, had an unfortunate start, but when lowered down the order has proved to bea useful competitor.

In the King Edward's, Southampton, match, Steve O'Meara gave us a wonderfulstart by taking two wickets in his first over. He ended up with five wickets but the teamwere not able to capitalise upon it, and with none of the batsmen really scoring sufficiently,we lost by 58 runs.

Steve Lucas also played for the team after half-term, producing some excellent seambowling performances. Stephen Cotterill has also been another good performer for theteam when he has played.

My thanks must also go to Mr. Woolstone who has given the team tremendoussupport and encouragement, and has taught the team a lot more about the game and howto improve on it.

My thanks also go to everyone who has scored for the team during the season, mainlyMessrs. Leach, Kirby, Broadhurst, Cotterill and Clifton.

L.W.C.: 89 for 8(Broadhurst 34)

Shiplake: 75(O'Meara 3 for 20, Fleming 4 for 11)

L.W.C.: 56(Jermyn 29)

P.G.S.: 77(Fleming 4 for 33)

Bearwood: 49(O'Meara 6 for 23)

Reading: 132 for 2 (dec.)L.W.C.: 156 for 2

(Beaman 102*, Martin 21*)King Edward's, Witley: 133

(Fleming 4 for 33)King Edward's, Southampton: 158

(O'Meara 5 for 65)L.W.C.: 146 for 7 (dec.)

(Jermyn 35, O'Meara 20, Pickard 20,Morrogh 23*)

RESULTSChurcher's: 90 for 7

(O'Meara 3 for 10)L.W.C.:78for4

(O'Meara 27, Pickard 20*)St. Bart's: 43

Lost by 3 wkts.

Won by 6 wkts.

Won by 13 runs(O'Meara 6 for 22, Fleming 3 for 19)

L.W.C.: 78 for 5 Won by 5 wkts.(O'Meara 52*)

L.W.C.: 53 for 1 Won by 9 wkts.(Jermyn 35)

L.W.C.: 88 for 4 Match drawnOttershaw: 62 Won by 94 runs

(Lucas 4 for 19, Atkinson 4 for 20)L.W.C.: 135 for 8 Won by 2 wkts.

(Beaman 31, Pickard 23, Dickinson 15*)L.W.C.: 100 Lost by 58 runs

Bedales: 68(O'Meara 4 for 21, Atkinson 3 for 8,Jermyn 3 for 3)

Won by 78 runs

Batting: InningsM. Jermyn 10R. Beaman 9S. O'Meara 9R. Broadhurst 5

Bowling: OversG. Atkinson 25S. O'Meara 127S.Lucas 18.4W. Fleming 103

LEADING AVERAGESNot out Highest score

1 35*1 102*2 52*1 34

Maidens8

481

41

Runs59

24771

204

Runs19316213274

Wickets9

318

20

Average21.4420.2518.8518.5

Average6.557.968.87

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STEPHEN MARTIN (Captain)

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"// was out!"

One of the most enjoyable seasons I have known with this enthusiastic and talentedgroup of boys. Stephen Martin has been a knowledgeable and unselfish captain who has ledby example. He and Stephen O'Meara proved their talent by their appearances for theHampshire Colts on several occasions. My thanks to them all.

A. J. W.

UNDER-14 CRICKETPlayed 13 Won 10 Drawn 2 Lost 1

Our first two matches both followed the same pattern, so that against Shiplake andSaint Bart's, we made well over a hundred and then bowled them out for less than 50, twogood performances to start off the season. In our first limited overs cup game againstMontgomery's we batted superbly and then bowled defensively to win comfortably. Thenext day we continued our batting spree against Portsmouth Grammar, scoring nearly200 and they were glad to hang on for a draw in a last hour which saw us bowl 35 overs.

We then played our first away game at Bearwood and on a difficult wicket made avery good score before hitting peak bowling and fielding form in dismissing the unfortunateopposition for only seven runs. Our next cup match was at Winchester College, alwayslikely to be a tremendous task, and in atrocious conditions of driving rain we brought offa memorable victory with just an over to spare. We then had a great game with Reading,who as always were a good side, before beating King Edward's, Witley, with a soundbowling performance. We then travelled to King Edward's, Southampton, where we hadanother enjoyable game which ended fairly in a draw, both sides playing open and attackingcricket.

We were left with just cup games at this stage so we had to keep winning to have anygames to look forward to. In both quarter and semi-finals we didn't bat particularly welland only outstanding bowling and fielding performances kept us in the competition. Inthe final against Bellemoor School from Southampton at the Trojans ground, on a dreadful

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evening with cold winds, driving rain then bright sunlight, we had the heartbreak oflosing on the second to last ball of the whole match. Still, if we had to lose any game we atleast went down with our heads held high.

We were fortunate enough to be able to keep a very settled side throughout the seasonand someone could always be relied upon to have a good game. Our batting was openedby the ever-consistent Simon Bentley and the often brilliant Toby Jermyn, who got us offto so many sound starts and then both could be relied on to get wickets, Toby with hisoff-spin and Simon his medium pace. Mark Smith came in at number three and playedsome resolute innings, and the middle order of Simon Clarke (who also kept wicket verywell), Mick Hill, a fast scorer if at times impulsive (he also opened the bowling consistentlywell), and Chris Marston, a player of sound technique, all produced good performancesat one time or another. The others in the team were Tim Cowell, who bowled and battedwell, Rupert Fallows, an opening bowler of real class and a useful batsman, Nick Francis,a useful left-arm spinner and brilliant fielder, and David Kendall, who bowled consistentlywell. In addition Michael Mason, Mark Rands and Bob Stuttaford all played their part.

We've had such a successful and happy season and I'm sure that the whole team wouldlike to join me in thanking Mr. Davidson and Mr. Fryer for their coaching and PaulHarrison, our most loyal supporter and scorer.

L.W.C.: 132 for 3 (dec.)(Smith 51*, Jefferson 30*, Bentley 29)

L.W.C.: 151 for 8 (dec.)(Bentley 66, Hill 29*, Jefferson 25)

Hampshire Cup 1st Round (30 overs)L.W.C.: 154 for 3

(Jermyn 58, Bentley 33)L.W.C.: 183 for 4 (dec.)

(Jermyn 79*, Jefferson 42)L.W.C.: 143 for 4 (dec.)

(Bentley 60)

Hampshire Cup 2nd Round (25 overs)Winchester College: 137 for 6

L.W.C.: 146 for 4 (dec.)(Jefferson 80*, Marston 27*)

Ottershaw: 89(Kendall 4 for 18)

L.W.C.: 128(Jefferson 30)

L.W.C.: 136 for 4 (dec.)(Bentley 80*)

Hampshire Cup Quarter-final (30 overs)L.W.C.:93for9

(Bentley 29, Smith 24)

Hampshire Cup Semi-final (30 overs)L.W.C.: 94 for 9

(Fallows 28)

Hampshire Cup Final (30 overs)L.W.C.: 85 for 9

(Clarke 20*)

RESULTSShiplake: 47

(Francis 4 for 4)St. Bartholomew's: 38

(Francis 4 for 10)

Montgomery's: 113 for 8

Portsmouth Grammar: 101 for 7(Bentley 4 for 22)

Bearwood: 7(Fallows 4 for 0, Hill 3 for 5)

L.W.C.: 139 for 4(Jermyn 67*, Jefferson 42)

Reading School: 108(Jermyn 7 for 29)

L.W.C. "A" XI: 92 for 4(Stuttaford 31)

King Edward's, Witley: 48(Jermyn 6 for 9)

Won by 85 runs

Won by 113 runs

Won by 41 runs

Drawn

Won by 136 runs

Won by 6 wkts.

Won by 38 runs

Won by 6 wkts.

Won by 80 runs

King Edward's, Southampton: 117 for 5 Drawn

Cowplain: 74 for 9

Calthorpe Park: 72

Bellemoor School: 88 for 9(Fallows 4 for 18)

Won by 19 runs

Won by 22 runs

Lost by 1 wkt.

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LEADING AVERAGESBatting:

Simon BentleySean JeffersonToby JermynMark SmithMick HillChris MarstonRupert FallowsNicholas FrancisSimon Clarke

Bowling:Nicholas FrancisToby JermynSimon BentleyRupert FallowsMick Hill

Kuns3912882491989580412465

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SEAN JEFFERSON (Captain)

This report would indeed be incomplete without reference to the marvellous job thatSean has done in captaining this happy and highly successful side. His own performanceswith the bat speak for themselves, his field placings and bowling changes both thoughtfuland knowledgeable and his example as leader and diplomat were first class. I am gratefulto him and all the other boys in the whole squad for such a happy and enjoyable season—they have been a credit to the game and the School. Any side that scores runs as consistentlyas they have done and bowls as effectively with the back-up of outstanding fielding, musthave a great future in prospect.

Our two-a-side competition was won by the dynamic duo of Simon Bentley and TimCowell who beat Mark Rands and Michael Mason in the final. Colours were awarded toSean Jefferson, Simon Bentley, Toby Jermyn, Simon Clarke and Rupert Fallows for theiroutstanding contribution in such a very good team.

S. R. D.

UNDER-13 CRICKETPlayed 10 Won 4 Drawn 3 Lost 3

Our first game was against Churcher's. This was a disappointing game where we lostafter having little practice. St. Bartholomew's was our next game, where we soon began toget wickets with a tremendous display of bowling by Chris Dance. We eventually bowledthem out for 57. Then with a partnership from Bob Ford and Adam Clarke we won thematch. When Edgeborough came to us, we had regained our confidence and in this gamemanaged to get them out for 76. Then with an innings from Bob Ford leaving only one runto win, victory looked in sight, but we failed to do so and drew. This was followed byanother close finish where Portsmouth Grammar had to get one run in the last over towin; they did this unfortunately.

Bearwood was our next game and they managed to get 82. Adam Clarke came in andscored 57 not out to enable the side to win by three wickets.

When Barfield came to us they decided to bat, then with another good performancefrom our bowlers we got them out for 73; we went in to bat and slowly and steadily managedto beat them.

Our next game was against Reading, where we managed to get them all out for 85;we batted and scored 54 for 6 to draw. K.E.S. Whitley was our next game where we un-fortunately lost our first few batsmen for quite a low score. Then the middle order batsmen

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came in and started to get the runs. We eventually managed to get 98. Fielding, we soonbegan to get wickets and with a fine display, won by 47 runs.

When K.E.S. Southampton visited us they scored 101 for 7 dec., James Leach getting5 for 31. Then we went into bat. We decided at first to go for the draw, but when we foundourselves going for one run a minute it looked as though we could win, but this slowlyfaded and we drew.

Against the Masters, we got them all out for 94. Then we lost our first two batsmenquickly; Blows and Clarke came together and began to score runs. It looked as though wewere going to win, but when these two were out the wickets soon fell and we lost by sixruns. In our final game we batted first but managed only 23 runs, this they easily reachedfor the loss of only one wicket.

I would like to thank Stuart Gould for scoring and Ian Roach, our faithful 12th man.

L.W.C.:23St. Bartholomew's: 57

(Dance 7 for 17)Edgeborough: 76

(Dance 5 for 14, Leach 4 for 33)L.W.C.: 83 for 6

(Ford 18)Bearwood: 82

(Dance 4 for 21)Barfleld: 73

(Patterson 4 for 30, Dance 4 for 13)Reading: 85

(Leach 4 for 44)L.W.C.: 98

(Patterson 19)K.E.S. Southampton: 101 for 7

(Leach 5 for 31)Masters XI: 94

(Mr. Davison 27)L.W.C.: 23

RESULTSChurcher's: 24 for 0L.W.C.: 58 for 2

(Clarke 30 not out)L.W.C.: 76 for 8

(Ford 36)Portsmouth: 84 for 6

(Dance 3 for 28)L.W.C.: 85 for 7

(Clarke 57 not out)L.W.C.: 74 for 6

(Ford 22)L.W.C.: 54 for 6

(Dance 17)K.E.S. Whitley: 51

(Leach 3 for 18)L.W.C.: 79 for 7

(Blows 33, Ford 31)L.W.C.: 88

(Clarke 25)Farleigh House: 24 for 1

ADAM

Lost by 10 wkts.Won by 8 wkts.

Drawn

Lost by 4 wkts.

Won by 3 wkts.

Won by 4 wkts.

Drawn

Won by 47 runs

Drawn

Lost by 6 runs

Lost by 9 wkts.

CLARKE (Captain)

During the Summer Term the House cricket results were as follows: Handcroft beatHesters, Hyde beat Sheephouse.

Final: Handcroft 108 for 4 (Clarke 40 not out), Hyde 43. Handcroft won by 65 runs.

The Dickinson Shield

This award for the best individual performance of the season goes to Adam Clarke,who at Bearwood scored 57 not out.

Adam has had a disappointing season with the bat but his captaincy has improvedwith each game. I hope to see him produce his true form more often next season.

G. R. S.

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SWIMMING SPORTS 1978

These were held on the afternoon of Friday, 23rd June. The weather was warm andsunny for the first half hour, but a violent rainstorm caused the postponement of the divingevents until the following Tuesday. The water temperature on both occasions was 17°C.

The results were as follows:

Event 1. 2 x 25 m. Breaststroke Senior1st N. Cheung (Sutton) in a record time of 38.6 sec.2nd N. Couldrey (School)3rd M. Norsworthy (Hazelveare)4th I. Bulley (Summerfield)

Event 2. 2 x 25 m. Breaststroke Grilse1st T. Jaggs (Sutton) in 44.8 sec.2nd T. Pickard (School)3rd D. Taylor (Summerfield)4th N. Francis (Hazelveare)

Event 3. 2 x 25 m. Freestyle Senior1st J. Halls (Sutton) in a record time of 31.1. sec.2nd C. Hesse (School)3rd K. Leong (Hazelveare)4th R. Whitaker (Summerfield)

Event 4. 2 x 25 m. Freestyle Grilse1st R. Baak (Hazelveare) in a record time of 32.2 sec.2nd S. O'Meara (School)3rd T. Scofield (Summerfield)4th N. Thatcher (Sutton)

Event 5. 2 x 25 m. Backstroke Senior1st A. Matson (School) in 42.5 sec.2nd M. Norsworthy (Hazelveare)3rd N. Cheung (Sutton)4th T. Scofield (Summerfield)

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Event 6. 2 x 25 m. Backstroke Grilse1st J. Parsons (School) in a record time of 40.5 sec.2nd P. Norsworthy (Summer-field)3rd T. Jaggs (Sutton)4th Hazelveare disqualified

Event 7. 3 x 25 m. Freestyle Senior1st L. Warner (Hazelveare) in a record time of 52.5 sec.2nd J. Maclean (Sutton)3rd N. Hodi (School)4th P. Norsworthy (Summerfield)

Event 8. 3 x 25 m. Freestyle Grilse1st R. Baak (Hazelveare) in a record time of 57.1 sec.2nd R. Broadhurst (Summerfield)3rd J. Parsons (School)4th P. Brady (Sutton)

Event 9. DivingSenior Grilse

1st G. Pecover (69 points) 1st P. Norsworthy (62 points),_H | J. Olphert (60 points) 2nd S. C. Moss (59 points)zna \ D. Taylor (60 points) 3rd S. O'Meara (57 points)4th H. Ferguson (59 points) 4th N. Thatcher (54 points)Winners of the Griffiths Cup for diving: School House. Team: G. Pecover and S. O'Meara.

Event 10. 4 x 25 m. Relay GrilseWon by Hazelveare. Team: J. Stredder, A. Robinson, R. Kirby and R. Baak in 67.8 sec.

Event 11. 6 x 25 m. Relay SeniorWon by Sutton. Team: J. Halls, J. Maclean, N. Cheung and J. Olphert in a new record time of 96.2 sec.

FINAL POSITIONSSenior Grilse

1st Sutton (30 points) 1st School (26 points),, j j Hazelveare (24 points) 2nd Hazelveare (23 points)/na \ School (24 points) ~3rd Summerfield (18 points)4th Summerfield (6 points) 4th Sutton (16 points)

J. P. S.

Senior Tournament Champ (P. Gilks)

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1st VI TENNISIt is now nine years since a raw and inexperienced tennis VI travelled down to be

comprehensively beaten by a Portsmouth Grammar School 2nd VI. It is now five yearssince we lost to the same school's 1st VI and this year has turned out to be our best everseason. Twelve fixtures were played and 12 won, these victories including our first everwin over Reading School; such was the strength of our senior squad that a 2nd VI won ahard-fought victory over them also.

Several matches were won by the narrowest of margins, 5—4, but grit and determina-tion were enough to win vital points and thereby the match. Nobody who is weak-mindedor lacking in fight will ever win a tennis match against someone of similar skills who playscoolly and with heart.

Undoubtedly the reason for this season's marvellous success has been the teamwork.It is often levelled against tennis that it is not a team game, it is more a game for individuals.This can of course be true, but in six of our 12 matches, the opposition first pair wereunbeaten by any of our pairs. Nevertheless, their teams as a whole lost the matches. Ourresults depended on strength in depth, each pair relying on the other two, worrying howthe pair next to them were doing.

The statistics speak for themselves. Of 108 doubles matches, we won 78:

The Upper Sixth pair of Khiam Leong and Ronnie Werker won 21 and lost 15Our consistent and talented second pair of Ra Narain and Gerald Pecover won 30

and lost only 6Our third pair—normally the weakness in any side—won 27 and lost only 9

In the last fortnight of term two new members represented the School—MichaelGregovich and Keith Pepper—and both showed that they certainly have the talent to keepthe School's standards high next year.

Indeed, considerable strength is coming through the School and I would hope andexpect that we shall always win more matches in a season than we shall lose. Much dependson temperament, but, if we can manage the coolness and fight of this year's six maybe weshall have another unbeaten VI in the near future.

Colours were awarded to those members of the team who played in every match, rightthrough the season.

Half-colours to Ra Narain, Gerald Pecover and Philip Gilks, all of whom will beavailable next year.

Full Colours to Ronnie Werker, the modest but dedicated captain, who always foughtevery point and who chewed his nails with me in the close matches. My thanks to him, theteam and the whole of the first squad for such an enjoyable, exciting and successful season.

In the singles tournaments the results were as follows:Under-14s: Roland Gregovich beat Andy Robinson in straight setsUnder-15s: Mark Jermyn beat Neale John in three setsSeniors: Philip Gilks beat Ronnie Werker in three sets

House tennis winners:

Under-15s: SummerfieldSeniors: Hazelveare

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Professional at work

UNDER-15 TENNISThe success of this year's under-15 tennis VI depended not on the individual talent

of the VI, but on their consistently good play, their match temperament and their teamspirit.

Our first match of the season was against Leighton Park, which we lost 7—2, althoughmany of the games were close. Nevertheless, with increased determination, we beat Shiplake6—3, and were victorious in our next four matches winning 9—0 against St. Bartholomew's,Pangbourne, Portsmouth and Bearwood. We were beaten by Reading School 6—3, althoughthe season ended on a high note with an 8—1 win over Bedales.

My thanks to Lionel Hooper for helping the team out on two occasions, and to ournail-biting coach Mr. Craig for his advice and encouragement.

GUY MERRICK (Captain)

My thanks to all team members for their commitment over the term, and especially tothe captain, Guy Merrick.

Colours were awarded to the regular team: Guy Merrick, Andrew Robinson, Neil Jolin,Navjot Chhabra, Roland Gregovich and Keith Worby.

R. J. C.

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THE OLD STERNIANSReading these few paragraphs sometime in the Autumn Term, I'm sure that, even if

you are in your last year at school, it is unlikely that you will have begun to think aboutwhether or not you should join the Old Boys' Association when you leave.

Hopefully, however, you may keep this copy of The Sower, and later in the year, oreven after you've left Long Sutton, you may re-read this article and be reminded thatthere is an Old Boys' Association.

There are many reasons for joining the Old Sternians Association—to represent us insports fixtures, to go climbing with us, to attend the Annual Reunion at Long Sutton, orthe many Regional Reunions held throughout the year across the country.

Above all, it is a way of keeping in touch—with the friends you've made at school and,of course, with the School itself. You will also find that your friendships will grow—whenyou come to reunions you'll find that awe-inspiring prefects you met when you first cameto Long Sutton are approachable after all and that the Juniors who'd never grow up arenow taller than yourself!

Do join us—you won't regret it!

CLIVE BUTLERChairman, Old Sternians AssociationRed Gables, Barnham RoadBarnham, Bognor RegisWest Sussex

STOP PRESSSome mention, however brief, must be made of the delightful hour of music provided

by Mr. Newman and helpers on the Wednesday evening before term ended.A most -professional-sounding string quartet organised by Chris Fairey, assisted by

Stephen Smith, Rupert Whitaker and the Headmaster, played- three charming pieces byeighteenth century composers, which were followed by Tchaikovsky's Chanson Tristeadmirably played by David Andrews, a First Former. Christopher Fairey then played thepiano to Julian Eckersley's trumpet in an amusing piece by Bacharach, and Rupert Whitakercertainly earned his bow for the first movement of Briavel's Sonata in C for the cello.Colin Paton clearly has a worthy successor in Timothy Smith (another Junior House boy)on the trombone. More Junior House boys sang negro spirituals with the tongues not ofmen nor of angels, but of larks; Chris Fairey again showed what he could do on the fiddlewith two movements of a Telemann sonata; and Dinosaurus Pinguior et Gracilior (commonlyclassified as R.T.D. and B.J.N.) kept flawlessly together in a Dvorak duet without evencounting aloud!

The evening was rounded off by the Schola Cantorum Wandsworthiensis (five staffand four boys) in four "barber shop" numbers, marvellously co-ordinated and excellingthemselves in blend and tone. They really must have a couple of encores ready next time!

J. L. M.

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Mock "O" and "A" level examina'ions com- Th.mence End l l t h Feb.

Orders by 11,00 a.m.Cross Country. Haberdashers' Aske's Relay.

Senior 6 depart 12.00 noon (or ElstrecY.F.C. Lans-ing-Eangall Visit. Depart 1.15 p.m.

~ F.1st XI v. Churchers College 2.30 p.m. Home,2nd XI v. Churchers College Away. *U/15 XI v. Churchers College 2.30 p.m.

Home.U/14 XI v. Churchen College Away.U/13 XV v. Reading School Away.U/12 XV v. Reaing School Away.General Film "The Thief Who Came To

Dinner". 7.00 p.m.

Quinquagesima.Gavin Hall Service 10.00 a.m. Family Com-

munion.S:afT Meeting 6.00 p.m. Common Room.Shrove Tuesday.Inter-House Cross Country. Junior 2.30 p.m.

U/15 3.00 p.m. Senior 3.30 p.m.Ash Wednesday.Cross Country league. Senior 'A' and *fl

300 p.m. Away.H.C. 6.15 p.m. Gavin Hall.Y.F.C. lunw Publ-c .Speaking Round 1. p.m.Y.F.C. Junior-Public Speaking Round 1, p.m.lecture "Roman Ostia'' 7.30 p.m. Reading.1st XI v. Reading School Away.2nd XI v. Reading School 2.30 p.m. HL-me.Vd Xt v. Reading School Awav.U/15 XI v. Reading School 2.30 p.m. Home.Cross Countrv. Sinior 'A' and 'B' v. Kiffi

EJ\vard«. a-id London Athletic Club, 2.30

UJ12 XV V. Churchers 2.30 p.m. Home.

D. of E. Silver Expedition depart 11 a.m. foe

Lower Vlth mid-ierm reports available forheading hy 11 a.m.

Lower Vlth mid-term reports available Jo

Ist^Uns'atKl'uyi'a XIsT'v. Portsmouth G.S.

Snd^nd L'/U XIs v. Portsmouth G.S. Home.1st VI v. Portsmouth G.S. Away.U / 1 5 VI v. Portsmouth G.S. Home.Vlth Form Film Society "Dog Day After-

Trinity Sunday.H.C. 8.30 a.m. Chapel.l , . , \ i r i HM Stfi^. t-.vcns.,nB S p.m.G C E. 'O' *nd 'A' Examina.ions commence.Sc.m.1 lU.use Ma:cii Final.U/15 House Match semi-final.U/15 House Tennis semi-final.Lower Vlth mid-term, reports to House

Masters by 1 1 a.mLower Vllh Tutors' reports *o Headmaster by

M^dTrm^Kat commences 1 30 pm3rd Year Parent*' Meeting 1.45 p.m. Gavin

Hall.Exeat.Choir week-end commences,Fxeat.l'*t Sunday After Trinity.

Fxeat'ends 8.45 p.m. Callover ia Hous:*.

Summer Games Pholographs 2 p.m.

JUNE

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SpVkai'1 WorJ Competition (Senior) 7 p.m.

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•th Sunday after Trinity. «/••¥«• M M.C. K.OO a.m. Village Church. T.

'Mmjacob **?"* 10l0° * ""' SpMktr: S. 1 1st. 3rd and U/13 XV v. Reading. Home W— ' 4 2nd U/15 ft L'/H XV v. Reading. Away._ Sixth Form Film Society "Cleopatra Jones i

and her Casino of Gold" 7.30 p.m. j.

Depart 9.00 a.m. Return Monday p.m. Su. 2 17ience Society Lecture 6.30 p.m. H.

Gi1 XV v. Pangbourne. Away.id XV v. Pangbourne. Home. M. 3 Cld XV v. Pangbourne. Home. Sti/ 15 XV v. Pangbourne. Home. . G«,14 XV v. Pangbourne. Away. T. 4 Brxih Form Film Society "Magnum Force" vV. 5 Y.7.30 pm.

ih Sunday after Trinity.C X.30 a.m. Chapel>vin Hall Servke 10.00 a.m. Speaker: Bro.

? F. 'Field Day.

neral Film "Biasing Saddles" 7,00 p.m.3. Alan DcparttK.C. Visit to Gom,hal1 Tannery. Depart1.15 p.m.

I5ih Sunday after Trinity. ,. ' 7H/" *'3M ti"K.£fa!f1flM . m «;« b S' * 1« * 3rd XV v. St. Bartholomew's Away. *!

« « ^,-V Speaker. 2nd. U/15 U / 1 4 XV v. St. Bartholomews '•Mrs. M. While. Home

Heela< Visit 1 15 pm. School House. SocM for florcnce Trelo!"*- C"in H«" 70° T*u M.tth,» P"1-

I)Z st ft 2nd XV v. Bearwood. Away..'1^ ft U / 1 4 v. Bearwood. Home.

16th Sunday after Trinity. *Gavin Hall Service. Family Communion 1000 1

a.m. VFarnham Chamber Music Club Concert, 1

Gavin Hall 8.00 a.m.

12 1st Sunday in lent.H.C. 8.00 a.m. Village Church.Gavin Halt Service 10.00 a.m. Speaker: The

Headmaster.13 G.C.E. Proformas to be issued: 9.00 a.m.

-Gavin Hall.Y.F.C. Hampshire Junior Quiz Round 1 p.m.

14 St. Valentine15 Cross Country. Tortoises Relay Senior Eight.

Dep. 12 noon Oxford.16 Mock 'O' and 'A' Mark Sheet to be completed

by 11 a.m.1st XI v. Shiplakc College. 2.30 p.m. Home.2nd XI v. Shiplake College. Av-ay3rd XI v. Shipl;.U < \» l l r , : r : .'0 p.m. Home.U / 1 5 XI v. Shiplake College. 2.30 p.m. Home.U/14 XI v. Shiplake College. Away.

17 G.C.E. Proformas to be collected 9.00 :-..m.Gavin Hall.

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1st XI v. King Edward VI Southampton.Away.

2nd XI v. King Edward VI Southampton.2.30 p.m. Home.3rd XI v. King Edward VI Southampton.

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Staff Meeting G.C.E Entries. 6.00 p.m.Common Room.

U / 1 4 XI v. Reading School. Away.U/15 'B' XI v. Reading School. Away.Faurf "Requium" and Each "Sleer-ers Wake"

S.OO p.m. Odiham Parish Church,Orders by 11,00 a.m.Vssit hv R.A.K. l iaison Officer.l.W.C. Invitation Sevens. 1.45 p.m.

Crosi Country. Peter Simmon t Invila'ionRoad Relay, Senior 'A' and 'B'. 2.30 pm.Winches'er.

2nd. 3rd and U/15 XI) V. Bearwood College.

1st VI v. Bearwood College. Away.U/li VI v. Bearwood College. Home.

Second Sunday After Trinity.H.C. 8.30 a.m. Chapel.( , . iv in H.,11 V:vi,-t 10a.m.Staff XI v. Odiham C.C. 215 pm. Away.Time tabL- su,pc:uk-a for YL.MI, V and U.VI.Main G.C.E, Examinations unt i l 29th 3une.Years V and U.VI reports available for

Year* 'v* and 'u.VI reports available forsubject makers by 9 a.m.

Y.Vt viVsit IO'QWW Elizabeth Country Park.Depart 1.20 p.m.

V/13 XI v. Barlield 2.30 p.m. Home.1st VI and Under/15 VI v. B«da!es. Away.Under 15 Houie Tennis Final.

Open Day. Hampshire College of AgricuUure.Y.FC. \ i-.it. Depart 10.45 a.m.

Is* and U/15 XIs v. Reading School. Awav.2nd. U /14 aad U/13 XIs v. Reading School

Home,

Third Sunday After Trinity.D. of E. Expedition to South Downs — depart

9 a.m. R e i u i n i n g M.'iul..y 11 a.m.Gavin Hall Service 10 a.m.

VFC visit to SCATS Mill. MIcheldtver.

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Th. 23 Reports to Headmaster by 11.00 a.m.Senior Hockey House Semi-final. 3.00 pm.U/13 XV v. Montgomery of Alamein, 3.00

Mfd^remTE'x'eai. 1.30 p.m.F. 24 Mid-Term Upper and Lower Sixth subject and

Mid-Term Upper and Lower Sixth Tutorj'Reports to Headmaster by 1.30 p.m.

Fifth Year Parents Meeting. 2.00 p.m GavinHall.

S. 2J E«at.Hants Schoolt Cro» Country Championship.

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Sr. David1st XI v. Peler Symond-. Away.2nd XI v. Peler Symonds. Away.Cross Country League. Senior 'A' and 'B' V.

Cho^singTEvensonf'at Whenever Cathed-ral. 5.30 p.m. (Dep. 3.00 p.m.)

6.30 p.m. Lecture. "Ziire River Enpedition"by Lt. Col. J.A. Benham-Crosfwell.

Literary Society. 6.30 p.m. School Home.National Finals Spanish Speaking Competition.

9.30 a.m. 1 ondon.1st XI v. Bedales. Away.U/15 XI v. Bedaki. Away.U/13 XV v. Reeds. Away,U/12 XV v. Reed). Away.

4 h Sunday in ] tnt.H.C. N.30 a.m. Chapel.Gavin Hall Service 10.00 a.m.Royal Toby's Sevens, Romsey.Field Day (Army Section IV Year Weekend

Camp Dep. £.30 a.m.)

Last date for entries in Autumn TermCalendar by 9 a.m.

Under 15 House Match FinalSenior House Tenn i s Final.Year* V and U.VI reports to Form Matters

for checking by 9 a.m.Y.KC. visk to Forestry Commission at Alk«

Holt. Depart 1.20 p.m.Yeais V and U.VI reports to Tutors 9 a.m.Jtt, U/15 and U/14 Vli V. Marlborough

College. Away.

Reports Yean 1- IV available for heading byl l a m .

Swimming Sports 4.30 p.m.

Reports available to Subject MaMen by g.45

1,*T;/1< and U/13 Xfs V. K.E.S. Southamp-ton . Home.

2nd U/14 Xh v. K.E.S. Southampton. Auay.I s i iml :iul V|ih v. Reading School. Home.U/15 VI v. Reading School. Away.

Fifth Sunday After Trinity.(,.,i,,i H.tll Sfrvi.e 10 a.m.1st VI v. Old SWrnians' VI 11 a.m. Home.Examinations continue.Years V and LI VI Report! to Housemasters

by 9 am.All 1 i l ' i . i ry books in for checking; by fi pm.

Hceb* visit 1.30 p.m. School House Common

ReponTVears V and UVl to Headmaster by

Orders by 11 a.m.1st XI v. Peter SymonJs' College 2 3 0 n m.

U/15 XI v. BeJiiles School. Awav.1st VI v. FarnhorouBh Vlth Jorm College.

D. oTp- O.ilJ F\nedili,.n lo Brecon Beaconsdepart 9 a m . re tu rn Monday. 3rd July p m.

G.O.E. Examinations end 11 a.m.Reports to Form Mavteri for chewing by

Utera'iy'EnleiUinmenl 7 pm Gavin HalL

14 u15 Odiham Deanery Synod. Gavin Hall 10.00

»-«• T. 1 VI SainnU/14 A U/13 XV v. Montgomery of Fxea t .

Alamein. Away. W. J Fxcat.Sixth form Film Society "It'i Alive" 7.30 p.m. Th. 3 txeai cruk

. 16 19th Sunday after Trinity.H.C. 8.30 am. Chapel.Gavin Hall Service 10.00 a.m. Society

)7 11*'11"18 St. Lute.

H.C 6.15 p m Gavin Halt -, 19 Orders by 11.00 a.m.

1.30 p.m. "Anti-Flu" Innoculationii. 20 Science Society Films 6.30 p.m.

21 1 ilenry Society, School Houu 6 30 p m22 U/V| A L/VI Mid-Term Report, available '

for heading.1st A 2nd XV v. Portsmouth G.S Home.!rd. l i . ' i s A U/14 XV v. Portsmouth G.S '

Away.U / 1 3 A U / 1 2 XV v. Portsmouth G.S. Home.

. 23 20:h Sunday alter Trinity.B.ST. ends 2.00 a.m. Cloeki back 1 hour. \H.C. N.OO a.m.l.«in H41I Senicc 10.00 a.m. Speaker: Tb« t

Chaplain, *24 Malt Meeting 600 p.m. Common Room.25 SS. Simon ft Jude.

U / 1 4 XV v. Solihull School, 3.00 pm. Home.

i. 27 1 ower and Upper Sinth Form Reports toHeadmaster by It 00 a.m. S

Mid-Term Exeat 1.30 pm.28 Exeit.

N S.P.C.C Ball, Gavin Hall.29 Exeat. 1

. 30 2I^Sunday after Trinity. ^

Six :h' Form Marine Biology Course slam V

10 30 a.m. Inilow, Devon.. 31 Exeat.

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S. 1 Reportt to Tutors by R 45 a.m1M XI v. Old SterniaBi (Isi Day) 2.15 p.m.

Home.2nd XI v. Alton C.C. 2,15 pm. Home.Vlth Form Film Society "Woodstock" 7.30

p.m-

Su. 2 Si\th Sunday afler Trinity.1st XI v. Old Stermans (2nd Day) 11 a.m.

Home,Family Communiufi S.30 p.m. Gavin Hall.

M. 3 Reports to Housemaster) hy 9 a.m.Start Meeting 6 p.m Common Room.

T. 4 Y.KC, vivit to Royal Show. Kenilworth,

Inte'r^House AtMrtbl FinaK (1st Day) 3 p.m.Gunws Committee meeting 7 p.m. Summer*

tieldW. 5 Rep,,rls to Headmaster by 9 a m .

1st XI v. the Forty Club 2 p.m. Home.2nd XI v. Bcdules School Away.U/13 XI v. Fatleigh House 2.30 p.m. Horn*.Art Exhibition in Gymnasium. Opening 6.30

Summer Concert 730 pm. Ga*in Hall.Th. 6 Inter House Athktici K,nah (2nd Day) 3 pjn.

1*1 VI v. Staff VI 630 p.m.Art Exhibition continues

V. 7 FOUNDER'S DAY.Term end< after celobraiiiw*.

S. S R.A.K Section C.C.I-', Annual Camp, Collishalluntil l^lh July depart a.m.

Old Sternian Re-union.

Su. 9 Old Sternian Re-union.Expedition to Hautes Savoie 'Alps) depart

a.m. return Thursday, 20th July.

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